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Author : Richard Mott Gummere
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Seven Wise Men of Colonial America written by Richard Mott Gummere and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Mott Gummere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Seven Wise Men of Colonial America. (Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, Thomas Paine.). written by Richard Mott Gummere and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard M. Gummere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674284494
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Seven Wise Men of Colonial America written by Richard M. Gummere and published by . This book was released on 1967-02-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gummere explores the attitudes toward the classics of seven prominent colonial Americans--Hugh Jones, Robert Calef, Michael Wigglesworth, Samuel Davies, Henry Melhior Muhlenberg, Benjamin Rush, and Thomas Paine. Each of them was essentially pragmatic and judged the value of the classics not only on the basis of their intrinsic worth but also for their relevance to contemporary problems.
Author : Walter Isaacson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684837714
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Wise Men written by Walter Isaacson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-06-04 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating blend of personal biography and public drama, The Wise Men introduces the original best and brightest, leaders whose outsized personalities and actions brought order to postwar chaos: Averell Harriman, the freewheeling diplomat and Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and Stalin; Dean Acheson, the secretary of state who was more responsible for the Truman Doctrine than Truman and for the Marshall Plan than General Marshall; George Kennan, self-cast outsider and intellectual darling of the Washington elite; Robert Lovett, assistant secretary of war, undersecretary of state, and secretary of defense throughout the formative years of the Cold War; John McCloy, one of the nation's most influential private citizens; and Charles Bohlen, adroit diplomat and ambassador to the Soviet Union.
Author : Jason König
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038235
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance written by Jason König and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; Part I. Classical Encyclopaedism: 2. Encyclopaedism in the Roman Empire Jason Konig and Greg Woolf; 3. Encyclopaedism in the Alexandrian Library Myrto Hatzimichali; 4. Labores pro bono publico: the burdensome mission of Pliny's Natural History Mary Beagon; 5. Encyclopaedias of virtue? Collections of sayings and stories about wise men in Greek Teresa Morgan; 6. Plutarch's corpus of Quaestiones in the tradition of imperial Greek encyclopaedism Katerina Oikonomopoulou; 7. Artemidorus' Oneirocritica as fragmentary encyclopaedia Daniel Harris-McCoy; 8. Encyclopaedias and autocracy: Justinian's Encyclopaedia of Roman law Jill Harries; 9. Late Latin encyclopaedism: towards a new paradigm of practical knowledge Marco Formisano; Part II. Medieval Encyclopaedism: 10. Byzantine encyclopaedism of the ninth and tenth centuries Paul Magdalino; 11. The imperial systematisation of the past in Constantinople: Constantine VII and his Historical Excerpts Andres Nemeth; 12. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam: Joseph Rhakendys' synopsis of Byzantine learning Erika Gielen; 13. Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world Elizabeth Keen; 14. Isidore's Etymologies: on words and things Andrew Merrills; 15. Loose Giblets: encyclopaedic sensibilities of ordinatio and compilatio in later medieval English literary culture and the sad case of Reginald Pecock Ian Johnson; 16. Why was the fourteenth century a century of Arabic encyclopaedism? Elias Muhanna; 17. Opening up a world of knowledge: Mamluk encyclopaedias and their readers Maaike van Berkel; Part III. Renaissance Encyclopaedism: 18. Revisiting Renaissance encyclopaedism Ann Blair; 19. Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclpaedia: some observations D.C. Andersson; 20. Reading 'Pliny's Ape' in the Renaissance: the Polyhistor of Cai++.
Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516390
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Roots of American Order written by Russell Kirk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What holds America together? In this classic work, Russell Kirk identifies the beliefs and institutions that have nurtured the American soul and commonwealth. Beginning with the Hebrew prophets, Kirk examines in dramatic fashion the sources of American order. His analytical narrative might be called a "tale of five cities": Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia. For an understanding of the significance of America in the twenty-first century, Russell Kirk's masterpiece on the history of American civilization is unsurpassed.
Author : Russell Kirk
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516145
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)
Download or read book The Essential Russell Kirk written by Russell Kirk and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the author of The Conservative Mind and other seminal books, Russell Kirk is usually thought of as one of the American conservative political movement’s most important progenitors. But as this collection demonstrates, Kirk was perhaps at his best as an essayist. This volume also confirms that Kirk’s was principally a literary and historical conservatism that refused to fit the irreducible complexity of human experience to the requirements of any ideological straitjacket. With The Essential Russell Kirk, literary critic George A. Panichas captures the breadth and depth of Kirk’s intellectual project by gathering together forty-four of the most masterful of Kirk’s essays, along with a unique chronology told in Kirk’s own words and a substantial introduction that articulates the deep humanism that animated Kirk’s philosophy. The result is a carefully assembled volume that gives us a fuller picture of an extraordinary man and writer, one whose labors had, and continue to have, remarkable repercussions on the American literary and political landscape.
Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742534360
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Battle for the American Mind written by Carl J. Richard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle for the American Mind brings together religion, politics, economics, science, and literature to present a compelling history of the American people. In this brief and entertaining book, noted historian Carl J. Richard argues that there have been three worldviews that have dominated American thought--theism, humanism, and skepticism. Theists put their faith in God, humanists in man, and skeptics have faith in neither god nor man. Each worldview has had an epoch of domination, leading to the present "Age of Confusion" where theists, humanists, and skeptics battle one another for control of American hearts and minds. By clearly explaining what Americans believed, exploring why they did so, and showing how that impacted the nation's development, Carl J. Richard presents a unique portrait of the United States--past and present.
Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674266641
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book The Founders and the Classics written by Carl J. Richard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-08-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is our Greek and Roman heritage merely allusive and illusory? Or were our founders, and so our republican beginnings, truly steeped in the stuff of antiquity? So far largely a matter of generalization and speculation, the influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book-the first comprehensive study of the founders’ classical reading. Carl J. Richard begins by examining how eighteenth-century social institutions in general and the educational system in particular conditioned the founders to venerate the classics. He then explores the founders’ various uses of classical symbolism, models, “antimodels,” mixed government theory, pastoralism, and philosophy, revealing in detail the formative influence exerted by the classics, both directly and through the mediation of Whig and American perspectives. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders’ conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme. At the same time, we learn how the classics inspired obsessive fear of conspiracies against liberty, which poisoned relations between Federalists and Republicans. The shrewd ancients who molded Western civilization still have much to teach us, Richard suggests. His account of the critical role they played in shaping our nation and our lives provides a valuable lesson in the transcendent power of the classics.
Author : Thomas Paine
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780808404347
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Crisis Papers, 1776-1783 written by Thomas Paine and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1990 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
Author : Steven R. Serafin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826417770
Total Pages : 1340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (177 download)
Download or read book The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature written by Steven R. Serafin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 1340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ten years in the making, this comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar, and general reader. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature represents a collaborative effort, involving 300 contributors from across the US and Canada. Composed of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. A special feature is the topical article, of which there are 70.
Author : John Reumann
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802862462
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Muhlenberg's Ministerium, Ben Franklin's Deism, and the Churches of the 21st Century written by John Reumann and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special volume celebrating a 250-year-old American church body In 1748 six Lutheran pastors and laity from ten congregations gathered in Philadelphia under German missionary pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to form the Ministerium of Pennsylvania the first Lutheran church body in North America. These early American Lutherans stood at the crossroads of Lutheran orthodoxy, pietism, and rationalism as they faced the very new, very American challenge of forging a missional, confessional identity within their increasingly pluralistic and multi-religious society. Now, more than 250 years later, this choice selection of essays, addresses, and other pieces celebrates the ongoing legacy of the Ministerium and will allow churches in the twenty-first century to glean new wisdom from a pioneering colonial church body.
Author : Stacy Schiff
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316200611
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Witches written by Stacy Schiff and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, the #1 national bestseller, unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials. It began in 1692, over an exceptionally raw Massachusetts winter, when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been hanged and an elderly man crushed to death. The panic spread quickly, involving the most educated men and prominent politicians in the colony. Neighbors accused neighbors, parents and children each other. Aside from suffrage, the Salem Witch Trials represent the only moment when women played the central role in American history. In curious ways, the trials would shape the future republic. As psychologically thrilling as it is historically seminal, THE WITCHES is Stacy Schiff's account of this fantastical story-the first great American mystery unveiled fully for the first time by one of our most acclaimed historians.
Author : Carl J. Richard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742556249
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Greeks & Romans Bearing Gifts written by Carl J. Richard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and engaging book is the only popular work to explore the profound impact of Ancient Greece and Rome on the Founding Fathers. The classical education they imbibed as young students inspired them to undertake the American Revolution and influenced their approach to a host of constitutional and practical issues crucial to the shaping of the new American republic. Recounting the stirring stories the founders encountered in their favorite histories of Greece and Rome, renowned scholar Carl J. Richard explores what they learned from these vivid tales and how they applied these lessons to their own heroic quest to win American independence and establish a durable republic. Richard explains how the founders learned the importance of individual rights from the absence of those rights in Sparta, the superiority of republican government to monarchy from the Greek victory over the Persians, the perils of democracy from the instability of Athens, the need for a strong central government from the fall of Greece to Macedon and Rome, the importance of virtue to the success of a republic from early Rome, the need for eternal vigilance against ambitious individuals from the fall of the Roman republic, and the preciousness of liberty from its destruction by the Roman emperors. Crucial to the decisions that shaped the United States, these lessons remain invaluable today for every citizen concerned with America's future course.
Author : Joseph Farrell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9781444318067
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition written by Joseph Farrell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-16 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Vergil’s Aeneid and its Tradition presents a collection of original interpretive essays that represent an innovative addition to the body of Vergil scholarship. Provides fresh approaches to traditional Vergil scholarship and new insights into unfamiliar aspects of Vergil's textual history Features contributions by an international team of the most distinguished scholars Represents a distinctively original approach to Vergil scholarship
Author : George McMichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780135979075
Total Pages : 2244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Anthology of American Literature: Colonial through romantic written by George McMichael and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9781422371480
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 112, no. 4, 1968) written by and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
