Histoire Du Renouvellement de l'Academie Royale Des Sciences En 1699, (Ed.1708) (Sciences)
by Bernard De Fontenelle
Uneven Moments (Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture)
by Harry Harootunian
Few scholars have done more than Harry Harootunian to shape the study of modern Japan. Incorporating Marxist critical perspectives on history and theoretically informed insights, his scholarship has been vitally important for the world of Asian studies. Uneven Moments presents a selection of Harootunian’s essays on Japan’s intellectual and cultural history from the late Tokugawa period to the present that span the many phases of his distinguished career and point to new directions for Japanese s...
Paul H. Bergeron joined the University of Tennessee History Department in 1972 and retired three decades later, widely recognized as one of our country s premier scholars of nineteenth-century political history. In addition to his meticulous scholarship his career included editorship of both the Correspondence of James K. Polk and the Papers of Andrew Johnson Bergeron was an esteemed teacher and mentor, celebrated by students and colleagues alike for his wisdom, graciousness, and humor. While at...
Dieser Band unternimmt eine Bestandsaufnahme der Protagonisten im deutschen, oesterreichischen und schweizerischen Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht. Er erlautert, wer zu den Gesellschaftsrechts-Honoratioren unserer Zeit zahlt und welche Gestaltungskrafte den innerdisziplinaren Fachdiskurs pragen. Eroertert werden die Rolle der Gerichte, Firmenbuchgerichte und Handelsregisteramter, der Einfluss von Rechtsberatern und Wirtschaftsprufern sowie die Tatigkeit der oesterreichischen und schweizeris...
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts ? the uses of myth and history, the past as illumination of cultural context, and historiography in focus ? this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on th...
The King's Advocate
by Simone De Noaillat-Ponvert and Mary Golden Donnelly
"The freer we are … the stronger we are," writes David Halberstam in this probing compilation of original essays which distill the essence of America, an evergreen subject rendered even more timely by recent world events that highlight cultural clashes and prompt us not just to reconsider foreign attitudes and aspirations but to think anew about our own. Each chapter explores fundamental qualities, concepts and accomplishments that shape the American character: the sheer size of our country; t...
Common Fallacies Regarding United States History
by Orville a Lindquist
The Knights Templars and the Complete History of Masonic Knighthood from the Origin of the Orders to the Present Time
by C G Addison and Robert Macoy
Serpent Worship And Other Essays With A Chapter On Totemism
by C Staniland Wake
An illustrated collection of stories about dogs that knew how to sit, stay, and witness history Most dog lovers know Fido and Laika, but how about Martha, Paul McCartney's Old English Sheepdog? Or Peritas, Alexander the Great’s trusted canine companion? As long as there have been humans, those humans have had beloved companions—their dogs. From the ancient Egyptians mummifying their pups, to the Indian legend of the king who refused to enter the afterlife unless his dog was allowed there...