Creator: Catherine Cubitt
Publication date: 1996-09
Dewey code: 270.3092
List Price: $216.00
Price: $189.49
Review St Oswald of Worcester: Life and Influence (Studies in the Early History of Britain) / Leicester University:St Oswald was the youngest of the three great monastic reformers of tenth-century England, whose work transformed English religious, intellectual and political life. Certainly a more attractive and perhaps a more effective figure than either St Dunstan or St Ethelwold, Oswald's impact upon his cathedrals at Worcester and York and upon his West Midland and East Anglian monasteries was radical and lasting. In this volume, researchers throw light on St Oswald's background, career, influence and cult and on the society that he helped to shape. His cathedral at Worcester and his monastery at Ramsey were among the richest and best documented Anglo-Saxon churches. The volume provides a window onto the realities of tenth-century English politics, religion and economics in the light of contemporary continental developments.
Creator: Salem Press
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-04-30
Dewey code: 810.989607303
List Price: $217.00
Price: $189.99
Review Notable African American Writers, 3 Volume Set (Magill's Choice) / Salem Press:This title profiles important African American writers in all genres. From slave narratives to abolitionist tracts, from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's to the Black Arts movement of the 1960's and 1970's, African American writers have always influenced literature in the United States. Its scope and coverage: Notable African American Writers compiles 80 essays on great novelists, poets, playwrights, short-story writers, and writers of nonfiction from colonial America to today. Students, librarians and teachers will find a comprehensive overview of each author's biography and literary career as well as ready-reference listings of their major works in all genres. Its organization and format: Each essay identifies the writer's major genres (e. g. , "Novelist and poet") and provides information about birth and death dates and places. Chronological listings of the author's works by genre follow. At the end of every essay is an up-to-date annotated bibliography that suggests secondary sources for further study. The three volume set of 900 pages feature 80 essays ranging in length of 4-8 pages. [+]Each essay contains between 2,000-8,000 words.
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 895.1351
Price: $26.45
Review The Fig Tree: Memoirs of a Taiwanese Patriot / Authorhouse:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-12-13
Dewey code: 330.08996073
List Price: $190.00
Price: $189.98
Review A Different Vision: Race and Public Policy (African American economic thought) / Routledge:Since the civil rights movement of the 1960s, research into race relations has tended to focus on political and social inequality rather than the economic impact of racism. A Different Vision: African-American Economic Thought redresses this imbalance. It is a landmark two- volume work-the most significant contribution to the study of blacks and economics ever to have been published. A Different Vision brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies, and interpretations of North America's leading African-American economists. Each of the thirty-five chapters presented in these two volumes focuses on various aspects of the social and economic experiences of African-Americans, past and present. This volume dramatically illustrates that African-American economists do have "a different vision," as it offers the hard, incontrovertible evidence-as no other book has before-that when it comes to economics, race matters, and that economic inequality caused by race has had and continues to have an immense impact in every sphere of African-American life. Volume 1 of A Different Vision includes an in-depth discussion of the economics of race and gender; an assessment of the contribution and influence of major African-American economists and economic philosophies, including Booker T. Washington, Abram Harris, and Phyllis Wallis; an examination of racism within the economics profession; and an accessible approach which is free of technical jargon. Volume 2 offers an analysis of urban poverty; discusses aspects of racial inequality and public policy, including affirmative action, and self-help solutions; examines the theory and method which underlies public policy; and studies the impact of racism on the socio-economic status of African-Americans.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1993-05-12
Review They Have Fooled You Again / Columba Press:
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1993-08
Dewey code: 261.26092
List Price: $64.95
Price: $191.16
Review Christianity Without Antisemitism: James Parkes and the Jewish-Christian Encounter (Studies in Antisemitism) / Pergamon:
Publication date: 1995-11
Dewey code: 271.302
Price: $30.00
Review Hispanic Catholicism in Transitional California: The Life of Jose Gonzalez Rubio, O.F.M. (Monograph Series (Academy of American Franciscan History)) / Academy of American Franciscan History:
Creator: David J. Garrow
Publication date: 1989-07
Dewey code: 305.8960730761781
Price: $65.00
Review Birmingham, Alabama, 1956-1963: The Black Struggle for Civil Rights (Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, Vol 8) / Carlson Pub:
Publication date: 2001-03
Dewey code: 979.4730049162
Price: $29.95
Review The Martin Murphy Family Saga (Local History Studies, V. 38) / California History Center:
Publication date: 1989-06
Dewey code: 929.20973
Price: $30.00
Review Rothschilds of Nordstetten : Their History and Genealogy / Charles B Bernstein:
Creator: P. G. Lindley
Publication date: 1991-08-30
Dewey code: 942.052092
List Price: $69.95
Price: $199.00
Review Cardinal Wolsey: Church, State and Art / Cambridge University Press:Thomas Wolsey was England's leading statesman, churchman and patron of the arts for a period of over fourteen years. In that time England played a greater role in European politics than she had done for a century or more; there were bold initiatives in domestic government; the church faced the call for reform and the challenge of heresy; and the influence of the Renaissance was felt strongly in many areas of English culture. In this fully-illustrated volume, eleven expert contributors assess Wolsey's role in all these developments, from his patronage of music, sculpture, stained glass, goldsmiths' work and domestic and collegiate architecture, through his handling of the church and the criticism it evoked, to his management of politics, central and local government, and foreign affairs. A general introduction sets the individual chapters in context by evaluating the whole range of Wolsey's ministerial responsibilities and achievements, and his part in the early English Renaissance. It also sets him in his proper context by comparing him in detail with other cardinal-ministers active in the European states of the day. In examining Wolsey's career in all its aspects - not least the cultivation of artistic magnificence which so struck his contemporaries - this volume provides a fuller and more balanced understanding of Wolsey's impact on early Tudor England and of his significance in a dramatic and controversial period of history.
Publication date: 2001-11-01
Dewey code: 328.415090309
List Price: $990.00
Price: $990.00
Review History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 / Ulster Historical Foundation:Format: Six Volumes (slipcased in pairs) Sold only as set. The Parliament which sat in Dublin from 1692-1800 was the last Irish elected assembly to represent the whole of the island. The principal issues to emerge during the time of the Irish Parliament—the Penal Code, legislative independence, the 1798 rebellion and the passing of the Act of Union of 1800—were not only crucial in themselves but continue to influence our understanding of Irish history over the last 300 years. The Parliament played a vital role in developing the nature and character of 18th-century Irish society. Among the "firsts" it can claim are the Newry Canal, the first commercial waterway in the British Isles, and the first maternity hospital, the Rotunda in Dublin, in 1745. Its development of the roads network, fairs and markets, education, banking and commerce and, most crucially perhaps, the linen industry, created by 1800 a vibrant and expanding economy and population. It is entirely fitting that the recent bicentenary of the Act of Union should be marked by the eagerly awaited availability of History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800, the outcome of decades of dedicated research. The information amassed will be presented in a format that will make this invaluable reference work accessible to academic and local historians and genealogists alike. This Publication Includes: Surveys and Statutes volume which classifies the statutes relating to the Constitution, education, local government, law and order, Parliament, religion, manufacturing and employment and, of course, the land. (1 volume). [+]Constituency Histories of the 300 parliamentary county, borough and university seats. (1 volume). Biographical Studies of the 2,300 MPs who sat 1692-1800, Family names and connection, their residences, titles, marriage, pensions, careers and voting records are all meticulously recorded and presented (4 volumes).
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-11-14
Dewey code: 952.0310922
List Price: $190.00
Price: $185.98
Review Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies Series) / Routledge:Kanno Suga and Kaneko Fumika were both found guilty on different occasions in 1911 and 1926 of conspiring to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Kanno was executed and Kaneko hanged herself in prison, but both women maintained their defiance of the State. Through examination of their life stories and writings, this text brings vibrancy to the women's interpretations of their lives and imminent deaths.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-02-01
Dewey code: 973.0496073
List Price: $135.00
Price: $184.00
Review Charles H. Wesley: The Intellectual Tradition of a Black Historian (Studies in African American History and Culture) / Routledge:Bringing together material from disparate sources, including unpublished writings, this first-of-its-kind study presents selected essays by Charles H. Wesley, one of the leading African American intellectuals of the twentieth century and a pioneer in Black Studies scholarship. Because there are no scholarly treatments of the writings or philosophical ideas of Wesley, the study contextualizes his scholarly career and highlights its importance, offering the most important essays written by Wesley in the cognitive fields of Black History, Biography, Social and Political Theory, Black Studies, and African Diasporic History. The book includes a preface, biographical information, and an index.
Creator: H. C. G. Matthew
Publication date: 1990-04-26
Dewey code: 941
List Price: $264.00
Price: $192.72
Review The Gladstone Diaries: With Cabinet Minutes and Prime-Ministerial Correspondence Volume XI: July 1883-December 1886 (Gladstone Diaries) / Oxford University Press, USA:The tenth and eleventh volumes of Gladstone's Diaries cover the years of his extraordinary second and third administrations. There is much new material on the occupation of Egypt, the `scramble for Africa', the third Reform Bill, and the crisis in Ireland leading eventually to the proposed Home Rule settlement in 1886 and the split of the Liberal Party. The volumes include not only the daily text of Gladstone's personal diary for these years, but also the minutes that he kept of his Cabinets - over 250 in these volumes - and over 1400 of the letters on politics, religion, literature, and personal affairs which he wrote in these years. The editors long introduction offers an interpretation of this remarkable material and in itself constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of Victorian Britain. The governments of the 1880s are the most controversial of Gladstone's career. These two volumes - both in the quality and the quantity of the material they contain - vastly increase our knowledge of late-Victorian government and politics and will be an essential source for many generations of historians.
Publication date: 1990-03
Price: $65.00
Review Ida B. Wells-Barnett: An Exploratory Study of an American Black Woman, 1893-1930 (Black Women in United States History , Vol 15) / Carlson Publishing:
Publication date: 1998-08
Dewey code: 941.07092
List Price: $42.00
Price: $185.00
Review Henry Flood: Patriots and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Univ of Notre Dame Pr:
Creator: Raphael Loewe
Publication date: 1990-01-04
Dewey code: 949.23
List Price: $86.00
Price: $200.10
Review From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) / Oxford University Press, USA:Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the 17th century. After studying medicine and theology in Spain and pursuing a distinguished medical career, he was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practicing Judaism, tortured, tried, and imprisoned. He later emigrated to France and became a professor of medicine at Toulouse before openly professing his Judaism and going to Amsterdam to join the thriving Portuguese community there. Amsterdam was then a city of great cultural creativity and religious pluralism. In this atmosphere Orobio flourished, and went on to become an outstanding spokesman and apologist for the Jewish community. This fascinating biography sheds light on the intricate life of a unique Jewish community of former Christians who had openly returned to Judaism. It focuses on the particular dilemmas of the converts, their attempts to establish boundaries between their Christian past and their new identity, their internal conflicts, and their ability to create new forms of Jewish life and expression.
Publication date: 2008-02-01
Dewey code: 942.031092
List Price: $195.00
Price: $191.14
Review Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen and Rebel / Edinburgh University Press:Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204) still fascinates and intrigues historians today, who continue to try to penetrate the mystery surrounding her extraordinary life. Twice queen - of France as the wife of Louis VII, then of England as the wife of Henry II - and mother of three kings, she came into contact with famous churchmen such as Suger, Bernard de Clairvaux, and Thomas Becket; travelled across Europe; lived to be eighty; reigned for sixty-seven years; and produced a dozen offspring at a time when many women died in childbirth. In old age Eleanor retired to the Abbey of Fontevraud, where she died and was buried beside Henry II and their son Richard I, the Lionheart. In this book, Jean Flori attempts the difficult task of writing the full story of this "unruly and rebellious" queen who was determined, in spite of the huge moral, social, and political and religious pressures bearing down upon her, to take charge of her own life in all its aspects. The book is in two parts. The first part is an account of what is reliably known about Eleanor's life and her role in history, in the main based on contemporary sources and drawing on the work of previous historians. The second part deals with questions about Eleanor and her legend currently under debate by scholars. This part draws on hypotheses and controversies, and has recourse to ancient sources and a wide range of recent studies, addressing in particular her role in the second crusade, courtly love, power and patronage, and the Plantagenet Court and arthurian literature.
Publication date: 1992-12
Price: $43.00
Review Booker T. Washington: Story Pak / Graphic Learning:
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