Autor: Hennessy Peter

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  • Cabinets and the Bomb

    The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high level of technical … mehr »

    geschrieben von Peter Hennessy (Herausgeber)

Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr

Niebuhr is renowned for his unflinching honesty concerning issues of social ethics, specifically, love and justice. His influence is great both inside and outside the Christian church. Now 64 of …


geschrieben von D. B. Robertson (Herausgeber)

The Spirituality of African Peoples

Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris sharpens the Afrocentric quest. He focuses on African "spirituality" - the religious and moral values embodied in African experience and pervading …


geschrieben von Peter J. Paris (Autor)

Hebrew Idolatry and Superstition: Its Place in Folk-Lore

CONTENTS Traditional Religion The Religion of the Soil Amorite Religion and Worship …


geschrieben von Elford Higgens (Autor)

Reform Before the Reformation: Vincenzo Querini and the Religious Renaissance in Italy

An important aspect of the Italian Renaissance was church reform. This book examines the nature of that reform - especially in Venice, Florence and Rome - as viewed through the unpublished manuscripts …


geschrieben von Stephen D. Bowd (Autor) und S. D. Bowd (Autor)

The Last Offensive: The European Theater of Operations

Recovering rapidly from the shock of German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace, Allied armies early in January 1945 began an offensive that gradually spread all along the line from the North …


geschrieben von Charles B. MacDonald (Autor)

Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World

Each year, more than two million pilgrims from over 100 countries converge on the holy city of Mecca to reenact the ritual dramas that Muslims have been performing for centuries. Making the hajj is …


geschrieben von Robert Bianchi (Autor)

History Prostitution

George Ryley Scott

This survey of the history of prostitution from antiquity to the twentieth century is one of the first comprehensive studies of this phenomenon. George Ryley Scott writes this treatise in reaction …


geschrieben von George Ryley Scott (Autor) und Nina Allene Ed. Allene Ed. Wheele Scott (Autor)

A History of Modern Libya

Dirk Vandewalle is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Libya Since Independence: Oil and State-building (1998), and the editor of Qadhafi's Libya, 1969-1994 …

Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi's self-styled revolution in 1969, the country was politically isolated and labelled a pariah state. …

Introduction: Libya, the enigmatic oil state; 1. 'A Tract Which Is Wholly Sand ...'; 2. Italy's fourth shore and decolonization, 1911-1950; 3. The Sanusi monarchy as accidental state, 1951-1969; 4. A …


geschrieben von Dirk Vandewalle (Autor)

Caribbean Exchanges: Slavery and the Transformation of English Society, 1640-1700

SUSAN DWYER AMUSSEN is professor of interdisciplinary studies at the Graduate College of the Union Institute and University. She is author or editor of three books, including An Ordered Society: …

As English colonists in the Caribbean quickly became large-scale slaveholders, they established new organizations of labor, new uses of authority, new laws, and new modes of violence, punishment, and …


geschrieben von Susan Dwyer Amussen (Autor)

Defending the Wilderness

This book is a companion to the book The Amick Partisan Rangers. This work covers the early Amick family and the Sewell Mountain area and the other members of the Amick family through the war. The …


geschrieben von David J. Emmick (Autor)


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