Reminiscences
Author : William Fletcher King
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : William Fletcher King
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Page : 732 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : Bruce M. Metzger
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441241817
Bruce Manning Metzger's memoirs trace his life from his childhood in the Pennsylvania Dutch country and his student years at Princeton through his distinguished career of teaching, writing, lecturing, and editing. Professor Metzger's work has won him the gratitude of both biblical scholars and the larger Bible-reading public. His text-critical work on the New Testament is reflected in the standard Greek text now used and appreciated by scholars worldwide. His efforts on the Revised Standard and New Revised Standard versions of the Bible helped produce the readable, accurate English translations used for study and devotion by so many. His work on The Reader's Digest Bible and The Oxford Companion to the Bible has made the Bible more accessible for an untold number of readers. In these memoirs, Professor Metzger's own words put a human face on his monumental scholarly achievements. The wide array of stories and vignettes--from Senator Joseph McCarthy's attack on RSV committee members and Metzger's audiences with the pope to the time Professor Metzger and other members of the NRSV committee had to crawl out of a library window to get to their dinner--offer the reader a personal insight into some of the twentieth century's crucial developments in the text and translation of the Bible.
Author : Samuel Halkett
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : William Richard Cutter
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Page : 944 pages
File Size : 10,69 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Genealogy
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
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Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 1907
Category : History
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American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Author : Francis Fisher Browne
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Page : 948 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1902
Category : American literature
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Author : Jerome Mushkat
Publisher : Kent State University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780873384131
Fernando Wood was one of the most controversial figures of nineteenth-century America. His fellow New Yorkers either respected or despised him, depending whether they considered his policies beneficial or harmful to their interests. The character revealed herein possessed some admirable qualities; high intelligence, sharp analytic skills, great capacity for hard work, and a clear talent to set his executive agenda. But equally evident are Wood's less admirable qualities; ruthless business practices, shoddy personal ethics, corrupt politics, dictatorial tendencies. What emerges is the story of a very complex person: a successful businessman, consummate politician, resourceful three-time may of New York City, and nine-term congressman, beneath which lurked mean and self-destructive tendencies. Take as a whole, Wood's colorful career was a unique microcosm of American history both during and after his lifetime. His business achievements mirrored popular beliefs in upward mobility. And Wood's mayoralty held a promise of revitalizing municipal government, giving it a social conscience, and setting new standards for the future. Despite his shortcomings, Fernando Wood played a major but unappreciated role in the urban and political history of time.
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Page : 650 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American literature
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Page : 1076 pages
File Size : 31,58 MB
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
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Author : Meredith Borthwick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1400843901
Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period—over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education—to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about "advances" prompted by British rule. Focusing on the wives, mothers, and daughters of the English-educated Bengali professional class, Dr. Borthwick contends that many reforms merely substituted a restrictive British definition of womanhood for traditional Hindu norms. The positive gains for women—increased physical freedom, the acquisition of literacy, and limited entry to nondomestic work—often brought unforeseen negative consequences, such as a reduction in autonomy and power in the household. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.