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A history of the changing intellectual attitudes in 16th- and 17th-century Spain towards the American Indians and their society.
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 24,79 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521337045
A history of the changing intellectual attitudes in 16th- and 17th-century Spain towards the American Indians and their society.
Author : Peter Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,63 MB
Release : 2007-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521875595
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Author : William Greenough Thayer Shedd
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Presbyterian Church
ISBN :
Author : Julia V. Douthwaite
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2002-06-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226160559
This study looks at the lives of the most famous "wild children" of eighteenth-century Europe, showing how they open a window onto European ideas about the potential and perfectibility of mankind. Julia V. Douthwaite recounts reports of feral children such as the wild girl of Champagne (captured in 1731 and baptized as Marie-Angélique Leblanc), offering a fascinating glimpse into beliefs about the difference between man and beast and the means once used to civilize the uncivilized. A variety of educational experiments failed to tame these feral children by the standards of the day. After telling their stories, Douthwaite turns to literature that reflects on similar experiments to perfect human subjects. Her examples range from utopian schemes for progressive childrearing to philosophical tales of animated statues, from revolutionary theories of regenerated men to Gothic tales of scientists run amok. Encompassing thinkers such as Rousseau, Sade, Defoe, and Mary Shelley, Douthwaite shows how the Enlightenment conceived of mankind as an infinitely malleable entity, first with optimism, then with apprehension. Exposing the darker side of eighteenth-century thought, she demonstrates how advances in science gave rise to troubling ethical concerns, as parents, scientists, and politicians tried to perfect mankind with disastrous results.
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 48,13 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101543558
Ken Follett’s magnificent historical epic begins as five interrelated families move through the momentous dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage. A thirteen-year-old Welsh boy enters a man’s world in the mining pits. . . . An American law student rejected in love finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. . . . A housekeeper for the aristocratic Fitzherberts takes a fateful step above her station, while Lady Maud Fitzherbert herself crosses deep into forbidden territory when she falls in love with a German spy. . . . And two orphaned Russian brothers embark on radically different paths when their plan to emigrate to America falls afoul of war, conscription, and revolution. From the dirt and danger of a coal mine to the glittering chandeliers of a palace, from the corridors of power to the bedrooms of the mighty, Fall of Giants takes us into the inextricably entangled fates of five families—and into a century that we thought we knew, but that now will never seem the same again. . . .
Author : Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2010-06-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805081704
"Natural and man-made disasters have the power to destroy thousands of lives very quickly. Both as they unfold and in the aftermath, these forces of nature astonish the rest of the world with their incredible devastation and magnitude. In this collection of ten well-known catastrophes ... Brenda Guiberson explores the causes and effects, as well as the local and global reverberations of these calamitous events."--Barnesandnoble.com.
Author : Thomas Boston
Publisher :
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 38,11 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Salvation
ISBN :
Author : Christopher M. S. Johns
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,60 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780271062082
Investigates the response of the Roman Catholic Church to European Enlightenment critiques of revealed religion and clerical governance through the lens of its art, architecture, urbanism, and material culture.
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300059502
For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.
Author : Kevin Hinckley
Publisher : CFI
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462112227
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam." We each struggle with temptations, heartaches, and disappointments, which hold us back from achieving our goals and enjoying life. In twelve manageable steps, Habits, Hurts, and Hangups helps you overcome your own "natural man" and achieve peace and healing with God's aid.