Author: Charles Kendall AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia
Author: Charles Kendall AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 988
Book Description
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
Author: Project GutenbergPublisher: Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 3132
Book Description
"The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia is a reproduction of a 1911 edition of a famous encyclopedia. The text has not been updated. Although the text is in the public domain in the United States, the original publisher still has a valid trademark in the original title of the encyclopedia. The original publisher offered Project Gutenberg a license to use the trademark, but the terms of the license were not consistent with the volunteer noncommercial nature of Project Gutenberg or its primary goal of distributing electronic text with the fewest possible restrictions." -from Gutenberg
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Author: Colonial Saints
Author: Allan GreerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136706364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
From the cult of Saint Anne to the devotees of the Virgin of Guadalupe, from Saint Anthony who competed with Christ for popularity in Brazil, to Jesuits who mixed freely with shamans that talked with the gods, this exciting new anthology examines the conversion of the colonized. The essays examine how New World spirits transformed into Old World saints - for example, the spirit of love transfigured into the Virgin Mary - as well as the implications of the canonization of the first American saint. Colonial Saints illustrates the complex and intimate connections among confessional life writing, canonization, and the practices of the Inquisition. There was a dynamic exchange involving local agendas, the courts in Spain and France, and, of course, Rome. This bold collection clearly shows the interplay between slavery and spirituality, conversion and control, and the links between the sacred and the political.
Science in the Vanished Arcadia
Author: Miguel de AsúaPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004256776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
In Science in the Vanished Miguel de Asúa provides the first modern comprehensive account of Jesuit science in the missions of Paraguay and the River Plate region during the 17th and 18th centuries. Focusing on individual Jesuits and underlining the relationships of their work to the religious goals of the Society of Jesus, the book covers the disciplines of natural history, cartography, medical botany, astronomy and the topics pursued by the former missionaries in their Italian exile. Based on many so far unexplored manuscripts and a vast corpus of primary sources, the book argues the existence of a tradition of research on nature consistent with universal Jesuit science and at the same time original in its articulation of Western learning and aboriginal lore on nature.
Hamlet, and As You Like it
Author: William ShakespeareThe Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Merton ChristensenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113495008X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 789
Book Description
During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary, theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest. This fourth double volume of the Notebooks covers the years 1819 to 1826. The range of Coleridge's reading, his endless questioning, and his recondite sources continue to fascinate the reader. Included here are drafts and full versions of the later poems. Many passages reflect the theological interests that led to Coleridge's writing of Aids to Reflection, later to become an important source for the transcendentalists. Another development in this volume is the startling expansion of Coleridge's interest in 'the theory of life' and in chemistry - the laboratory chemistry of the Royal Institute and the theoretical chemistry of German transcendentalists such as Oken, Steffens, and Oersted.
Galignani's Literary Gazette
Author: History of the Indians, of North and South America
Author: Samuel G. GoodrichPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
This historical work presents an incredible and precise account of the history of settlement in America, giving an excellent overview of the Indian people of north and south America. When America was discovered, it was occupied by a race of men unlike any tribe already known. They were known as Indians from the West Indies, where they were first witnessed, and which Columbus, according to the popular opinion of that age, assumed to be a part of the East Indies. This history stands out from others on the same subject, as American author, Samuel G. Goodrich, has presented it very accurately, focusing on making the general reader acquainted with the relevant facts about the subject without being too wordy or making the text incomprehensible. This work is a part of his series, beginning in 1827 under the name of Peter Parley, that dealt with topics related to geography, biography, history, science, and various other tales.
The New World Book List
Author: George, firm, publishers, Bristol, Eng. (1890. William George's Sons)Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : W. George's Sons
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description