Author: Walter Kenneth GriffinPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Dutcher Family
Author: Walter Kenneth GriffinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Charles Springer of Cranehook-on-the-Delaware, His Descendants and Allied Families
Author: Jessie Evelyn SpringerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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What Parish Are You From?
Author: Eileen M. McMahonPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813149274
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
For Irish Americans as well as for Chicago's other ethnic groups, the local parish once formed the nucleus of daily life. Focusing on the parish of St. Sabina's in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Auburn-Gresham, Eileen McMahon takes a penetrating look at the response of Catholic ethnics to life in twentieth-century America. She reveals the role the parish church played in achieving a cohesive and vital ethnic neighborhood and shows how ethno-religious distinctions gave way to racial differences as a central point of identity and conflict. For most of this century the parish served as an important mechanism for helping Irish Catholics cope with a dominant Protestant-American culture. Anti-Catholicism in the society at large contributed to dependency on parishes and to a desire for separateness from the American mainstream. As much as Catholics may have wanted to insulate themselves in their parish communities, however, Chicago demographics and the fluid nature of the larger society made this ultimately impossible. Despite efforts at integration attempted by St. Sabina's liberal clergy, white parishioners viewed black migration into their neighborhood as a threat to their way of life and resisted it even as they relocated to the suburbs. The transition from white to black neighborhoods and parishes is a major theme of twentieth-century urban history. The experience of St. Sabina's, which changed from a predominantly Irish parish to a vibrant African-American Catholic community, provides insights into this social trend and suggests how the interplay between faith and ethnicity contributes to a resistance to change.
Searching the Heavens and the Earth
Author: Agustin UDIASPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401703493
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Jesuits established a large number of astronomical, geophysical and meteorological observatories during the 17th and 18th centuries and again during the 19th and 20th centuries throughout the world. The history of these observatories has never been published in a complete form. Many early European astronomical observatories were established in Jesuit colleges. During the 17th and 18th centuries Jesuits were the first western scientists to enter into contact with China and India. It was through them that western astronomy was first introduced in these countries. They made early astronomical observations in India and China and they directed for 150 years the Imperial Observatory of Beijing. In the 19th and 20th centuries a new set of observatories were established. Besides astronomy these now included meteorology and geophysics. Jesuits established some of the earliest observatories in Africa, South America and the Far East. Jesuit observatories constitute an often forgotten chapter of the history of these sciences.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1450
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Past and Present of Greene County, Illinois
Author: Edward MinerPublisher:
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Category : Greene County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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The Antiquities of Wisconsin
Author: Increase Allen LaphamPublisher:
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Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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History of Goodhue County, Minnesota
Author: Franklyn Curtiss-WedgePublisher:
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Category : Belle Creek (Minn. : Township)
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
History of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley, Ohio
Author: Joseph Green Butler (Jr.)Publisher:
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Category : Mahoning County (Ohio)
Languages : en
Pages : 938
Book Description
Forms of Curriculum Inquiry
Author: Edmund C. ShortPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438419899
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book presents an overview of seventeen forms of inquiry used in curriculum research in education. Conventional disciplinary forms of inquiry, such as philosophical, historical, and scientific, are described, as well as more recently acknowledged forms such as ethnographic, aesthetic, narrative, phenomenological, and hermeneutic. Interdisciplinary forms such as theoretical, normative, critical, deliberative, and action research are also included. These forms of inquiry are distinguished from one another in terms of purposes, types of research questions addressed, and the processes and logic of procedure employed in arriving at knowledge claims.