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Jon Butler
Power, Authority, and the Origins of American Denominational Order
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Robert L. Carroll
Order Microsauria
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This volume discusses in particular the suggested relationship of microsaurs with reptiles and the determination of the ancestry of the various groups of living amphibians. Twenty-five general of microsaurs are recognized in this work. Contents: History of the Microsaur Concept; Definition of Micrausaurs; Methods of Study; Taxonomy; Systematic Description; Comparative Anatomy; Relationships of Microsaurs; Geological and Geographical Distribution and Biology of Microsaurs; Summary; and References Cites. Illustrations.
Katherine A. Harvey
Lonaconing Journals
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Louis Gottschalk
Letters of Lafayette to Washington, 1777-1799 (rev. ed.)
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The friendship between Lafayette & Washington began slowly but had developed fully by late 1777. By the time Lafayette’s military service in America had come to an end, they were good friends. During the course of their correspondence Lafayette discussed all manner of public & private events & aspirations with Washington. Thus his letters furnish an intimate & revealing account of great events & of the great & near-great men who were a part of them. These letters were first published in 1944 in a privately printed edition of 400 copies. The present editors have re-examined the manuscripts used for all the letters & have corrected the earlier reading wherever historical accuracy requires it. A new preface presents revised interpretations of some of the letters.
Carl Damkaer
Henrik Kroyer’s Publication on Pelagic Marine Copepoda
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Charles Garside, Jr.
Origins of Calvin’s Theology of Music
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This is a print on demand publication. The singing of psalms was one of the incontestably distinguishing marks of Calvinist culture in Europe & America in the 16th & 17th centuries. Contents of this study: Introduction; The Point of Origin; The “Institution” of 1536; The “Articles” of 1537; The influence of Bucer; Calvin’s Pastorate in Strasbourg; The “Ecclesiastical Ordinances”; The “Epistle to the Reader”: 1542; The “Institution” of 1543; The addition to the “Epistle”: 1543; The uniqueness of the Psalms; The Singing of the Psalms; Conclusion; Appendix; & Bibliography.
John C. Greene
Science of Minerals in the Age of Jefferson
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James K. Kieswetter
Etienne-Denis Pasquier
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Carl W. Condit
Pioneer Stage of Railroad Electrification
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Gustina Scaglia
Translation of Vitruvius and Copies of Late Antique Drawings in Buonaccorso Ghiberti’s Zibalone
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Moses ben Maimon
Moses Maimonides’ Glossary of Drug Names
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The ten authentic medical treatises of Moses Maimonides lay dormant in manuscript form for many centuries. In the mid-1900s, Hebrew editions of these works were published under the editorship of the late Suessman Muntner of Jerusalem. The pub. of several of these works in English followed, incl. Maimonides’ treatises on Asthma (19643), Regimen of Health (1964), Poisons (1966), Hemorrhoids (1969), Responsa (1969), Aphorisms (1970-71), and Sexual Intercourse (1974). This important work represents one of the remaining three Maimonidean treatises that were not yet available to the English reader in 1979, when this volume was published. It has been translated from Max Meyerhof’s French Edition. This is a print on demand publication.
Anne Markham Schulz
Sculpture of Giovanni and Bartolomeo Bon and Their Workshop
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Susan C. Karant-Nunn
Luther’s Pastors
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Charles R. Bailey
French Secondary Education 1763-1790
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James J. Lorence
Organized Business and the Myth of the China Market
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Arthur L. Donovan
James Hutton’s Medical Dissertation
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James Daly
Cosmic Harmony and Political Thinking in Early Stuart England
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W.J. Jones
Foundations of English Bankruptcy
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Thomas Rogers Forbes
Crowner’s Request
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J.M. Harris
Evolution of the Plio-Pleistocene African Suidae
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J.J. Finkelstein
Ox That Gored
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This is a print on demand publication. The author spent many years collecting the material which forms the basis for this volume which draws on his preliminary studies & adds much new material. When Finkelstein died in Nov. 1974, he left a draft of a comprehensive work on the subject of the goring ox & related topics. Contents: (Part I): Apperceptions & categorizations; The Mesopotamian & biblical laws of the goring ox: Some categorical considerations; The laws of the goring ox; The Mesopotamian laws & their contexts; The biblical rules; & Reflections; (Part II): The trial of animals: The intellectual background of the inquiry; The classical sources & the ethnographic evidence; Animal trials in medieval Europe; The deodands in early English law; & Animal trials in the U.S.
Ingrid E. M. Edlund
Iron Age and Etruscan Vases in the Olcott Collection At Columbia University, New York
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C. Tsehloane Keto
The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs, 1896
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Robert E. Weems
An Unusual Newly Discovered Archosaur from the Upper Triassic of Virginia, U. S. A.
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Jan T. Hallenbeck
Pavia and Rome
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Robert G. Calkins
Distribution of Labor
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David Pingree
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 4)
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This fourth volume of the “Census” provides all available bibliographical info. concerning works in jyotihsastra & related fields & biographical info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or mathematics & mathematical astronomy, & samhita or divination. This volume contains articles on authors whose names being with labials (p, ph, b, bh, & m). These are preceded by material supplemental to vol. I, II, & III. This material consists of abbrev. of new periodicals & serials that have been consulted, a biblio. of books & articles that have been noticed since volume III went to press, & a list of additional catalogs that have been utilized.
David Clay Large
Politics of Law and Order
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction: Bavaria in the Era of Revolution, 1918-1919; Part One: The “Einwohnerwehr” Movement in Bavaria: (I) The Organizational Development of the “Einwohnerwehr”: State or Private Control?; (II) The Political Evolution of the Bavarian “Einwonerwehr”; Part Two: The Bavarian “Einwohnerwehr”; Part Two: The Bavarian “Einwohnerwehr” in National and International Policy: (III) The Orgesch and the Orka: (A) The Orgesch in Germany; (B) The Orka in Austria; (IV) The Allied Response: “Einwohnerwehr” Dissolution and the Crisis in Bavarian-Reich Relations; Conclusion; Bibliography.
Daythal Kendall
Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society
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A supplement to “A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the APS,” published by the Society in 1966. In only a dozen years since the pub. of the “Guide,” substantial additions to the collection reached the point where a revision or supplement to the “Guide” was desirable and even necessary. For this purpose the Library was fortunate to obtain the services of Daythal Kendall, then a graduate student in the University of Pennsylvania, whose own research on the language of the Takelma Indians eminently qualified him for the undertaking. As he states in his introduction, Dr. Kendall has not only followed the format of the predecessor vol., but has introduced into his own text cross references to the “Guide.”
Stephen K. Victor
Practical Geometry in the High Middle Ages
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Contents: (I) The Place of Practical Geometry in the Middle Ages: The Nature of Practical Geometry; Practical Geometry in Education; Theory and Practice in Geometry; and Practical Geometry and Practical Concerns; (II) The Contents of “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio” and the “Pratike de geometrie”; (III) Procedures in the Editions, Translations, and Commentary: Editing “Artis cuiuslibet consummatio”; Editing the “Pratike de geometrie”; Translating the Texts; and About the commentary; and (IV) English translation of “Arts cuiuslibet consummatio” and of the “Pratike de geometrie.” Selected Bibliography, Index of Latin Technical Terms, Index of Old French Technical Terms, and Index of Astronomical Parameters. Illus.
Katherine Nell Macfarlane
Isidore of Seville on the Pagan Gods (Origines VIII. 11)
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Jonathan R. Dull
Franklin the Diplomat
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This is a print on demand publication. This study looks at how Benjamin Franklin approached his job as a diplomat & evaluates his performance. It is restricted to the wartime years of Franklin’s French mission & concentrates on the activities author Dull considers most important. To illuminate Franklin, Dull discusses the individual people with whom he worked, the polity he represented, & the society in which he lives. Contents: Franklin’s diplomatic background; The development of Franklin’s negotiating style; Franklin the negotiator: securing the alliance; Franklin as head of mission; Franklin & the functioning of the alliance; Franklin the negotiator: securing the peace; & Franklin: diplomat & man.
Ronald Edward Zupko
Italian Weights and Measures
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Unlike most metrological systems throughout W. Europe, the Italian developed during the Middle Ages (MA) & Early Modern era without any ref. to a commonly accepted set of nat.-ethnic standards. Italy, with its many kingdoms, duchies, communes, etc., was never able to attain any level of metrological standardization outside the confines of severely restricted, small, independent, political jurisdictions. Not until unification in 1871, were Italian weights & measures (W&M) given a totally nat. character. And it was the metric system, & not a conglomerate of units from the old, that finally accomplished the task. This book presents a quantitative compilation, synthesis, & analysis of the principal pre-metric W&M employed throughout Italy & in those areas controlled or influenced by Italy from the Later MA to the age of metrication in the later 19th cent. Tables.
David Reynolds
Lord Lothian and Anglo-American Relations, 1939-1940
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This is a print on demand publication. Of all the British “amateur ambassadors” none was more distinguished than Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian (1882-1940). His tenure of office was brief -- Aug. 1939 to Dec. 1940 -- but it coincided with a crucial period in British & U.S. history. Recently-opened archives enable one to fill in some important gaps in the history of his life & achievements & to set Lothian’s work in the context of British & U.S. policy-making. This book will shows the strengths & weaknesses of a non-career diplomat. In the end, the successes outweighed the failures, as is shown by examining Lothian’s role as intermediary between Churchill & Roosevelt in the two episodes in Anglo-Amer. diplomacy during 1940, the Destroyers-for-Bases Deal & the origins of Lend-Lease.
Albert E. Wood
Oligocene Rodents of North America
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Jonathan E. Rhoads
American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society
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This is a print on demand publication. For the first time the American Philosophical Society and the Royal Society held a joint meeting in London in 1980. The program of the joint meeting consisted of two sessions, at which the following papers were presented: Foreword, by Jonathan E. Rhoads; Delayed-Choice Experiments and the Bohr-Einstein Dialog, by John Archibald Wheeler; Ways of Seeing, or Epistemology in the Arts: Unities and Disunities in Shakespearean Drama and Elizabethan Painting, by Roland Mushat Frye; and Benjamin Franklin, The British Statesman: A Reappraisal, by Esmond Wright. Illus.
Lionel Gossman
Orpheus Philologus
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This is print on demand publication. Though Theodor Mommsen was probably unaware of it, from the time of the first appearance of his influential and successful “Romische Geschichte” (1854), he was the object of the passionate and enduring hatred of an obscure Swiss philologist in the provincial city of Basle. Johann Jacob Bachofen is still not well known in the English-speaking world. He receives a brief mention in most histories of anthropology for his contribution to the popular 19th-cent. theory of “matriarchy,” and his studies of relations in matrilinear societies. Classical scholars know of Bachofen’s original contributions to the study of Greek myth and tragedy through George Thomson, whose interpretation of Athenian tragedy owes much to Bachofen.
Arthur G. Humes
Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-like Forms (Cnidaria, Anthozoa)
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This is a print on demand publication. Associations of copepods with marine invertebrates are common, especially in tropical waters. In the 25 years before this review was written in 1982, a large number of new copepod associates were discovered. In 1982 the number of species of copepods known to be associated with marine invertebrates was estimated to be about 1,300. This review encompasses all copepods, ranging from loosely associated to endoparasitic forms, which are associated with Actiniaria (sea anemones) & Corallimorpharia (anemone-like forms). For each of the 42 species of copepods information is given on the host, the site on the host when known, & the locality. New species are fully described. For known species brief notes are provided. Illus.
David W. McAlpin
Proto-Elamo-Dravidian
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This is a print on demand publication. Demonstrates that the Dravidian language family of South Asia is related to Elamite, a major language of ancient West Asia. Also, it follows up on some of the implications of this relationship. To do this, summaries are provided of comparative Dravidian & of Elamite grammar. The methodology employed is traditional, philologically based, comparative linguistics. While this work contains a fairly detailed & thorough discussion of comparative Dravidian & of Elamite grammar, it is not a comparative grammar or even the beginnings of one. Background introductions in archaeology & history are provided for those who are unfamiliar with the ancient Near East. This work has one goal: to prove beyond doubt that Elamite & Dravidian are cognate. Illustrations.
Edward Grant
In Defense of the Earth’s Centrality and Immobility
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The Diversity of the Aristotelian Reaction; (II) The Basic Defense of Aristotelian Cosmology; (III) The Earth’s Centrality: The Three Centers; & The Terraqueous Sphere; (IV) The Earth’s Immobility: (A) Physical Arguments Based on the Common Motion: The Common Motion; Ships & the Common Motion; Cannon Balls to East & West; The Fall of Heavy & Light Bodies; & Miscellaneous Physical Arguments; & (B) Metaphysical Arguments: Simplicity, Order & Nobility; & Conclusion.
M.F. Hearn
Ripon Minster
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This is a print on demand publication. Ripon Cathedral, anciently one of the four minsters of the archdiocese of York, England, was designated a cathedral when the new diocese of Ripon was created in 1836. In the history of architecture it is properly known as Ripon Minster, a collegiate foundation of secular canons who maintained the daily cycle of liturgical offices but who also ministered to the laity. Contents of this study: (I) Archaeological Interpretation: The Actual & Intended Forms; (II) Historical Interpretation: The Dates of Construction; The Patron & His Purposes; A Search for the Origin of the Ripon Master; & The English Concept of the Gothic Style. Black & white plates & plans.
Steven L. Kaplan
Famine Plot Persuasion in Eighteenth-Century France
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This is a print on demand publication. The French Revolution seethed with rumors of plots instigated by various groups from aristocrats to brigands. Many of the rumors had to do with the food supply, especially with grain, from which the vast majority of Frenchmen derived most of their nourishment. These were called “famine plots,” by which was meant a secret machination to starve the people in order to achieve certain ends. Like many attitudes & practices associated with the Revolution, the famine plot persuasion was a way of making sense of the world that was deeply rooted in the collective consciousness & the material, moral & political environment of the old regime. When there was a serious & protracted disruption of the normal grain & bread supply, consumers found reasons to question the authenticity of the dearth. The conviction grew that the crisis had been contrived, that there was a criminal conspiracy afoot against the people, that popular suffering was needless, & that the plotters somehow had to be resisted. This study examines the dearths of 1725-1726, 1738-1741, 1747 & 1751-1752, & the crises of 1765-1770 & 1771-1775.
Roy E. Schreiber
First Carlisle
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A study of James Hay, a little known 17th-cent. Scotsman who was a key figure in the early Stuart era. Unlike the vast majority of Scots who entered England with James I, Hay absorbed the culture of England and tried to become a genuine part of it, in order to play an important role for his adopted country on both the nat. and internat. level. For more than three decades Hay was at the right hand of those who made the decisions, and advised them on what to decide. Between 1616 and 1629 Hay traveled to virtually every major Western European nation. Hay’s lesser gentry origins, emphasis on civilian gov’t. employment, devotion to the court over the country and ardent entrepreneurship all single him out as a Jacobean aristocrat. A print on demand pub.
Bruce Stansfield Eastwood
Elements of Vision
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The mathematical, medical, and physical-philosophical traditions of medieval visual theory provide important insights and arguments in response to very specific questions defined by the respective interests of these traditions. Each of these three traditions also appears to have a larger framework of assumptions, within which it conceives, states, and solves its specific questions concerning vision. Within the medical tradition, the theory of Hunayn ibn Ishaq (A.D. 808-873) seems to have been the most important in the medieval Islamic world, and his theory involves a comprehensive set of assumptions which are only partially explicit in his Ten Treatises on the Eye. These assumptions are cosmological in nature, and they direct the thinking applied to specific questions at every stage of the theory's development. Hunayn's theory of vision is, in fact, a theory of the cosmological natures of the pathway from the brain to the perceived object. Contents of this study: Intro.; 1st tract: the nature and structure of the eye; 2nd tract: the nature and uses of the brain; 3rd tract: the working of the visual pneuma; The crystalline lens; Problem-solving and cosmology. Illus.
Owen Gingerich
Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, New and Full Moons, A.D. 1650-1805
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These tables cover the period from the mid-17th to the 19th cent. when astronomical ephemerides were evolving most rapidly. These tables resemble those previously pub. by the APS: Tuckerman’s “Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to A.D. 1” and “A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649” and Goldstine’s “New and Full Moon, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651.” The tables contain features consistent with the almanacs and ephemerides pub. in this period: planetary positions are computed for 12 hours U.T. (noon); and the Julian day number is given for new and full moons. An analytical essay examines the theoretical and computational developments in almanac-making in the period that bridges between Kepler and Laplace.
Silvio A. Bedini
At the Sign of the Compass and Quadrant
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This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. A significant although little known figure in the history of early American science is Anthony Lamb, a maker of mathematical instruments who was active in NY from 1730 to 1784. He had been trained in a skill which was rare in his time even in England, and it was one which was virtually unknown in the American colonies in the early 18th cent. English-born and transported to Maryland as a convicted felon, Lamb emerged as the first professionally trained maker of scientific instruments in the American colonies, and the first to be established in NY. Contents of this study: The Apprentice and the Sorcerer; The Fate of Felons; The Brave New World; The Invention of the Octant; The Mid-Century Years; Then the Revolution. Illustrations.
E. Randolph Daniel
Abbot Joachim of Fiore
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This is a Print On Demand Publication. Contents: Introduction; The Life of Abbot Joachim; The Structure and Purpose of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Date of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Tables and Figures; The Two “Diffinitiones”; The Manuscripts of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Manuscript Families of the “Liber de Concordia”; The Letter of Pope Clement III and the Testamentary Letter; and Ratio editionis”. The Text: The Letter of Pope Clement III; The Testamentary Letter of Abbot Joachim; and The “Liber de Concordia”: Preface and Books One, Two, Three and Four. Glossary and Bibliography. Illustrations.
Darwin H. Stapleton
Accounts of European Science, Technology, and Medicine Written by American Travelers Abroad, 1735-1860, in the Collections of the American Philosophical Society
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Part One: Preliminary Observations & Suggestions for Further Study; & Part Two: An Annotated Bibliography of Printed & Manuscript Holdings at the American Philosophical Society (APS) Library.
Gareth M. Green
Koch Centennial Memorial
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Koch Centennial Memorial, March 1982, Vol. 125, No. 3 (part 2 of 2 parts). Contents: Robert Koch, Tuberculosis (TB), & the Subsequent History of Medicine; TB & Medical Science; Epidemiology of TB; Disease Transmission & Contagion Control; TB: Susceptibility & Resistance; Pathogenesis of Pulmonary TB; Microbiology of Tubercle Bacilli; The Immunology of TB; Immunoreactive Substances of Mycobacteria; BCG Vaccination; The Surgery for Pulmonary TB; Clinical Trials in Pulmonary TB; Chemotherapy for TB Today; Chemoprophylaxis; The Tuberculin Skin Test; The Atypical Mycobacteria; Impact of TB on Human Health in the World; & TB: A Portal Through Which to View the Future. Illustrations.
Linda E. Voigts
Latin Technical Phlebotomy and Its Middle English Translation
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Introduction: Phlebotomy in the Middle Ages; The Latin Treatise; Late Medieval English Medicine & Middle English Medical Texts; & The Middle English Text: Related Tracts, Date & Dialect, Manuscript; (II) “Tractatus magistri enrici de egritudinibus fleubotomandis”/”Of Phlebotomie”; (III) Appendixes: (A) “Of Blode Lytting” (from Gonville & Caius College MS. 84/166, pp. 205-06); (B) Summary of “Tactatus”/”Of Phlebotomie”; (C) ProblemWords in the Middle English Texts; & (IV) Plates.
Harry Liebersohn
Religion and Industrial Society
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This is a print on demand publication. The Protestant Social Cong. (“Evangelish-Sozialer Kongress”), met each year from 1890 to 1914 to discuss Germany’s sudden transformation into an industrial capitalist society. It served as a forum for Wilhelmine Germany’s educated middle class. Prof. & public leaders such as Friedrich Naumann, Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Gertrud Baumer, Adolf von Harnack, & Hans Delbruck addressed the yearly meetings. A cross-section of the occup. making up the “Bildungsburgertum” listened to them, with church officials, teachers, civil servants, academics, businessmen, & doctors in attendance. The printed protocols of the Cong. allow us to reconstruct how these educated Protestants responded to the political & social forces impinging on their culture.
Kenneth Margerison
P.-L. Roederer
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P.-L. Roederer has been known principally for his role in escorting the French king to the Legislative Assembly on 10 Aug. 1792 & for assisting in the coup d’etat of brumaire. Recent historians, however, have come to discover that Roederer’s career was long, varied, & significant. This study of Roederer’s political thought & practice during the decade of the French Revolution places some of these recent findings of his career in the broader context of his life & provides new insights into his motivation & ultimate political significance. Roederer’s political thought & practice from his youth through to the coup d’etat of brumaire are explored in an effort to analyze & understand the interaction of events & ideas that shaped his political career.
William J. Mayer-Oakes
El Inga
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This is a print on demand publication. In Jan. 1960, author Mayer-Oakes & Robert Bell began a program of field archeology in Ecuador, with their relocation & test pit excavation at the El Inga site near Quito. Initial studies of the surface collection convinced the two investigators that a major excavation was necessary. Contents of this study: (1) Summary History El Inga Surface Collection; Present Status & Future Prospects; (2) The Surface Collection -- A Descriptive Analysis: Collection Classification; Specimen Classification & Description; (3) Discussion: Macro-Scale; Micro-Scale; (4) Comparisons: Illalo Region: El Inga Excavation Data, & Surface Data; Ecuador Region: Excavation Data & Surface Data; (5) Interpretations; (6) Summary & Conclusions. Illustrations.
A. Aveni
Maya City Planning and the Calendar
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This is a print on demand publication. Why do people orient buildings the way they do? That the depiction of the cardinal directions of space had something to do with events taking place in the sky is suggested by cosmological diagrams derived from the civilizations of ancient Mexico. Contents: The Orientation Problem & Categories of Explan.; The Orientation of Ceremonial Architecture in Ancient Mesoamerica; Alignment of Maya Sites; Puuc Building Alignments; Discussion of Individual Site Plans: Uxmal, Sayil, Kabah, Labna & Outliers, Oxkintok & Outliers, Chacmultun, Kiuic, & Xcalumkin, Xculoc, & the Puuc Sites in Campeche; The Question of Site Chronology; Calendrical Implications of Astronomical Orientation Hypotheses; & The Orientation Calendar in a Cultural Context. Tables. Illus.
William Gleason
Alexander Guchkov and the End of the Russian Empire
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This is a print on demand publication. Alexander Ivanovich Guchkov (1862-1936) was one of the most engaging public personalities in the last years of the Russian Empire. This political biography of Guchkov, whose career in the national limelight -- in the legislature (the State Duma), in the war-industries committees during World War I, & in 1917 in the Provisional Government -- was central to the story of the collapse of the old order. Contents of this study of Guchkov: The Family Background: 1862-1904; the Making of a Politician: 1905-1907; Politics by Usual Means: 1907-1914; Politics by Unusual Means: 1914-1917; Revolution & Exile: 1917-1936; Conclusion; & Bibliography.
Marion W. Gray
Prussia in Transition
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Contents: (I) The Stein Ministry in Historical Perspective: Hero History and Beyond; (II) Social Change and a New Ideology Confront Prussia’s Old Regime; (III) Optimism Springs From Crisis: The Reform Party; (IV) Bureaucratic Change and Accommodation of the Aristocracy; (V) Government by Property Owners; (VI) Anchoring the Foundations of a Capitalist Economy; (VII) The Stein Reform Ministry and the Process of Change in Prussia; and Bibliography.
William Harvey Maehl
German Socialist Party
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Of all the political parties in German history none was more ambivalent than the Social Democratic Party (SDP). Beneath the misleading surplice of Marxism, the SDP was basically only a lower class reformist party. This study shows that, far from continuing revolution, very realistic, ordinary goals of pacification & recovery after WW1 determined the tactics of the SDP. A sober understanding of the importance of foreign policy for the post-war goals of Social Democracy, coupled with the fact that it could not control an electoral majority, led it to abandon its anti-collaborationism of imperial times. By 1930 the SDP was so enmeshed in foreign policy, collaboration, & toleration that it was powerless to summon the workers to battle against Nazism. Illus.
David R. Contosta
Rise to World Power
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This selection of letters derives from the microfilm ed. of the Whitelaw Reid Papers on deposit at the Library of Congress. The editors used four broad criteria for selecting letters: (1) those that illuminate the conduct & formation of international relations; (2) those that reveal Reid’s own role in the direction of foreign policy; (3) those that demonstrate Reid’s attempts to measure or to manipulate public opinion in foreign affairs; & (4) those that have special value because their recipients were in a position to make or influence foreign policy. Contents: Introduction; Prelude to Empire; War & Expansion; Anglo-American Friendship & World Power; The Impending Storm; & Glossary of Names.
John B. Freed
Counts of Falkenstein
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This is a print on demand publication. Contents: (I) Karl Schmid & His Critics: The Formation of Patrilineal Lineages; Georges Duby; Karl Leyser; Friedrich Prinz; Karl Bosl; Wilhelm Stormer; Patrilineal Lineages & the Investiture Conflict; The “Codex Falkensteinensis”; (II) The Ancestors of Count Siboto IV; (III) Siboto IV’s Knowledge of His Ancestry: Siboto’s Own Presentation of His Genealogy; The Falkensteins’ ”Hantgemal”; The Welfs’ Knowledge of Their Ancestry; Patrilineal Consciousness among the Weyarns & Falkensteins; (IV) The Paterfamilias: Family Strategies; The Modling Inheritance; Siboto’s Daughters, Uncle, Nephews, & Niece; Maternal & Paternal Uncles; The Changing Meaning of “Familia”; (V) First Names & Surnames: Legitimate Sons; Bastard Sons; The Adoption of Surnames; The Surnames of Siboto’s Ancestors & Relatives; Siboto’s Surnames; The Surnames of Siboto’s Sons & Grandsons; (VI) The End of the Dynasty: Kuno & Siboto V; Siboto VI & Conrad; The Disposition of the Falkenstein Inheritance; The Causes of the Falkensteins’ Decline; The Causes of Family Extinction. Maps.
David Burr
Eucharistic Presence and Conversion in Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Thought
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Concentrates on a single problem in medieval theology: the relationship between Christ’s bodily presence in the Eucharist & the conversion of the Eucharistic elements, bread & wine, into Christ’s body & blood. Traces discussion of this problem in the Franciscan order during the late 13th cent. from St. Bonaventure to John Duns Scotus. Contents: The Thomist-Bonaventuran Thesis; Eucharistic Thought in the 1240s: Albert the Great, Wm. of Militona, & Richard Fishacre; Reception of the Thomist-Bonav. Thesis outside the Franciscan Order; The Franciscan Critique: Wm. de la Mare, Matthew of Aquasparta, John Pecham, Peter Olivi, Roger Marston, & Wm. of Falgar, Richard of Middleton, Vitalis de Furno, & Wm. of Ware, John Duns Scotus; Conclusion. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find publication.
Elizabeth A. R. Brown
Oxford Collection of the Drawings of Roger de Gaignieres and the Royal Tombs of Saint-Denis
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In the late 17th and early 18th cent., Francois-Roger de Gaignieres (FRG) amassed an impressive collection of drawings of the tombs and other monuments of France. That collection is today divided between the Bodleian Lib. in Oxford and the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN) in Paris. Ironically, the 16 vol. of the collection now housed in Oxford include the drawings of the most prestigious French tombs. Contents: The Revolution and the Royal Tombs of France; The FRG Drawings and the Restoration of the Royal Tombs of France; The Oxford Collection of FRG Drawings and the Tracings of the BN; Kerrich’s Drawings and Engravings of French Monuments; and The Disappearance of the Oxford Collection of FRG’s Drawings from the French Royal Library. Illustrations.
Lionel Gossman
Towards a Rational Historiography
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This is a print on demand publication. Gossman maintains that underlying the argument that historiography cannot be subsumed under a poetics or a rhetoric (in the sense of a system of purely linguistic or literary tropes) is a larger claim, namely that a wide range of activities, from literary criticism, through legal debate, theology, ethics, politics, psychology, and medicine to the natural sciences, all constitute rational practices, even if there is considerable variation in the degree of formalism and rigor and in the type of argument most commonly employed in each of these different of fields of inquiry. Hence Gossman emphasizes the practice or process of doing history rather than the product. What appeals to him in the idea of reason as a practice is its open, liberal, and democratic character. Historiography as a rational practice supposes a community of participants rather than the “anomie” of a world in which every man is his own historian or, at best, the relation of hero and follower that appears to be implied by privileging the historical “text.”
Owen Gingerich; Robert S. Westman
Wittich Connection
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Contents: Introduction; (1) The Libraries of Tycho Brahe & of Paul Wittich: The Misleading Attribution of the Copernican Annotations; Master Paul Wittich; Tycho’s Attempts to Acquire Wittich’s Library; & The Prague Tychoniana; (2) Wittich’s Copernican Annotations: Reinhold’s Annotations & the Liege “De revolutionibus”; The Vatican Wittich Copy; The Prague & Wroclaw Wittich Copies; & Why Annotate Four Copes of “De revolutionibus”?; (3) Reconstructing the Universe: Tycho’s Early Transformations & Wittich’s Visit; A Theft in the Castle?: Thycho’s “Legal Brief” on the Ursus Affair, & Ursus’ Account & Kepler’s Interpretation; & Constructing Tycho’s Cosmology. Appendix: The Vatican Annotations; & Wittich’s Obituary in ”Silesia Togata.” Illus.
Franklin C. West
Crisis of the Weimar Republic
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Contents: The Uncompleted World of the Revolution & the Origins of the Dispute Over the Princes’ Properties; The First Stages of the Controversy, Nov. 1925 to Jan. 1926: The Communists Set the Pace; The Social Democratic Party Astride Two Horses: The SPD’s Decision to Support the Referendum, Jan., 1926; The Dilemma of the Middle Parties: Could the Reichstage Find an Alternative to the Initiative Proposal? Jan.-March, 1926; “The Center Party Must Remain the Center Party”; From the Initiative to the Referendum, March-June, 1926: Chances for Parliamentary Action Fade; & The Failure of the Referendum & Its Aftermath.
Kenneth M. Setton
Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571), Vol. IV
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The fourth of 4 vols. which trace the history of the later Crusades & papal relations with the Levant from the accession of Innocent III (in 1198) to the reign of Pius V & the Battle of Lepanto (1566-71). Contents of this vol.: The Murder of Martinuzzi, the Turks on Land & at Sea, the War of Siena; The Reign of Paul IV to the Outbreak of the War with Spain; Paul IV, the War with Spain & Jean de la Vigne at the Porte; The Election of Pius IV & the Fall of the Carafeschi, Cyprus & the Turkish Success at Jerba; The Third Period & Closure of the Council of Trent; France, Venice, & the Porte -- the Turkish Siege of Malta; Pius V, Spain, & Venice; the Turks in Chios & the Adriatic; the Revolt of the Netherlands; Venice, Cyprus, & the Porte in the Early Years of Selim II; The Failure of the Expedition of 1570 & Pius V’s Attempts to Form the Anti-Turkish League; The Holy League, the Continuing War with the Turks, & the Fall of Famagusta; & the Road to Lepanto, the Battle, & a Glance at the Following Century.
Jeffrey H. Denton
Philip the Fair and the Ecclesiastical Assemblies of 1294-1295
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This vol. provides a new analysis of the sources concerning the clash between Philip the Fair and Boniface VIII. Indeed, any attempt to study the constitutional and political position of the French clergy during the critical years at the turn of the 13th century must include an assessment of the ecclesiastical assemblies at which many clerical decisions were taken and through which the clerical voice was being heard. Although much progress has been made in the sorting and listing of materials relating to French diocesan synods, prior to this publication there had been no comparable sifting of the sources for the provincial councils.
Murphy D. Smith
Realms of Gold
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This volume is a catalog of the rich & extensive collection of maps in the Library of the American Philosophical Soc. (APS) in Philadelphia. it contains information on some 1,750 printed maps, over 1,000 manuscript maps, 136 atlases, two globes, & one model. Murphy Smith began this project in 1985 shortly after he retired from his long career as Associate Librarian of the Society, when Librarian Edward C. Carter II named him Andrew W. Mellon Sr. Research Fellow. Smith came to be recognized as one of the most knowledgeable & helpful historical RCRA librarians in the country. Illustrations.
Rodney J. Morrison
Henry C. Carey and American Economic Development
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This is a print on demand edition of a hard-to-find book. The development of economic thought of the mid-19th century is essentially a history of classical English political economy. The tenets of this school were communicated to the U.S., where the writings of Smith, Malthus, Mill, and Ricardo were adopted by early American political economists. But there was also a strain of political economy in the U.S. at that time that opposed the adoption of the philosophy of classical political economy. This was the nationalistically-oriented American school of economic thought, and the foremost member of this movement was Henry C. Carey.
Ronald Edward Zupko
Revolution in Measurement
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Zupco presents the legacies of the Middle Ages to the pioneering reformers of the Scientific Revolution; the monumental impact of math, physics, chemistry, astronomy, & technology on modern metrology; the creations, struggles, & successes of the Metric System; & the intense battles between metrics & customary metrologies that have waged since the end of the 18th cent. Includes insights into the personalities involved in metrological events: scientists, technologists, bureaucrats, ministers, members of scientific soc., & shows the impact of scientific experimentation & social revolutions. Includes a comprehensive biblio. of European metrology & the sources relevant to the underpinnings for this period in weights & measures history. Illus.
Constance H. Berman
Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early Cistercians
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This is a print on demand publication. A study of medieval ag., of the rural world of southern France, & of the early corporate farms of the new religious order of Citeaux, founded in Burgundy in 1098 & imported into southern France in the mid-12th cent. It is a study of the agriculture & pastoralism practiced by the white monks, as the Cistercians were called, in a region which is both vast & varied in topography, climate, & custom. Assesses that order’s contributions to southern-French economic development in the 12th & 13th cent. The Cistercians did not acquire lands for their newly consolidated farms -- the granges -- through clearance & reclamation of unoccupied lands, but rather through the careful purchase & reorg. of holdings which had often had a long history of cultivation. Maps & tables.
Joseph S. Fruton
Bio-Bibliography for the History of the Biochemical Sciences Since 1800 (2nd ed.)
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Since the publication of the previous version of this work (1982) and a supp. (1985), many books and journal articles have provided info. about persons who have played a role in the develop. of the biochem. sciences during the 19th and 20th cent. Moreover, recent discoveries have called attention to individuals whose research forms part of the historical background of these advances in biochem. knowledge. Hence this vol. includes additional citations for the many people listed in the previous edition, and the number of separate entries has increased. Includes individuals not usually listed among biologists or chemists, from disciplines ranging from physics to pharmacy. Each entry includes ref. to bio. or biblio. ref. works or citations of books and articles in serial pub., or both.
Christopher Ocker
Johannes Klenkok
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An account of the life and circumstances of a little known Augustinian friar with an interesting career, Johannes Klenkok. Author Christopher Ocker attempts to reconstruct his biography more accurately than has been achieved up to now, but in so doing he considers as much as possible the organizations and habits that Klenkok shared with those among his contemporaries of a similar station in life, namely, mendicant friars. The sources led Ocker to pay particular attention to the character of education within the mendicant orders and to Klenkok’s campaign against the “Sachsenspiegel,” the first written code of traditional German laws.
Michael A. Houlden
Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables
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This is a supplement to the planetary, lunar and solar tables produced by Bryant Tuckerman (1962, 1964). These tables have proved an invaluable aid to historians of astronomy. An important usage is the dating of ancient and medieval astronomical observations, but the tables also have wide application in determining the accuracy of early measurements and calculations. This supplementary volume owes its origin to the discovery by the authors of significant errors in Tuckerman’s tabular positions of Mars. They made a comparison between Tuckerman’s positions for the Sun and planets and those computed from an integrated ephemeris. Only in the case of the longitude of Mars were errors found to be serious.
Susan E. Klepp
Swift Progress of Population
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Dr. Susan E. Klepp, a Mellon Fellow in Bibliography at the APS in 1986-87, suggested to the Librarian that the publication of the APS collection of Phila. mortality bills from 1722 to 1859, together with those from other repositories which APS does not possess, would constitute a major research resource for students of early American and comparative history. Dr. Klepp has not only executed that task skillfully, but she has given us a fine brief history of the study of the vital statistics of Philadelphia together with an annotated bibliography of secondary works. Contains over 200 broadsides.
Steven J. Livesey
Antonius de Carlenis, O.P.
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Examines the theory of subalternation as it was developed by one of Paul of Venice’s readers shortly before the mid-15th cent., the archbishop of Amalfi, Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli. Contents: Intro.; Observations on the Manuscripts; Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli, “Questiones in IV libros Sententiarum,” Prologue, QQ. 1 and 2; “Questiones in libros I-II Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis,” L. I, QQ. 17,22; App. 1: Description of Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Canon, misc. 573; App. 2: Variant Incipit in the “Questiones in IV libros Sententiarum,” Oxford, Bodleian Lib., Canon. misc. 573, fol. 172ra; App. 3: Tabula questionum. Antonius de Carlenis, “Questiones in libros I-II Analyticorum Posteriorum Aristotelis”: Chicago, Newberry Lib., Case MS 97,5.
David Pingree
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 3)
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This installment of the “Census” provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or mathematics & mathematical astronomy, & samhita or divination. This vol. is devoted to those authors whose names begin with a cerebral (c, ch, j, & jh), a reflexive (t, th, d, & dh), or a dental (t, th, d dh, & n). Preceding the material relating to these authors is a section supplemental to vols. I & II. This section contains abbrev. of new periodicals & series that have been consulted, a biblio. of books & articles that have appeared or have been belatedly noticed since vol. II went to press, & a list of catalogs it has been possible to utilize. The rest of the vol. contains supplementary info. concerning 100 authors already noted in the two previous vols. & all the data currently available concerning almost 800 new authors. Reprinted 1992.
George List
Stability and Variation in Hopi Song
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The Hopi are the westernmost group of the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern U.S. They live on a high, dry plateau in northern Arizona, and have been a sedentary, agricultural people. This study establishes the stylistic parameters of song in a particular culture. Author List determines what is meant when a Hopi person states that two or more performances are those of the same song. To what extent can speech sounds, pitches, and durational values, or the forms of which they are the constituents, differ and the performances still be considered to be those of the same song? List transcribed and compared 8 recordings of performances of a particular kachina dance song and 11 recordings of performance of a particular lullaby, made from 1903 to 1984. Illus.
Martin A. Heckscher
Universal Bach
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This volume is a fitting commemorative of the Basically Bach Festival’s celebration of the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. The Festival was organized by a small committee in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia in 1976. Contents: Musical & Numerical Symbolism in the Large Choral Works: Bach’s Secret Code, by Michael Korn; The Articulation of Genre in Bach’s Instrumental Music, by Laurence Dreyfus; Bach the Cantor, the Capellmeister, & the Musical Scholar: Aspects of the “B-Minor Mass,” by Christoph Wolff; On Bach’s Universality, by Robert L. Marshall; & Bach as Biblical Interpreter, by Richard L. Jeske. Illustrations.
Jenny Graham
Revolutionary in Exile
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In 1794, approx. 10,000 persons emigrated from Europe, esp. England, to the U.S. Many of them played an active role in the English radical movement that developed in the French revolutionary era, and were a vital component in the emergence of the philosophy that came to be known as Jeffersonian Republicanism. This study examines the career of one who was arguably the most prominent of all the political exiles from England at this time, the radical scientist, theologian, and political philosopher, Joseph Priestley. Contents: Priestley’s Decision to Emigrate to Amer., July 1791-April 1794; The Amer. Political Scene in 1794, and the Arrival of Priestley; Priestley in Northumberland, 1795-1797; Priestley’s Breach with the Federalists and Cobbett’s Attack, 1797-1799; Priestley’s “Letters to the Inhabitants of Northumberland” and the Election of Jefferson to the Presidency, 1799-1800; Priestley’s Final Years in Amer. under Jefferson, 1801-1804. Illus.
David R. Clark
W. B. Yeats
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William Butler Yeats spent 24 years planning & finally producing his play “Sophocles’ ‘King Oedipus’” in 1928. Here, Drs. Clark & McGuire have written an extensive introduction divided into two parts: first, the years 1904 through 1911 when Yeats planned the production with various actors -- Ben Iden Payne, Murray Carson, Charles Power, & Nugent Monck; & second, from 1912 through 1926 when he actually wrote his versions. Profs. Clark & McGuire gleaned their information from Yeats’s letters & journals. The remainder of the book describes & presents the versions (Rex 1-5), some of which are transcribed because of the illegibility of Yeats’s hand. Photographic copies of Yeats’s hand are included. Illustrations.
David Pingree
Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 5)
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The fifth installment of a projected “Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit,” which will provide all available bibliographical info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & biographical info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or math. & mathematical astronomy, & samhita or divination. This vol. contains entries on authors whose names being with the Sanskrit semivowels (y, r, l, & v). This material is preceded by additional abbrev. of journals, additional biblio., & additional manuscript catalogs, as well as entries supplemental to those in vols. I-IV of Series A. No new material after Spring of 1992.
Herman H. Goldstine
New and Full Moons, 1001 B.C. to A.D. 1651
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Originally pub. in 1973; reprinted in 1994. Presents tables giving the dates of all new and full moons during an historical era when these data were of considerable interest and importance. The longitudes of the moon at each of these times is also given, as is a consecutive enumeration of the conjunctions and a similar one of the oppositions. All dates are reckoned in the Julian calendar. These dates and times are calculated for an observer in Babylon, or equivalently Baghdad, since this location is fairly centrally located for the historians of the period. The time used is civil time and is based on a 24-hour clock with its origin at midnight. Since this vol. may be considered as a suppl. to Tuckerman’s tables, all fundamental astronomical elements have been taken from them.
Michael P. McCarthy
Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia
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This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water -- or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th cent. being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th cent. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tract, in most cases it spreads when the excreta of an ill person get into the water supply. Phila. was suffering from a typhoid epidemic when a terrible snowstorm hit in Feb. 1899. The disease struck every ward in the city -- wealthy & poor alike suffered since infected river water made its way through the entire system. Phila. public health officials, the major & common council recognized that the city’s pumping stations required new filtration systems, but the select council killed the bill. Thanks to episodes like this in other civic affairs, Phila. suffered from a poor reputation for being, in Lincoln Steffens’ words, “corrupt & contented.” This negative view of the city’s performance around the turn of the century is still prevalent. This study takes another look at the people who were trying to solve the public health crisis. It also explores the problem of typhoid from the viewpoint of professionals in the emerging field of public health, beginning with the early years of the Phila. water works. Illus.
William O. Oldson
Providential Anti-Semitism
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Discusses how modernization and the birth of the nation state, with the concomitant impact of Western ideas, gave birth to a significantly different form of anti-Semitism in Romania. This type defined its national goals in a limited manner. That it did so would be critical in the 20th cent. for the survival of almost half a million Romanian Jews. Its unusual character would be hidden from view in most instances by a brutality of execution that has led observers over the course of the last hundred years or so to focus on the style rather than substance of what happened. The Romanians did not cooperate in the full execution of the Final Solution as the Nazis wanted and expected them to do. As they had done in the 19th cent., the Romanians attempted to counterpoise Great Power interests and thereby pursue their own self-interest whenever the Jewish Question came into play.
Francesco Scalamonti
Vita Viri Clarissimi et Famosissimi Kyriaci Anconitani
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This is a print on demand Publication. Ciriaco di Filippo de’ Pizzicolli (b. 1391) was the most prolific recorder of Greek & Roman antiquities, particularly inscriptions, in the 15th cent.; he is entitled to be called the founding father of modern classical archaeology. Of his early life our knowledge rests mostly on the materials for a “Vita” put together by his friend Francesco Scalamonti, which largely reproduces Ciriaco’s own records & carries his biography down to 1435. This “Vita” survives in a single manuscript published in 1792. The editors have re-edited Scalamonti’s “Vita” from the original mss. with a translation. Also includes an intro. to the text & its previous pub., its authorship, its sources, & its likely date of composition. Concludes with a chronology of the events narrated in the “Vita.”
Corinne Comstock Weston
House of Lords and Ideological Politics
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This study of ideological politics in Victorian and Edwardian England centers on a referendal theory promoted by the great Lord Salisbury when he opposed William Gladstone’s Liberal gov’ts. It was subsequently carried forward in the form of the referendum by Salisbury’s son-in-law and ideological heir, the second Lord Selborne. Salisbury is today recognized as the most successful electorally of Conservative leaders. Selborne, though not as well known to historians, had a high contemporary reputation as an imperial proconsul who had united S. Africa. According to the referendal theory, the House of Lords had a duty to refer disputed legislation to the electorate when the House of Commons, in the lords’ judgment, lacked a mandate for the measure in question. That is, the lords’ political barometer was not the commons, as Gladstone contended, but the nat. at large. If this proposition prevailed, the lords could freely exercise an independent legislative veto in an age of expanding democracy. Not until the Liberals passed the Parliament Act (1911) were they able to counter the theory effectively. But well before this, Selborne’s advocacy of the referendum was challenged by another Conservative leader, Lord Curzon, who had served for a decade as viceroy of India. Their rivalry is one of this study’s most provocative and illuminating themes.
Herbert H. Kaplan
Russian Overseas Commerce with Great Britain During the Reign of Catherine II
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On the basis of newly-discovered Russian and British archival sources, Prof. Kaplan makes important scholarly contributions to 18th-cent. economic history. He demonstrates that there was not only a symbiotic economic relationship between Russia and Great Britain, but also that Russia contributed greatly to Britain’s industrial revolution and its imperial strategic military and political power during the second half of the 18th cent. Kaplan is the first to estimate the real balance of payments between the two countries. Kaplan’s meticulous analysis of Anglo-Russian commercial treaties as well as Russian tariffs, which were intended to undermine them, reveals policies that both countries undertook to advance their respective maritime and mercantile power. Charts and tables.
Alexander G. Bearn
Archibald Garrod and the Individuality of Man
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Students of biology learn that Archibald Garrod (1857-1936) advanced the concept of inborn errors of metabolism through brilliant insights into patients with rare genetic diseases. Garrod’s two other prescient concepts are often overlooked: (1) the concept of the chemical uniqueness of the individual, which prefigured the modern appreciation of individual predisposition to disease; & (2) the concept of the physician-scientist, which prefigured the modern revolution in biomedical research. All three concepts are brought into sharp focus in this incisive biography, written devotedly by Alexander G. Bearn, a disciple whose own career is based firmly on the Garrodian tradition. Illustrations.
Carl David Masthay
Schmick’s Mahican Dictionary
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This vol., a modern reworking of the mss. of Johann Jacob Schmick, is in the “Moravian” dialect of Mahican and is divided into an English-Mahican-German section and a Mahican-English section. It includes a Mahican historical phonology and a background and explanatory description. This dictionary is useful for Indians of the East Coast who want to know their ancestral languages better, for of course Algonquianists, whether as linguists or ethnohistorians, for Germanists, and for general readers who want some background on Schmnick’s era in Pennsylvania. The explanatory background can also be used as a study of linguistic influences. Maps.
Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Patriot-Improvers
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When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. Bell records the early years of the Society through sketches of its first members, those elected between 1743 and 1769. This volume includes biographies of some of the Society's best known members such as Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Thomas Hopkinson and many lesser known merchants, artisans, farmers, physicians, lawyers and clergymen with familiar surnames such as Biddle, Colden, and Morris. Illustrations.
Joseph R. McElrath
Apprenticeship Writings of Frank Norris 1896-1898
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Frank Norris (1870-1902) has long been recognized by cultural historians as a “touchstone” figure, clearly signaling in 1899 the emergence of an Amer. school of Literary Naturalism. “McTeague: A Story of San Francisco” secured this honor for him that year as it registered more fully than any previous Amer. novel the Darwinian view of life that is the essential characteristic of all subsequent Naturalistic fictions. It thus marked as well the rejection of the Victorian Era’s habitually idealistic representations of human nature and its basically religious world-view, offering instead a post-metaphysical portrait of the human condition that has remained popular in 20th-cent. literary and intellectual circles. Includes all of the known writings of Norris published between 11 April 1896 and 1897. Illus.
Philip Benedict
Huguenot Population of France, 1600-1685
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This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France’s Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for any Protestant church or community for which such evidence spans 40 or more years of the cent. This national investigation is offered in the hope that it can help to stimulate more of the detailed local studies of individual Protestant communities & of the relations between their members & their Catholic neighbors that are needed to illuminate these variations, as well as to highlight those regions where such studies might be particularly fruitful. Charts & tables.
Kenneth M. Setton
Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom
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The tall tales of medieval pilgrims and the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the Middle Ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet and the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: Early legends and prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz and the “Red Apple”; and Translations of the Koran and Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illustrations.
Albert E. Sanders
Paleobiology of the Williamsburg Formation (Black Mingo Group; Paleocene) of South Carolina, U.S.A.
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This is a print on demand publication. The excavation of an immense pit near the Santee River in South Carolina has produced the first Paleocene vertebrate fauna from the South Atlantic coast of the U.S., as well as a rich flora that provides extensive knowledge of the paleoenvironmental setting in which those animals flourished nearly 60 million years ago. The excavation penetrated the Late Paleocene Williamsburg Formation & yielded many specimens collected from the spoil piles, among which were the first Paleocene mammal remains from the east coast of North America. Here, eight paleobiologists interpret the discoveries systematically & compare them with Paleocene floras & faunas from elsewhere in North America & around the globe. Auhors include: Bruce Erickson (crocodilians & a snake); Robert Weems (bony fishes); Weems & Laurel Bybell (geological setting); Lucy Edwards (dinoflagellates); Robert Melchior (pollen, spores, fossil wood, & amber); Robert Purdy (sharks & rays); Howard Hutchison & Robert Weems (turtles); Robert Schoch (mammals), Glenn Sawyer (coprolites); & Erickson & Melchior (trace fossils). “One of the most significant contributions to our knowledge of early Tertiary times in this region."
Martin W. Daly
The Sirdar
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Francis Reginald Wingate (1861-1953) was a major figure in the political, administrative, and military history of the Middle East from the early 1880s until the end of WWI. As dir. of military intelligence in the British-officered Egyptian Army during the Sudan campaigns; as sirdar (commander-in-chief) of that army and gov.-gen. of the Sudan during the formative period of its colonial admin.; and as high commissioner in Egypt during the latter half of the first world war and the crisis that led to the Egyptian revolution of 1919, he stands with Cromer and Kitchener as architects of the British empire in the Middle East. Yet Wingate has received much less notice than his famous contemporaries such as Gordon of Khartoum and Lawrence of Arabia. This biography corrects the historical imbalance. Illus.
William Pettas
Sixteenth-Century Spanish Bookstore
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An article pub. in 1952 on early foreign printers in Burgos mentioned the existence in that city’s archives of a 1556 document concerning the shop of the printer-bookseller, Juan de Junta, an Italian by birth, son of the famous Florentine publisher Filippo di Giunta. The document is a legal contract written in 1556 by the notary Pedro de Espinosa for the lease of the Junta bookstore and print-shop in Burgos and also contains “a very interesting inventory of everything which was in the shop in that year.” Few contemporary documents give us as much primary evidence for the kinds of materials a 16th-cent. Spanish bookstore contained as this document does, for it provides the titles of all the books in the stock, the number of copies of each title, the costs of the individual books, in most cases the format of the book, and, in many cases, the city of publication or the name of the publisher.
Alfred E. Cornebise
Soldier-Scholars
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A study of the educational opportunities offered after WW1 to Amer. soldiers of the Amer. Expeditionary Forces (AEF). Some stayed in Europe and studied art, attended classes at the Sorbonne, took medical courses at London’s Fellowship of Med., read law at the Inns of Court, enrolled in veterinary classes at the Univ. of Edinburgh, and studied French culture and language at numerous French univ. and inst. About 10,000 men were involved in these programs. In addition, 10,000 soldier-students attended the AEF’s own univ. at Beaune. For a few months in the spring of 1919, this univ. was the largest in the English-speaking world. Other educational opportunities of various sorts were made available to virtually every soldier in the AEF. Illustrations.
John Wilton Appel
Francisco Jose de Caldas
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A study of Francisco Jose de Caldas y Tenorio, who was born in 1768 in the Spanish colony Nueva Reino de Granada. In the first half of the 18th century France sent an expedition to the equator to learn the true figure of the Earth. However, Spain maintained strict control over the colonies’ access to books and other Europeans’ access to the colonies. Caldas, with a fervent interest in science and lacking the educational resources and personal contacts available in Europe, developed a scientific program based on what was available to him. The arrival of the Prussian naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt, brought to a head Caldas’s discontent with his own isolation from the European community. Black and white illustrations.
Keith Arbour
Benjamin Franklin's First Government Printing
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Among the items acquired in 1996 by Jay Snider, the collector of printed Americana, are 278 partially printed, early Pennsylvania mortgage forms. The royal folio forms are bound together, as issued, in full calf stamped with tools thought to have belond to William Davies, a bookbinder who flourished in Philadelphia from 1722 to 1740. The mortgage forms include printed preambles identifying Pennsylvania’s General Loan Office trustees as the mortgagees, and manuscript completions dated as early as Sept. 23, 1729. It has been established that it was printed by Benjamin Franklin and Hugh Meredith with their firsst font of pica type. This illustrated study places the Snider volume in its historical, political, biographical, and bibliographical context. Index.
