Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment

Author: Mark G. Spencer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 1257

ISBN-13: 0826479693

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The first reference work on one of the key subjects in American history, filling an important gap in the literature, with over 500 original essays.

A Skeptic Among Scholars
A Skeptic Among Scholars

Author: August Frugé

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1993-09-15

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780520084261

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When August Frugé joined the University of California Press in 1944, it was part of the University's printing department, publishing a modest number of books a year, mainly monographs by UC faculty members. When he retired as director 32 years later, the Press had been transformed into one of the largest, most distinguished university presses in the country, publishing more than 150 books annually in fields ranging from ancient history to contemporary film criticism, by notable authors from all over the world. August Frugé's memoir provides an exciting intellectual and topical story of the building of this great press. Along the way, it recalls battles for independence from the University administration, the Press's distinctive early style of book design, and many of the authors and staff who helped shape the Press in its formative years.

The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment

Author: Mark G. Spencer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 1215

ISBN-13: 9780199797738

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The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment is the first reference work on this key subject in early American history. With over 500 original essays on key American Enlightenment figures, it provides a comprehensive account to complement the intense scholarly activity that has recently centered on the European Enlightenment.

The Greatest Mirror
The Greatest Mirror

Author: Andrei A. Orlov

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2017-09-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1438466927

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The idea of a heavenly double—an angelic twin of an earthbound human—can be found in Christian, Manichaean, Islamic, and Kabbalistic traditions. Scholars have long traced the lineage of these ideas to Greco-Roman and Iranian sources. In The Greatest Mirror, Andrei A. Orlov shows that heavenly twin imagery drew in large part from early Jewish writings. The Jewish pseudepigrapha—books from the Second Temple period that were attributed to biblical figures but excluded from the Hebrew Bible—contain accounts of heavenly twins in the form of spirits, images, faces, children, mirrors, and angels of the Presence. Orlov provides a comprehensive analysis of these traditions in their full historical and interpretive complexity. He focuses on heavenly alter egos of Enoch, Moses, Jacob, Joseph, and Aseneth in often neglected books, including Animal Apocalypse, Book of the Watchers, 2 Enoch, Ladder of Jacob, and Joseph and Aseneth, some of which are preserved solely in the Slavonic language.

The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present
The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the Present

Author: Christoph Cornelissen

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2022-11-11

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 1800737270

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From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.