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This study represents the culmination of some 15 years of research in the field of Amazonian archeology. Ilha de Marajo, as the Brazilians call it, has been described as resting in the mouth of the Amazon like an egg in that of a serpent. In reality, Marajo is part of an archipelago. Contents of this study of the pottery of Marajo Island, Brazil: (1) Introduction; (2) The Island: Notes on geography and climate; Historical notes; Archeological sites; (3) The Pottery: Stylistic Analysis: Outline of Classification; Wares; Miscellaneous studies of parts of the pottery; Correlations: Elements of form and decoration; Correlation chart; Summary; Catalog numbers for specimens illustrated; and Bibliography. Illustrations. This is a print on demand publication.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This is a print on demand publication. The American Museum of Natural History collection of fossil vertebrates from the Siwalik beds of northern India was made during the year of 1922 by Dr. Barnum Brown. Contents of this vol.: (I) Introduction: Previous Publications Dealing with American Museum Siwalik Vertebrates; and Historical Review; (II) Geological Considerations; (III) Mammalian Faunas of the Siwalik Series; (IV) American Musem Siwalik Fossil Localities; (V) Systematic Descriptions and Discussions: Primates; Rodentia; Lagomorpha; Carnivora; Tubulidentata; Proboscidea; Perissodactyla; Artiodactyla; The Migrations of Certain Mammals to and from the Siwaliks; (VI) Generaly Summary and Conclusions. Bibliography. 198 plates.

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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."

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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.

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.

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.

Write your own Book of Nature in this Naturalists' Journal; a guide to an exhibit held at the Amer. Philosophical Soc. Take your own naturalist's expedition inside the museum . . . & outside! Pickled fish, dried plants, colorful drawings, old books in glass cases: Many of the things in this natural history exhibition were collected in the years between 1730 & 1860, as evidence of the incredible variety of life that exists -- or once existed -- on earth. The people who collected these amazing things are called naturalists. A naturalist is a lot like a detective. These naturalists were trying to solve big mysteries about the natural world around them, such as: Why does a rattlesnake have a rattle? How did seashells get on top of a mountain far from the ocean? Illus.

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