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Book John Bowman and Elizabeth Ikenberry

Download or read book John Bowman and Elizabeth Ikenberry written by Floyd R. Mason and published by Higginson Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowman Family

Book John Bowman and Elizabeth Ikenberry

Download or read book John Bowman and Elizabeth Ikenberry written by Floyd R. Mason and published by Higginson Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowman Family

Book Homage to the Past

Download or read book Homage to the Past written by Jean Bowman Armstrong and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bowman (1753-1804) and his wife, Elizabeth Ikenberry were both born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. They migrated to Franklin County, Virginia ca. 1784. Descendants lived in Virginia and elsewhere.

Book John Bowman

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Bowman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book John Bowman written by John Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Brethren Encyclopedia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donald F. Durnbaugh
  • Publisher : Philadelphia, Pa. : Brethren Encyclopedia, Incorporated
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 732 pages

Download or read book The Brethren Encyclopedia written by Donald F. Durnbaugh and published by Philadelphia, Pa. : Brethren Encyclopedia, Incorporated. This book was released on 1983 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Through the Years

Download or read book Through the Years written by Virginia Golden Walgreen and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Bowman Diary

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rev. John Bowman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1855
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book John Bowman Diary written by Rev. John Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief daily entries describe social visits and professional activities as well as bible passages upon which sermons were based.

Book Pioneers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nadine Duguid Holder
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Pioneers written by Nadine Duguid Holder and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Utopia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Samuel Moyn
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-05
  • ISBN : 0674256522
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Last Utopia written by Samuel Moyn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Book The Triumph of Broken Promises

Download or read book The Triumph of Broken Promises written by Fritz Bartel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist and capitalist states alike were scarred by the economic shocks of the 1970s. Why did only communist governments fall in their wake? Fritz Bartel argues that Western democracies were insulated by neoliberalism. While austerity was fatal to the legitimacy of communism, democratic politicians could win votes by pushing market discipline.

Book A Genealogy and History of Descendants of Jacob Flora  Senior  of Franklin County  Virginia

Download or read book A Genealogy and History of Descendants of Jacob Flora Senior of Franklin County Virginia written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph J. Flory, the father of Jacob, came from the German Palatinate in 1733 and settled in Pennsylvania. Jacob was probably born in Maryland not later than 1760 and appears in Virginia by 1786. Joseph may have been French originally because he is noted as a Hugenot.

Book Genealogical Periodical Annual Index

Download or read book Genealogical Periodical Annual Index written by Ellen Stanley Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Great Convergence

Download or read book The Great Convergence written by Richard Baldwin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Economist Best Book of the Year A Financial Times Best Economics Book of the Year A Fast Company “7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter” Between 1820 and 1990, the share of world income going to today’s wealthy nations soared from twenty percent to almost seventy. Since then, that share has plummeted to where it was in 1900. As the renowned economist Richard Baldwin reveals, this reversal of fortune reflects a new age of globalization that is drastically different from the old. The nature of globalization has changed, but our thinking about it has not. Baldwin argues that the New Globalization is driven by knowledge crossing borders, not just goods. That is why its impact is more sudden, more individual, more unpredictable, and more uncontrollable than before—which presents developed nations with unprecedented challenges as they struggle to maintain reliable growth and social cohesion. It is the driving force behind what Baldwin calls “The Great Convergence,” as Asian economies catch up with the West. “In this brilliant book, Baldwin has succeeded in saying something both new and true about globalization.” —Martin Wolf, Financial Times “A very powerful description of the newest phase of globalization.” —Larry Summers, former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury “An essential book for understanding how modern trade works via global supply chains. An antidote to the protectionist nonsense being peddled by some politicians today.” —The Economist “[An] indispensable guide to understanding how globalization has got us here and where it is likely to take us next.” —Alan Beattie, Financial Times

Book Once Within Borders

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles S. Maier
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-10-17
  • ISBN : 0674973917
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Once Within Borders written by Charles S. Maier and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, human societies have been organized preeminently as territories—politically bounded regions whose borders define the jurisdiction of laws and the movement of peoples. At a time when the technologies of globalization are eroding barriers to communication, transportation, and trade, Once Within Borders explores the fitful evolution of territorial organization as a worldwide practice of human societies. Master historian Charles S. Maier tracks the epochal changes that have defined territories over five centuries and draws attention to ideas and technologies that contribute to territoriality’s remarkable resilience. Territorial boundaries transform geography into history by providing a framework for organizing political and economic life. But properties of territory—their meanings and applications—have changed considerably across space and time. In the West, modern territoriality developed in tandem with ideas of sovereignty in the seventeenth century. Sovereign rulers took steps to fortify their borders, map and privatize the land, and centralize their sway over the populations and resources within their domain. The arrival of railroads and the telegraph enabled territorial expansion at home and abroad as well as the extension of control over large spaces. By the late nineteenth century, the extent of a nation’s territory had become an index of its power, with overseas colonial possessions augmenting prestige and wealth and redefining territoriality. Turning to the geopolitical crises of the twentieth century, Maier pays close attention to our present moment, asking in what ways modern nations and economies still live within borders and to what degree our societies have moved toward a post-territiorial world.

Book Henry Kissinger and the American Century

Download or read book Henry Kissinger and the American Century written by Jeremi Suri and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Jeremi Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century. Drawing on research in more than six countries in addition to extensive interviews with Kissinger and others, Suri analyzes the sources of Kissinger's ideas and power and explains why he pursued the policies he did. Kissinger's German-Jewish background, fears of democratic weakness, belief in the primacy of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and faith in the indispensable role America plays in the world shaped his career and his foreign policy. Suri shows how Kissinger's early years in Weimar and Nazi Germany, his experiences in the U.S. Army and at Harvard University, and his relationships with powerful patrons--including Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon--shed new light on the policymaker. Kissinger's career was a product of the global changes that made the American Century. He remains influential because his ideas are rooted so deeply in dominant assumptions about the world. In treating Kissinger fairly and critically as a historical figure, without polemical judgments, Suri provides critical context for this important figure. He illuminates the legacies of Kissinger's policies for the United States in the twenty-first century.

Book Safe Passage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kori Schake
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2017-11-27
  • ISBN : 0674975073
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Safe Passage written by Kori Schake and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this transition was nonviolent, Kori Schake explores nine points of crisis between Britain and the U.S., from the Monroe Doctrine to the unequal “special relationship” during World War II.