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Book MATRICULATION ALBUMS OF THE UN

Download or read book MATRICULATION ALBUMS OF THE UN written by University of Glasgow and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Reference Guide for English Studies

Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

Book British Archives

Download or read book British Archives written by Janet Foster and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-09-27 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1982 British Archives has established itself as the premier reference work to holdings of archives and manuscript collections throughout the UK. The 3rd edition has been extensively revised and enlarged with more than 150 new entries, further widening the range of the book. Entries are structured to show the archives of the organisation as distinct from deposited collections and significant non-manuscript material, and additional details of fax number and conservation provision are included for the first time. All the existing entries have been significantly updated, together with the select bibliography and list of useful addresses of various organisations involved in the care and custody of archives. The introduction provides an invaluable guide to researchers using archives, including a summary of the relevant legislation and a detailed description of the usual holdings of county and other local authority record offices.

Book Doctors and Slaves

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  • Author : Richard B. Sheridan
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-03-12
  • ISBN : 9780521102384
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Doctors and Slaves written by Richard B. Sheridan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study Professor Sheridan presents a rich and wide-ranging account of the health care of slaves in the British West Indies, from 1680-1834. He demonstrates that while Caribbean island settlements were viewed by mercantile statesmen and economists as ideal colonies, the physical and medical realities were very different. The study is based on wide research in archival materials in Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States. By steeping himself in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century sources, Professor Sheridan is able to recreate the milieu of a past era: he tells us what the slave doctors wrote and how they functioned, and he presents a storehouse of information on how and why the slaves sickened and died. By bringing together these diverse medical demographic and economic sources, Professor Sheridan casts new light on the history of slavery in the Americas.

Book The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 1858

Download or read book The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow from 1728 1858 written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Virchow s Eulogies

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  • Author : Brian L. D. Coghlan
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-11-05
  • ISBN : 3764388803
  • Pages : 327 pages

Download or read book Virchow s Eulogies written by Brian L. D. Coghlan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) was a leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. His most famous work was "Cellular Pathology". Virchow wrote many books and edited several journals, including ‘Virchow’s Archive’ and was a member of numerous professional societies. This book is a compilation of Virchow's memorial addresses on nineteen of his teachers –especially Johannes Müller and Johann Lukas Schönlein – colleagues and students as well as one concerning Morgagni. There is an introduction to the man and his times, and copious editors' notes to explain allusions and events mentioned in the text with which some modern readers may be unfamiliar. There is also an extensive bibliography incorporating German sources, with English translations of all titles. The book gives a fascinating multi-dimensional view of scientists and their lives in nineteenth century Germany.

Book A Tale of Two Plantations

Download or read book A Tale of Two Plantations written by Richard S. Dunn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Dunn reconstructs the lives of three generations of slaves on a sugar estate in Jamaica and a plantation in Virginia, to understand the starkly different forms slavery took. Deadly work regimens and rampant disease among Jamaican slaves contrast with population expansion in Virginia leading to the selling of slaves and breakup of families.

Book History of the Secession Church

Download or read book History of the Secession Church written by John M'Kerrow and published by Glasgow : A. Fullarton. This book was released on 1841 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery  1756 1838

Download or read book Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery 1756 1838 written by Iain Whyte and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about Scottish involvement in slavery, the contribution of Scots to the abolition of black slavery has not yet been sufficiently recognised. This book starts with a Virginian slave seeking his freedom in Scotland in 1756 and ends with the abolition of the apprenticeship scheme in the West Indian colonies in 1838. Contemporary documents and periodicals reveal a groundswell of revulsion to what was described as "e;the horrible traffik in humans"e;. Petitions to Parliament came from remote islands in Shetland as well as from large public meetings in cities. In a land steeped in religion, ministers and church leaders took the lead in giving theological support to the cause of abolition. The contributions of five London Scots who were pivotal to the campaign throughout Britain are set against opposition to abolition from many Scots with commercial interests in the slave trade and the sugar plantations. Missionaries and miners, trades guilds and lawyers all played their parts in challenging slavery. Many of their struggles and frustrations are detailed for the first time in an assessment of the unique contribution made by Scotland and the Scots to the destruction of an institution whose effects are still with us today.

Book Laboring Women

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  • Author : Jennifer L. Morgan
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2011-09-12
  • ISBN : 0812206371
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Laboring Women written by Jennifer L. Morgan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery, Jennifer L. Morgan examines for the first time how African women's labor in both senses became intertwined in the English colonies. Beginning with the ideological foundations of racial slavery in early modern Europe, Laboring Women traverses the Atlantic, exploring the social and cultural lives of women in West Africa, slaveowners' expectations for reproductive labor, and women's lives as workers and mothers under colonial slavery. Challenging conventional wisdom, Morgan reveals how expectations regarding gender and reproduction were central to racial ideologies, the organization of slave labor, and the nature of slave community and resistance. Taking into consideration the heritage of Africans prior to enslavement and the cultural logic of values and practices recreated under the duress of slavery, she examines how women's gender identity was defined by their shared experiences as agricultural laborers and mothers, and shows how, given these distinctions, their situation differed considerably from that of enslaved men. Telling her story through the arc of African women's actual lives—from West Africa, to the experience of the Middle Passage, to life on the plantations—she offers a thoughtful look at the ways women's reproductive experience shaped their roles in communities and helped them resist some of the more egregious effects of slave life. Presenting a highly original, theoretically grounded view of reproduction and labor as the twin pillars of female exploitation in slavery, Laboring Women is a distinctive contribution to the literature of slavery and the history of women.

Book The Encyclopedia of the Stone Campbell Movement

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Stone Campbell Movement written by Douglas A. Foster and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over ten years in the making, The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement offers for the first time a sweeping historical and theological treatment of this complex, vibrant global communion. Written by more than 300 contributors, this major reference work contains over 700 original articles covering all of the significant individuals, events, places, and theological tenets that have shaped the Movement. Much more than simply a historical dictionary, this volume also constitutes an interpretive work reflecting historical consensus among Stone-Campbell scholars, even as it attempts to present a fair, representative picture of the rich heritage that is the Stone-Campbell Movement."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A New World of Labor

Download or read book A New World of Labor written by Simon P. Newman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.

Book Managing University Museums

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  • Author : OECD
  • Publisher : OECD Publishing
  • Release : 2001-08-24
  • ISBN : 9264194983
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Managing University Museums written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication focuses on the role of university museums, their organisation, management, governance and finance. Most university museum collections have been assembled for the purposes of teaching and research rather than for public display ...

Book New Museology

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  • Author : Peter Vergo
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1997-06-01
  • ISBN : 1861896700
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book New Museology written by Peter Vergo and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With essays by Charles Saumarez Smith, Ludmilla Jordanova, Paul Greenhalgh, Colin Sorensen, Nick Merriman, Stephen Bann, Philip Wright, Norman Palmer and Peter Vergo. "A lively and controversial symposium ... thought-provoking"—The Sunday Times (Paperbacks of the Year, 1989) "The essays are all distinguished by their topicality and lucidity."—MuseumNews "A welcome addition to the library of Museology"—Art Monthly "The New Museology is essential reading for all those seeking to understand the current debate in museum ideologies."—International Journal of Museum Management and Scholarship

Book The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow

Download or read book The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow written by William Innes Addison and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow: From 1728-1858 William Innes Addison was born in the parish Of Brechin in Forfarshire on 22nd March, 1857. Although he was the eldest son of the family, he did not take to his father's occupation of farming, for, after his school-days were over, led by some dim feeling or presentiment of what was needed for his future work, he became, at the age of fourteen, an articled apprentice to Messrs. Shiress Whitson, solicitors in Brechin, with whom he spent four years engaged in the usual routine Of elementary work in a law Office. The next four years saw him in Edinburgh, gaining fruitful experience in business and in the study of Law at the University. In July, 1875, he joined the staff in the office of Mr. A. Kirk Mackie, who was for many years Solicitor and Secretary to the Edinburgh Merchant Company, with its Schools and Colleges, and Legal Adviser with regard to the Company's Estates. During the first eighteen months he was employed in general work, including conveyancing, accounts and correspondence, and in preparing Abstracts of the Feu Rights contained in many volumes of Chartularies, extending over 150 years, and referring to feuing estates in at least five different counties in Scotland. He was afterwards appointed chief cashier, and in this capacity had from to per annum passing through his hands. This included the collection of the income of the Merchant Company and several of its endowed Schools and Colleges, and the payment of Salaries to Teachers, allowances to Foundationers, and annuities to Widows, besides large capital payments for loans, purchases of property, and banking transactions. In the stress Of these onerous duties he did not allow his attention to be absorbed by the details of business, but showed a desire to obtain a grasp of the principles of his profession. With this view, hard pressed though he was in his daily work, he found time for study, and attended the classes of Scots Law and Conveyancing, gaining Honours in the latter. In 1879 he removed to Glasgow and entered the chambers of Messrs. James Ritchie, Maclean Co. With this firm and their successors he remained eight years, with entire charge of the Cash and Book-keeping departments, besides taking a substantial share in strictly law business and in the administration of numerous and wealthy Trusts. In this period some matters of special interest fall to be noted, viz. (1) his attendance at Arts Classes (humanity, English Literature, and Moral Philosophy) between 1880 and 1884; (2) his admission as a Notary Public in 1881; and (3) his marriage in 1885. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.