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The exact sciences in Lutheran Germany and Tudor England.
(2005)
The final chapters shift focus to England, where a revival of mathematical education was underway by mid-century. In this section, astronomy is defined broadly to include astronomical navigation, since the potential economic ...
Glory and Empire: The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews and the Road to the Balfour Declaration
(2016-05)
The Balfour Declaration has often been seen as the culmination of the restorationist tradition and Christian Zionism in Britain. The London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews was an Evangelical mission ...
'Daughter of Zion': Elizabeth I and the relationship of virginity to monarchical power.
(2000)
The argument of the dissertation involves the meanings of virginity and the representations of Elizabeth I during her reign and in the century after her death. Elizabeth has long been associated with the term "Virgin Queen, ...
The Catholic Church and the rebirth of civil society: Elite convergence, mobilization and democratic transitions in east-central Europe.
(1998)
In addition to these developments at the elite level, the Church also nurtured moral and religious values at the grassroots level, sometimes in difficult conditions such as in Czechoslovakia. The stronger and more visible ...
Life and labor in the Isle of Dogs :
(1984)
This work is a case study of the origins and evolution of a specific type of urban community known as working-class villages. Such communities are characterized by deprived environments, predominantly proletarian populations, ...
Prologue to imperialism :
(1980)
A subsidiary theme in this work concerns the relationship of the Geographical Society of Paris with the expansionists. The Society became a kind of clearinghouse for various views and publications, and it furnished a ...
Incomplete State-Making in a Divided Polity: Habsburg Austria, 1618-1914
(2018-05)
Habsburg Austria is a unique case for the study of “state-making:” the creation of means by which a sovereign state asserts its ability to control its territory. Examples of state-making include the creation of a professional ...
Dachau And Ravensbrück: A Comparative Analysis of Concentration Camps From 1933 to 1945
(2022-05)
Comparing and contrasting the two infamous camps, Dachau and Ravensbrück, is fundamental in understanding the true nature of the two camps. Additionally, this research indirectly focuses on the question of ‘what defines a ...