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A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Empire presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality, knowledge, media and communications, children and childhood, family, community and sociability, learners and learning, teachers and teaching, literacies, and life histories. The period between 1800 and 1920 was pivotal in the global history of education and witnessed many of the key developme...

As you travel Africa, you will find the way of ubuntu - the universal bond that connects all of humanity as one. At the age of twenty-eight, while sitting in a friend's backyard in the remote mining township of Jabiru, Heather Ellis has a light-bulb moment: she is going to ride a motorcycle across Africa. The idea just feels right - no matter that she's never done any long-distance motorcycle travelling before, and has never even set foot on t...

The princess in our story has everything princesses need: a flowy gown, glittery shoes, and most important, her sparkly crown. Confident in her kingdom, she is ready for her first day away from the castle--until her mom says she can't wear her crown. Playing with the other kids doesn't go exactly right, and our little princess thinks if she were just prettier, maybe she would make friends. Her mom gives her wise advice that rings true for all ...

This beautifully illustrated book of prayers and Bible readings will help children develop the joy of reading and praying together"--

This book explores the interconnections between the histories of science, technologies and material culture, and the history of education, expressing concern over the extent to which the history of science and technology and the history of education are too frequently written about separately, despite their connections. The contributions to this

The beast rising, breaking from its fiery hold, scratching and clawing, spewing its fear and poison, spells of doubt brooding a stench of nightmares. Children's eyes tearing, bedtime dreadful and dreary, awakened in cold sweats, parents are all perplexed, dark circles around their children's eyes, sullen, meek and weak, tired turns slowly to death. What will happen next?All the nations of the Five Realms are haunted by this message. The dark s...

This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British ‘man of science’ and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Until now, science has been examine...

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This book argues that growing tensions between students and the university authorities were crucial in determining the introduction of key reforms such as competitive examination and a uniform syllabus at Oxford against the background of the American and French Revolutions.

Anglo-German Scholarly Networks explores a wide range of scholarly and scientific connections between Britain and Germany from the late eighteenth century to the interwar years.

Kearney is situated in the Platte River valley in south-central Nebraska. The Platte River has always been an important route across the Great Plains. Native American tribes such as the Pawnee followed the river to their western hunting grounds. Soldiers at nearby Fort Kearny guarded the Oregon and Mormon Trails while the Pony Express skirted through the county. The Union Pacific Railroad pushed through the region in 1866, and when the Burling...

Kearney is situated in the Platte River valley in south-central Nebraska. The Platte River has always been an important route across the Great Plains. Native American tribes such as the Pawnee followed the river to their western hunting grounds. Soldiers at nearby Fort Kearny guarded the Oregon and Mormon Trails while the Pony Express skirted through the county. The Union Pacific Railroad pushed through the region in 1866, and when the Burling...

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This book offers the first in-depth study of the masculine self-fashioning of scientific practitioners in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on the British Association for the Advancement of Science, founded in 1831, it explores the complex and dynamic shifts in the public image of the British ‘man of science’ and questions the status of the natural scientist as a modern masculine hero. Until now, science has been examine...

This short study examines the question of masculinityin Suetonius' most famous work, the Lives of theCaesars. As the most complete collection of imperialbiographies in existence it offers an unparalleleddepiction and dissection of Roman imperial power, from Julius Caesar to Domitian. This study arguesthat there was an intimate relationship in the HighRoman Empire between notions of masculine andimperial power which has not as yet received thes...