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By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended to care for their own church members, who were by definition 'within the household of faith', through the deaconate, a confessional relief agency. This book examines the relationship between municipal and ecclesiastical relief agencies in the six chief cities ...

This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures, historical events and particularly, of the crucial role of talk.

For the inspired professional person, this book instills the necessary confidence to live a revitalized and invigorated retirement lifestyle. It offers specific, detailed, and innovative activity-based recommendations for what to do with all of that time.

This book is written from the standpoint of 1919. The time has not yet come for telling how the Russian Church met the storm of the Revolution

We invite the earnest cooperation in this great work of all those who have awakened to the necessity for more rational living and for radical reform in healing methods.

In December, 1901, William Walker Atkinson in assuming the editorship of the popular magazine New Thought, introduced himself to the readers of that periodical in a memorable article. That article contained a clear, ringing, forceful statement of his individual creed, than which nothing can afford a deeper insight into the character and inner self of the man whose name appears as author of this book. It is the crystallized expression of the wo...

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Success story highlighting role of peasant farmers in cotton revolution in C te d'Ivoire.

The significance of writing in medieval Celtic societies, c. 400 c. 1500.

Examines the role the fable played in the development of English literature and culture in the period 1651 1740.

Shows how Britain was replaced by the USA as chief global power, 1930 1945.

The first book-length study of Andrei Bitov, one of contemporary Russia's most original writers.

This brilliant thesis of language families laid the groundwork for modern comparative linguistics.

Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development.

This well-informed and readable biography of a hitherto neglected figure examines Howard's career.

This volume brings together a wide range of letters and documents which collectively shed a great deal of light on Joseph Conrad's cultural roots, a subject of growing interest in recent years.

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Published in Spohr's 200th anniversary year, this book is the first to deal at length with both the life and the works of a composer who exerted a strong influence on the development of nineteenth-century music. Spohr was hailed in his own day as a worthy successor to Mozart and Beethoven, yet in the present century his former renown has gone largely unrecognised. Clive Brown gives an account of Spohr's life and character, and examines the are...

This was the first major study of post-Civil War banking panics in almost a century.