In the 200 years since the famous battle in the muddy, bloody fields of Waterloo, almost every aspect of the fighting has been examined and analyzed, apart from one - that of finding and illustrating locations relating to the campaign.
The Creation of Modern Buenos Aires examines the impact of civic associations on the culture and the society of Buenos Aires and their ties to politics in the first decades of the twentieth century.
Vicki Tolar Burton argues that John Wesley wanted to make ordinary Methodist men and women readers, writers, and public speakers because he understood the powerful role of language for spiritual formation.
The third volume in Studies in Rhetoric & Religion, Preaching Politics traces the surprising and lasting influence of one of American history's most fascinating and enigmatic figures--George Whitefield.
New Dimensions of World Politics (1975) examines the changes to world politics as bankers, industrialists and scientists have taken more influence over world affairs from diplomats and soldiers.
The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guineas Torricelli Mountains.
The Ilahita Arapesh: Dimensions of Unity delves into the social and religious structures of Ilahita, a uniquely large and complex village in New Guineas Torricelli Mountains.
Employing fresh, innovative readings, Edgardo Colon-Emeric examines and underscores the centrality of the concept of perfection for the theologies of Thomas Aquinas and John Wesley--and finds them, surprisingly, largely complementary.
This magisterial volume unveils Richard and Shirley Flint's deep research into the Latin American and Spanish archives in an effort to track down the history of the participants who came north with the Coronado expedition in 1540.
Growing Up combines two flourishing historical fields--the history of childhood and world history--to address the question of how much of childhood is natural and how much is historically determined.
Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism.
First published in 1962, A New Outline of World History is a contemporary and objective introduction to the essentials of world history from the origins to the eighteenth century.