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Law, sovereignty, and political ideas in early modern Britain.(Book review): Ken MacMillan. Sovereignty and Possession in the English New World: The Legal Foundations of Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Alan Cromartie. The Constitutionalist Revolution: An Essay on the History of England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. David Armitage,...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, English, History, James, John, Macmillan, Nicholas; Research articles 2009-01-29
History: NONFICTION **** The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family By Annette Gordon-Reed * 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD Annette Gordon-Reed is a professor of law at New York University and teaches history at Rutgers University. This is her second book resulting from her research on...; Tags: American, Dream, Fischer, James, Lincoln, McPherson, McPherson's Ltd.; Research articles 2009-01-01
Books received: Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2008. d'Abrera, Anna Ysabel, The Tribunal of Zaragoza and Crypto-Judaism, 1484-1515. Europa Sacra 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Ando, Clifford, The Matter of the Gods: Religion and the Roman Empire. The Transformation of the Classical...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Charles, Church, Culture, David, Early, Faith, History, J., James, John, L., Medieval, Oxford University Press, Paul, Press, Theology, William; Research articles 2008-09-01
Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin: Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...; Tags: A., African, Barrett, C., Catholic, Christians, Church, Colonial, David, East, Europeans, Family, G., Gender, Gray, H., History, INTRODUCTION, James, Jean, Journal, Mann, Marriage, Mission, N., Oxford University Press, R., Religion, Social, Thomas, West, Western; Research articles 2008-09-01
mirage in the VALLEY OF THE SUN, the: ABSTRACT The Valley of the Sun, a booming metropolitan region of 3.7 million people in a desert that gets seven inches of annual rainfall, has enjoyed an oasis lifestyle during the twentieth century, supported by government-funded reclamation projects and water pumped from aquifers deep underground. Following World War II, groundwater...; Tags: A., American, Bureau, CARTER, Growth, History, Jacob, James, John, Jr., Management, Phoenix Technologies, Press, Salt River Project, Scottsdale, Sun Microsystems Inc., Tucson, West, Western, William; Research articles 2008-07-01

Shaping superstition in late medieval England.(Report): Superstition occupied an ambiguous place in late medieval England. While elsewhere in fifteenth-century Europe the clergy increasingly reviled superstitions in everyday practices as the fearful portal allowing the devil's entry into human affairs, this certainty faltered in England. (1) The English clergy never ignored beliefs and...; Tags: Aquinas, CONCLUSIONS, Dialogue, Early, English, God, H., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, Luther, Medieval, Norwich, Oxford University Press, Press, Reformation, Richard, Saint, Thomas, William, York; Research articles 2008-06-22
Building a populist coalition in Texas, 1892-1896: THAN A HALF CENTURY HAS PASSED SINCE C. VANN WOODWARD argued that the success of the People' s or Populist Party of the 1890s hinged on construction of three somewhat improbable coalitions of the dispossessed: southerners and westerners, farmers and laborers, and blacks and poor whites in the South. (1)...; Tags: American, C., Charles, Cross, Democratic Party, East, Farmers, Gregg, H., Hill, History, James, John, Journal, L., Labor, M., Martin, Miller, Politics, Reform, Thomas, Turner, W., William; Research articles 2008-05-01
A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969: Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...; Tags: Church, D., E., Easter, English, F., G., Gilbert, God, History, House, J., Jacob, James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lincoln, Lord, M., Macmillan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, P., Social, Society, T., Thomas, W., Wales, William, York; Research articles 2008-03-22
'The comforts of married life': Metis family life, labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company: SINCE THE 1980S, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company HBC. This article focuses on how...; Tags: A., American, Charles, Culture, English, Frank, Green, House, Hudson's Bay Co., Indian, J., James, John, Joseph, Journal, Lake, Marie, Michel, Mission, Pierre, Raphael, Thomas, William; Research articles 2008-03-22
Books received: Aageson, James W., Paul, the Pastoral Epistles, and the Early Church. Library of Pauline Studies. Peabody, Mass.: Henderson Publishing, 2007. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. London: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Anderson, Emma, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey...; Tags: American, Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, David, Early, James, John, M., Paul, Press, Theology; Research articles 2008-03-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS Bonarelli, Guidubaldo. Phyllis of Scyros. Ed. and trans. Nicolas J. Perella. New York: Italica Press, 2007. xxviii + 304 pp. bibl. $25. ISBN: 978-0-934977-61-6. Bruno, Giordano. De la causa, principio et eno/Uber die Ursache, das Prinzip und das Eine. Ed. and trans. Thomas Leinkauf. Giordiano...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, David, De, E., Ed, F., G., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, Letters, Life, Maria, Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Paul, Politics, Reformation, Renaissance, Rome, Strasbourg, Susan, Trans, Walter; Research articles 2007-12-22
Books received but not reviewed/Livres recus mais non analyses: January-December 2007/Januar-Decembre 2007: Ajzenstat, Janet, The Canadian Founding: John Locke and Parliament. McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas. Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xvi, 200 pp. Akenson, Donald Harman, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself Kingston, Ontario and Montreal, Quebec, McGill-Queen's University...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, David, Early, History, James, John, Politics, Pp, Press, Social; Research articles 2007-12-22
Violence, sacrifice and chiefship in Central Equatoria, Southern Sudan: ABSTRACT This article explores specific oral histories and chiefship debates in the aftermath of the SPLA war in two Southern Sudanese chiefdoms. It argues that these local histories reveal much about the historical relationship between state and society--and in particular the mediation with external violence--which is central to understanding...; Tags: A., African, Alexander, C., E., G., J., James, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, M., Oxford, Oxford University Press, S., Sierra, West; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Agostini, Ludovico. L'Epistolario di Ludovico Agostini: Reforma e utopia. Biblioteca dell' "Archivum Romanicum." Serie 1: Storia, Letteratura, Paleographia 335. Ed. Gianluca Montinaro. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007. 292 pp. index. bibl. [euro]33. ISBN: 978-88-222-5594-5. Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso: secondo la princeps del 1516. Ed. Marco...; Tags: A., Cambridge University Press, Church, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, El, English, God, History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Leo, Les, Life, M., Nicholas, Paul, Poetry, Politics, Rhetoric, S., Simon, Susan, Theology, Thomas; Research articles 2007-09-22
Books received.: AARON, DAVID H. Etched in Stone: The Emergence of the Decalogue. New York: T and T Clark, 2006. ACKERMAN, ROBERT, ed. Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. AITKEN, JAMES K. AND EDWARD KESSLER, eds. Challenges in...; Tags: American, Berkeley, Cambridge University Press, Culture, David, Early, G., History, Holocaust, J., James, Jews, John, Judaism, L., Life, M., Medieval, Memory, Oxford University Press, Politics, Press, S., Science, Society, Stanford University, Trans, W.; Research articles 2007-09-22
Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780: Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...; Tags: African, American, Assembly, Black, Chapel, Christmas, Church, Council, Culture, Early, Easter, English, God, Hall, History, J., James, John, Johnson, Joseph, Journal, Kingston Technology Corp., Lord, Oxford University Press, Protestant, Testing, Thomas, W.; Research articles 2007-09-01
Books received: Alazard, Florence, and Frank La Brasca, La Papaute a la Renaissance. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2007. Alfonsi, Petrus, Dialogue against the Jews. Translated by Irven M. Resnick. The Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation 8. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Alvis, Robert E., Religion...; Tags: A., American, Cambridge University Press, Catholic, Church, Culture, D., David, E., Early, F., Faith, God, History, J., James, John, Life, Medieval, Oxford University Press, Politics, Reformation, Routledge, S., Theology, Thomas, William; Research articles 2007-09-01
Recent titles in philosophy: ABOULAFIA, MITCHELL. The Cosmopolitan Self: George Herbert Mead and Continental Philosophy. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006. 169 pp. Cloth, $29.95; paper, $20.00. ABRAHAM, WILLIAM J. Crossing the Threshold of Divine Revelation. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2006. 212 pp. Paper, $20.00. ADAMS, NICHOLAS. Habermas and...; Tags: Cambridge University Press, Court, David, God, Graham, INTRODUCTION, James, John, Life, Logic, Martin, Metaphysics, Moore, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Paul, Philosophy, Science; Research articles 2007-06-01
Sympathy and spectatorship in Scottish writing after Hume: A review of Edmund Husserl's account of "British" empiricism by certain analytic philosophers is both suggestive and misleading. (1) Scottish philosophers have often been cast as English or British for no better reason, it would appear, than that they follow so-called "English" empiricists chronologically, or because of their geographic proximity,...; Tags: CALA, David, English, Gregory, Hegel, INTRODUCTION, James, Lord, Oxford University Press, Robert, Smith, Voltaire Inc.; Research articles 2007-04-01
Books received: EDITIONS AND TRANSLATIONS: Bideaux, Michel, ed., and Herberay des Essarts, trans. Amadis de Gaule. Book 1. Textes de la Renaissance 116. Paris: Honore Champion Editeur, 2006. 706 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. gloss. bibl. [euro]63. ISBN: 2-7453-1422-X. Cardano, Girolamo. Liber de ludo aleae. Filosofia e scienza nell'eta moderna....; Tags: Alexander, Cambridge University Press, Culture, D., David, De, Ed, English, F., History, INTRODUCTION, J., James, John, King, La, Les, M., Mann, Martin, Michel, Oxford University Press, Paul, Poetry, Rome, Thomas, Venice; Research articles 2007-03-22