Resources

67 Resources for

thomas

Subscribe to this listing via:
RSS
Email

Show All Related Tags Did you mean Thomas Nelson Inc. (104 results), Thomas Built Buses Inc. (84 results), Thomas Group Inc. (35 results), Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. (27 results), Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (26 results)more...

Show Fewer Related Tags Did you mean Thomas Nelson Inc. (104 results), Thomas Built Buses Inc. (84 results), Thomas Group Inc. (35 results), Thomas Weisel Partners Group Inc. (27 results), Thomas Weisel Partners LLC (26 results), Thomas Publishing (22 results), Thomas & Betts Corp. (15 results), Thomas Industries Inc. (13 results), Thomas Engineering Co. (8 results), thomas properties group inc. (7 results), Thomas Equipment Inc. (3 results), Thomas Cook AG (2 results)fewer...

BNET Resources

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
The age of magicians: periodization in the history of European magic.(Report): John Maynard Keynes once described Sir Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest figure of the scientific revolution, as being "not the first of the age of reason" but "the last of the magicians." (1) Keynes was commenting, among other things, on Newton's fascination with alchemy and the...; Tags: Church, Culture, De, Early, English, Enlightenment, History, John, Magic, Martin, Medieval, Moore, Oxford University Press, Press, Protestant, Reformation, Religion, Richard, Roman, Science, Spanish, Thomas, Western; Research articles 2008-06-22
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
Presidential biographies: you've lived through the ups and the downs of more than a few presidential administrations, and here's your chance to know even more. We've consulted the experts on presidential biographies from different eras: Douglas L. Wilson CODIRECTOR OF THE LINCOLN STUDIES CENTER, KNOX COLLEGE Douglas L. Wilson is codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center at Knox College. He has written extensively on Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. With his partner Rodney O. Davis, he has edited The Lincoln-Douglas Debates (forthcoming 2008)....; Tags: Lincoln, Randall, Thomas, Wilson; Research articles 2008-05-01

'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
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
Frontiers, empires, and the new world: the significance of the frontier in American foreign policy: Abstract The late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century frontier profoundly shaped American cultural values and political institutions, and continues to influence the way most Americans look at the world. Studies of how Americans dealt with their western frontier may hold important clues as to how American policy makers and the American...; Tags: American, Americans, David, History, John, Lincoln, Oxford University Press, Thomas, Walter, West; Research articles 2007-12-22
Liminal language: boundaries of magic and honor in early modern Essex.: In 1645, in the small village of Stisted, Essex, two serving maids told the Justice of the Peace that a group of twenty or more men and women had, on several occasions, visited various gentry households where they "conjured" the residents to sleep. This group included ...; Tags: Catholic, Early, English, Henry, John, Justice, Oxford University Press, Ralph, Religion, Robert, Thomas, Thompson, Turner, William, Wood; Research articles 2007-12-22
'Why can't a woman be more like a man?': American and Australian approaches to exclusionary conduct: [Much of antitrust law in the United States or trade practices law in Australia is" about 'exclusionary conduct': things that large firms do to acquire an even larger share of the market or preserve their large market share .from being eroded by smaller rivals or new entrants. The object of...; Tags: Australian, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Court, Edwards, F, O'Connor, Rural Press Ltd., S, Section, Stevens, Thomas, Williams, Wilson; Research articles 2007-12-01
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
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
Troping prostitution: Jonson and "The Court Pucell": Sometime in 1609, Ben Jonson penned "An Epigram on the Court Pucell," a satirical poem in which he rails against Cecilia Bulstrode (c.1584-1609), Gentlewoman of the Queen's Bedchamber and kinswoman and friend of Lucy Harington Russell, the Countess of Bedford. Apparently responding to some critique of his person ("Do's the...; Tags: A., C., Court, John, Jonson, Mother, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Thomas, Vol; Research articles 2007-06-01
Sending out an S.O.S.: public safety communications interoperability as a collective action problem: I. INTRODUCTION II. WHY DO WE LACK INTEROPERABILITY? A. Collective Action Problem B. Where Are the Entrepreneurs? C. Inefficiency III. A POSITIVE SELECTIVE INCENTIVE A. Spectrum Integration ...; Tags: FCC, Federal, Gregg, Marsh, Miller, O2 Plc., Service, Thomas, Walky-Talky Europe; Research articles 2007-06-01
Carlyle through Nietzsche: reading Sartor Resartus: Carlyle's Sartor Resartus is given a new reading here in the light of Nietzsche's brief but suggestive comments on Carlyle and his dyspepsia. It is seen as a text fascinated by devouring and the fear of being devoured as with The French Revolution. Carlyle's Romantic investment in standing up as...; Tags: God, History, Life, Oxford University Press, Society, Thomas; Research articles 2007-04-01
The John Askin family library: a fur-trading family's books: John Askin, [1739]-1815, was a well-known eighteenth-century fur trader in Michigan and the Great Lakes region. He and his family possessed a library, the contents of which have not yet been fully studied. Works in the Askin library reveal the family's intellectual and cultural interests, attributes that we do not...; Tags: A., American, Books, Church, David, English, History, J., James, John, Joseph, Jr., Letters, Oxford, Oxford University Press, Philip, Society, Thomas, Voltaire Inc., William; Research articles 2007-03-22
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
Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan: Anthony Boden. Thomas Tomkins: The Last Elizabethan. With Denis Stevens, David R. A. Evans, Peter James, and Bernard Rose. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2005. xiv + 374 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $134.95. ISBN: 0-7546-5118-5. In recent years, the works of composer and organist Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656) have...; Tags: Thomas, Tomkins Plc.; Research articles 2007-03-22
The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's paintings: (Original Title: Racialized Images in 1920s and 1930s San Francisco: The Paintings of Eva Fong Chan) Eva Fong Chan (1897-1991), a Chinese-American artist who actively painted and exhibited her work between 1925 and 1940, painted Bo Kay Chart Golfing, Thomas Kwan Watching (1931) and Portrait of Tom Yuk Lan...; Tags: American, American Media Inc., Americans, Asian, Early, Thomas, Western; Research articles 2007-01-01