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Syrie Maugham
Interior designer Syria Maugham created an ultra-chic world that was as unique as it was influential. Metcalf celebrates the work of this legendary British designer in the first comprehensive study of her dramatic life and meteoric career.
Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses
An appreciation of the renowned decorator.
David Adler, Architect
A collection of photocopied articles published about the David Adler exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, December 6, 2002 to May 18, 2003.
Edith Wharton at Home
The Mount, Edith Wharton’s country place in the Berkshires, is truly an autobiographical house. There Wharton wrote some of her best-known and successful novels, including Ethan Frome and House of Mirth. The house itself, completed in 1902, embodies principles set forth in Wharton's famous book The Decoration of Houses, and the surrounding landscape displays her deep knowledge of Italian gardens. Wandering the grounds of this historic home, one can see the influence of Wharton’s inimitable spirit in its architecture and design, just as one can sense the Mount’s impact on the extraordinary life of Edith Wharton herself. The Mount sits in the rolling landscape of the Berkshire Hills, wit...
Beyond the Local Church
God is raising up vibrant missional movements of Christians in a vast array of vocations: disciple-making ministries, missions, social activism and much more. Mission leader Sam Metcalf gives biblical and missiological foundations for these "parachurch" movements as strategic ways to live for the kingdom—in venues beyond the local church.
Under the Drones
In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape their lives. Understanding the complexity of life along the 1,600-mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan can help America and its European allies realign their priorities in the region to address genuine problems, rather than fabricated ones. This volume explodes Western misunderstandings by revea...
Metcalf Genealogy
Michael Metcalf, son of Leonard Metcalf, was born 17 June 1587 in Tatterford, Norfolk, England. He married Sarah Elwyn, daughter of Thomas Elwyn and Elisabeth, 13 October 1616 in Hingham, Norfolk. They had eleven children. They emigrated in 1637 and settled in Dedham, Massachusetts. Descendant, Isaac Metcalf, son of Peletiah Metcalf and Lydia Easty, was born 3 February 1783 in Royalston, Massachusetts. He married Lucy Heywood in 1810. They had no children. He married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (1787-1866), a widow with three children, in 1821. They had four children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Ohio, New Hampshire and Maine. Includes DeWitt, Ely, Howes, Putnam, Williams and related families.
Re-creating the American Past
Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century ...
Christian and Jewish Women in Britain, 1880-1940
This book offers an entirely new contribution to the history of multiculturalism in Britain, 1880-1940. It shows how friendship and co-operation between Christian and Jewish women changed lives and, as the Second World War approached, actually saved them. The networks and relationships explored include the thousand-plus women from every district in Manchester who combined to send a letter of sympathy to the Frenchwoman at the heart of the Dreyfus Affair; the religious leagues for women’s suffrage who initiated the first interfaith campaigning movement in British history; the collaborations, often problematic, on refugee relief in the 1930s; the close ties between the founder of Liberal Judaism in Britain, and the wife of the leader of the Labour Party, between the wealthy leader of the Zionist women’s movement and a passionate socialist woman MP. A great variety of sources are thoughtfully interrogated, and concluding remarks address some of the social concerns of the present century.
