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The British Friend
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Dutch
Offers a well-researched and highly readable survey of the language in all its historical, geographic, and social aspects
Comedy and Crisis
Pieter Langendijk's two satirical plays about financial speculation, performed to popular acclaim after the collapse of the South Sea and the Mississippi bubbles, are here presented in a scholarly English translation. The plays offer an incisively comic view of the first international major financial crisis of the early modern era.
The Oxford History of English Lexicography
These substantial volumes present the fullest account yet published of the lexicography of English from its origins in medieval glosses, through its rapid development in the eighteenth century, to a fully-established high-tech industry that is as reliant as ever on learning and scholarship. The history covers dictionaries of English and its national varieties, including American English, with numerous references to developments in Europe and elsewhere which have influenced the course of English lexicography. Part one of Volume I explores the early development of glosses and bilingual and multilingual dictionaries and examines their influence on lexicographical methods and ideas. Part two pre...
Women, Gender, and Radical Religion in Early Modern Europe
This collection of essays explores the role of women and gender in a broad range of 'radical' religious movements of the post-Reformation.
The Lively Experiment
In this lucid and learned book one of America's outstanding historians shows the development of the thought and institutional life which characterize Christianity in America. He explains this religious development in terms of the emergence of religious freedom and the physical fact of the frontier. As he enlarges upon many aspects of his main theme, Dr. Mead traces the parallel growth and creative tension of Christianity and democracy.Dr. Mead discusses:The American PeopleFrom Coercion to PersuasionAmerican Protestantism during the Revolutionary EpochThomas Jefferson's Fair ExperimentAbraham Lincoln's Last, Best Hope of EarthWhen Wise Men HopedDenominationalismAmerican Protestantism Since the Civil War I. From Denominationalism to AmericanismAmerican Protestantism Since the Civil War II. From Americanism to ChristianityThe Lively Experiment is an unusually interesting and timely study that will appeal to every reader concerned with the religious, social, intellectual, and cultural history of America.
