Books Without Borders, Volume 1

Books Without Borders, Volume 1
Author: Robert Fraser
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2008-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230289118

Where does the book belong? Does it enshrine the soul of a nation, or is it a means by which nations talk to one another, sharing ideas, technologies, texts? This book, the first in a two-volume set of original essays, responds to these questions with archive-based case studies of print culture in a number of countries around the world.

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance

The Esoteric Origins of the American Renaissance
Author: Arthur Versluis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 0195138872

Here, Arthur Versluis breaks new ground, showing that many writers of the American Renaissance drew extensively on and were inspired by Western esoteric currents. Thus he demonstrates that Alcott and Emerson were indebted to Hermeticism, Christian theosophy, and Neoplatonism; Fuller to alchemy and Rosicrucianism; Hawthorne to alchemy; and Melville to Gnosticism. In addition to offering a detailed analysis of the esoteric elements in the writings of figures from the American Renaissance, Versluis presents an overview of esotericism in Europe and its offshoots in colonial America. This innovative work will interest students and scholars of religion, literature, American studies, and esotericism."--Jacket.

Gleanings of Freedom

Gleanings of Freedom
Author: Max Grivno
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2011-12-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0252093569

Late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century landowners in the hinterlands of Baltimore, Maryland, cobbled together workforces from a diverse labor population of black and white apprentices, indentured servants, slaves, and hired workers. This book examines the intertwined lives of the poor whites, slaves, and free blacks who lived and worked in this wheat-producing region along the Mason–Dixon Line. Drawing from court records, the diaries, letters, and ledgers of farmers and small planters, and other archival sources, Max Grivno reconstructs how these poorest of southerners eked out their livings and struggled to maintain their families and their freedom in the often unforgiving rural economy.

Education in England and Wales

Education in England and Wales
Author: Franklin Parker
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 499
Release: 2018-02-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1351253840

Originally published in 1991, this title was begun just before passage of the Education Reform Act of 1988 (ERA 88), which was implemented in the 1990s. This major act along with still-in-force provisions of the 1944 Education Act (with its 17 amendments) comprises the statutes governing education in England and Wales. The study reflects both the criticism and the praise showered on that important legislation, particularly in the Brief History and School Structure sections, and in Chapter 1 with its longer than usual annotations on ERA 88.