The New Old World

The New Old World
Author: Perry Anderson
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2011-11-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1844677214

The New Old World looks at the history of the European Union, the core continental countries within it, and the issue of its further expansion into Asia. It opens with a consideration of the origins and outcomes of European integration since the Second World War, and how today’s EU has been theorized across a range of contemporary disciplines. It then moves to more detailed accounts of political and cultural developments in the three principal states of the original Common Market—France, Germany and Italy. A third section explores the interrelated histories of Cyprus and Turkey that pose a leading geopolitical challenge to the Community. The book ends by tracing ideas of European unity from the Enlightenment to the present, and their bearing on the future of the Union. The New Old World offers a critical portrait of a continent now increasingly hailed as a moral and political example to the world at large.

Old World, New World

Old World, New World
Author: Kathleen Burk
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 844
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780802144294

A history of the relationship between Great Britain and the United States ranges from the establishment of the first English colony in the New World to the present day, examining both nations in terms of what connected them and what drove them apart.

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

The Scientific Revolution: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Lawrence Principe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2011-04-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199567417

Lawrence M. Principe takes a fresh approach to the story of the scientific revolution, emphasising the historical context of the society and its world view at the time. From astronomy to alchemy and medicine to geology, he tells this fascinating story from the perspective of the historical characters involved.

New Words for Old

New Words for Old
Author: Caroline Taggart
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2015-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1782434739

An exploration of how we adapt and adopt words in the English language to suit our changing needs.

New Worlds for Old

New Worlds for Old
Author: Herbert George Wells
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1908
Genre: Socialism
ISBN:

An account of socialism.

Conversion

Conversion
Author: Kenneth Mills
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781580461238

A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space, considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India. The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change, cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the University of Rochester Press.

New Old World

New Old World
Author: Pallavi Aiyar
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2015-09-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 125007231X

Award-winning journalist Pallavi Aiyar brings a unique Asian perspective to Europe's current crises

New Worlds for Old

New Worlds for Old
Author: William Brandon
Publisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1986
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Old New Worlds

Old New Worlds
Author: Judith Krummeck
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: England
ISBN: 9781950584413

Old New Worlds intertwines the immigrant stories of the author and her great-great grandmother. Sarah Barker and her new husband sail from England in 1815 to minister to the indigenous Khoihoi in South Africa’s Eastern Cape. In the midst of conflict, illness, and natural disasters, Sarah bears sixteen children. Two hundred years later, Judith leaves post apartheid South Africa with her new American husband to immigrate to the United States. She is drawn to Sarah’s immigrant story in the context of her own experience, and she sets out to try and trace her. In the process, she finds a soul mate.