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The Penguin dictionary of modern history, 1789-1945

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Description: This dictionary looks at the personalities, events and ideas from 1789 to 1945. While the main emphasis is on British affairs and on political topics, this dictionary also records trends in the history of all the major regions of the world including the USA, Russia, Australia and Canada.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1983.
Call number: 608501
Creator: Palmer, Alan (1926-2022)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 0140511253; 9780140511253
Provenance: Purchased from Sanford and Helen Berger, 1999. From the Sanford and Helen Berger Collection.
Dimensions: 20 cm.
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A dictionary of modern history 1789-1945

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New England, 1789-1818; Middle Atlantic, 1789-1818; South, 1789-1818; West, 1789-1818; General, 1819-1829; New England, 1819-1829

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Subjects covered: Turner's education; family affairs; business affairs, particularly with his publisher Henry Holt and Co.; ideas about the frontier, sectionalism, historical scholarship, professional matters generally, and politics; Turner's activities and experiences at Johns Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Harvard and the Huntington Library; teaching career; work with the Harvard Commission on Western History; work with the Dictionary of American biography project; and his role in the American Historical Association, particularly the "Bancroft insurrection" of 1915. In his extensive research notes, maps, and graphs there is a large body of data about American history. Collection contains: letters, documents, maps, photographs, lantern slides, research notes, lecture notes, manuscripts of speeches, essays, books, and clippings. The collection also contains 15 boxes of correspondence between Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper.

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General, 1789-1818

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The Concise Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church

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Based on the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. Over 5,000 entries provide full coverage of theology, patristic scholarship, churches and denominations, the church calendar and organization, and the Bible, as well as entries on theologians, philosophers, painters, musicians, and writers of religious works. This second edition has been fully updated to reflect recent changes in the church. It includes increased coverage of the church in Latin America, Eastern Churches, issues on moral theology, and developments stemming from the Second Vatican Council, Black Churches, Christian attitudes to Jews, feminist theology, Holiness Movement, liberation theology, and ordination of women.--From publisher description.

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The Penguin dictionary of modern history, 1789-1945

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