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The Historian and the Believer

The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

By: Van Austin Harvey

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The Historian and the Believer

The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

By: Van Austin Harvey

A milestone work in Christian theology--available again! "As a critic of the contemporary theological scene, Van Harvey has few, if any, competitors. This is nowhere clearer than in The Historian and the Believer . . . the classic discussion of its topic. Rich in insight and penetrating in argument, it is one book that belongs in the library of every theologian and seminarian." -- Schubert M. Ogden, author of Doing Theology Today Is it possible to be both a historian and a Christian? Van Harvey's classic The Historian and the Believer posed that question when it was first published. In this printing, the author has provided a new introduction in which he reflects on how he would reframe his original argument in order to bring out more fully the basic theological intention underlying his view that Christian faith cannot rest on dubious historical claims. From reviews of the first edition: "Probably the most interesting piece of American theological writing to appear this year." -- John Reumann, Union Seminary Quarterly Review

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University of Illinois Press

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0252065964

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History as a Science

The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, 2nd edition

By: Jan van der Dussen

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History as a Science

The Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood, 2nd edition

By: Jan van der Dussen

Since its appearance in 1981, History as a Science by Jan van der Dussen has been welcomed as a coherent and comprehensive study of the many aspects of Collingwood’s philosophy of history, including its development and reception. The book was the first to pay attention to Collingwood’s unpublished manuscripts, and to his work as an archaeologist and historian, herewith opening up a new angle in Collingwood studies. The republication of this volume meets an increasing demand to make the book available for future Collingwood scholars, and people interested in Collingwood’s philosophy. The present edition of History as a Science includes updated references to the published manuscripts and an added preface.

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BRILL

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9004424938

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The Historian and the Believer

The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

By: Van Austin Harvey

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The Morality of Historical Knowledge and Christian Belief

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Performing Kinship

Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

By: Krista E. Van Vleet

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Performing Kinship

Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

By: Krista E. Van Vleet

In the highland region of Sullk'ata, located in the rural Bolivian Andes, habitual activities such as sharing food, work, and stories create a sense of relatedness among people. Through these day-to-day interactions—as well as more unusual events—individuals negotiate the affective bonds and hierarchies of their relationships. In Performing Kinship, Krista E. Van Vleet reveals the ways in which relatedness is evoked, performed, and recast among the women of Sullk'ata. Portraying relationships of camaraderie and conflict, Van Vleet argues that narrative illuminates power relationships, which structure differences among women as well as between women and men. She also contends that in the Andes gender cannot be understood without attention to kinship. Stories such as that of the young woman who migrates to the city to do domestic work and later returns to the highlands voicing a deep ambivalence about the traditional authority of her in-laws provide enlightening examples of the ways in which storytelling enables residents of Sullk'ata to make sense of events and link themselves to one another in a variety of relationships. A vibrant ethnography, Performing Kinship offers a rare glimpse into an compelling world.

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University of Texas Press

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0292773773

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Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

By: Paul Van Helvert,John Van Wyhe

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Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

By: Paul Van Helvert,John Van Wyhe

This is a book that required a great many research hours, the kind of volume you may be glad someone took the time to compile.'The Quarterly Review of Biology This is the ultimate guide to the life and work of Charles Darwin. The result of decades of research through a vast and daunting literature which is hard for beginners and experts alike to navigate, it brings together widely scattered facts including very many unknown to even the most ardent Darwin aficionados. It includes hundreds of new discoveries and corrections to the existing literature. It provides the most complete summaries of his publications, manuscripts, lifetime itinerary, finances, personal library, friends and colleagues, opponents, visitors to his home, anniversaries, hundreds of flora, fauna, monuments and places named after him and a host of other topics. Also included are the most complete lists (iconographies) ever created of illustrations of the Beagle, over 1000 portraits of Darwin, his wife and home as well as all known Darwin photographs, stamps and caricatures. The book is richly illustrated with 350 images, most previously unknown.

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World Scientific

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9811208220

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The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948

By: Will C. van den Hoonaard

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The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948

By: Will C. van den Hoonaard

What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence, newspapers, archives and interviews, Will C. van den Hoonaard has created the first historical account of Bahá’ís in Canada. In addition, The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 clearly depicts the dynamics and the struggles of a new religion in a new country. This is a story of modern spiritual heroes—people who changed the lives of others through their devotion to the Bahá’í ideals, in particular to the belief that the earth is one country and all of humankind are its citizens. Thirty-nine original photographs effectively depict persons and events influencing the growth of the Bahá’í movement in Canada. The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 makes an original contribution to religious history in Canada and provides a major sociological reference tool, as well as a narrative history that can be used by scholars and Bahá’ís alike for many years to come.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1554587069

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The Aztecs

New Perspectives

By: Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout

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The Aztecs

New Perspectives

By: Dirk R. Van Tuerenhout

How did a bedraggled band of nomads manage to evolve into a Mesoamerican superpower in such a brief time? This volume looks at the essential elements in the Aztecs' rise, fall, and enduring influence. A wealth of new archaeological findings and interpretations has sparked a richer understanding of the Aztecs, dispelling many myths. The Aztecs: New Perspectives looks at evidence from ancient, colonial, and modern times to present a contemporary, well-rounded portrait of this Mesoamerican culture. Like no other volume, it examines daily Aztec life both at, and away from, the seats of power, revealing the Aztecs to be accomplished farmers, astronomers, mathematicians, and poets—as well as ruthless warriors and tireless builders of empire. The Aztecs ranges from the mysterious origins of the Aztlan tribe to the glory years of empire and ultimate defeat. But the story doesn't end there. To present the most complete picture possible, the author goes to the most fascinating source available—the living ancestors who keep the Aztec language and many aspects of their ancient worldview alive. There is no better volume for exploring the realities of Aztec life as it was, and as it influences our world today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576079244

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Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910

Strategies and Sources

By: Melissa S. Van Vuuren

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Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910

Strategies and Sources

By: Melissa S. Van Vuuren

This volume discusses traditional and new resources for researching British literature of the Victorian and Edwardian ages and the ways in which those resources can be used in conjunction with one another.

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342

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Scarecrow Press

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0810877279

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9780810877276

Australia's Megafires

Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020

By: Stephen van Leeuwen,Brendan A. Wintle,John C.Z. Woinarski,Libby Rumpff,Sarah M. Legge

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Australia's Megafires

Biodiversity Impacts and Lessons from 2019-2020

By: Stephen van Leeuwen,Brendan A. Wintle,John C.Z. Woinarski,Libby Rumpff,Sarah M. Legge

The Australian wildfires of 2019–20 (Black Summer) were devastating and unprecedented. These megafires burnt more than 10 million hectares, mostly of forests in southern and eastern Australia. Many of the fires were uncontrollable. These megafires affected many of Australia’s most important conservation areas and severely impacted threatened species and ecological communities. They were a consequence of climate change – and offered a glimpse of how this is likely to continue to affect our future. Australia’s Megafires includes contributions by more than 200 researchers and managers with direct involvement in the management and conservation of the biodiversity affected by the Black Summer wildfires. It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of these fires on all components of biodiversity, and on Indigenous cultural values. These fires also triggered an extraordinary and highly collaborative response by governments, NGOs, Indigenous groups, scientists, landholders and others, seeking to recover the fire-affected species and environments – to restore Country. This book documents that response. It draws lessons that should be heeded to sustain that recovery and to be better prepared for the inevitable future comparable catastrophes. Such lessons are of global relevance, for wildfires increasingly threaten biodiversity and livelihoods across the globe.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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1486316654

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City Creatures

Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

By: Gavin Van Horn,David Aftandilian

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City Creatures

Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness

By: Gavin Van Horn,David Aftandilian

Published in collaboration with The Center for Humans and Nature"--Title page verso.

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University of Chicago Press

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022619289X

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RAND in Southeast Asia

A History of the Vietnam War Era

By: Duong Van Mai Elliott

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RAND in Southeast Asia

A History of the Vietnam War Era

By: Duong Van Mai Elliott

This book is for RAND, and the people who want to understand what the alumni of this organization remembered about their experiences working for the U.S. government on research and analysis of what remains some of the most controversial foreign and military policy of the 20th century.

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Rand Corporation

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083304754X

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9780833047540

Anthony Trollope's Late Style

Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form

By: Frederik Van Dam

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Anthony Trollope's Late Style

Victorian Liberalism and Literary Form

By: Frederik Van Dam

This study focuses on Anthony Trollope's stylistic innovations in relation to Victorian liberalismIn his biography of William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope posits the ideal of a man without style: 'I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language'. Trollope's own appearance, unlike his written language, did not pass without observation, however. A contemporary poet recollects that he was 'hirsute and taurine of aspect'. This study unravels this paradox. It disentangles the many threads in Trollope's ostensibly transparent writing and reassembles the political and intellectual fabric that they weave, thus showing how Trollope's language exceeds and questions the concepts provided by contemporary ideologies.Key Features:Shows how Trollope's stylistic peculiarities perform his inflection of Victorian liberalismReads Victorian literature through the lens of German (post-)Romantic thinkers such as Goethe and Walter BenjaminPresents a panorama of Victorian liberalism in its literary, intellectual, and political contextExamines the writings from the last decade of Trollope's life that have received only scant critical attention, such as his novellas and his biographies

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748699562

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9780748699568

A Life Together

Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853

By: Eric Van Young

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A Life Together

Lucas Alaman and Mexico, 1792-1853

By: Eric Van Young

An eminent historian’s biography of one of Mexico’s most prominent statesmen, thinkers, and writers Lucas Alamán (1792–1853) was the most prominent statesman, political economist, and historian in nineteenth-century Mexico. Alamán served as the central ministerial figure in the national government on three occasions, founded the Conservative Party in the wake of the Mexican-American War, and authored the greatest historical work on Mexico’s struggle for independence. Though Mexican historiography has painted Alamán as a reactionary, Van Young’s balanced portrait draws upon fifteen years of research to argue that Alamán was a conservative modernizer, whose north star was always economic development and political stability as the means of drawing Mexico into the North Atlantic world of advanced nation-states. Van Young illuminates Alamán’s contribution to the course of industrialization, advocacy for scientific development, and unerring faith in private property and institutions such as church and army as anchors for social stability, as well as his less commendable views, such as his disdain for popular democracy.

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Yale University Press

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0300258747

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Book's by Van Austin Harvey

The Historian and the Believer

The Historian and the Believer

History as a Science

History as a Science

The Historian and the Believer

The Historian and the Believer

Performing Kinship

Performing Kinship

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

Darwin: A Companion - With Iconographies By John Van Wyhe

The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948

The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948

The Aztecs

The Aztecs

Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910

Literary Research and the Victorian and Edwardian Ages, 1830-1910

Australia's Megafires

Australia's Megafires

City Creatures

City Creatures

RAND in Southeast Asia

RAND in Southeast Asia

Anthony Trollope's Late Style

Anthony Trollope's Late Style

A Life Together

A Life Together

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