Titlebook: In the Presence of the Past; Essays in Honor of F Richard T. Bienvenu,Mordechai Feingold Book 1991 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrech

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The Diffusion of Science and the Conversion of the Gentiles in the Seventeenth Century,e Acosta wrote his important missionary manual, . (1588), both to console disappointed missionaries who found their work frustrated at every turn and to suggest ways by which the Indians might be more effectively proselytized.. In Asia, the situation was, if anything, worse. Christian missions in In

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The Profits of America: Early Nineteenth-Century British Travel in the United States, presidents, and even the unfortunate events associated with the War of 1812, including the burning of the capital, had begun to recede from public memory before British travellers began to feel welcome in the United States, to think seriously of how the republic was faring.

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Frank Manuel: An Appreciation,leafscar on the tree of the scholarly culture this is not a fact which anyone else would have reason to notice. It is also not, I am happy to add, something for which Manuel will be especially remembered. But I suspect that there are many others, besides myself, whom he deflected from misspent lives

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The Diffusion of Science and the Conversion of the Gentiles in the Seventeenth Century,an a century old, the rosy optimism of early missionaries that the new worlds could be converted quickly and easily had begun to sour. Second and third generation missionaries in areas of colonial control had to confront the fact that baptism and conversion were not always identical and that indigen

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Good Aristocrats/Bad Aristocrats: Thomas Hobbes and Early Modern Political Culture,, for philosophers tend to treat Hobbes as if he were a contemporary, a philosopher like themselves, who recently got tenure (at Harvard, say) and then published ., a very promising but also a very difficult piece of political theory. The text is brilliantly clear in its individual sentences, comple

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John Selden and the Nature of Seventeenth-Century Science,insisted that Selden was “so great a Scholar that [he] himself was scarce worthy to carry his books after him”. Nor was Ussher alone in such praise for Selden. Contemporaries both in England and the entire republic of European letters regarded Selden as one of the towering intellectuals of the seven

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Victor Considerant: The Making of a Fourierist,alous husband and coarse family tyrant”, named Liputin. When Liputin is visited by Nicholas Stavrogin, Stavrogin finds a book by the French Utopian socialist Victor Considerant lying “very conspicuously” on his table. It soon turns out that the little man, “a miser and a moneylender, who locked up t