The hundred years after Augustine of Hippo's death was crucial for the doctrine of grace in the Western church. Alternating waves of enthusiasm for Augustine's teaching and objections to its more extreme positions gradually began to shape an interpretation of Augustine that was to become Augustinianism. Weaver carefully traces the course of this ...
Through a detailed unpacking of the castaway genre's appeal in English literature, Empire Islands forwards our understanding of the sociopsychology of British Empire. Rebecca Weaver-Hightower argues convincingly that by helping generations of readers to make sense of--and perhaps feel better about--imperial aggression, the castaway story in effect ...
Robert Greacen was born of Scots and Irish stock in Derry/Londonderry on 24th October 1920 and lived in both urban Belfast and rural Monaghan. Experiences in city and country furnished materials for later poems and reviews. At Methodist College. Belfast, he discovered his gift for writing and developed an interest in leftist politics. Later, at ...
This description of how machines in the home were developed and how they revolutionized the drudgery of housework is part of a series covering the history of science and technology. It is intended for students of 14 years and upwards, their teachers and students of social and economic history.
Records how developments in the harnessing of power and methods of transport transformed late 18th- and early 19th-century society: the invention of the steam engine; the seed drill; the miner's safety lamp; iron smelting; road surfacing; canal engineering; steam boats; and the railway.
A survey of the history of the office and the various mini-revolutions which have had a profound effect on its development since the days of the quill pen: the telegraph and telephone; the copying machine; the typewriter and wordprocessor; and the computer and calculator.
One of the "Discoveries and Inventions" series, this book examines how the tremendous advances in electronic and other technology affected the leisure aspects of Victorian home life. "Home Entertainment" traces the origins and development of the moving image, the talking machine, the wireless, and a range of toys, games and parlour tricks.
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