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HISTORY OF EDUCATION. The journal of the History of Education Society. Vols. 7, 9, 10, 12, 21-25. London, Taylor and Francis, 1978, 1980, 2981, 1983, 1992-1996.

Partly bound. 8vo. Per volume price EUR 80,- . (ZY20799) History of Education has attracted considerable attention among social historians and others interested in the development of education in all parts of the world. The journal publishes refered original research, correspondence and major reviews of books on the history of education, whether in formal or informal settings.

[KW: Pädagogik; Pädagogik pedagogy]

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GIVEN-WILSON, CHRISTOPHER: Chronicles: The Writing Of History In Medieval England, London and New York Hambledon Pr 2004
ISBN: 1852853581 New

First edition. 8vo. Hardcover, 292 pp. The priorities of medieval chroniclers and historians were not those of the modern historian; nor was the way that they gathered, arranged, and presented evidence, says Christopher Given-Wilson, a leading authority on medieval English historical writing. Yet if we understand how they approached their task, and their assumption of God's immanence in the world, much that they wrote becomes clear. Here he examines how medieval writers such as Ranulf Higden and Adam Usk - men of high intelligence - treated chronology and geography, politics and warfare, heroes and villains. Taken in the context of their epoch, their interpretation of events reveals much of what actually happened. New in new dustjacket. First Edition New Hard Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[KW: Medieval Literature & History]

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Watkins, Larissa P. BURNSIANA: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WILLIAM R. SMITH COLLECTION IN THE LIBRARY OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL, 33°, S.J. New Castle, Delaware and Washington, D.C. Oak Knoll Press & Library of the Supreme Council, 33°, S.J. 2008
With a Foreword by Akram Elias, Grand Master of Free and Accepted Masons, Washington, D.C., Editor-in-Chief. First edition. Published shortly before the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns in 2009, this bibliography presents the unparalleled Burnsiana collection held by the Library of the Supreme Council of the Ancient & Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA, the most complete collection of Burnsiana in the United States. The William Robertson Smith Collection is the second largest compilation of Burns materials in the world, ranking only behind the collection maintained in The Mitchell Library in Glasgow, Scotland. In terms of American material about Burns, the Library of Supreme Council has the world's largest collection. The contents of this collection, compiled over a lifetime by William Robertson Smith, are available to American and international scholars, historians, literary critics and linguists. For Masons, because both Robert Burns and William Robertson Smith were Masonic Brothers, this catalogue is meaningful as a living memorial to international Masonic fraternal and literary traditions. Because of the paucity of bibliographic literature illuminating Burns' involvement in Freemasonry, the work contains a biographic sketch entitled "Robert Burns-Freemason" written by Robert L.D. Cooper. From a historical, bibliographical, informational and aesthetic perspective, the Burnsiana catalogue has no analog among currently existing bibliographies. The catalogue is illustrated by the engravings of several generations of artists that provide an image of the Bard of Caledonia and the scenes of Scotland that he loved, and which inspired his creativity. This bibliography is a distinguished gift from the Fraternity of Freemasons in honor of the 250th anniversary of the birth of this distinguished Scottish poet and Mason, Robert Burns. Larissa P. Watkins is Assistant to the Librarian at the Library of the Supreme Council in Washington, D.C. Educated in the Russian Federation as a journalist and librarian, she holds an honors degree in Library Science from the Cultural Sciences Institute of Higher Learning in Ussurisk, Primorskiy Krai, and was Director of Acquisition and Automation at the State Scientific Library in the Maritime Provinces in Vladivostok. In this capacity, she represented the Library administration at annual national conferences in Moscow and Leningrad. In Russia, her book The Men of Dal'zavod was written as the official history for the 100th anniversary of the Dal'zavod, the largest shipyard in the Russian Far East. In the USA, Larissa is a member of Masonic Library and Museum Association and the author of three fundamental bibliographies published by Oak Knoll Press and the Library of the Supreme Council: American Masonic Periodicals: 1811-2001; International Masonic Periodicals: 1738-2005; and Our Very Illustrious Brother, Abraham Lincoln.

8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover. 240 pages.

[KW: 9781584562467 BIBLIOGRAPHY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BURNS, ROBERT BIBLIOGRAPHY, NINETEENTH CENTURY POETRY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MASONS FREEMASONRY SCOTLAND NEW OAK KNOLL PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY, TWENTIETH CENTURY]

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Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown: PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA, Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1983
First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing, including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together, the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850," "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776," "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century Virginia," "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," "Early Music Printing and Publishing," Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.

8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages.

[KW: 0912296550 UNITED STATES OAK KNOLL PRESS HENCH, JOHN B. HALL, DAVID D. BROWN, RICHARD D. AASOCIETY BOOK SELLING, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BOOK SELLING, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BOOK SELLING, NINETEENTH CENTURY PRINTING HISTORY, SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PRINTING HISTORY, EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PRINTING HISTORY, NINETEENTH CENTURY NEW]

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