12 books found
by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith
2021 · Macmillan Higher Education
The Making of the West has all of the tools students need to understand the cross-cultural, global exchanges that shaped Western history.
by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith
2012 · Macmillan Higher Education
With a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context, The Making of the West: A Concise History tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped Western history. This author-abridged version of the parent text offers the flexibility of a brief book along with a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options, including a free sourcebook. The result is a brief book that, in addition to being an excellent price, is an excellent value.
by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, Bonnie G. Smith
2018 · Macmillan Higher Education
The Making of the West features a chronological narrative that offers a truly global context and tells the story of the cross-cultural exchanges that have shaped western history. This brief book includes a full-color map and art program and comprehensive supplement options. The result is a brief book that is an excellent price and an outstanding value.
A contemporary examination of the growth of Southern Pacific in the 1890's and argues for competiton against high railroad freight rates. Describes the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad's formation as an alternative for travel to the Central Valley. Includes chapters on other notable San Francisco enterprises and associations of the era, and lists members of the Traffic Association of California as well as stockholders of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railway or "People's Railroad," as these holders were from all economic levels.
by L. Allison Wilmer, James H. Jarrett, Geo. W. F. Vernon
1899
In The Americanization of the Apocalypse: Creating America's Own Bible Donald Harman Akenson examines the creation and spread of Dispensationalism, a belief system that produced The Scofield Reference Bible, the ur-text of American apocalyptic evangelicalism.
Apocalyptic millennialism is one of the most powerful strands in evangelical Christianity. It is not a single belief, but across many powerful evangelical groups there is general adhesion to faith in the physical return of Jesus in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture heavenward of "saved" believers, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints and, eventually, a final judgement and entry into deep eternity. In Discovering the End of Time (2016) Donald Harman Akenson traced the emergence of the primary packaging of modern apocalyptic millennialism back to southern Ireland in the 1820s and '30s. In Exporting the Rapture, he documents for the first time how the complex theological construction that has come to dominate modern evangelical thought was enhulled in an organizational system that made it exportable from the British Isles to North America-- and subsequently around the world. A key figure in this process was John Nelson Darby who was at first a formative influence on evangelical apocalypticism in Ireland; then the volatile central figure in Brethren apocalypticism throughout the British Isles; and also a crusty but ultimately very successful missionary to the United States and Canada. Akenson emphasizes that, as strong a personality as John Nelson Darby was, the real story is that he became a vector for the transmission of a terrifically complex and highly seductive ideological system from the old world to the new. So beguiling, adaptable, and compelling was the new Dispensational system that Darby injected into North-American evangelicalism that it continued to spread logarithmically after his death. By the 1920s, the system had become the doctrinal template of the fundamentalist branch of North-American evangelicalism and the distinguishing characteristic of the bestselling Scofield Bible.