Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: north, pole, quest, ninety, degrees
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2003-10-13
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 080214036X
ISBN-13: 9780802140364

In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to find out. In scintillating detail, Ninety Degrees North tells of the vying governments (including the United States, Britain, Germany, and Austria-Hungary) and fantastic eccentrics (from Swedish balloonists to Italian aristocrats) who, despite their heroic failures, often achieved massive celebrity as they battled shipwreck, starvati

Author: Fergus Fleming
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: north, pole, quest, ninety, degrees
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 2002-10
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0802117252
ISBN-13: 9780802117250

Fergus Fleming’s captivating histories have taken us to the Alps, to the high seas, and to the heights of human endeavor. Now the acclaimed author of Barrow’s Boys and Killing Dragons -- a New York Times Notable Book -- relates the epic story of the men who stopped at nothing to unravel the mysteries of the North Pole. In the nineteenth century, theories about the North Pole ran rampant. Was it an open sea? Was it a portal to new worlds within the globe? Or was it just a wilderness of ice? When Sir John Franklin disappeared in the Arctic in 1845, explorers decided it was time to fi

Author: Jan Fergus
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: england, century, eighteenth, readers, provincial
Number of Pages: 326
Published: 2007-03-29
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0199297827
ISBN-13: 9780199297825

Many scholars have written about eighteenth-century English novels, but no one really knows who read them. This study provides historical data on the provincial reading publics for various forms of fiction--novels, plays, chapbooks, children’s books, and magazines. Archival records of Midland booksellers based in five market towns and selling printed matter to over thirty-three hundred customers between 1744 and 1807 form the basis for new information about who actually bought and borrowed different kinds of fiction in eighteenth-century provincial England. This book thus offers the firs

Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: rome, roman, empire, studies, greece, history, culture, society, greek, world, east, volume, government
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2004-06-28
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0807855200
ISBN-13: 9780807855201

Fergus Millar is one of the most influential contemporary historians of the ancient world. His essays and books, above all The Emperor in the Roman World and The Roman Near East, have transformed our understanding of the communal culture and civil government of the Greco-Roman world. This second volume of the three-volume collection of Millar’s published essays draws together twenty of his classic pieces on the government, society, and culture of the Roman Empire (some of them published in inaccessible journals). Every article in Volume 2 addresses the themes of how the Roman Empire work

Author: Fergus Millar
Publisher: University of California Pre
Keywords: sather, classical, lectures, theodosius, belief, roman, empire, power, greek
Number of Pages: 306
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0520253914
ISBN-13: 9780520253919

In the first half of the fifth century, the Latin-speaking part of the Roman Empire suffered vast losses of territory to barbarian invaders. But in the Greek-speaking half of the Eastern Mediterranean, with its capital at Constantinople, there was a stable and successful system, using Latin as its official language, but communicating with its subjects in Greek. This book takes an inside look at how this system worked in the long reign of the pious Christian Emperor Theodosius II (408-50), and analyzes its largely successful defense of its frontiers, its internal coherence, and its relations wi

Author: Fergus Kerr
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: theologians, catholic, century, twentieth
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-01-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1405120843
ISBN-13: 9781405120845

This book reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. A new book from one of the foremost Roman Catholic theologians currently writing in English Reports on the lives and works of the most influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century Covers theologians including: Chenu, the guru of the French worker priest movement; Congar who was imprisoned in Colditz; and Küng who was banned from teaching for decades because of his radical views Highlights the involvement of each theologian with the Second Vatica

Author: Fergus Kerr
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: short, introductions, introduction, thomas, aquinas
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-11-30
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0199556644
ISBN-13: 9780199556649

Thomas Aquinas is one of the giants of medieval philosophy, a thinker who had--and who still has--a profound influence on Western thought. Aquinas was a controversial figure in his time who was often engaged in fierce theological debates. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. This Very Short Introduction will look at Aquinas in a historical context, and explore the Church and culture into which Aquinas was born. It will consider Aquinas as philosopher and theologian, and will look at the relationship betw