Glasgow

Glasgow
Title Glasgow PDF eBook
Author Thomas Martin Devine
Publisher Manchester University Press
Pages 456
Release 1995
Genre Glasgow (Scotland)
ISBN 9780719036910

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Reflections on the Astronomy of Glasgow

Reflections on the Astronomy of Glasgow
Title Reflections on the Astronomy of Glasgow PDF eBook
Author David Clarke
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 391
Release 2013-06-15
Genre Science
ISBN 0748678921

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This engrossing and entertaining scientific history includes the story of Glasgow's 'Big Bang' of 1863, the controversy over 'Astronomer Royal for Scotland' and a historical survey of the eight observatories that once populated Glasgow.

The Spectator

The Spectator
Title The Spectator PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 832
Release 1897
Genre
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Classical Education in Britain, 1500-1900

Classical Education in Britain, 1500-1900
Title Classical Education in Britain, 1500-1900 PDF eBook
Author Martin Lowther Clarke
Publisher CUP Archive
Pages 254
Release 1959
Genre Classical education
ISBN

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Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom

Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom
Title Archibald Simpson's Unpeaceable Kingdom PDF eBook
Author Peter N. Moore
Publisher Lexington Books
Pages 253
Release 2018-04-05
Genre History
ISBN 1498569919

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This book draws on the life of Presbyterian minister and diarist Archibald Simpson (1734–1795) to examine the history of evangelical Protestantism in South Carolina and the British Atlantic during the last half of the eighteenth century. Although he grew up in the evangelical heartland of Scotland in the wake of the great mid-century revivals, Simpson spurned revivalism and devoted himself instead to the grinding work of the parish ministry. At age nineteen he immigrated to South Carolina, where he spent the next eighteen years serving slaveholding Reformed congregations in the lowcountry plantation district. Here powerful planters held sway over slaves, families, churches, and communities, and Simpson was constantly embattled as he sought to impose an evangelical order on his parishes. In refusing to put the gospel in the pockets of planters who scorned it—and who were accustomed to controlling their parish churches—he earned their enmity. As a result, every relationship was freighted with deceit and danger, and every practice—sermons, funerals, baptisms, pastoral visits, death narratives, sickness, courtship, friendship, domestic concerns—was contested and politicized. In this context, the cause of the gospel made little headway in Simpson’s corner of the world. Despite the great midcentury revivals, the steady stream of religious dissenters who poured into the province, and all the noise they made about slave conversions, Simpson’s story suggests that there was no evangelical movement in colonial South Carolina, just a tired and frustrating evangelical slog.

Football: The First Hundred Years

Football: The First Hundred Years
Title Football: The First Hundred Years PDF eBook
Author Adrian Harvey
Publisher Routledge
Pages 321
Release 2013-05-13
Genre Sports & Recreation
ISBN 1134269129

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The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. Harvey argues that established football history does not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the 'masses' prior to the adoption of the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and barbaric. This view may require considerable modification in the light of Harvey's research. Football's First One Hundred Years provides a very detailed picture of the football played outside the confines of the public schools, revealing a culture that was every bit as sophisticated and influential as that found within their prestigious walls. Football, The First Hundred Years sets forth a completely revisionist thesis, offering a different perspective on almost every aspect of the established history of the formative years of the game. The book will be of great interest to sports historians and football enthusiasts alike.

Football

Football
Title Football PDF eBook
Author Adrian Harvey
Publisher Psychology Press
Pages 314
Release 2005
Genre Rugby football
ISBN 0415350190

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