Record Book of St. Paul's (III) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, Pennsylvania
Title | Record Book of St. Paul's (III) Evangelical Lutheran Church of Easton, Pennsylvania PDF eBook |
Author | St. Paul's (III) Evangelical Lutheran Church (Easton, Pa.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 43 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | Church records and registers |
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The Maryland Germans
Title | The Maryland Germans PDF eBook |
Author | Dieter Cunz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | German Americans |
ISBN | 9780897259569 |
The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870
Title | The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870 PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas O'Flynn |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 1141 |
Release | 2017-08-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004313540 |
Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award In The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870, Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia embarked on an expansionist campaign reaching to the Caucasus. Simultaneously he charts the relationship between the new Persian dynasty of the Qājārs and missionary activity on the part of European and American missionaries. This book reconstructs that world from a predominantly religious perspective. It recounts the sustaining ideals as well as the everyday struggles of the western missionaries, Protestant (Scottish, Basel and American Congregationalist) and Catholic (Jesuit and Vincentian). It looks at the reactions of diverse tribal peoples, the Tatars of the North Caucasus, the Kabardians and Circassians. Persia was the ultimate goal of these missionaries, which they eventually reached in the 1820s. Altogether this study throws light on the troubled course of history in West Asia and provides the background to politico-religious conflicts in Chechnya and Persia that persist to the present day.
The End and the Beginning
Title | The End and the Beginning PDF eBook |
Author | Hermynia Zur Mühlen |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1906924279 |
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Handbook of Palestine
Title | The Handbook of Palestine PDF eBook |
Author | Sir Harry Luke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Eretz Israel |
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Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby
Title | Descendants of Bartholomew Jacoby PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Eaton Jacoby Evard |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1955 |
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The Registers of the Parish Church of Rochdale
Title | The Registers of the Parish Church of Rochdale PDF eBook |
Author | Rochdale |
Publisher | |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Registers of births, etc |
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