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Edward Gibbon Wakefield : the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand
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Year: 1898 Publisher: London : T. F. Unwin,

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield; : the colonization of South Australia and New Zealand
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Year: 1898 Publisher: London : T. F. Unwin,

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The Founders of Canterbury : Being Letters from the Late Edward Gibbon Wakefield to the Late John Robert Godley, and to Other Well-Known Helpers in the Foundation of the Settlement of Canterbury in New Zealand
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ISBN: 113910912X 1108039936 Year: 1868 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862) was a colonial advocate and political theorist, who was influential in the early colonisation of New Zealand and South Australia. Wakefield read widely on contemporary economics and social questions, and his theory of colonisation helped shape the British Empire. He formed the New Zealand Association in 1837 to create a new colony in that country, finally emigrating himself in 1852. His son, the editor of this volume of letters, was appointed secretary of the first settler expedition to New Zealand in 1839, and was elected political representative for Canterbury in 1854. The letters in the volume, published in 1868, which span the period 1847-50, trace the history of the town of Canterbury from Wakefield senior's suggestion of church-led settlement in the 1840s to its foundation in 1850-1. A planned second volume was never published.


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Auswanderungen und Colonisation : mit besonderem Hinblick auf die von der Deutschen Colonisatione-Gesellschaft beabsichtigte Begründung ihrer ersten Colonie auf den Chatham-Inseln : nebst der neuesten Charte derselben und Ansicht der Waitangui-Bay : mit einem Anhange, enthaltend die Entwickelung des Wakefieldschen Systems, die Bilancen der Neuseeland-Compagnie, und ein Schema der nöthigen Diäten für Auswanderer
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Year: 1842 Publisher: Hamburg Perthes-Besser & Mauke


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Naïve readings
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ISBN: 022635332X 9780226353326 9780226353296 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago London

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One sure fact of humanity is that we all cherish our opinions and will often strongly resist efforts by others to change them. Philosophers and politicians have long understood this, and whenever they have sought to get us to think differently they have often resorted to forms of camouflage that slip their unsettling thoughts into our psyche without raising alarm. In this fascinating examination of a range of writers and thinkers, Ralph Lerner offers a new method of reading that detects this camouflage and offers a way toward deeper understandings of some of history's most important-and most concealed-messages. Lerner analyzes an astonishing diversity of writers, including Francis Bacon, Benjamin Franklin, Edward Gibbon, Judah Halevi, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Moses Maimonides, and Alexis de Tocqueville. He shows that by reading their words slowly and naïvely, with wide-open eyes and special attention for moments of writing that become self-conscious, impassioned, or idiosyncratic, we can begin to see a pattern that illuminates a thinker's intent, new messages purposively executed through indirect means. Through these experimental readings, Lerner shows, we can see a deep commonality across writers from disparate times and situations, one that finds them artfully challenging others to reject passivity and fatalism and start thinking afresh.


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De begrafenis van God : de ondergang van het geloof in de westerse beschaving
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ISBN: 9053338896 Year: 2000 Publisher: Amsterdam Prometheus


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Before and after Muhammad : the first millennium refocused
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ISBN: 0691158533 1306081785 1400848164 9780691158532 0691168407 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth century. Before and After Muhammad suggests a new way of thinking about the historical relationship between the scriptural monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian history. Garth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium--from Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna--as the proper chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia. Fowden proposes not just a chronological expansion of late Antiquity but also an eastward shift in the geographical frame to embrace Iran. In Before and After Muhammad, Fowden looks at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alongside other important developments in Greek philosophy and Roman law, to reveal how the First Millennium was bound together by diverse exegetical traditions that nurtured communities and often stimulated each other.

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Civilization, Ancient. --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Frühmittelalter. --- Islam. --- Islamic civilization. --- Monotheism --- Periodisierung. --- Religion and civilization --- Spätantike. --- History --- Eurasia --- History. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Civilization, Ancient --- Islamic civilization --- Civilisation médiévale --- Civilisation ancienne --- Religion et civilisation --- Civilisation islamique --- Islamic influences --- Influence islamique --- Religions. --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Abbasids. --- Achaemenids. --- Alois Riegl. --- America. --- Aristotelianism. --- Aristotle. --- Asia. --- Baghdad. --- Basra. --- Brethren of Purity. --- Christian Bible. --- Christian Rome. --- Christianity. --- East Rome. --- Edward Gibbon. --- Eurasia. --- Eurasian Hinge. --- Europe. --- First Millennium. --- Greece. --- Greek philosophy. --- Henri Pirenne. --- Ibn Sīnā. --- Iran. --- Josef Strzygowski. --- Judaism. --- Justinianic code. --- Latin Europe. --- Manicheism. --- Mazdaism. --- Mediterranean. --- Mountain Arena. --- Muhammad. --- North America. --- Peter Brown. --- Pisa. --- Qur'āan. --- Roman law. --- Tūs. --- Umayyads. --- archaeology. --- architectural history. --- art. --- commonwealths. --- empires. --- exegesis. --- late Antiquity. --- late antique studies. --- monotheism. --- patristic Christianity. --- philosophy. --- rabbinic Judaism. --- salvation. --- translation. --- To 1500 --- Asia --- Europe

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