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A collection of essays examining transatlantic Quakerism in the eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with worldly affairs.

Examines crucial concerns in palliative care, including the proper balance between comfort and cure for the patient, the integration of spiritual well-being, and the challenges of providing care in the absence of basic medical services and supplies.

Explores stereotyping and electrotyping in U.S. literature and history. Examines how printers, typefounders, authors, and publishers managed the transition as new technologies displaced printing traditions of the early nineteenth century.

Gary B. Nash was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of numerous books, including Warner Mifflin: Unflinching Quaker Abolitionist, a biography of Anne Emlen Mifflin's husband. Emily M. Teipe is Professor Emerita of History at Fullerton College. Among her many publications are A Feminist Primer: Readings for Women's Studies and Different Voices: Women in United States History.

A collection of essays by scholars of eighteenth-century literature, sharing their experiences as both producers and users of explanatory annotations.

Examines the relationship between imperial Germany and its empire in southwest Africa (present-day Namibia), exploring how Africans confronted foreign rule and altered German national identity between 1842 and 1915.

Explores how gender, socioeconomic status, and religious identity shaped the lives and work of Jewish and Christian women in medieval Catalan cities.

Explores the diverse views of Jules Michelet, Thomas Hobbes, and Seneca on the extralegal aspects of sovereign prerogative power, often associated with grace, favor, leniency, and pardons.

Focuses on the ways in which Christianity has become an integral part of Xiamen, a southeastern Chinese city profoundly influenced by western missionaries. Illustrates the complexities of memory and mission in shaping the city's cultural landscape, church-state dynamics, and global aspirations.

A collection of essays exploring the variety and complexity of biblical interpretation and practice among early awakened Protestants, providing insight into the history of the Bible and the entangled religious cultures of the eighteenth-century North Atlantic world.

This volume presents an editied version of Thomas Reid's "Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man" (1785), together with evidence relating to the original text's composition.

Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, the author examines the political, structural, ideological and personal factors that allowed many Latin American women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities.