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Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom

Western Hostility to Islam and Prophecies of Turkish Doom (Memoir 201)

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Memoir 201The tall tales of medieval pilgrims & the incitements of crusading preachers contributed their share to the hatred of Islam nurtured in most Christian hearts during the middle ages. Ridiculous legends grew up in the West relating to Mohammed, the stock in trade of preachers, who were always willing to inform their listeners about the origin of the Prophet & the nature of Islam. Pious Christians were usually assured that Mohammed had come to a bad end. Contents of this study: early legends & prophecies; Christian hopes for the undoing of Islam; Bartholomaeus Georgievicz & the “Red Apple”; & Translations of the Koran & Increasing Tolerance of Islam. Illus.

Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the French Revolution: The Ami du Roi of the Abbe Royou (Memoir 198)

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Memoir 198
Harvey Chisick wrote this study after he came across the documents that form the heart of this study, the subscription lists to the the newspaper the “Ami du Roi”, by accident while working on a a comparative study of the “Anne Litteraire” & “Journal Encyclopedique.” Contents of this vol.: The Periodical Press in the 18th Century; The Short, Unhappy & Principled Career of the “Ami du Roi” of the Abbe Royou; The Production & Distribution of the “Ami du Roi”; The Office of the “Ami du Roi” as a Center for the Dissemination of Pamphlet Literature; The Subscribers to the “Ami du Roi”: Geographical Distribution, Gender & Collective Subscriptions; The Subscribers of the “Ami du Roi”: Status & Occupation; The Enlightenment & Counter-Revolution: The Contract Founding the “Ami du Roi”; Classification of Subscribers to the “Ami du Roi”; & Bibliography.

Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture

Benjamin Franklin in American Thought and Culture, 1790-1990 (Memoir 211)

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Memoir 211
An exploration of Benjamin Franklin’s diverse legacies in American life from 1790, the year of his death, to 1990. This book also focuses on the intricate relations between the functions of images & perceptions in society on the one hand & the changing social & cultural conditons that have constantly affected the alterations of those images & perceptions on the other. Includes a Selected Bibliography. Illus.

Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia

Typhoid and the Politics of Public Health in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Memoir 179)

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Memoir 179
This is the story of how Phila. got safe drinking water--or safe so far as the medical standards of the time were concerned, the major culprit in the 19th century being typhoid. Typhoid frightened the urbanizing world of the late 19th century. A virulent micro-organism that attacks the intestinal tract, in most cases it spreads when the excreta of an ill person get into the water supply. Phila. was suuffering from a typhoid epidemic when a terrible snowstorm hit in Feb. 1899. The disease struck every ward in the city--wealthy & poor alike suffered since infected river water made its way through the entire system. Phila. public health officials, the major & common council recognized that the city’s pumping stations required new filtration systems, but the select council killed the bill. Thanks to episodes like this in other civic affairs, Phila. suffered from a poor reputation for being, in Lincoln Steffens’ words, “corrupt & contented.” This negative view of the city’s performance around the turn of the century is still prevalent. This study takes another look at the people who were trying to solve the public health crisis. It also explores the problem of typhoid from the viewpoint of professionals in the emerging field of public health, beginning with the early years of the Phila. water works. Illus.

Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth

Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek “Stadion” (Memoir 206)

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Memoir 206
This work is a study of the origins of the ancient Greek stadium, especially with regard to the archaeological evidence from the Archaic & Classical sites of Corinth, Isthmia, Halieis & Olympia. The earliest remains of the Greek “stadion” come from the Peloponnesos, a region of southern Greece, although the architectural structure eventually became well known all over the Greek & Roman world. The author also includes the ancient evidence for the initial appearance of the world “stadion” in the Greek language & its early use in the 6th & 5th centuries B.C. The primary component of this work is the most recent archaeological research from Ancient Corinth concerning the Archaic “dromos” & the Early Classical starting line & its significance for the study of Greek & Roman athletics, as well as the understanding of early Greek mathematics. Illus.

Providential Anti-Semitism: Nationalism and Polity in Nineteenth-Century Romania (Memoir 193)

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Memoir 193
This vol. discusses how modernization & the birth of the nation state, with the concomitant impact of Western ideas, gave birth to a significantly different form of anti-Semitism in Romania. This type, though on occasion extraordinarily savage & marked by a self-serving disingenuousness, definted its national goals in a limited manner. That it did so would be critical in the 20th century for the survival of almost half a million Romanian Jews. Its unusual character would be hidden from view in most instances by a brutality of execution that has led observers over the course of the last hundred years or so to focus on the style rather than substance of what happened. For whatever reasons, base or noble, the Romanians did not cooperate in the full execution of the Final Solution as the Nazis wanted & expected them to do. As they had done in the 19th century, the Romanians attempted to counterpoise Great Power interests & thereby pursue their own self-interest whenever the Jewish Question came into play.

American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society

Supplement to A Guide to Manuscripts Relating to the American Indian in the Library of the American Philosophical Society (Memoir 65S)

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Memoir 65S)

Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit

Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 1 & 2) (Memoir 81)

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Memoir 81
The first installment: provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or mathematics & mathematical astronomy, & samhita or divination. The related fields to which attention is paid in this study are cosmology & geography (largely of the Jainas) & those aspects of dharmasastra that involve the determination of the proper times for the performance of ritual acts. This vol. contains in their initial form the list of abbrev. of journals & series, the biblio., the list of mss. catalogues, & the articles concerning authors whose names begin with a, i, u, r, l, e ai, o, & au.

Woolsey Sisters of New York: A Family’s Involvement in the Civil War and a New Profession (1860-1900) (Memoir 85)

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Memoir 85
The three Woolsey Sisters, Abby, Jane, & Georgeanna, were pioneers in the development of nursing service & education after the Civil War. In her research, author Anne L. Austin discovered that nursing was but one of the fields of social welfare in which these remarkable women were leaders. Because the private lives of such pioneers have an important relation to their public activities, Austin felt that the story would best be told in the family setting. Generations of the Woolsey family & its collateral branches were notable in the U.S. beginning in the 17th century. This narrative is concerned primarily with Abby, Jane, & Georgeanna, three of the eight children of Charles William & Jane Eliza (Newton) Woolsey, who lived in N.Y. before, during, & after the Civil War. Throughout the war, under the auspices of the U.S. Sanitary Commission, these three women did important work for the Union on behalf of the wounded. Later, in civil life, they became leaders in promoting programs of social welfare, nursing education, & hospital nursing service, & one of them was a pioneer in the education of Negroes. Illus.

French Perceptions of the Early American Republic

French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793

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Memoir 180
In this study Peter P. Hill contends that French officials in the postwar decade had already perceived a deep-rooted Am. indifference, even hostility, to a number of vital French nat. interests. In the foreground of worse relations to come, the author examines the harsh disappointments & frustrations these officials experienced in their dealings with Americans in the 1780s, whether on the high seas, or in U.S. courts & customs houses, in the halls of Congress, or in their encounters with Am. attitudes. These essays add to what is already known, in a general way, about France’s difficulties with the U.S. in this era. Not so well known, however, are: how French officials perceived these problems; what solutions they sought; or how keenly frustrated they became when, despite Amerf. protestations of gratitude for French assistance during the war for independence, they found self-interested Americans unwilling to heed the least claims of an erstwhile ally. Hill’s account of these & other aspects of early alimentation between the two countries adds an important chapter to the history of a relatively unexplored era of Franco-Amer. relations.