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Africa: What it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German pioneer woman in South West Africa / / Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ; translated, edited and introduced by David P. Crandall, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling and Paul Kerry
| Africa: What it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German pioneer woman in South West Africa / / Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ; translated, edited and introduced by David P. Crandall, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling and Paul Kerry |
| Autore | Eckenbrecher Margarethe von <1875-1955, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bethlehem : , : Lehigh University Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina | 968.8103 |
| Soggetto topico |
Germans - Namibia
Women pioneers - Namibia Farmers - Namibia Frontier and pioneer life - Namibia |
| ISBN | 1-61146-151-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Biographical entries -- A reader's introduction -- Book I -- [1] Leaving home -- The first ten days -- Las Palmas -- Monrovia -- Nifu -- Mossamdes -- Port Alexander -- Swakopmund -- The journey to Karibib -- Karibib -- By oxcart from Karibib to Okombahe -- [2] Okombahe -- Something about the natives of the colony -- The activities of the missionaries in the protectorate -- Our first abode -- Worries of a housewife -- Building our home -- Future plans and disappointments -- Cattle raising -- Gui-Gams -- Cultivating a garden -- Experiences and observations -- Spitzkoppies -- [3] Insurrection -- Foreboding weather -- The insurrection begins -- A dangerous ride -- In the fortress -- Under the protection of the Franke Company -- In the barracks at Omaruru -- My return to Germany -- Book II -- A note to my readers -- [1] The new South West -- My return to South West Africa -- Our idealic life in Klein-Windhuk -- [2] How I experienced the First World War -- The impending storm -- The future is foreshadowed in everyday events -- The people of the colony prepare themselves -- Mobilization -- South Africa begins hostilities -- Treachery at Naulila -- Our commander dies -- A punitive expedition to Naulila -- The Baster War -- The Germans must be cleared out -- General Botha occupies Windhuk -- An honorable surrender -- Living under martial law -- [3] South West becomes a League of Nations mandate -- Dissolution? -- Expulsions -- The influenza epidemic of 1918 -- Changes -- New unrest -- The house on the mountain -- Life under mandate rule -- Our German schools -- My sons -- Hunting in the African bush and a return to our home in Okombahe -- From the Brandberg to Franzfontein -- Korichaams -- Etoscha and the Waterberg -- 1934 : the year of torrential rains -- Of diamonds, gold, and other treasures -- A concluding and final word -- Postscript. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Africa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797552203321 |
Eckenbrecher Margarethe von <1875-1955, >
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| Bethlehem : , : Lehigh University Press, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa: What it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German pioneer woman in South West Africa / / Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ; translated, edited and introduced by David P. Crandall, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling and Paul Kerry
| Africa: What it gave me, what it took from me : remembrances from my life as a German pioneer woman in South West Africa / / Margarethe von Eckenbrecher ; translated, edited and introduced by David P. Crandall, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling and Paul Kerry |
| Autore | Eckenbrecher Margarethe von <1875-1955, > |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bethlehem : , : Lehigh University Press, , [2015] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (399 p.) |
| Disciplina | 968.8103 |
| Soggetto topico |
Germans - Namibia
Women pioneers - Namibia Farmers - Namibia Frontier and pioneer life - Namibia |
| ISBN | 1-61146-151-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Biographical entries -- A reader's introduction -- Book I -- [1] Leaving home -- The first ten days -- Las Palmas -- Monrovia -- Nifu -- Mossamdes -- Port Alexander -- Swakopmund -- The journey to Karibib -- Karibib -- By oxcart from Karibib to Okombahe -- [2] Okombahe -- Something about the natives of the colony -- The activities of the missionaries in the protectorate -- Our first abode -- Worries of a housewife -- Building our home -- Future plans and disappointments -- Cattle raising -- Gui-Gams -- Cultivating a garden -- Experiences and observations -- Spitzkoppies -- [3] Insurrection -- Foreboding weather -- The insurrection begins -- A dangerous ride -- In the fortress -- Under the protection of the Franke Company -- In the barracks at Omaruru -- My return to Germany -- Book II -- A note to my readers -- [1] The new South West -- My return to South West Africa -- Our idealic life in Klein-Windhuk -- [2] How I experienced the First World War -- The impending storm -- The future is foreshadowed in everyday events -- The people of the colony prepare themselves -- Mobilization -- South Africa begins hostilities -- Treachery at Naulila -- Our commander dies -- A punitive expedition to Naulila -- The Baster War -- The Germans must be cleared out -- General Botha occupies Windhuk -- An honorable surrender -- Living under martial law -- [3] South West becomes a League of Nations mandate -- Dissolution? -- Expulsions -- The influenza epidemic of 1918 -- Changes -- New unrest -- The house on the mountain -- Life under mandate rule -- Our German schools -- My sons -- Hunting in the African bush and a return to our home in Okombahe -- From the Brandberg to Franzfontein -- Korichaams -- Etoscha and the Waterberg -- 1934 : the year of torrential rains -- Of diamonds, gold, and other treasures -- A concluding and final word -- Postscript. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Africa |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820438503321 |
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Eckenbrecher Margarethe von <1875-1955, >
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| Bethlehem : , : Lehigh University Press, , [2015] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
| Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.3092 |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-61147-770-0
1-61147-029-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453812103321 |
| Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
| Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.3092 |
| ISBN |
1-61147-770-0
1-61147-029-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790937303321 |
| Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland
| Benjamin Franklin's intellectual world / / [edited by] Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.3092 |
| ISBN |
1-61147-770-0
1-61147-029-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more" / Paul E. Kerry and Matthew S. Holland -- Franklin's masks: a play upon possibility / Michael Zuckerman -- Benjamin Franklin unmasked / Jerry Weinberger -- Early modern imperialism, traditions of liberalism, and Franklin's ends of empire / Carla Mulford -- Benjamin Franklin, the mysterious "Charles de Weissenstein," and Britain's failure to coax revolutionary Americans back into the empire / Neil L. York -- Benjamin Franklin, student of the Holy Roman Empire: his summer journey to Germany in 1766 and his interest in the empire's federal constitution / Jürgen Overhoff -- Benjamin Franklin and the leather apron men: the politics of class in eighteenth-century Philadelphia / Simon P. Newman -- Recasting Franklin as printer: a note on recent historiography / Doug Thomas -- Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, and the division of sacred and secular in the age of revolutions / Benjamin E. Park -- Ben Franklin and Socrates / Lorraine Smith Pangle -- From Weimar, with love: Benjamin Franklin's influence on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's self-fashioning / Paul E. Kerry -- Afterword: Benjamin Franklin's material presence in a digital age and popular culture world / Roy E. Goodman. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824811103321 |
| Madison : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment / / editors, Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry
| New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment / / editors, Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Vancouver : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (414 pages) |
| Disciplina | 190.9033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - Religious aspects
Enlightenment - Influence |
| ISBN | 1-68393-162-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795518803321 |
| Vancouver : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment / / editors, Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry
| New approaches to religion and the Enlightenment / / editors, Brett C. McInelly and Paul E. Kerry |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Vancouver : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2018] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (414 pages) |
| Disciplina | 190.9033 |
| Soggetto topico |
Enlightenment - Religious aspects
Enlightenment - Influence |
| ISBN | 1-68393-162-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910819013803321 |
| Vancouver : , : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, , [2018] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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