James Lee Horn

Pietism in Germany and North America 1680-1820

This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly Pietistic groups who migrated from central Europe to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in German speaking lands during the sevent...

Paths of Continuity: Central European Historiography from the 1930s to the 1950s (Publications of the German Historical Institute)

Paths of Continuity examines the impact of the Third Reich on the German historical profession before and after 1945. The essays look at ten prominent historians whose lives and work spanned the period from the 1930s to the 1960s. Their response to the Nazi regime ranged from open resistance to will...

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (New Approaches to European History) by Melton, James Van Horn [2001]

Absolutism and the Eighteenth-Century Origins of Compulsory Schooling in Prussia and Austria

Focusing on the reigns of Frederick the Great of Prussia (1740-86) and Maria Theresa of Austria (1740-80), James Van Horn Melton examines in this book the origins, aims, and achievements of the compulsory school movements in these states. Melton draws on a broad range of sources to show how school r...

The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe (New Approaches to European History)

James Melton's accessible study examines the rise of "the public" in eighteenth-century Europe. Focusing on England, France, and the German-speaking territories, this is the first critical reassessment of what the philosopher JÜrgen Habermas called the "bourgeois public sphere" of the eighteenth cen...

The Community Orchestra: A Handbook for Conductors, Managers, and Boards

"This practical, comprehesive, and well-organized book by an experienced conductor and educator is the very first to concentrate on this type of performing group and its special needs. . . . Valuable appendixes give IRS rulings, suggested auditioning material, addresses of publishers and rental libr...

Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier (Cambridge Studies on the American South)

This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern fron...

Land and Lordship: Structures of Governance in Medieval Austria (Middle Ages Series)

This study contends that prevailing notions of medieval social and constitutional history had been shaped by the 19th-century nation state and its "liberal" order. Where a sharp distinction between the public and the private might be appropriate to descriptions of contemporary society, such a dichot...

Van Horn Mansi

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