Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.

The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

History

Pines, Shlomo

Moses Maimonides

Leo Strauss

Americas

University of Chicago Press

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Several articles re-published in the first part of the present volume deal with texts of Greek authors that have been preserved in an Arabic version, their Greek originals having been lost. Three papers in the present volume deal with subjects relating to the works of Aristotle. Two articles have been published for the first time in the present volume. Part 2 of this volume includes two general articles on some characteristics of Arabic science.

Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Mediaeval Science: 2. Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Mediaeval Science

BRILL

This volume covers some fifty years of Pines' work in the field of Islamic philosophy, from the very first article he published ("Some Problems of Islamic Philosophy", in 1937) to an article that was found in his paper after his death and is published here for the first time ("The origin of the Tale of Salâmân and Absâl").

Studies in the History of Arabic Philosophy: The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines

Hebrew University Magnes Press

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The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 1

Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Mediaeval Science: 2. Studies in Arabic Versions of Greek Texts and in Mediaeval Science

Studies in the History of Arabic Philosophy: The Collected Works of Shlomo Pines