Slave Systems of Greek and Roman Antiquity (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Westermann, W L

Philosophy

American Philosophical Society Press

Science and Society in Early America: Essays in Honor of Whitfield J. Bell, Jr., Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 166) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Literature & Fiction

United States

French Perceptions of the Early American Republic, 1783-1793: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 180) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

History

Hill, Peter P.

Americas

Philadelphia 1991 American Philosophical Society. Sm4to., 418pp., photos, index. Tropical medicine, doctor in the Congo. VG, plus in Good DJ.

In the Shade of an Acacia Tree: Memoirs of a Health Officer in Africa, 1945-1959, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 194) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Lambrecht, Frank L.

There are no surviving documents that explain Michelangelo's complex sculptural program for the Medici Chapel. The work as we have it is no more than an unfinished, fragmentary realization of the artist's original conception. Speculation about its meaning began quite early, for Michelangelo's contemporaries were apparently no better informed than we. An interpretation made by Benedetto Varchi in 1549 and since universally accepted, was by his own admission a personal opinion, not confirmed by the artist. In the sixteenth century, interpretations quite at variance with modern scholarly assumptions were made: for example, a German visitor of 1536 identified the figures now commonly called "Night" and "Day" as "Minerva" and "Hermes."

Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 216) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Arts & Photography

Balas, Edith

History & Criticism

A history of the early years of the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences, &amp; the life &amp; career of James Bowdoin, the Academy's first president. The strength of the work rests in a combination of its subject matter &amp; execution. The subject matter is both intrinsically interesting &amp; simultaneously neglected. Neither the accomplishments of Bowdoin nor the contributions of the members of the Academy have been adequately studied, &amp; the Manuel's careful exploration is a valuable addition to our understanding of the founding of the nation. Using primary manuscript sources, the work is, by turns, witty, learned, &amp; often simply fascinating. An incomparable account of one of Revolutionary America's most elusive &amp; fascinating figures.

James Bowdoin and the Patriot Philosophers: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 247) (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society)

Biographies & Memoirs

Manuel, Frank E.

Professionals & Academics

Virtuous Pagan in Middle English Literature: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 79, Part 5) (Transactions Series/No. 79.5)

Vitto, Cindy L.

British & Irish

Garcia-Ballester, Luis, McVaugh, Michael R., Rubio, Agustin

Medical Licensing & Learning in 14th Century Valencia (Transactions Ser. ; Vol. 79, Pt. 6)) (English, Catalan and Catalan Edition)

McVaugh, Michael R.

Rubiovela, Agustin

Garcìaballester, Luis

Massawomeck: Raiders and Traders Into the Chesapeake Bay in the Seventeenth Century Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 81, Part 2) (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society)

Pendergast, James F.

This vol. draws together records documenting a little known diplomatic effort to establish peace along the war-torn Appalachian frontier during the spring, summer, & fall of 1760. Assembled here is a representative sample of the council minutes, speeches, letters of correspondence, warrants, inventories, passports, journals, diaries, & other types of records documenting a frontier diplomatic mission of the period. These records reveal something of the range & diversity of documentary materials available to scholars interested in reconstructing diplomatic events along a distant frontier during a critical period of Am. history. Individually, they document political maneuvers & details of everyday life, many of which are recorded nowhere else. Collectively, they provide additional keys to understand better how Indians & colonists shaped a new diplomatic landscape along the Penna. frontier after the Brit. succeeded in breaking French power in N. Am. in 1760.

Journey on the Forbidden Path: Chronicles of a Diplomatic Mission to the Allegheny Country, March-September, 1760 Transactions, American Philosophical ... of the American Philosophical Society,)

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