Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THE EVENT -- 1 The 'Conquest' of Acadia: Narratives -- PART TWO: PRECURSORS -- 2 Elites, States, and the Imperial Contest for Acadia -- 3 Family and Political Culture in Pre-Conquest Acadia -- PART THREE: AGENCIES -- 4 New England and the Conquest -- 5 Mi'kmaq Decisions: Antoine Tecouenemac, the Conquest, and the Treaty of Utrecht -- 6 Imperialism, Diplomacies, and the Conquest of Acadia -- PART FOUR: TRANSITIONS -- 7 Making a British Nova Scotia…”
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Table of Contents: “…The alluring Pacific ocean -- The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession -- France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht. Visions of Western Louisiana -- Imperial comparisons -- Communication and interpretation -- Restricted pathways -- British Pacific adventures and the early years of the seven years' war. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Part I: The Spanish empire and the elusive West -- Peoples and terrain, difficulties and disappointments -- Exploiting indigenous geographic understanding -- Part II: South sea interlude -- The alluring Pacific ocean -- The Pacific ocean and the war of the Spanish succession -- Part III: France and the elusive West after the treaty of Utrecht -- Visions of Western Louisiana -- Imperial comparisons -- Communication and interpretation -- Restricted pathways -- Part IV: British Pacific adventures and the early years of the seven years' war -- British designs on the Spanish empire, 1713-1748 -- French reactions to the British search for a northwest passage from Hudson Bay and the origins of the seven years' war -- Spanish reactions to British Pacific encroachments, 1750-1757 -- French borderlands encroachments and Spanish neutrality -- Part V: The elusive West and the outcome of the seven years' war -- French geographic conceptions and the 1762 Western Louisiana cession -- Spain's acceptance of Trans-Mississippi Louisiana -- Old visions and new opportunities: Britain and the Spanish empire at the end of the seven years' war.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Family -- The Joys of Young Bartel -- Van der Waerden at Hamburg -- The Story of The Book -- The Theorem on Arithmetic Progressions -- From Göttingen to Groningen -- Transformations of The Book -- The Algebraic Revolution That Produced Just One Book -- On to Germany -- The Dawn of the Nazi Era -- The Princeton Offer -- Eulogy for the Beloved Teacher -- One Faculty Meeting at Leipzig -- A Cloud of Suspicion -- Mathematische Annalen -- Germany Treacherously Invades Holland -- Barrau’s Succession at Utrecht -- A Dream of Göttingen -- “Furniture and Scientific Books” -- Breidablik -- Home, Bittersweet Home -- The New World or Old? …”
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Table of Contents: “…Intro; Introduction; Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen: A European Citizen; X-Rays: A New Era in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy; Röntgen's Biographies; Chronology: The Life of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen; Acknowledgements; Illustration Credits; Contents; 1: Born for Business, Raised for Science (1845-1865); The Röntgen Family; Birth and Early Childhood in Lennep (1845-1848); Youth in Apeldoorn (1848-1862); Living in Utrecht (1862-1865); Dr Jan Willem Gunning and Family; The Technical School (1862-1864); The Utrecht University (1865); 2: A Future in Physics (1865-1875)…”
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Table of Contents: “…Martin van Bruinessen (Utrecht): Between Dersim and Dālahū -- Reflections on Kurdish Alevism and the Ahl-e Ḥaqq ReligionYiannis Kanakis (Exeter): Yāresān Religious Concepts and Ritual Repertoires as Elements of Larger Net-works of Socio-Political 'Heterodoxy' -- Some Thoughts on Yāresān, Shiite and Qizilbash/Bektashi Sources and Symbolism; Cultural Anthropological Analysis ; Jürgen Wasim Frembgen (Munich): Beyond Muslim and Hindu -- Sacred Spaces in the Thar Desert of Pakistan ; Alexandre Papas (Paris): Dog of God: Animality and Wildness among Dervishes…”
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