Table of Contents: “…Russian Background, II: Freemasonry and Esotericism --…”
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Table of Contents: “…Freeze -- An eighteenth-century Russian merchant family in prosperity and decline / David L. Ransel -- Freemasonry and the public in eighteenth-century Russia / Douglas Smith -- Constructing the meaning of suicide: the Russian press in the age of the great reforms / Irina Paperno.…”

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Table of Contents: “…American archetypes : what some great novels tell us about ourselves -- Saint George and the dragon : the original spirits of English expansion -- Planters, patroons, and puritans : the Chesapeake, New Netherlands, and New England, 1607-1660 -- Barbadians, Yorkers, and Quakers : the Carolinas, Middle Colonies, and New England, 1660-1689 -- Papists, witches, scofflaws, and preachers : colonists at war, business, and prayer, 1689-1740 -- Germans, four sorts of Britons, and Africans : peoples and cultures of the thirteen colonies to 1750 -- Soldiers, speculators, and savages : the French and Indian Wars turn Britain into the enemy, 1740-1763 -- Sons of Liberty and "two-bottle" tyrants : why independence became an imperative, 1763-1775 -- Patriots, Tories, slackers, and spies : the not-so-United States, hustling to be born, 1776-1783 -- Federalists, antis, vestals, and victims : the brilliant coups that begat the Constitution, 1783-1790 -- Master builders, party men, and a rogue : freemasonry, republicanism, and America's future, 1791-1800 -- Reluctant nationalists, eager imperialists : having fashioned a state, Americans turn into a nation, 1801-1815 -- Engineers, pioneers, peddlers, and Democrats : the rise of the West, 1816-1828 -- Travelers : apotheosis and apocalypse in American culture, c. 1830.…”

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Table of Contents: “…The new "mosaik" : Jews and European culture, 1750-1940 / David Sorkin -- The politics of Jewish historiography / Michael Brenner -- "The first shall be the last" : the rise and development of modern Jewish historiography in the Netherlands until 1940 / Rena Fuks-Mansfeld -- Epigones and identity : Jewish scholarship in the Netherlands, 1850-1940 / Irene Zwiep -- Judaism on display : the origins of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum / Julie-Marthe Cohen -- De vrijdagavond as a mirror of Dutch Jewry in the Interbellum, 1924-1932 / Judith Frishman -- "Holland is a country which provokes serious reflection--" : images of Dutch Jewry in the German Jewish press / Thomas Kollatz -- Spinozism and Dutch Jewry between 1880 and 1940 / Henri Krop -- Spinoza's popularity in perspective : a Dutch-German comparison / David Wertheim -- Mozes Salomon Polak : Jewish "Lerner" and propagator of freemasonry, spiritualism, and theosophy / Marty Bax -- Jewish women, philanthropy, and modernization : the changing roles of Jewish women in modern Europe, 1850-1939 / Susan L. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Mathematics and astronomy -- Mathematical and geometrical problems -- Mathematical and geometrical problems -- Problems in geodesy or surveying, and projection in vertical and horizontal planes -- Mathematical and surveying instruments -- Illustrating theories, forces, and phenomena of the solar system -- Various planetary systems -- Celestial bodies -- Seasons and other phenomena of the spheres -- Illustrating phases of the earth's moon and orbits of the earth and various moons -- Beer and Madler's map of the moon -- Map of the northern heavens -- Map of the southern heavens -- Planet sizes and various phenomena -- Astronomical instruments -- Physics and meteorology -- Theories of force and gravity: demonstrations of these and other physical laws -- Illustrating theories of dynamics and other physical laws -- Theories and instruments of hydraulics and aerodynamics -- Theories and instruments of mechanics, thermodynamics, and acoustics -- Theories and instruments of electricity and magnetics -- Theories and instruments of optics -- Sun rays, winds, precipitation, and condensation phenomena -- Phenomena of condensation and air currents -- Cloud formation and light refraction -- Phenomena of clouds and light -- Meteorological elements and instruments -- Climate and weather charts -- Rainfall and temperature map; temperature charts -- Chemistry, mineralogy, and geology -- Chemical laboratory, apparatus, and equipment -- Chemical apparatus and equipment -- Forms of crystallization -- Minerals and crystalline forms -- Fossils and representation of animals of the Lias -- Section of the Wirksworth Cave and fossils -- Fossils, a skeleton, and veins of ore -- Fossils and skeletons -- Fossils, skeletons, and tracks -- Fossils from various periods -- Rock and valley formations and stratification -- Stratification in mountains and basins; fissures and craters -- Volcanoes and volcanic formations -- Special goegnosy -- Volcanic and hurricane charts; mountain profiles; craters; and Antarctica -- Boring equipment; stratification and artesian wells -- Notable geological formations -- Volcanoes, geysers, and water falls -- Forests, lakes, caves, and unusual rock formations -- Caves, icebergs, lava, and rock formations --Cave and rock formations -- Botany -- Representatives of the algae, fungi, bryophyta, polypodiophyta and other nonflowering plants -- Fig tree, aquatic flowering plants, and representatives of the families gramineae and cyperaceae -- Habitat grouping and reproductive parts of various woody monocots, especially palms and cycads -- Representatives of the monocot order liliales -- Aromatic plants -- Cultivated plants from diverse familes: ornamental, edible, or medicinal -- Members of the acanthus, olive, verbena, mint, figwort and nightshade families -- Plants of several families which contain toxic compounds, especially of the order polemoniales -- Plants with a resinous or milky sap -- Plants brewed as teas and representatives of the umbelliferae, some poisonous -- Cultivated plants of the ranunculaceae and other families -- Various plants of economic importance, including tea, wine grape, cotton and cacao -- Cultivated plants of many families, mostly ornamental -- Plants indigenous to sandy or rocky soil, a sandalwood, and representatives of the order myrtales -- Lythrum and representatives of the order rosales -- Various plants, including members of the sumac, spurge and gourd families -- Coniferous gymnosperms, and angiosperms of the mulberry, pepper, beech and witch hazel families -- Maps and charts of plant distribution -- Zoology -- Classification -- Insects -- Reptiles -- Amphibians -- Chart of the migrations of fishes and birds -- Mammals -- Anthropology and surgery -- Varieties of mankind -- The psychological relations of the brain (phrenology) -- The bones of the head -- Anatomy of the bones -- Anatomy of the ligaments and muscles -- Anatomy of the organs -- Anatomy of the eye -- Anatomy of the ear and nose -- Anatomy of the vascular system -- Anatomy of the brain and nerves -- Various surgical operations -- Various surgical instruments -- Geography and planography -- Glossary to the geographical maps -- Maps of the world -- The kingdom of Alexander the Great -- Europe in the time of Charlemagne -- Europe at the time of the Crusades -- The railroads of Central Europe -- History and ethnology -- Tombs and funerary objects -- Grecian costumes -- Grecian games -- Tombs, urns, and coins -- Details frm the Circensian games -- Roman furniture and tools -- Roman tombs, sarcophagi, and artifacts -- Catacombs, churches, anhd chapels -- Costumes of central Europe -- Armor and tournaments -- Different modes of combat -- Becoming a knight -- Crowns and shields -- Coats of arms -- The Inquisition -- Members of various religious and military orders -- Freemasonry -- Hawking and Crusaders -- Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Church of St. …”