This volume is one of a series of handbooks prepared by Foreign Area Studies (FAS) of The American University, designed to be useful to military and other personnel who need a convenient compilation of basic facts about the social, economic, political, and military institu- tions and practices of various countries. The emphasis is on objective description of the nation's present society and the…
Ance 02/10/24
Asm 25/09/24
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born on Palm Sunday, 14 April 1889, in his great uncle's house near Paddington station, London. His name was a burden in itself, commemorating, as it did, the infant's famous uncle, Arnold, and his spectacularly successful grandfather, Joseph. The burden became the greater as his father's career faltered, focusing his mother's hopes and aspirations more and more on her…
Ance 20/09/24
For some time I have been interested in the changing fortunes of the adjective old-fashioned. I find it significant that this adjective has by now shed all of its pejorative associations. For example, the Oxford English Dictionary shows that a century ago old-fashioned had a wide currency in the sense of a child having the ways of a grown-up person, hence, precocious, knowing." Dickens would ha…
rst 02/07/24
when we first planned the volumes for the ford humanities project at pricenton we set as our goal a series of essays that would be contributions to that part of american intelectual history which has to do with humanistic scholarship" the present volume is such a contributions and more to. for it apperas that historical scholarship occupies so central and commanding a position in america today …
rst 04/07/24