This discussion of the microform publication of primary source material focuses on the area of British history between 1450 and 1750. The efforts of University Microfilms International and Harvester Press Microforms Ltd. are reviewed, and a possible microform series of material from this period is suggested. Four references are listed. (MES)

St. Thomas Aquinas's account of the nature of the soul and its relation to the body is discussed, and objections this account must overcome if it is to be acceptable are examined. (RM)

Viewed within a context of Orwell's 1984," the author's visit to East Germany, and particularly to the Museum for German History, revealed the efforts of an authoritarian regime to manipulate the thoughts and directions of that society to its own advantage. (JB)

Describing the emergence of the first shipbuilding texts, particularly those in English provides another chapter in the story of the emergence of English technical writing. Shipwrightery texts did not appear in English until the middle decades of the seventeenth century because shipwrightery was a closed discourse community which shared knowledge…

Working from a feminist/critical cultural studies perspective, which perceives culture and society as imbued with political tensions, I pose two central questions in this article. First, how can community-based, consumer activism be understood as a strategy adopted by marginalised groups to assert rights claims? I focus on British women's…

In this essay, I seek to read the rhetorical theories set forth by Belgians Chaim Perelman and Paul de Man as responses to the Holocaust. To accomplish this aspiration, I draw from Dominick LaCapra's framework for the analysis of trauma and its expression in historical and theoretical texts. Reading the rhetorical theories of Perelman and de Man,…

It was not until the turn of the twelfth century that a debate arose in which the relative merits of poetry and prose for the expression of historical truth were weighed. Poetry was found lacking and prose acknowledged as the only proper language of historical truth in the Middle Ages. (RM)

This case study traces the life of a London immigrant, John Lambarde, from his days as an apprentice to his success as a wealthy freeman, particularly in the early Tudor period. The financial records of the Lambardes were used to compile the case study. (RM)

The historical experience of France exemplified an international factor uncontainable by national boundaries. (Author/KM)

A classic example of what can occur when a government bases a policy, not on the political, military, and economic considerations of national interest, but on an ideological base like a religious crusade. A contribution to failure in Russia. (Author/SE)

This study attempts to trace and evaluate the contributions to Forben's press made by men of the academic community at Basel. (Author)

Brief historical account setting forth the manner of fusion of a number of races to become the British, and the significant part played by the very first Prince of Wales in initiating this process. (RJ)

Presents an analysis of the three periods of active interest in the German Peasant Revolt of 1524-26. Interpretive issues in the writings from the periods immediately surrounding the event, the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and after 1960 are considered. (AM)

Discusses political and natural history of Hawaii. (15 references) (JRH)