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Glick, Thomas F. was born on January 28, 1939 in Cleveland. Son of Lester G. and Ruth (Rothstein) Glick.
(This analysis of early Spanish history draws on a wide ra...)
This analysis of early Spanish history draws on a wide range of sources, archaeological as well as written. Thomas F. Glick explores the history of Spain from the Roman province, through the Visigothic and Arab Conquests, to the Christian Reconquest and reorganization of society in the 13th century. The author argues that three key transitions took place in culture and landscape: the development of castles which marked the move from the Spanish "dark" to "middle" age, the transition to feudalism, and finally the transition from Islamic to Christian Spain as a result of the Reconquest. He shows how these transitions reflected wider changes in economy, technology and social organization. The book synthesises a wealth of archaeological research unavailable in English.
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(Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundi...)
Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. This title offers a dictionary of quotations that presents the observations about Darwin and his ideas. It demonstrates how Darwin's ideas permeated various areas of thought.
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(Este libro trata, en buena medida, de las pautas de asent...)
Este libro trata, en buena medida, de las pautas de asentamiento y de cómo pueblos de diferentes culturas y órdenes sociales organizaron históricamente un mismo espacio. Partiendo de la situación del mundo rural romano tardío, se analizan las transformaciones que supuso la formación de al-Andalus y, ya en la baja Edad Media, su conquista y colonización por los reinos feudales cristianos. En esta perspectiva, las aportaciones más innovadoras de la arqueología extensiva y una relectura de las fuentes documentales permiten estudiar los procesos de cambio cultural, de las redes de asentamientos y de los paisajes agrarios, con especial atención a la irrigación, la tecnología hidráulica y la gestión del agua. La irrigación se hallaba en la base misma de la agricultura islámica, pero también de la cristiana y, sin embargo, las dos sociedades desarrollaron la gestión del agua de modo notablemente distinto, siguiendo unas lógicas que remiten tanto a condicionantes culturales como a las profundas diferencias de su estructura socia.
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( From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous...)
From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after. Thomas Glick explores this "recovery of science" by focusing on the national discussion provoked by Einstein's trip to Spain in 1923. His visit stimulated a debate on the nature and social value of science that was remarkable in a society so recently awakened to the scientific role in the process of modernization. Einstein's universal appeal created the unlikely occasion for a fascination with science that cut across social classes and previously established domains of discourse. The political Right, which in other countries opposed relativity in the name of "traditional" Newtonian science, backed the new theories with surprising enthusiasm. Engineers, a politically conservative group, contributed much of the rank-and-file support for Einstein; physicians, who tended to the Left, also eagerly embraced his ideas, as did a host of mutually antagonistic political groups, including anarcho-syndicalists and bourgeois Catalan nationalists. Professor Glick's analysis of this multidimensional scientific forum provides an unusual amount of information on science in Spain and an opportunity to contrast the Spaniards' reception of Einstein's work and that of other nations during this historical period. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundits the world over to put pen to paper. In this unique dictionary of quotations, Darwin scholar Thomas Glick presents fascinating observations about Darwin and his ideas from such notable figures as P. T. Barnum, Anton Chekhov, Mahatma Gandhi, Carl Jung, Martin Luther King, Mao Tse-tung, Pius IX, Jules Verne, and Virginia Woolf. What was it about Darwin that generated such widespread interest? His Origin of Species changed the world. Naturalists, clerics, politicians, novelists, poets, musicians, economists, and philosophers alike could not help but engage his theory of evolution. Whatever their view of his theory, however, those who met Darwin were unfailingly charmed by his modesty, kindness, honesty, and seriousness of purpose. This diverse collection drawn from essays, letters, novels, short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, and parodies demonstrates how Darwin’s ideas permeated all areas of thought. The quotations trace a broad conversation about Darwin across great distances of time and space, revealing his profound influence on the great thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Glick, Thomas F. was born on January 28, 1939 in Cleveland. Son of Lester G. and Ruth (Rothstein) Glick.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1968. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1963.
Doctor of Philosophy, University Valencia, 2010.
Assistant professor history University Texas, Austin, 1968-1972. Professor Boston University, since 1972, chairman department, 1984—1989, 1994—1995, 2004. Director Shtetl Economic History Project, since 2003.
Fulbright senior lecturer University Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay, 1988, 90. President New England Medieval Conference, 1999-2000. Norman MacCall lecturer Cambridge University, 2000.
( From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous...)
( From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous...)
(Este libro trata, en buena medida, de las pautas de asent...)
(This analysis of early Spanish history draws on a wide ra...)
(Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pundi...)
( Charles Darwin and his revolutionary ideas inspired pun...)
Fellow Linnean Society. Member Society for Preservation of Old Mills (president Northeast chapter 1997-2008), Reial Academy Bones Lletres (correspondent), Premio International Geocritica, 2004.
Married Elizabeth Ladd, November 10, 1963. Children: Rachel, Amos.