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In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies--ultimately in the idea of -hereditary heathenism, - the notion that Africans and Indians were incapable of genuine Christian conversion. In Virginia in particular, English settlers initially believed that native people would quickly become Christian and would form a vibrant partnership with English people. After vicious...

Der Gegenwartsbezug jeder Geschichtsschreibung ist bislang kaum systematisch untersucht worden. Das in diesem Buch behandelte hohe Mittelalter, eine wichtige "Umbruchs- und Krisenzeit" in der Geschichte sowohl des Denkens wie des Handelns innerhalb der Epoche des Mittelalters, eignet sich fur einen solchen Ansatz in besonderer Weise: Es war, was die gebildeten Schichten anbelangt, unbestritten eine Epoche hohen Geschichtsbewusstseins, die erstmals seit der Spatantike wieder groe geschichtstheologische Synthesen, zum Beispiel bei Hugo von St. Victor oder Otto von Freising, hervorgebracht...

The information infrastructure--comprising computers, embedded devices, networks and software systems--is vital to operations in every sector. Global business and industry, governments, and society itself, cannot function effectively if major components of the critical information infrastructure are degraded, disabled or destroyed.

This book contains a selection of 27 edited papers from the First Annual IFIP WG 11.10 International Conference on Critical Infrastructure Protection.

In Freedom, Teleology, and Evil Stewart Goetz defends the existence of libertarian freedom of the will. He argues that choices are essentially uncaused events with teleological explanations in the form of reasons or purposes. Because choices are uncaused events with teleological explanations, whenever agents choose they are free to choose otherwise. Given this freedom to choose otherwise, agents are morally responsible for how they choose. Thus, Goetz advocates and defends the principle of alternative possibilities which states that agents are morally responsible for a choice only if...