This volume of scholarly essays explores the ideas of union and empire current at the time of the Union between Scotland and England in 1707. It demonstrates for the first time the wider significance of the Union in Europe and throughout the English-speaking world. It is a major contribution to the growing interest in "British" history, but should also be of considerable interest to all students of political and economic unions, a subject of increasing importance and obvious relevance in contemporary Britain, Europe and North America.

Challenging the recent tendency to fragment the Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Europe into multiple Enlightenments, John Robertson demonstrates the extent to which thinkers in two societies at the opposite ends of Europe shared common intellectual preoccupations. Before 1700, Scotland and Naples faced a bleak future as backward, provincial kingdoms in a Europe of aggressive commercial states. Yet by 1760, Scottish and Neapolitan thinkers were in the van of those advocating the cause of Enlightenment by means of political economy. Robertson pays particular attention to the greatest...

At the beginning of German unification in October, 1990, there were high expectations for where the integration of the former East Germany into the western system would be ten years later. Now, at the dawn of a new millennium, some argue that the expectations have not been met, with new questions arising as to when these changes will take place. Others, of course, say the process has been, under the circumstances, quite successful. What, if anything went as expected and hoped, and what are the prospects for the future?

A book written by a father who knows how inadequate he was as a father, and has learned more about what a father should be like by looking at the story of God the Father and His children, from a perspective of A Father's Love for His children, and by relating to his own love for his children and grandchildren. By studying the bible from this perspective He has learned much about The Father's Love for His children and the nature of the Father.

Contemporary preoccupation with the self and the rise of comparative anthropology have renewed scholarly interest in the forms of personhood current in Ancient Greece. However the word which translates "self" most literally, the intensive adjective and reflexive morpheme αὐτός, and its critical role in the construction of human being have for the most part been neglected. This monograph rights the imbalance by redirecting attention to the diachronic development of the heavily marked reflexive system and its exploitation by thinkers to articulate an increasingly...

The book of Revelation illustrates the eternal consequences of following a life of sin rather than glorifying God. Satan is depicted as a ferocious red dragon of great power and persuasion. Christ is depicted in the Revelation as eternally glorious and victorious. Each generation of man faces the same things that the previous generation did. Man faces tribulation and powerful temptation in the form of lust, luxury, covetousness, pride, and personal glory. Man is inundated with false doctrines. The world of man is pushed and pulled by Satan's vices while the promises of God ground a man on the...