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Self, Community, World
. Ed(S): Lempa, Heikki; Peucker, Paul
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Hardback. This book traces Moravian communal and educational practices and the techniques of the self. The focus is not a nation-state but a community that was cosmopolitan by the very standards of the eighteenth-century world. Editor(s): Lempa, Heikki; Peucker, Paul. Series: Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
This book traces Moravian educational ideas and practices in the eighteenth century. A transnational fellowship rather than a nation state, the Moravians had established themselves by the early 1740s as an Atlantic community under the leadership of a German count, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. This cosmopolitanism, paralleled only in the aristocratic culture and the expanding network of Masonic lodges, became a natural, self-evident experience of the Moravians in Germany, Holland, England, the Caribbean and North American colonies, and Africa. What made this global educational experience possible? This book answers the question by exploring Moravian education at three different but closely ... Read more
This book traces Moravian educational ideas and practices in the eighteenth century. A transnational fellowship rather than a nation state, the Moravians had established themselves by the early 1740s as an Atlantic community under the leadership of a German count, Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. This cosmopolitanism, paralleled only in the aristocratic culture and the expanding network of Masonic lodges, became a natural, self-evident experience of the Moravians in Germany, Holland, England, the Caribbean and North American colonies, and Africa. What made this global educational experience possible? This book answers the question by exploring Moravian education at three different but closely ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460582
SKU
V9781611460582
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Lempa, Heikki; Peucker, Paul
Heikki Lempa is associate professor of modern European history at Moravian College. Paul Peucker is director of the Moravian archives at Moravian College.
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