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The Use and Abuse of History

The Use and Abuse of History

Moses I. Finley

Few writers have taught us more about the ancient world than M. I finley.
The ancient economy

The ancient economy

Moses I. Finley

This is Finley at the height of his remarkable powers and in his finest role as historical iconoclast and intellectual provocateur.
The Strange Case of Finley Jayne

The Strange Case of Finley Jayne

Kady Cross

Finley Jayne knows she's not 'normal'.
The (Almost) Perfect Guide to Imperfect Boys

The (Almost) Perfect Guide to Imperfect Boys

Barbara Dee

According to the book she and her best friend Maya have written, Finley believes that all of the boys at her middle school are immature, until Zachary Mattison returns from a year away, and Finley sees him in a new light.
Classical Slavery

Classical Slavery

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In Aspects of Antiquity (1968; Pelican reprint 1972) Moses Finley included the essay Aulos Kapreilios Timotheos, Slave Trader'. It is the least polemical of Finley's essays on slavery: it is almost a soliloquy in front of a puzzling ghost from the ...
Politics in the Ancient World

Politics in the Ancient World

M. I. Finley

Sir Moses Finley explores politics in the city states of Greece and republican Rome and their impact on our understanding of the ancient world.
Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative ...

Abstracts of the Testamentary Proceedings of the Prerogative ...

Jr. Skinner

21:38 Mr. Finley (TA) to examine accounts of Mary Glover administratrix of John Glover (TA) . MM William Coursey & Robert Finley administrators of Richard Sweatnam (TA) were granted continuance. Mr. Peter Dent (SO) to examine accounts ...
Descendants of Joseph Finley Kyle and Matilda Scotten of ...

Descendants of Joseph Finley Kyle and Matilda Scotten of ...

Reverdy Lewin Orrell

Joseph Finley Kyle (ca. 1795-1842) married Matilda Scotten (1802-1850) in 1819.
Stranger and a Sojourner:passage Peter Caulder, Free Black ...

Stranger and a Sojourner:passage Peter Caulder, Free Black ...

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... Civil War, and Aftermath in Arkansas," Arkansas Historical Quarterly 54 ( Autumn 1995): 304-58; and Randy Finley, "This Dreadful Whirlpool' of Civil War: Edward W. Gantt and the Quest for Distinction," in Randy Finley and Thomas A.
Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the ...

Who Killed John Clayton?: Political Violence and the ...

Kenneth C. Barnes

See also Randy Finley, "The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas" (Ph.D. diss., University of Arkansas, 1992), 370; Randy Finley, From Slavery to Uncertain Freedom: The Freedmen's Bureau in Arkansas, 1865-1869 (Fayetteville: University of ...
Out in the Blue

Out in the Blue

Kelly Jensen

When his employer grounds him, Jared starts thinking in terms of his coffin. Then he meets Finley and learns he’s not the only one lost.
EVOLUTION OF REAPING MACHINES

EVOLUTION OF REAPING MACHINES

Merritt Finley Miller

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman

Charlie Finley: The Outrageous Story of Baseball's Super Showman

Roger D. Launius

The stories surrounding him are as colorful as the life he led, the chronicle of which fills an important gap in baseball's literature.
Mildred at Roselands

Mildred at Roselands

Martha Finley

Mildred visits her relatives at Roselands and endures the heartbreak of loving Charlie Landreth whom she can't marry because he is not Christian.
Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages

Early Greece: The Bronze and Archaic Ages

Moses I. Finley

Describes the evolution of the city-states Athens and Sparta between 1600 and 500 B.C. and examines the ways the early Greeks learned to handle social conflict
Little Girl Fly Away

Little Girl Fly Away

Gene Stone

A fascinating psychological portrait of Ruth Finley, a Kansas woman harassed for years by a stalker, a stalker who turned out to be herself, shows how and why she created the stalker and how she survived these revelations. Reprint. PW.
The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

The Hustle: One Team and Ten Lives in Black and White

Doug Merlino

We are all now in the same age bracket as Randy Finley and Willie McClain when they formed our team. There are no more AAU tournaments, no more games, no more van rides. Nothing to bind us together. All we have is us. In the cafeteria ...
The Hammer of God

The Hammer of God

Stephen Andrew Missick

While in seminary I read How Biblical Languages Work by Peter James Silzer and Thomas John Finley. I highly recommend this book. The authors worked with Hebrew and Greek for many years and taught thousands of students.

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