Balder Ex-Libris - Hutton WebsterReview of books rare and missing2024-03-16T01:56:42+00:00urn:md5:aa728a70505b2fae05796923271581c2DotclearHutton Ronald - The witchurn:md5:923c6f1bfa5d7d05d7f02e7393fb50a42019-12-13T16:02:00+00:002019-12-13T16:17:55+00:00balderHutton WebsterBabylonSatanism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img4/Hutton_Ronald_-_The_witch.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Ronald</strong><br />
Title : <strong>The witch A history of fear, from ancient times to the present</strong><br />
Year : 2017<br />
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Author's note. Definitions. What is a witch ? The standard scholarly definition of one was summed up in 1978 by a leading expert in the anthropology of religion, Rodney Needham, as 'someone who causes harm to others by mystical means'. In stating this, he was self-consciously not providing a personal view of the matter, but summing up an established scholarly consensus, which dealt with the witch figure as one of those whom he termed 'primordial characters' of humanity. He added that no more rigorous definition was generally accepted. In all this he was certainly correct, for English-speaking scholars have used the word 'witch' when dealing with such a reputed person in all parts of the world, before Needham’s time, and ever since, as shall be seen. When the only historian of the European trials to set them systematically in a global context in recent years, Wolfgang Behringer, undertook his task, he termed witchcraft 'a generic term for all kinds of evil magic and sorcery, as perceived by contemporaries'. Again, in doing so he was self-consciously perpetuating a scholarly norm. That usage has persisted till the present among anthropologists and historians of extra-European peoples : to take one recent example, in 2011 Katherine Luongo prefaced her study of the relationship between witchcraft and the law in early twentieth-century Kenya by defining witchcraft itself 'in the Euro-American sense of the word' as 'magical harm'. <strong>...</strong></p>Hutton Webster - World Historyurn:md5:739df508402503851c672194fb309fe02015-11-06T03:14:00+00:002015-11-06T03:17:44+00:00balderHutton WebsterAmericaCivilizationsMexicoRacialismUnited States <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Hutton_Webster_-_World_History.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Webster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>World History</strong><br />
Year : 1921<br />
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Preface. The scope, character, and purpose of this textbook perhaps require some clarification here. It covers the entire historic field, together with a chapter on prehistoric times; it presents a survey of human progress, rather than a chronological outline of events; it is intended for that large body of students who, for various reasons, do not take more than one year of history in the high school. They ought to gain from such a course, however brief, some conception of social development and some realization of man's upward march from the Stone Age until the present time. Nothing but general or universal history will give them that conception, - that realization. And only a history of the world will enable them to appreciate the contributions made by peoples widely separated in space and time to what is steadily becoming the common civilization of mankind. <strong>...</strong></p>Hutton Webster - Primitive secret societiesurn:md5:10a217e5cddbaede6556428eae668f632014-09-10T22:30:00+01:002014-09-10T22:30:00+01:00balderHutton WebsterBelzecGermanyReligionRevisionismThird Reich <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Hutton_Webster_-_Primitive_secret_societies.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Webster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Primitive secret societies A study in early politics and religion</strong><br />
Year : 1908<br />
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Preface. Recent years have witnessed great accretions to our knowledge of the initiation ceremonies and secret societies found among many savage and barbarous communities throughout the world. The data bearing upon these matters, collected by the patient efforts of scholarly investigators in Australia, Melanesia, Africa, and North America, are of singular interest to the student of primitive sociology and religion. The present work represents an effort, necessarily provisional in the light of existing information, to arrive at the significance of the materials so laboriously and so carefully collected. Starting with no preconceived notions of the subject, the author has endeavored to shape his theories in accordance with his facts and in many instances by abstaining from generalization, to let his facts carry their own significance to the reader's mind. In the final chapter, which is to be regarded as an appendix, the wide diffusion of initiatory rites and secret organizations has been indicated. The bibliography supplied in this connection, though not exhaustive, probably notices nearly everything of importance so far published. <strong>...</strong></p>Hutton Webster - Early European historyurn:md5:6352a90a3cf1de0bbc9d2f556ba39f772014-09-10T22:26:00+01:002014-09-10T21:27:23+01:00balderHutton WebsterAuschwitzEuropeIsraëlJewPolandRevisionismThird Reich <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Hutton_Webster_-_Early_European_history.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Webster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Early European history</strong><br />
Year : 1917<br />
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Preface. This book aims to furnish a concise and connected account of human progress during ancient, medieval, and early modern times. It should meet the requirements of those high schools and preparatory schools where ancient history, as a separate discipline, is being supplanted by a more extended course introductory to the study of recent times and contemporary problems. Such a course was first outlined by the Regents of the University of the State of New York in their Syllabus for Secondary Schools, issued in 1910. <strong>...</strong></p>Hutton Webster - Readings in ancient historyurn:md5:70907d3fa84f6f30ec92667b119fe41a2014-09-10T22:22:00+01:002014-09-10T21:23:30+01:00balderHutton WebsterAuschwitzEuropeJewPolandRevisionism <p><img src="https://balderexlibris.com/public/img3/Hutton_Webster_-_Readings_in_ancient_history.jpg" alt="" /><br />
Author : <strong>Hutton Webster</strong><br />
Title : <strong>Readings in ancient history</strong><br />
Year : 1913<br />
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Preface. This volume includes selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey, and from the writings of Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Demosthenes, Arrian, Plutarch, Livy, Cicero, Csesar, Suetonius, Tacitus, Pliny the Younger, and Martial. Of the twenty- three chapters into which the work is divided, two are devoted to the Oriental period (Herodotus) and one to the Germans (Tacitus). The other chapters deal with Greek and Roman history as seen through the eyes of the classical historians themselves. The arrangement of the volume follows, in general, that of my Ancient History, published simultaneously with it. Each chapter contains the work of a single author and relates to a single definite period or personality. Sufficient editorial matter, in the shape of introductions, notes, and connections between passages, has been supplied to make the book useful to the beginner in ancient history. The translations quoted have been carefully revised with a view to uniformity and accuracy. All omissions, save those of a trivial character, have been indicated by the usual signs. <strong>...</strong></p>