Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement in North America Reference library
Peter C. Mancall
The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History
...to the Pacific, so he turned home, though not before a violent encounter with the local Munsees. Hudson returned to North America the following year on an English expedition bound for the Northwest Passage. He made it as far as Hudson Bay in northern Canada , but his crew mutinied and left him for dead in June 1611 . Though Hudson never went back to the Netherlands , the Dutch used his venture to establish a claim to the lands he had seen. In 1624 , New Netherland, with its capital New Amsterdam (later New York City), became part of the Dutch...
Iran Reference library
Roksana Bahramitash
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
...44–72. Sahimi, M. “Iranian Women and the Struggle for Democracy.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2010/04/iranian-women-and-the-struggle-for-democracy-in-the-pre-revolution-era.html . In Tehran Bureau . Sanasarian, E. The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, Appeasement, and Repression from 1900 to Khomeini . New York: Praeger, 1982. Savory, Roger . Iran under the Safavids . Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Roksana...
Gender and Sexuality: Ancient Near East Reference library
Ilona Zsolnay
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
...Ninmaḫ , mortals are devised for the express purpose of laboring for the gods. Atrahasīs and Enūma Eliš both record that mortals were created after rebellions. In Atrahasīs , rebellion occurs because of the workload placed upon the Igigi gods by the Anunnaki. To squash the mutiny, the Anunnaki decide to create laborers. Bēlet-ilī is summoned, but, before she can begin her work, she declares that Ea must aid her. Ea then commands that one of the rebelling gods must be slaughtered so that Bēlet-ilī can mix his flesh and blood with purified clay. This she...
Education in British India Reference library
Deepak Kumar
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Race and Education
...technical education. This movement for the cultivation of science had an enormous psychological impact. It symbolized the search for a distinct Indian identity in the world of science. 5 A few years earlier, Syed Ahmed ( 1817–1898 ), who tried to reform the Muslim society post-Mutiny, had formed a scientific society at Aligarh. Its idea was not promotion of scientific research, but its popularization to fight the prevalent superstition and to develop some sort of scientific temper. Sir Syed’s idea was to reform the tradition-bound Muslim society from within....
