.... It also considers how Barber developed an unlikely friendship with Johnson and how he ended up as the heir of one of the most celebrated men of the day. Barber’s story offers a glimpse into the lives of blacks in eighteenth-century Britain and reminds us of a time when slaves roamed the streets of London...

... embroiled in hostile relations that indicate the “dark side of the gift.” Paul can classify the same exchange differently at different times, and, in attempts to activate social responses of friendship or hostility, he can label his own labor a “gift” while labeling the same type of labor performed...

.... Botatwe societies moved into new lands and absorbed Batoka populations by means of three social innovations: the adoption of new institutions of matrilineal kinship (including matriclans and cohorts of cousins), the development of networks of bond friendship, and changes to the scale and sociality...

...Configurations of friendship in the second century BCE wisdom book Ben Sira are considered and compared to the representation of friendship in earlier biblical texts. In addition, the possibility of Greek influence on Ben Sira’s ideas about friendship is explored. Ben Sira friendship 9 7 20 10...

...This introductory chapter sets out the book's main argument, that for a time the special task of American literature was the representation of bonds between men that kept men free. The book explores the following themes: the power of sympathy, its close relation to imposture, romantic friendship...

...This chapter examines seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literate women's written descriptions of friendship and alliance. It explores some ideas about women's friendship as they were articulated in early modern literature, including neoclassical works, religious texts, pamphlets about vernacular...

...This chapter describes the changes in Johnson and Boswell's friendship from 1777 to 1778. It details their Ashbourne visit in September 1777 and their London visit in March 1778. Because of what they had learned at Ashbourne and afterward, and especially because of the new self-assurance Boswell...

...This chapter describes the changes in Johnson and Boswell's friendship from March 1783 to May 1784. It details Boswell's visit to London from 21 March through 30 May 1783; Boswell's quest for preferment; and Hohnson's uncertain health. Boswell James Boswell James friendship with Johnson Boswell...

... a singularly successful commercial product of the new printing industry and a repository of intellectual wealth, the Adages looks ahead to the development of copyright and back to an ancient philosophical tradition that ideas should be universally shared in the spirit of friendship. This book...

...Friendship was very important to Alexis de Tocqueville, and he wrote a great deal about it. He found in friendship all the qualities of heart and honesty that were in stark contrast to the cold, calculating, contractual nature of politics and the modern world. Despite having only a small circle...

... but as a legitimate Polish state. It discusses the work of Wladyslaw Gomulka, who was ordered by the Soviet leadership to form the Polish Workers' Party and was later considered a national hero for saving Poland from Soviet tanks by officially declaring Polish-Soviet friendship. evolution of communism Poland...

.... The chapter focuses on “friendship albums” that circulated hand-to-hand through surprisingly extensive networks of inscribers and how they became exercises in black, female cultural “uplift.” It also discusses how African-American women writers used their public newspaper writings to participate...

...This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to examine women's social networks in early modern Britain. Female friendships and alliances were expressed in many ways, and the sources explored in this book reflect the variety and complexity of these relationships...

...This chapter considers the following questions: What did Johnson and Boswell each make of the other when they met on 16 May 1763, and what did each get from their time together during the next twelve weeks? What did their new friendship mean to each when they parted on 6 August? How did this change...

...This chapter describes Johnson and Boswell's friendship from 1764 to 1767. During this period the two friends saw each other for only a few days in February 1766. When they were not near each other, they often were completely out of touch. Despite Boswell's efforts to coax replies, Johnson wrote...

...This chapter describes the changes in Johnson and Boswell's friendship between May 1778 and March 1781. A key drama in their friendship was Boswell's constant need for proof of Johnson's love and esteem. In response, Johnson regularly tried to get his insecure friend to accept that his esteem...

... Bate W J Herne Elizabeth Prowse Mary Thrale Henry Boswell Margaret JB's wife née Montgomerie Hailes David Dalrymple Lord Mitre Tavern Chamier Anthony Thrale Hester Maria Queeney Cowley Abraham Liberty and Necessity Rasselas Johnson 1759 Samuel Johnson James Boswell friendship The Lives...

...This book concludes by showing how Erasmus used a chiliastic organization to draw his readers' attention to the deeply embedded but shifting issues of property that form the substrate of an apparently disorganized collection. By tradition, these issues are linked with notions of friendship...

...This chapter pays attention to friendship formation and positive social connection of the Canford students to develop a picture of their school experience as they adjust to their new school. It analyzes what kinds of relationships are developed and explores the nature of their social roles...

... awards, and specifically to Vano Muradeli's opera The Great Friendship. It then considers the music nominations for the Stalin Prize and the failure of Khrennikov's comic opera Frol Skobeyev to win a prize in the spring of 1950. It also discusses the failure of Soviet...