...This chapter explores the historical background surrounding the origins and evolution of human society within the context of Africa. The earliest, most sparsely settled human societies, for example, showed organization that was based on kinship and descent. It would only be later on, under dense...

... literary hack can sink. It has long been recognised that such authors lay it on thick when they are of Aryan descent, but the chapter shows that Benn, despite his radical rejection of the intellectual lifestyle, does not disown the formal tools of his trade, carrying the complete set into his new home...

... and descent” motif within the literary structure of the Fourth Gospel and a compares it in the Johannine community structure and relationships of the group to the environment. Christology in John Descent of redeemers Function Gnosticism as pre Christian religion Hellenism unhelpful dichotomy with Judaism...

...This chapter focuses on Tom Macaulay's view of empire. Tom lived with particular ideas of the empire and its peoples, enslaved and free from childhood. The idea of ethnic and racial difference was ever present, from his father's Scottish descent, to his preoccupation with slavery and his stories...