Old House Measured and Scaled Detail Drawings for Builders and Carpenters by William Radford

Old House Measured and Scaled Detail Drawings for Builders and Carpenters by William Radford

The Transformation of This World Depends on You focuses on two related stories: the missionary vision of Amherst College in its early days and the legacy of that vision in the present. Founded in Massachusetts in 1820, Amherst's original charter was to educate pious indigent young men of promising talents and hopeful piety . with a sole view to the Christian ministry. For more than a century, young Amherst graduates travelled-many with their wives and families-to far-flung destinations including China, Persia, India, the Middle East, Indonesia and Hawaii, on a mission to convert the heathen races to Protestant Christianity. This book compares their ambitions, fueled by religious zeal, with the approaches and policies of local charitable organizations working in Amherst and its surrounding area today.
In the first part of the book, historian Martha Saxton and photographer Wendy Ewald tell the stories of nine of these early missionaries, based on their research in the Amherst archives, employing photographs, etchings and documents that illustrate their difficult lives. In the second part, photographer Fazal Sheikh worked beyond the college with members of the Amherst and surrounding communities, many of whom had experienced economic and social hardship. Sheikh listened to the stories of immigration and struggle they were eager to tell, made portraits of each of his ten subjects and collected their family photographs. Thomas Keenan, Director of the Human Rights Project at Bard College, provides the book's introduction, in which he examines the work and attitudes of the early Amherst missionaries in the light of current human rights discourse and practice.

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ISBN 13	9780486244389
ISBN 10	0486244385
Title	Old House Measured and Scaled Detail Drawings for Builders and Carpenters
Author	William Radford
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dover Publications Inc.
Year published	1983-06-01
Number of pages	200
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