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The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson
No full textChristopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most
important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant
influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis,
and Russell Kirk. This dissertation is a study of his most
fundamental ideas concerning history and culture.
Chapter one examines Dawson’s sociological view of history.
Convinced that history was more than a scientific enterprise, he
believed that the true historian is one who reaches beyond the
material world to understand the essence of history’s dynamics. In
this way, the world can be conceptualized as a united whole,
separated by regional differences as a result of environment, race,
material, psychological, and religious factors. Dawson believed
that the political histories of the past several centuries failed to
grasp the undercurrents of historical change, and that the best way
to understand the past is to appreciate culture as an expression of
primeval religious traditions.
Chapter two treats Dawson’s understanding of progress. Dawson
was convinced that progress had become the “working-religion” of our
age. This secular faith, founded on scientific rationalism, first
pledged to fix the material failures of Western culture, but
unwittingly eroded its faith in God, and eventually, its moral
fiber. Dawson believed that true progress was progress of the soul
in its ordering toward the Creator.
Chapter three is a study of Dawson’s Christian, and more
specifically, his Catholic beliefs. Informed by religion, his
historical and cultural visions are not dogmatic, nor are they
polemical. He conceived of history as the unfolding of a divine
economy in the temporal world. Although Dawson is a proponent of
Roman Catholicism, his scholarship is an objective treatment of
history shaped by an undisguised, Christian worldview.
Additionally, the appendix is an introduction to Dawson’s life
and the circumstances surrounding his conversion to Roman
Catholicism. Particular attention is paid to the development of his
moral and historical imagination — both of which became intertwined to
form the basis of all of his scholarship
World War I record of service survey for Edward B. Dawson, signed 18 August 1922.
No full textQuestionnaire about Edward Broderick Dawson's service in World War I, 1917-1919, signed by Dawson on 18 August 1922.Questionnaire originally part of a survey of Norwich University alumni conducted by a “Norwich in the World War” committee consisting of Charles N. Barber (chairman), Carl V. Woodbury, K.R.B. Flint, and Gustaf A. Nelson. Data from these questionnaires may have been used in a chapter of "Vermont in the world war, 1917-1919" by Harold P. Sheldon (1928)
Bill from Moses Dawson to Dr. Henry B. Funk
Get PDFBill, Moses Dawson to Henry B. Funk. Cincinnati, Ohio for thirteen dollars and sixty-two cents.https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/dawson_correspondence/1026/thumbnail.jp
Herons illustration photograph
No full textDrawing of herons alighting on piles in Okanogen County, Washington, by William L. Dawson. This pen-and-ink sketch of two herons includes the handwritten caption "Herons alighting on piles (see text)." Dawson was an ornithologist and author of "The Birds of Ohio" (Columbus: Wheaton Publishing Company, 1903); "Birds of Washington" (Seattle: The Occidental Publishing Col, 1909), and "The Birds of California" ( San Diego: South Moulton Co., 1923, 4 vol.). Dawson was an alumnus of Oberlin College (1897, 1903) and Oberlin Theological Seminary (1899). He was an ordained minister who served as pastor of North Church, Columbus, Ohio, from 1900 to 1902. Circa 1904 he moved to Washington State, and later moved to California (1911?), where he was a co-founder and the director of the International Museum of Comparative Oology, Santa Barbara (now the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History). Dawson founded Wheaton Publishing Co. (Columbus), Occidental Publishing Co. (Seattle), and Birds of California Publishing Company (Santa Barbara)
Portrait of Smoky and Dot Dawson at the National Library, 2000 [picture] /
No full textCondition: good.; Negative to be found in packet (b) of 3 packets (a-c).; Part of the collection of photographs of Smoky and Dot Dawson.; Related material: Interview with Smoky Dawson ; National Library of Australia Oral History Collection ORAL TRC 3388. Portraits of Smoky and Dot Dawson taken in conjunction with an oral history interview of Smoky
Female American Velvet Scoter illustration
No full textSketch of a female American Velvet Scoter, Okanogen County, Washington, December 10, 1895. by William L. Dawson 1873-1928). This pencil sketch includes a profile view of the duck's head and bill as well as an overhead view of the bill. A caption located on the lower left corner reads: "Female Am. Velvet Scoter, Showing encroachment of frontal feathers. Dec. 10, 1895. WLD." Dawson was an ornithologist and author of "The Birds of Ohio" (Columbus: Wheaton Publishing Company, 1903); "Birds of Washington" (Seattle: The Occidental Publishing Col, 1909), and "The Birds of California" ( San Diego: South Moulton Co., 1923, 4 vol.). Dawson was an alumnus of Oberlin College (1897, 1903) and Oberlin Theological Seminary (1899). He was an ordained minister who served as pastor of North Church, Columbus, Ohio, from 1900 to 1902. Circa 1904 he moved to Washington State, and later moved to California (1911?), where he was a co-founder and the director of the International Museum of Comparative Ooology, Santa Barbara (now the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History). Dawson founded Wheaton Publishing Co. (Columbus), Occidental Publishing Co. (Seattle), and Birds of California Publishing Company (Santa Barbara)
Letter from C. D. Dawson, Tusayan Copper Mining and Smelting, to Carl Hayden
No full textLetter from C. D. Dawson to Carl Hayden urging him to consider the rights of miners and farmers when drawing up the boundaries for the proposed park
Fela Dawson Scott Folder
No full text3 pages of family history documents containing and related to Fela Dawson Scott; Shadow of Desire; Ghost Dancer; Spirit of the Mountain - including: Articles on Books published by author Fela Scot
The polymer chain: plastic itineraries and plastic images in a sociomaterialist assemblage
No full textThe chapter describes the authors residency at The Compound13 Lab in Dharavi, the worlds largest informal settlement and the centre for plastic recycling in Mumbai. The author maps the waste routes that plastics take as they travel through Dharavi. By diverting a flow of these plastics into the Compound13 lab Dawson facilitates a participatory art project that co-aligns the toxic entanglements of waste plastic with 3D printing. By taking a socio materialists stance the author explores a circular economy to build material based understandings. The author challenges the extractive process of ‘cognitive’ mining and proposes that ‘plastic’ images can accumulate to make a more productive form of destabilised and unfinished images that are always ‘in the making’
Corrigendum to “Assessing the capacity of three production efficiency models in simulating gross carbon uptake across multiple biomes in conterminous USA” [Agric. Forest Meterol. 174–175 (2013) 158–169]
No full textThe authors regret that the printed version of the above article missed out the third author's name. The correct and final version follows. The authors would like to apologise for any inconvenience caused.We wish to add: Terence P. Dawson, School of the Environment, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, United Kingdom as a co-author in the article
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