Overview
This kit contains a book and CD. Although having roots very far away from French, Finnish is easily accessible because it is rigorously logical. This kit will be essential for a professional voyage or for approval. It includes: A conversation handbook allowing you to discover the key words, basic grammar, current expressions and local habits. It comprises a lexicon of over 2000 words. The audio CD contains 65 minutes of bilingual recordings: the vocabulary and sentences essential to understanding the handbook.
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Publisher: Assimil
Imprint: Assimil
Weight: 0.242kg
ISBN: 9782700540413
ISBN 10: 2700540417
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 01 March 2007
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Format: Mixed media product
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Language: French & Finnish
Table of Contents
Contents: Foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Introduction; The Netherlandish presence in England before the coming of the stranger churches, 1480-1560; Bringing Reformed theology to England's rude and symple people' Jean Veron, minister and author outside the stranger church community; Discipline and integration: Jan Laski's Church Order for the London Strangers' Church; Nicolas des Gallars and the Genevan connection of the stranger churches; Acontius's plea for tolerance; Europe in Britain: Protestant strangers and the English Reformation; Protestant refugees in Elizabethan England and confessional; conflict in France and the Netherlands, 1562c.1610; Fictitious shoemakers, agitated weavers and the limits of popular xenophobia in Elizabethan London; The Dutch in Colchester in the 16th and 17th centuries: opposition and integration; Mayntayninge the indigente and nedie': the institutionalisation of social responsibility in the case of the resident alien communities in Elizabethan Norwich and Colchester; Melting into the landscape: the story of the 17th-century Walloons in the Fens; Insiders or outsiders? Overseas-born artists at the Jacobean court; A Dutch stranger ... on the make': Sir Peter Lely and the critical fortunes of a foreign painter; Foreign artists and craftsmen and the introduction of the Rococo style in England; The production and patronage of David Willaume, Huguenot merchant goldsmith; Worthy of the monarch: immigrant craftsmen and the production of state beds, 16601714; Huguenot master weavers: exemplary Englishmen, 1700c.1750; Immigrants in the DNB and British cultural horizons, 15501750: the merchant, the traveller, the lexicographer and the apologist; Maps, spiders, and tulips: the ColeOrteliusL'Obel family and the practice of science in early modern London; The Huguenots and Medicine; That great and knowing virtuoso': the French background and English refuge of Henri Justel; Huguenot self-fashioning: Sir Jean Chardin and the rhetoric of travel and travel writing; Jean-Theophile Desaguliers: d'une integration reussie a l'Europe des savoirs; Emanuel Mendes da Costa: constructing a career in science; London's Portuguese Jewish community, 15401753; Embarrassing relations: myths and realities of the Ashkenazi influx, 16501750 and beyond; Slaves or free people? The status of Africans in England, 15501750; The first Turks and Moors in England; Greeks and Grecians' in London: the other' strangers; Irish Jewry in the 17th and 18th centuries; Sephardic settlement in the British colonies of the Americas in the 17th and 18th centuries; Dutch merchants and colonists in the English Chesapeake: trade, migration and nationality in 17th-century Maryland and Virginia; The Dutch in 17th-century New York City: minority or majority?; Anglican conformity and nonconformity among the Huguenots of colonial New York; Jacob Leisler and the Huguenot network in the English Atlantic world; From ethnicity to assimilation: the Huguenots and the American immigration history paradigm; Creating order in the American wilderness: state-church Germans without the state; Rewriting the Church of England: Jean Durel, foreign Protestants and the polemics of Restoration Conformity; Henry Compton, Bishop of London (16761714) and foreign Protestants; An unruly and presumptuous rabble': the reaction of the Spitalfields weaving community to the settlement of the Huguenots, 166090; Huguenot integration in late 17th- and 18th-century London:;; insights from records of the French Church and some relief agencies; Huguenot thought after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes: toleration, Socinianism', integration and Locke; The newspaper The Post Man and its editor, Jean Lespinasse de Fonvive; The birth of political consciousness among the Huguenot refugees and their descendants in England (c.16851750); The Huguenots in Britain, the Protestant International' and the defeat of Louis XIV; Elites and assimilation: the question of leadership within Dublin's Corps du Refuge, 16621740; Conditions et preparation de l'integration: le voyage de Charles de Sailly en Irlande (1693) et le projet d'Edit d'accueil; The integration of the Huguenots into the Irish Church: the case of Peter Drelincourt; Good faith: the military and the ministry in exile, or the memoirs of Isaac Dumont de Bostaquet and Jaques Fontaine; Writing the self: Huguenot autobiography and the process of assimilation; The English reception of the Huguenots, Palatines and Salzburgers, 16801734: a comparative analysis; The Naturalisation Act of 1709 and the settlement of Germans in Britain, Ireland and the colonies; German immigrants and the London book trade, 170070; Naturalisation and economic integration: the German merchant community in 18th-century London; A dearer country': the Frenchness of the Rev. Jean de la Flechere of Madeley, a Methodist Church of England vicar; Archbishop Thomas Secker (16931768), Anglican identity and relations with foreign Protestants in the mid-18th century; What's in a name?: self-identifications of Huguenot refugiees in 18th-century England; Index.
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