Learning from America : policy transfer and the development of the British workfare state

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Learning from America : policy transfer and the development of the British workfare state

David P. Dolowitz with a foreword by Harmon Zeigler

Sussex Academic Press, c1998

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [196]-205) and index

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Description

This book demonstrates why the Thatcher government was influenced by America in its development of UK employment policy.

Table of Contents

  • Contents: Preface
  • A Survey of the Historical Development of Religion in Ancient Egypt
  • Introduction
  • The Predynastic and Early Dynastic Communities
  • The Predynastic societies
  • The Dynastic Race
  • The political and social organisation of the Naqada II communities
  • The Unification of Egypt
  • The political organisation of the Early Dynastic period
  • Religious beliefs and practices during the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods
  • The contribution of the Archaic Period
  • The Old Kingdom
  • Organisation of the society
  • Religious organisation
  • Cosmogonies
  • The cult of Re
  • The Wisdom Literature
  • The funerary beliefs and customs of the Old Kingdom
  • The Pyramid Texts
  • The tombs of the nobility
  • Tomb art -- the underlying principles
  • The decline of the Old Kingdom
  • The First Intermediate Period and the
  • Middle Kingdom
  • Collapse of the society
  • Restoration of political order
  • The Middle Kingdom
  • Religious developments in Dynasties 11 and 12
  • Royal funerary monuments of Dynasties 11 and 12
  • The royal jewellery of the Middle Kingdom
  • A pyramid workmen's village
  • Osiris and the democratisation of funerary beliefs
  • The tombs of the nobles during the First Intermediate
  • Period and the Middle Kingdom
  • Tomb equipment and furniture
  • The New Kingdom
  • The period of Hyksos rule
  • The role of Amen-Re (Amun)
  • The Egyptian temple
  • The priesthood
  • The role of religion in education
  • The role of religion in the law
  • The role of religion in medicine
  • Household gods and personal piety
  • The relationship between Egyptian and foreign cults and deities
  • Funerary beliefs and practices in the New Kingdom
  • The court of Amenophis III
  • History of the Aten
  • Aspects of Atenism
  • The counter-revolution
  • Some Contributions made by Egyptian Religion to other Religions
  • Index.

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