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1999

Format:	Book
Author:	Weber, Eugen, 1925-2007.
Title:	Apocalypses : prophecies, cults, and millennial beliefs through the ages / Eugen Weber.
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999.
Description:	294 pages ; 23 cm
Summary:	The author presents apocalyptic visions and prophesies from "the ancients of the West and the Orient ... the Jews and earliest Christians ... Asia, Africa, and South America," and shows how these "beliefs inspired Crusades, scientific discoveries, works of art, voyages such as those of Columbus, rebellions, and reforms."--Jacket.
Subjects:	End of the world -- History of doctrines. Millennialism -- History of doctrines.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-268) and index.
Contents:	Chronologies and Fins de Siecle -- Apocalypses and Millenarianisms -- In Dark and Bloody Times -- Revivalists and Antichrists -- Apocalypse and Science -- Enlightenment? -- Apocalypse in Worldly Times -- Pursuits of the Millennium -- Time's Noblest Offspring -- The Twentieth Century.
LCCN:	99018001
ISBN:	9780674040809 0674003950 9780674003958 0674040805
Other Number:	40698666
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Control Number:	70111
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Call Number:	291.21 Weber

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