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George William Skinner (simplified Chinese: 施坚雅; traditional Chinese: 施堅雅; February 14, 1925 – October 26, 2008) was an American anthropologist and scholar of China. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Skinner was a proponent of the spatial approach to Chinese history, as explained in his Presidential Address to the Association for Asian Studies in ...
Skinner, second son of John Skinner (1744–1816), bishop of St. Andrews, was born at Aberdeen on 24 October 1778, and educated at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen and at Oxford, where he matriculated from Wadham College on 3 March 1798, graduating B.A. in 1801, and M.A., B.D., and D.D. in 1819.
William Skinner (ethnographer) (1857–1946), New Zealand surveyor, historian, and ethnographer William I. Skinner (1812–1891), American politician from New York G. William Skinner (1925–2008), American anthropologist and scholar of China
The Washington Independent Review of Books is a volunteer organization that operates a website for book reviews. It was founded by a group of writers in the Washington, D.C. , area. [ 1 ] [ 5 ]
William was born on December 25, 1728, in Perquimans County, Province of North Carolina. [3] He was the son of Richard Skinner and Sarah Creecey. He first married the widow Sarah Gale Corprew on May 28, 1752, and they had four known children-William Gale, Penelope, Elizabeth, and Lavinia.
The two of them attended the House of Commons in 1758 where O'Hara harangued Skinner who took the anger in good humour. [4] There appears to have been no long term damage as O'Hara was given the rank of field marshal in 1763. [3] Skinner died in Greenwich still working on Christmas Day 1780. His widow, Margaret, and his granddaughter both ...
Cyriack Skinner was the third son of William Skinner, a Lincolnshire squire who died in 1627. His mother was Bridget Coke, daughter of the famous jurist Sir Edward Coke. [1] Skinner was admitted to Lincoln's Inn on 31 July 1647 and became a lawyer by profession. He came to live near Milton in 1654 and probably began to help the poet at that ...
In 2009, the magazine's website was redesigned to include a nationwide literary-events calendar, internet exclusive book reviews, two blogs — Paper Trail and Omnivore — and a section called Syllabi, which features reading lists written by authors and critics.