Our Dear-Bought Liberty. Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America, Hardback - Michael D. Breidenbach

Michael Breidenbach traces American secularism to an unexpected source: not Enlightenment liberalism but Catholic tradition. Suspected of dual loya...

Malcolm Evans describes the ways in which the freedom of religious belief has been incorporated into the legislation of Europe. He goes on to exami...

Covers the tumultuous period in the Habsburg Empire from Joseph II's failed reforms through the Revolutions of 1848, documenting the ongoing strugg...

Conspiracies are front and center in our mainstream politics, health policy, and popular culture. This book provides case studies of popular conspi...

Reducere. Uses a simple alphabet poem to summarize the fundamental principles of American liberty. This title contains letter pages.On each letter page is a ...

Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The boo...

All Americans, liberal or conservative, religious or not, can agree that religious freedom, anchored in conscience rights, is foundational to the U...

In Blood and Boundaries, Stuart B. Schwartz takes us to late medieval Latin America to show how Spain and Portugal's policies of exclusion and disc...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

DescriptionFor people in the early Middle Ages, the earth, air, water and ether teemed with other beings. Some of these were sentient creatures tha...

How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, ...

Reducere. What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one...

The idea of ghost is more than an enduring source of imagination, fear, and even entertainment in human society. It is an alternative key to decons...

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

Reducere. What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one...

Reducere. What has happened to America? It's no longer the country of our founding. Why? In a word . . . we've lost God. Our Founding Fathers established one...

Reducere. Although many Americans assume that religious participation has declined in America, Finke and Stark present a different picture. In 1776, fewer th...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

An investigation into texts specifically addressed to women sheds new light on female literary cultures.Illustrations: No

This volume explores the theme of religious and political practices in early modern Britain. -- .Publisher: Manchester University PressIllustration...

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

Reducere. Religion and Profit Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel Winner of the 2010 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ana...

Reissue of a bestselling classic that inspired a generation of 'good life' nature booksPublisher: Short Books LtdAuthor(s): Thomas FirbankNumber of...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

DescriptionIn My Power tells the story of letter writing and communications in the creation of the British Empire and the formation of the United S...

Gholsons in Early America and Their Connections with the Founding Fathers is the fifth entry in Donna Gholson Cook's well- documented family histor...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Dael A. NorwoodIllustration(s): 21 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 312Collection: A...

This collection of essays opens a new perspective on the interplay of religious conflict and literary culture in early modern England. Focusing on ...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The pastor in print is the first book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors who intentionally pursued print authorship. With ca...

Reducere. Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christiani...

Reducere. In Liberty in America: Past, Present, and Future, renowned dentist and healthy policy expert, Dr. Bill Choby, presents how America, as the empire o...

Examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countr...

DescriptionThe unforgettable saga of one enslaved woman's fight for justice--and reparations Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinn...

True leadership is about character - the key to winning 'the right way'. The Character Edge shows you why this is so important in today's social en...

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. As he clung to life he found himself reflecting on the fragility of health, ...

Reducere. On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attack...

Reducere. What Happens Next? Recognizing that anxiety and fear are the most common personal problems he has encountered in nearly forty years of psychologica...

Reducere. Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presby...

Publisher: Christian Focus Publications LtdAuthor(s): Michael D. McMullenNumber of pages: 464Collection: BiographyPublication date: 2021Dimensions:...

This study of the intellectual culture of the women's monasteries of the Main Valley during the eighth century, based on analysis of the manuscript...

Reducere. Whether you are a cradle Catholic learning the Holy Bible or a Protestant convert divesting yourself of your Protestantism, this book on the Script...