Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America, Paperback - Katherine Carté Engel

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...

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

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

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

A collection of essays from leading scholars in the field that collectively study the rise and fall of witchcraft prosecutions in the various kingd...

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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...

DescriptionFrom the Very Beginning Christianity was a religion of books--a lived, but also a written faith. The essays in this collection focus on ...

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In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans ...

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

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Publisher: S Fischer Verlag GmbHPublication date: 2004Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 33Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Walter MullerRedescopera...

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