State category: 3605 books
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Thomas Jefferson’s only book, Notes on the State of Virginia, is a rich and revealing compendium of information and opinion on the largest and most important state in the union at the end of the American Revolution. Presented in the scientific spirit of the Enlightenment as an encyclopedia of useful...
Religion, Culture, and the State
Reflections on the Bouchard-Taylor Report
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings,...
by A. Ward Burian
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The fascinating story of how and why all fifty American states were formed—and how they became a part of history’s greatest social experiment.
Every US state has a unique history that deserves a separate book. The Creation of the American States provides readers with essential information...
The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life, Vol. 1
The Odyssey of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
School vouchers. The Pledge of Allegiance. The ban on government grants for theology students. The abundance of church and state issues brought before the Supreme Court in recent years underscores an incontrovertible truth in the American legal system: the relationship between the state and religion...
Islamic State
Rewriting History
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The world is watching Islamic State’s lightning advance through Syria to the gates of Baghdad. For the third time in fifteen years, the US risks being drawn into another war in the Middle East despite its experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. IS are creating catastrophic waves across the region,...
Memorials in Berlin and Buenos Aires
Balancing Memory, Architecture, and Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews in Berlin, inaugurated in 2005, and the Monument to the Victims of State Terrorism within the Memory Park (Parque de la Memoria) in Buenos Aires, partially unveiled in 2007, have been controversial from start to finish. While these sites differ in many respects, Germany...
Our India the Best
Saaray Jahan Se Achcha Hindostan Hamara
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
A strong yet balanced tone of emotional fervor rings in Asif Siddiqis plea for the political and economic re-union of India and Pakistan, which gives fresh relevance and urgency to this long -standing theme of postcolonial South Asian politics. Was Pakistan ever the pan-Muslim state it claimed to...
After the Doors Were Locked
A History of Youth Corrections in California and the Origins of Twenty-First Century Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The California youth corrections system is undergoing the most sweeping transformation in its 154-year history. The extraordinary nature of this change is revealed by the striking decline in the state’s youth incarceration rate. In 1996, with 10,000 youth confined in 11 state-run correctional facilities,...
Taxing the Church
Religion, Exemptions, Entanglement, and the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
This book explores the taxation and exemption of churches and other religious institutions, both empirically and normatively. This exploration reveals that churches and other religious institutions are treated diversely by the federal and state tax systems. Sectarian institutions pay more tax than...
Tantric State
A Buddhist Approach to Democracy and Development in Bhutan
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Today, the majority of sovereign states can be described as "democracies" because they possess elected political leadership and some measure of commitment to the protection and promotion of individual rights and equality under law. In the economic realm, most democracies are market-based and are integrated...
by John Witte, Jr., Joel A. Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
This accessible introduction tells the American story of religious liberty from its colonial beginnings to the latest Supreme Court cases. The authors provide extensive analysis of the formation of the First Amendment religion clauses and the plausible original intent or understanding of the founders....
Religion and the State
Europe and North America in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
The historiography of church-state relations in America and Europe remains a live cultural, religious, and political issue on both sides of the Atlantic. Even more, current political invocations of history illuminate the need for a thoroughly trans-Atlantic approach to the history of church-state...
Divided by God
America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
A brilliant and urgent appraisal of one of the most profound conflicts of our time
Even before George W. Bush gained reelection by wooing religiously devout "values voters," it was clear that church-state matters in the United States had reached a crisis. With Divided by God, Noah...
Lost States
True Stories of Texlahoma, Transylvania, and Other States That Never Made It
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Everyone knows the fifty nifty united states—but what about the hundreds of other statehood proposals that never came to pass? Lost States is a tribute to such great unrealized dreams as West Florida, Texlahoma, Montezuma, Rough and Ready, and Yazoo. Some of these states came remarkably close to...