John Fiske: 43 books

The third volume in Fiske’s acclaimed series of studies in religious philosophy, Through Nature to God, continues his typical lucidity of expression and advocacy of the theory of evolution. Here, he argues that an analysis of Nature and Nature’s way yields God.

This book is a thorough history of the American Revolution from the beginning of the crisis between American colonies and the British government until the final victories in the War which brought independence to America. Contents: The Beginnings The Crisis The Continental Congress Independence First...

It is always difficult in history to mark the beginning and end of a period. Events keep rushing on and do not pause to be divided into chapters; or, in other words, in the history which really takes place, a new chapter is always beginning long before the old one is ended. The divisions we make when...

This book contains the substance of the course of lectures given in the Old South Meeting-House in Boston in December, 1884, at the Washington University in St. Louis in May, 1885, and in the theatre of the University Club in New York in March, 1886. In its present shape it may serve as a sketch of...

This book contains the substance of the lectures originally given at the Washington University, St. Louis, in May, 1887, in the course of my annual visit to that institution as University Professor of American History. The lectures were repeated in the following month of June at Portland, Oregon,...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. Modern Development of the New World is a history of Western Civilization in the latter half of the 19th century.

“What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound? ”— the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands— is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part. From...

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The Beginnings of New England Or, the Puritan Theocracy in Its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty CONTENTS CHAPTER I. THE ROMAN IDEA AND THE ENGLISH IDEA. CHAPTER II. THE PURITAN EXODUS. CHAPTER III. THE PLANTING OF NEW ENGLAND. CHAPTER IV. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERACY. CHAPTER V. KING PHILIP'S WAR. CHAPTER VI. THE TYRANNY OF ANDROS.

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

During the seventy years which elapsed between the overthrow of the Stuart dynasty and the victory of Wolfe on the Heights of Abraham, the relations between the American colonies and the British government were, on the whole, peaceful; and the history of the colonies, except for the great and romantic...

This book, first published in 1987, sets out to examine and extend our understanding of Australian popular culture, and to counter the long-established, traditional criticism bewailing its lack. The authors argue that the 'knocker's' view started from an elitist viewpoint, yearning for Australia to...