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An Age of Infidels
The Politics of Religious Controversy in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Historian Eric R. Schlereth places religious conflict at the center of early American political culture. He shows ordinary Americans—both faithful believers and Christianity's staunchest critics—struggling with questions about the meaning of tolerance and the limits of religious freedom. In doing...
Black Walden
Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores of Walden Pond. Between the Revolution...
by Johan Elverskog
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to...
by Robert E. Hannigan
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
World War I constituted a milestone in the development of the United States as a world power. As the European powers exhausted themselves during the conflict, the U.S. government deployed its growing economic leverage, its military might, and its diplomacy to shape the outcome of the war and to influence...
The First Prejudice
Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration...
Creating East and West
Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
As the Ottoman Empire advanced westward from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, humanists responded on a grand scale, leaving behind a large body of fascinating yet understudied works. These compositions included Crusade orations and histories; ethnographic, historical, and religious studies...
The Heart and Stomach of a King
Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabeth I is said to have proclaimed, "I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king." Whether or not...
To Read My Heart
The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke, 1810-1811
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
"The Journal of Rachel Van Dyke," a compelling primary document previously unpublished, offers insights into the life and mind of a seventeen-year-old young woman, while also providing a fascinating window into the cultural and social landscape of the early national period. Rachel was a...
by G. Thomas Tanselle
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Textual criticism—the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text—is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide reliable texts for literary critics to...
Liberty of the Imagination
Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In Liberty of the Imagination, Edward Cahill uncovers the surprisingly powerful impact of eighteenth-century theories of the imagination—philosophical ideas about aesthetic pleasure, taste, genius, the beautiful, and the sublime—on American writing from the Revolutionary era to the early nineteenth...
American Gandhi
A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
When Abraham Johannes Muste died in 1967, newspapers throughout the world referred to him as the "American Gandhi." Best known for his role in the labor movement of the 1930s and his leadership of the peace movement in the postwar era, Muste was one of the most charismatic figures of the American...
Site, Sight, Insight
Essays on Landscape Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
Site, Sight, Insight presents twelve essays by John Dixon Hunt, the leading theorist and historian of landscape architecture. The collection's common theme is a focus on sites, how we see them and what we derive from that looking. Acknowledging that even the most modest landscape encounter has validity,...
Dangerous Minds
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Return of the Far Right
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and demise of the Soviet Union, prominent Western thinkers began to suggest that liberal democracy had triumphed decisively on the world stage. Having banished fascism in World War II, liberalism had now buried communism, and the result would be an end of major...
Fanny Kemble
A Performed Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007
Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical dynasty, as a fierce opponent of slavery despite...