wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New England
ISBN: 9780199890972 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to span the entire colonial period...very important book."
- Journal of American History "Simply breathtaking in scope. No one else has dared to grapple with the full sweep of Puritan preaching form the founding of New England through the American Revolution." - Nathan O. Hatch, University of Notre Dame "A massive achievement will stand as the definitive work on this important subject." - Reviews in American... "Both the sources he employs and the scope of his study set his work apart from all that have precede it...The first study of New England preaching to...
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202,60 zł |
The Divine Dramatist: George Whitefield and the Rise of Modern Evangelicalism
ISBN: 9780802801548 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Library Of Religious Biography is a series of original biographies on important religious figures throughout American and British history.
The Library Of Religious Biography is a series of original biographies on important religious figures throughout American and British history.
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159,47 zł |
Jonathan Edwards at 300: Essays on the Tercentenary of His Birth
ISBN: 9780761832270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The most significant scholarly conference marking the Edwards tercentenary took place in October 2003 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. The papers from that gathering are presented in this volume. They represent much of the best and most recent work being done on Edwards and reflect the wide diversity of approaches to his life, thought, and legacy.
The most significant scholarly conference marking the Edwards tercentenary took place in October 2003 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. T...
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321,77 zł |
American Aristocrats: A Family, a Fortune, and the Making of American Capitalism
ISBN: 9780465098989 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism American Aristocrats is a multigenerational biography of the Andersons of Kentucky, a family of strivers who passionately believed in the promise of America. Beginning in 1773 with the family patriarch, a twice-wounded Revolutionary War hero, the Andersons amassed land throughout what was then the American west. As the eminent religious historian Harry S. Stout argues, the story of the Andersons is the story of America's experiment in republican... The story of an ambitious family at the forefront of the great middle-class land grab that shaped early American capitalism American... |
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256,35 zł |
Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780143038764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war of ideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as a moral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S. Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war's actual conduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing on a wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mix of propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on and off the battlefield. At a time when... A profound and timely examination of the moral underpinnings of the War Between the States
The Civil War was not only a war of armies but a... |
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102,06 zł |
Lair of the Lion: A History of Beaver Stadium
ISBN: 9780271077765 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game--from the crowds and tailgates to the spectacle of the game itself--has changed significantly over the years. This richly illustrated and researched book tells the story of the structure that has evolved along with the university's celebrated football program: the iconic Beaver Stadium. Historian Lee Stout and engineering professor Harry H. West show how Beaver Stadium came to be, including a look at its predecessors, "Old" Beaver Field, built in 1893 on a site centrally... Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game--from the crowds and tailgates to... |
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137,80 zł |
An Enemy Among Them
ISBN: 9780395701089 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Margaret must test her loyalty and courage when a wounded prisoner of war is brought into her Pennsylvania home in this novel of the Revolutionary era.
Margaret must test her loyalty and courage when a wounded prisoner of war is brought into her Pennsylvania home in this novel of the Revolutionary era...
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59,33 zł |
Jonathan Edwards and the American Experience
ISBN: 9780195060775 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention in a variety of academic disciplines, including religion, history, literature, and philosophy. Because these disciplines discuss him in relation to different intellectual traditions, Edwards scholarship remains segmented. This volume represents the first attempt to provide a synthetic vision of Edwards and his contributions to American culture. Its fifteen previously unpublished essays present the best contemporary literary, historical,...
Universally recognized as a seminal figure in American intellectual history, Jonathan Edwards has been the focus of considerable scholarly attention i...
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234,91 zł |
New Directions in American Religious History
ISBN: 9780195112139 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993. Leading scholars were invited to reflect on their specialties in American religious history in ways that summarized both where the field is and where it ought to move in the decades to come.
The essays are organized according to four general themes: places and regions, universal themes, transformative events, and marginal groups and ethnocultural "outsiders." They address a wide range of specific topics including Puritanism, Protestantism... The eighteen essays collected in this book originate from a conference of the same title, held at the Wingspread Conference Center in October of 1993....
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304,54 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121285 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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789,19 zł |
Religion and the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780195121292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American Civil War. The authors show that religion, understood in its broadest context as a culture and community of faith, was found wherever the war was found. Comprising essays by such scholars as Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Drew Gilpin Faust, Mark Noll, Reid Mitchell, Harry Stout, and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, and featuring an afterword by James McPherson, this collection marks the first step towards uncovering this crucial yet neglected aspect of American...
The sixteen essays in this volume, all previously unpublished, address the little considered question of the role played by religion in the American C...
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319,45 zł |