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Puritans did not find a life free from tyranny in the New World-they created it there. Massachusetts emerged a republic as they hammered out a vision of popular participation and limited government in church and state, spurred by Plymouth Pilgrims. Godly Republicanism underscores how pathbreaking yet rooted in puritanism's history the project was.

Michael Winship takes us first to England, where he uncovers the roots of the puritans' republican ideals in the aspirations and struggles of Elizabethan Presbyterians. Faced with the twin tyrannies of Catholicism and the crown,...

2017 Reprint of 1899 Second Edition.  Modern flat Earth hypotheses originated with the English writer Samuel Rowbotham (1816–1884).  Based on conclusions derived from the Bedford Level experiment, Rowbotham published Zetetic Astronomy. He later expanded into a book Earth Not a Globe, proposing the Earth is a flat disc centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, Antarctica, with the Sun and Moon 3,000 miles and the "cosmos" 3,100 miles above Earth. He also published a leaflet titled "The Inconsistency of Modern Astronomy...

This book contains advice from some of the world's best dancers and choreographers, covering subjects both motivational and mundane. How do I get hired as a dancer? Where and when should I train? How can I protect my body from injury? How do I become a choreographer? A revealing and instructive look at what it means to be a dancer.

During the 1630s, religious controversies drove a wedge into the puritan communities of Massachusetts. Anne Hutchinson and other members began to speak out against mainstream doctrine, while...

PREFACE

In locating the Fifth Annual Conference of the Y . P . S. of C. E. at Saratoga, the Executive Committee were influenced by the fact that the work had spread so widely during the past year that it was no longer fair to a large constituency to ask of them to come so far east as the localities where the earlier conferences had been held. Saratoga seemed to be about a central point, as nearly as could be judged. Saratoga, too, was easily reached from all...