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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,...

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.

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...

Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results.

Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wheelwright assume leading roles in the processes that nearly ended...

FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S SOCIETIES OF

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CONVENTION

HELD AT

Ocean Park, Old Orchard, Maine, July 8 - 9, 1885.