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  • Stephen Girard

    Captain of American Enterprise and Philanthropy

    by Alexander Lawrence Ames ...
    Series series Routledge Historical Americans
    This book is the first systematic scholarly analysis of Stephen Girard’s views on race, gender, class, and enslavement, connecting the details of Girard’s life with litigation surrounding his estate and school.By the time Girard died, the merchant banker was one of the wealthiest men in the United States. He shocked the people of his adopted city and nation by posthumously devoting his fortune to ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

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  • The Word in the Wilderness

    Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania

    by Alexander Lawrence Ames ...
    Series series Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies
    Once a vibrant part of religious life for many Pennsylvania Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Fraktur manuscripts today are primarily studied for their decorative qualities. The Word in the Wilderness takes a different view, probing these documents for what they tell us about the lived religious experiences of the Protestant communities that made and used them and opening avenues ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Elusive Archives

    Material Culture in Formation

    by Julian Yates, Wendy Bellion, Julie L. McGee, Torsten Cress, Cindy Ott, Laura E. Helton, Jennifer Van Horn, Kiersten Thamm, Alexandra Ward, Alexander Lawrence Ames, Halina Adams, Rosalie Hooper, Sarah Wasserman, Spencer Wigmore, Catherine Morrissey, Michelle Everidge, Kaila T. Schedeen, Lu Ann De Cunzo, Natalie Elizabeth Wright, Oliver Scheiding, J. Ritchie Garrison, Jesse Kraft, Michael J. Emmons, Jessica Conrad, Bernard L. Herman ...
    Series series Material Culture Perspectives
    The essays that comprise Elusive Archives raise a common question: how do we study material culture when the objects of study are transient, evanescent, dispersed or subjective? Such things resist the taxonomic protocols that institutions, such as museums and archives, rely on to channel their acquisitions into meaningful collections. What holds these disparate things together here are the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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    An Introduction to Unitarian Universalism

    by John Buehrens, Forrest Church ...
    For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. In this new edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism, which includes a revealing, entertaining foreword by best-selling author Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Philology

    The Forgotten Origins of the Modern Humanities

    by James Turner ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "philology" was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more. In short, ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Early Christian Literature

    Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture

    by Robyn Faith Walsh ...
    Conventional approaches to the Synoptic gospels argue that the gospel authors acted as literate spokespersons for their religious communities. Whether described as documenting intra-group 'oral traditions' or preserving the collective perspectives of their fellow Christ-followers, these writers are treated as something akin to the Romantic poet speaking for their Volk - a questionable framework ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • American Transcendentalism

    A History

    by Philip F. Gura ...
    The first comprehensive history of the nineteenth-century American intellectual movement.American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America's first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked American reform in the decades before and following the America Civil War. Philip F. Gura masterfully traces their ... Read more

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  • Landscape Theory

    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
    Series series The Art Seminar
    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Ordinary Notes

    by Christina Sharpe ...
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  • Jesus in America

    Personal Savior, Cultural Hero, National Obsession

    by Richard W. Fox ...
    Where else but America do people ask: What Would Jesus Do?What Would Jesus Drive?What Would Jesus Eat?"This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him."—from the IntroductionJesus in America is a comprehensive exploration of the vital role that the figure of Jesus has played ... Read more

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  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

    by Wade Graham ...
    “American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge“Informative and absolutely engrossing.” —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's DomeGarden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision ... Read more

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