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  • A Nation with the Soul of a Church

    How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History

    by O. C. Edwards Jr., James Dunkly ...
    From the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history—sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the course of the nation.What did 18th-century preacher Jonathan Edwards really mean to convey with is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" sermon? What Southern minister did most to encourage secession ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Knowledge Making

    Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy

    Edited by Barbara Brookes, James Dunk ...
    Paper has been the material of bureaucracy, and paperwork performs functions of order, control, and surveillance. Knowledge Making: Historians, Archives and Bureaucracy explores how those functions transform over time, allowing private challenges to the public narratives created by institutions and governments.Paperwork and bureaucratic systems have determined what we know about the past. It seems ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Bedlam at Botany Bay

    by James Dunk ...
    Madness stalked the colony of New South Wales and tracing its wild path changes the way we look at our colonial history. What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history, we find out through the tireless correspondence of governors and colonial secretaries, the delicate descriptions of judges and doctors, the brazen words of firebrand ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene

    by Christopher Schliephake, Evi Zemanek, Diana G. Barnes, Helga G. Braunbeck, Gregory J. Dehler, James Dunk, Jasmin Hettinger, Richard Hutchins, Darrel Janzen0, Serge Leopold Middendorf1, Astrid Möller2, Caroline Petit3, Lena Pfeifer4, Charles M. Pigott5, Martin Riedelsheimer6, Falko Schnicke7, Heiner Stahl8, Leila Michelle Vaziri9, Karolin Wetjen0, Rebecca J. H. Woods1 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    Anticipatory Environmental (Hi)Stories from Antiquity to the Anthropocene studies the interplay of environmental perception and the way societies throughout history have imagined the future state of “nature” and the environments in which coming generations would live. What sorts of knowledge were and are involved in outlining future environments? What kinds of texts and narrative strategies were ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • American Gospel

    God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation

    by Jon Meacham ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham presents “a nimble examination of how American leaders . . . have wrestled with God personally and publicly” (USA Today)—now featuring a new Afterword by the author“A revealing and useful primer on an important, timely, and often volatile topic.”—Chicago TribuneAt a time when our country seems divided by extremism, American ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Anarchy in Action

    by Colin Ward ...
    The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as ... Read more

    $7.29 USD

  • Histories of Suicide

    International Perspectives on Self-Destruction in the Modern World

    by John Weaver, David Wright ...
    Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year. During the post-war period, the rate of completed suicides has risen dramatically, especially among young men and Aboriginal peoples living in the Western world. While this has naturally led to growing concern amongst health care practitioners and policy experts, relatively little is known ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

  • The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus

    What's So Good About the Good News?

    by Peter J. Gomes ...
    "Gomes is an iconoclast, and his book is an alternately eloquent and folksy attack on everybody who is sure of the right answer." — NewsweekHow the Church Domesticated JesusWith his unique blend of eloquence and insight, the esteemed Harvard minister Peter J. Gomes invites us to hear anew the radical nature of Jesus' message of hope and change. Using examples from ancient times as well as from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England

    by Louise A. Jackson ...
    Series series Women's and Gender History
    Child Sexual Abuse in Victorian England is the first detailed investigation of the way that child abuse was discovered, debated, diagnosed and dealt with in the Victorian and Edwardian periods.The focus is placed on the child and his or her experience of court procedure and welfare practice, thereby providing a unique and important evaluation of the treatment of children in the courtroom. Through ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • A Matter of Record

    Documentary Sources in Social Research

    by John Scott ...
    This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on documentary sources. The book begins with an overview of the nature of social research and the variety of methods which can be used. Scott identifies ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • Healthy Minds in the Twentieth Century

    In and Beyond the Asylum

    Edited by Steven J. Taylor, Alice Brumby ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access edited collection contributes a new dimension to the study of mental health and psychiatry in the twentieth century. It takes the present literature beyond the ‘asylum and after’ paradigm to explore the multitude of spaces that have been permeated by concerns about mental well-being and illness. The chapters in this volume consciously attempt to break down institutional walls and ... Read more

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  • Founding Faith

    Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America

    by Steven Waldman ...
    The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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