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  • Ways of Writing

    The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

    par David D. Hall ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil ... En savoir plus

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  • Ways of Writing

    The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England

    par David D. Hall ...
    Collections series Material Texts
    Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to attempt verse, and many more to narrate a remarkable experience, provide written testimony to a civil ... En savoir plus

    $28.07 CAD

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    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeIn this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present. ... En savoir plus

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  • Albion's Seed

    Four British Folkways in America

    Collections series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... En savoir plus

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  • The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England

    Witchcraft in Colonial New England

    "A pioneer work in . . . the sexual structuring of society. This is not just another book about witchcraft."--Edmund S. Morgan, Yale UniversityConfessing to "Familiarity with the Devils," Mary Johnson, a servant, was executed by Connecticut officials in 1648. A wealthy Boston widow, Ann Hibbens, was hanged in 1656 for casting spells on her neighbors. In 1662, Ann Cole was "taken with very strange ... En savoir plus

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  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    par Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... En savoir plus

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  • Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul

    Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty

    par John M. Barry ...
    A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great InfluenzaFor four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and ... En savoir plus

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  • Worldly Saints

    The Puritans As They Really Were

    par Leland Ryken ...
    "Ryken's Worldly Saints offers a fine introduction to seventeenth-century Puritanism in its English and American contexts. The work is rich in quotations from Puritan worthies and is ideally suited to general readers who have not delved widely into Puritan literature. It will also be a source of information and inspiration to those who seek a clearer understanding of the Puritan roots of American ... En savoir plus

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  • Salem Possessed

    The Social Origins of Witchcraft

    Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill.The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in ... En savoir plus

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  • The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861

    Enriched edition. A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War

    Carter Godwin Woodson's "The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861" meticulously details the oppressive educational landscape faced by African Americans before the American Civil War. Through a blend of historical analysis and narrative, Woodson elucidates the systemic barriers and societal attitudes that stunted educational opportunities for Black individuals. His scholarly approach is underscored ... En savoir plus

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  • Against Slavery

    An Abolitionist Reader

    Modifié par Mason Lowance ...
    "An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."—Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade, featuring writing by William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Maria Child, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $15.99 CAD Maintenant $6.99 CAD

  • America's God

    From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

    par Mark A. Noll ...
    Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a ... En savoir plus

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