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Jews, Turks, And Infidels

by Morton Borden

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 Reveals the ways in which many Protestants worked to maintain preferential treatment for Christians in common law, state constitutions, and federal practices, even attempting through amendment to alter the meaning of the US Constitution. Even though religious freedom was guaranteed, it took the sustained efforts of vigilant Jews to fulfil the constitution's promise of religious equality.
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English Radicals And The American Revolution

by Colin Bonwick

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 Bonwick brings together related elements that have been treated separately on previous occasions - English radicals as personalities, their relations with one another, their connections with Americans; the imperial controversy between England and the colonies; the movement for parliamentary reform in England; and the campaign for civil rights for Dissenters.
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Religion And Politics In The Age Of The Counterreformation - Emperor Ferdinand Ii, William Lamormaini, S.J., And The Formation Of The Imperial Policy

by Robert Bireley, S.J.

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 Explores the relationship between Ferdinand and Lamormaini during the Thirty Years War. The author shows how Lamormaini planned for the restoration of Catholicism in Germany and documents in detail his influence on Ferdinand, his conflict with Ferdinand's first minister, and his relationships with other important figures in Vienna and Rome.
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Planters And The Making Of A "New South - Class, Politics, And Development In North Carolina, 1865-1900

by Dwight B. Billings

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 Billings disputes the assumption that an incipient merchant class built the state's cotton mills; he reveals that a majority of the early mills were owned by prominent planters and agrarians. He shows the persistent hegemony and support for industrialization among the landed upper class and describes several generations of five powerful North Carolina families.
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Dr. John Mitchell - The Man Who Made The Map Of North America

by Dorothy Smith Berkeley

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 Offers the first full-length biography of a man who was primarily a botanist but who is best known for his map of North America. One of the period's outstanding cartographical achievements, Mitchell's map served as the basis for the Treaty of 1783 and for the still-existing United States-Canadian border.
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Saints And Sectaries - Anne Hutchinson And The Antinomian Controversy In The Massachusetts Bay Colony

by Emery Battis

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 This brilliant, dramatic reconstruction of the Puritan mind in action, informed with psychological and sociological insights, provides a fresh understanding of Anne Hutchinson and the Antinomian controversy in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and gives her controversy with the Puritan Saints a new dimension in American colonial history.
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The French Experience In Mexico, 1821-1861 - A History Of Constant Misunderstanding

by Nancy Nichols Barker

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 This is the first scholarly appraisal of relations between France and Mexico from the time Mexico achieved independence until Emperor Napoleon III decided to intervene and place Maximilian on the Mexican throne. Barker shows that economic, political, demographic, and behavioral factors led to chronic friction between the two countries and contributed to the buildup of an ideology of intervention.
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Poverty And Politics - The Rise And Decline Of The Farm Security Administration

by Sidney Baldwin

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 This book is more than a case study of the Farm Security Administration. It not only deals with the history of farm politics but also provides a fresh perspective and gives depth of understanding to issues such as the role of farm organisations, the behavior of many prominent people of the time, and problems of antipoverty programs generally.
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The Economics Of Soviet Merchant-Shipping Policy

by Robert E. Athay

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 This study is the first to examine systematically the economic foundations of Soviet shipping policy. It describes the increase in the merchant fleet of the USSR since the early 1950s and assesses the extent to which the heavy commitment of resources to this program has been worthwhile from the standpoint of economic efficiency.
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Organized Labor And The Mexican Revolution Under Lazaro Cardenas

by Joe C. Ashby

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 In this book one can trace the determined growth of the Mexican labor movement from the time of an uneasy imperialist government to a system of firmer self-sufficiency. Behind the struggles of the period looms the powerful figure of Cardenas, ever ready to support the efforts of labour and to suppress excesses.
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The Phenomenology Of Henry James

by Paul B. Armstrong

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Nations Before Nationalism

by John A. Armstrong

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Liberia - America'S African Friend

by R. Earle Anderson

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 Presents a concise account of Liberia's dramatic and often stormy history as an independent Negro republic founded on American idealism; a vivid picture of Liberia today; and a shrewd analysis of the opportunities that Liberia offers for enlightened collaboration by American business and government.
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A History Of The "National Intelligencer

by William E. Ames

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 During the first half of the nineteenth century, the aristocrat of Washington, DC journalism was the National Intelligencer. It served important educational and policy-making functions in relation to the federal government from the time it was born to fight for the cause of Thomas Jefferson's liberalism until it died espousing a conservatism that had no party to support it.
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Rudolf Otto - An Introduction To His Philosophical Theology

by Philip C. Almond

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 Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the German Pietists. Elements of Otto's theories are shown to be closely related to the social and intellectual milieu of Germany both before and after World War I.
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Prophets Of Rebellion - Millenarian Protest Movements Against The European Colonial Order

by Michael Adas

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 Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems. Arranged topically to emphasize comparative patterns, the study analyzes causes, leaders, organisation, failure, and the impact on the individual society.
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Philosophy And The Modern Mind

by E. Maynard Adams

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 In this unique philosophical critique of modern Western civilization, Adams argues that contemporary culture is deranged by false assumptions about the human mind. He sees a growing gap between the subjectivistic culture and the structure of reality which has not only produced
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The Freedmen'S Bureau In South Carolina, 1865 - 1872

by Martin Abbott

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 Abbott's book deals with the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency that faced the main challenge of defining the meaning of freedom for four million slaves after the Civil War. He records the difficulties that resulted from the urgency of the needs the bureau sought to remedy and the issue of whether the bureau may have used its position to further the cause of Radical Republicanism.
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The Frame And The Mirror - On Collage And The Postmodern

by Thomas Brockelman

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 This work seeks to probe the distinctive character of the postmodern situation and the philosophical problem of representation. Brockelman juxtaposes critics and art historical figures to conduct a debate about issues such as truth in art, perspectivism, theatricality and urbanism.
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Bodies Of Resistance - New Phenomenologies Of Politics, Agency And Culture

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 An exploration of the traumas and possibilities of embodiment as it is lived in a political world. Unveiling the influence of phenomenology, particularly in that of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, on contemporary thought, it cuts across different disciplines in its analysis.
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Future Crossings - Literature Between Philosophy And Cultural Studies

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 A collection of essays exploring the future of literary studies by focusing on the relationship between literary theory, philosophy, and cultural studies. The essays aim to break the boundaries separating philosophy and literature.
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Hieroglyphs Of Another World - On Poetry, Swedenborg And Other Matters

by Ilya Kutik

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 This collection of essays seeks to contribute to ongoing efforts to build contemporary theories of image, metaphor, metre, rhythm, and other key concepts of avant-garde and postmodern poetry that define contemporary poetics and critical theory.
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Governor Henry Horner, Chicago Politics And The Great Depression

by Charles J. Masters

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 Examines Henry Horner's (Illinois' first Jewish governor) management of the political and economic challenges of the state when millions of Americans were jobless and hungry. This work shows how Horner, stemmed foreclosures, dealt with bank closings, soothed massive labor unrest, fed the hungry, and confronted the threat of revolution.
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Maps And Mirrors - Topologies Of Art And Politics

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 The essays in this collection explore the links and gaps between the aesthetic and the political at the intersection of philosophy and literature. They do so by interrogating voices of aesthetic and literary theory, raising questions about the political contexts and commitments of thinkers.
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