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Andrew Lang

Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect

By: John Sloan

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Andrew Lang

Writer, Folklorist, Democratic Intellect

By: John Sloan

In a remarkable literary career, Andrew Lang challenged the increasing specialism that accompanied the advance of modernity and science in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, authoring an extraordinary body of rigorous, scholarly works in the fields of social anthropology, folklore, Homeric studies, history, and religion, while simultaneously turning out novels, poems for periodicals, and inexhaustible columns of prose journalism to make money. He was widely regarded as one of the most influential men of letters and reviewers of his day. He was a founding member and later President of the Folklore Society, and, with his wife, helped transform the taste in children's literature with their anthologized fairy stories for young people. G. K. Chesterton, paying tribute on Lang's death in 1912 to the scale and diversity of his legacy to the humanities, compared him to a 'kind of Indian god with a hundred hands'. Drawing on a wealth of unpublished correspondence and new sources of information, this first full biography of Lang documents in compelling detail his double existence as a scholar and journalist, the intellectual impact of his cross-disciplinary approach to learning and writing, and the critical controversies he courted as a writer and thinker to advance knowledge in the human sciences. The book also throws new light on Lang's personal life: on the uncomfortable legacy of his grandfather, whose notorious part in the Sutherland Clearances earlier in the century left its mark on the family; on the enduring influence on him of his early Scottish education and its generalist traditions of learning; and on his friendships with fellow writers, among them Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry James, Rider Haggard, Edmund Gosse, Rhoda Broughton, and William Henley. The result is a fascinating portrait of a man who lived one of the most productive lives in literature, sought to make knowledge available to everyone, and bridged, as no other, the university and the literary world, the proverbial 'Grub Street and the ivory tower'.

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Oxford University Press

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0192692364

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

By: John Snelson

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Andrew Lloyd Webber

By: John Snelson

Examines the career of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and his influence in films, rock, and pop music and surveys his life story and commercial success.

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284

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Yale University Press

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0300151136

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9780300151138

Conflagration

How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice

By: John A. Buehrens

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Conflagration

How the Transcendentalists Sparked the American Struggle for Racial, Gender, and Social Justice

By: John A. Buehrens

A dramatic retelling of the story of the Transcendentalists, revealing them not as isolated authors but as a community of social activists who shaped progressive American values. Conflagration illuminates the connections between key members of the Transcendentalist circle—including James Freeman Clarke, Elizabeth Peabody, Caroline Healey Dall, Elizabeth Stanton, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Theodore Parker, and Margaret Fuller—who created a community dedicated to radical social activism. These authors and activists laid the groundwork for democratic and progressive religion in America. In the tumultuous decades before and immediately after the Civil War, the Transcendentalists changed nineteenth-century America, leading what Theodore Parker called “a Second American Revolution.” They instigated lasting change in American society, not only through their literary achievements but also through their activism: transcendentalists fought for the abolition of slavery, democratically governed churches, equal rights for women, and against the dehumanizing effects of brutal economic competition and growing social inequality. The Transcendentalists’ passion for social equality stemmed from their belief in spiritual friendship—transcending differences in social situation, gender, class, theology, and race. Together, their fight for justice changed the American sociopolitical landscape. They understood that none of us can ever fulfill our own moral and spiritual potential unless we care about the full spiritual and moral flourishing of others.

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Beacon Press

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0807024058

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Exploring People of the New Testament

By: John Phillips

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Exploring People of the New Testament

By: John Phillips

Readers of this last volume in the series will gain fresh insight into the lives of more than forty people from the New Testament, including well-known characters such as Mary, Peter, and John, and lesser-known characters such as Anna and Nathanael. Includes outlines and numerous illustrations and quotations.

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Kregel Academic

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0825433878

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9780825433870

Riders in the Storm

The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War

By: John D. Warner

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Riders in the Storm

The Triumphs and Tragedies of a Black Cavalry Regiment in the Civil War

By: John D. Warner

The service of African-American soldiers during the Civil War is one of that conflict’s most stirring, if still not completely understood, aspects. In this comprehensive account—from recruitment into combat, and covering all the military, political, and social aspects of this story—John D. Warner recounts the history of the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment, the only Black cavalry regiment raised in the North during the war. After Massachusetts made history with the 54th and 55th Infantry Regiments, its governor wanted to continue the experiment of training African-Americans as Union fighting men, this time as cavalry. Where the infantry regiments recruited largely free Blacks from the North, the 5th focused on escaped slaves who it was believed would be better horsemen. (But not solely: the regiment’s members included a son of Frederick Douglass and, interestingly, several Hawaiian islanders.) This gave the regiment a sharper edge: not only would the former slaves be fighting for themselves, but they would be fighting to liberate loved ones still enslaved. The 5th’s officers were drawn from Boston’s abolitionist elite, including Charles Francis Adams Jr., great-grandson and grandson of U.S. presidents, son of the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom. In the spring of 1864, the regiment journeyed south and fought in Grant’s siege of Petersburg, where it joined attacks that nearly took the city in June. The 5th was then abruptly sent to Maryland to guard Confederate prisoners of war, until Col. Charles Francis Adams advocated for, and was granted, a return to combat duty. As part of the mostly Black XXV Corps, the cavalrymen found themselves at the vanguard of the Union army as it captured Richmond. On April 3, 1865, the 5th Massachusetts Cavalry Regiment was among the first units to enter the burning Confederate capital, at once a hellscape of destruction and a heaven for liberated slaves. Denied the rapid demobilization granted white regiments, the 5th ended the war in Texas on the Mexican border. In the spirit of the book One Gallant Rush and the movie Glory, Riders in the Storm covers—uncovers and indeed recovers—the story of the African-American cavalrymen of the 5th Massachusetts. Author John Warner has literal fingertip command of the primary sources, and after spending two decades researching letters, diaries, reports, newspapers, and more, he tells a story of resilience in the face of adversity, one that will resonate not just during the present moment of reckoning with race in the United States, but in the annals of American history for all time.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0811770869

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9780811770866

A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ

By: Rev. John H. Thomson

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A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ

By: Rev. John H. Thomson

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382104989

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A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

By: John Adams Vinton

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A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

By: John Adams Vinton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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3385207916

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9783385207912

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

10th Edition

By: John F. Evans

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A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

10th Edition

By: John F. Evans

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works, by John F. Evans, summarizes and briefly analyzes all recent and many older commentaries on each book of the Bible, giving insightful comments on the approach of each commentary and its interpretive usefulness especially for evangelical interpreters of the Bible. A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works is essentially an annotated bibliography of hundreds of commentators. More scholarly books receive a longer, more detailed treatment than do lay commentaries, and highly recommended commentaries have their author’s names in bold. The author keeps up on the publication of commentaries and intends to update this book every three to four years.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310520975

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9780310520979

The Casinos Project

By: John James Ross

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The Casinos Project

By: John James Ross

A ruthless European Gang with a lot of money to process decide to invest on the construction of a series of casinos, well away from known and organized centres which can be easily scrutinised by the authorities. The idea is on the same lines as the original famous Las Vegas, but this time carried out in the awe inspiring scenery of an area of a country in the Middle East, a country known as the jewel of the Middle East. The area chosen by the gang has some unexpected surprises, unknown to the gang when they embark on their project.

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AuthorHouse

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1452055548

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From Revivals to Removal

Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America

By: John A. Andrew, III

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From Revivals to Removal

Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America

By: John A. Andrew, III

Between the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the country. Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) and many others saw the debate as a battle over the soul of America. Alarmed and disturbed by the brashness of Jacksonian democracy, they feared that the still-young ideal of a stable, cohesive, deeply principled republic was under attack by the forces of individualism, liberal capitalism, expansionism, and a zealous blend of virtue and religiosity. A missionary, reformer, and activist, Jeremiah Evarts (1781-1831) was a central figure of neo-Calvinism in the early American republic. An intellectual and spiritual heir to the founding fathers and a forebear of American Victorianism, Evarts is best remembered today as the stalwart opponent of Andrew Jackson's Indian policies--specifically the removal of Cherokees from the Southeast. John A. Andrew's study of Evarts is the most comprehensive ever written. Based predominantly on readings of Evart's personal and family papers, religious periodicals, records of missionary and benevolent organizations, and government documents related to Indian affairs, it is also a portrait of the society that shaped-and was shaped by-Evart's beliefs and principles. Evarts failed to tame the powerful forces of change at work in the early republic, Evarts did manage to shape broad responses to many of them. Perhaps the truest measure of his influence is that his dream of a government based on Christian principles became a rallying cry for another generation and another cause: abolitionism.

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University of Georgia Press

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082033121X

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9780820331218

The Other Side of the Sixties

Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics

By: John A. Andrew

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The Other Side of the Sixties

Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics

By: John A. Andrew

Contains primary source documents.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813524016

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Conflagration

Conflagration

Exploring People of the New Testament

Exploring People of the New Testament

Riders in the Storm

Riders in the Storm

A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ

A Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ

A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

A Guide to Biblical Commentaries and Reference Works

The Casinos Project

The Casinos Project

From Revivals to Removal

From Revivals to Removal

The Other Side of the Sixties

The Other Side of the Sixties

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