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The Refiner's Fire

The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

By: John L. Brooke

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The Refiner's Fire

The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844

By: John L. Brooke

This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521565642

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Columbia Rising

Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

By: John L. Brooke

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Columbia Rising

Civil Life on the Upper Hudson from the Revolution to the Age of Jackson

By: John L. Brooke

In Columbia Rising, Bancroft Prize-winning historian John L. Brooke explores the struggle within the young American nation over the extension of social and political rights after the Revolution. By closely examining the formation and interplay of political structures and civil institutions in the upper Hudson Valley, Brooke traces the debates over who should fall within and outside of the legally protected category of citizen. The story of Martin Van Buren threads the narrative, since his views profoundly influenced American understandings of consent and civil society and led to the birth of the American party system. Brooke's analysis of the revolutionary settlement as a dynamic and unstable compromise over the balance of power offers a window onto a local struggle that mirrored the nationwide effort to define American citizenship.

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UNC Press Books

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080783887X

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9780807838877

The Heart of the Commonwealth

Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713-1861

By: John L. Brooke

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The Heart of the Commonwealth

Society and Political Culture in Worcester County, Massachusetts 1713-1861

By: John L. Brooke

Presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and liberalism in Worchester Country, Massachusetts, from its settlement to the eve of the Civil War.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521673399

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9780521673396

The Clerical Dilemma

Peter of Blois and Literate Culture in the Twelfth Century

By: John D. Cotts

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The Clerical Dilemma

Peter of Blois and Literate Culture in the Twelfth Century

By: John D. Cotts

The Clerical Dilemma is the first book-length study of Peter of Blois's life, thought, and writings in any language

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337

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CUA Press

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0813216761

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9780813216768

Climate Change and the Course of Global History

A Rough Journey

By: John L. Brooke

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Climate Change and the Course of Global History

A Rough Journey

By: John L. Brooke

The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.

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655

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Cambridge University Press

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0521871646

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American Pronghorn

Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past

By: John A. Byers

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American Pronghorn

Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past

By: John A. Byers

Based on the behavior of American pronghorn antelope--which exhibit certain unexplainable "defense" characteristics--zoologist John A. Byers theorizes the animals' mystifying behaviors evolved in response to dangerous predators of their ancient past. Byers's provocative hypothesis suggests that other species' adaptations also are haunted by ghosts of predators past. 41 photos. 111 line drawings.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226086992

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9780226086996

Brigham Young

Pioneer Prophet

By: John G. Turner

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Brigham Young

Pioneer Prophet

By: John G. Turner

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical exposé, John Turner provides a fully realized portrait of a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion. After the 1844 murder of Mormon founder Joseph Smith, Young gathered those Latter-day Saints who would follow him and led them over the Rocky Mountains. In Utah, he styled himself after the patriarchs, judges, and prophets of ancient Israel. As charismatic as he was autocratic, he was viewed by his followers as an indispensable protector and by his opponents as a theocratic, treasonous heretic. Under his fiery tutelage, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints defended plural marriage, restricted the place of African Americans within the church, fought the U.S. Army in 1857, and obstructed federal efforts to prosecute perpetrators of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. At the same time, Young's tenacity and faith brought tens of thousands of Mormons to the American West, imbued their everyday lives with sacred purpose, and sustained his church against adversity. Turner reveals the complexity of this spiritual prophet, whose commitment made a deep imprint on his church and the American Mountain West.

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Harvard University Press

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0674071794

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Wolf by the Ears

The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

By: John R. Van Atta

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Wolf by the Ears

The Missouri Crisis, 1819–1821

By: John R. Van Atta

The first organized Louisiana Purchase territory to lie completely west of the Mississippi River and northwest of the Ohio, Missouri carried special significance for both pro- and anti-slavery advocates. Northern congressmen leaped out of their seats to object to the proposed expansion of the slave 'empire,' while slave-state politicians voiced outrage at the Northerners' blatant sectional attack. Although the Missouri confrontation ultimately appeared to end amicably with a famous compromise that the wily Kentuckian Henry Clay helped to cobble together, the passions it unleashed proved vicious, widespread, and long lasting. Van Atta deftly explains how the Missouri crisis revealed the power that slavery had already gained over American nation building. He explores the external social, cultural, and economic forces that gave the confrontation such urgency around the country, as well as the beliefs, assumptions, and fears that characterized both sides of the slavery argument.

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JHU Press

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1421416530

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9781421416533

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke

By: John Mercer Brooke

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Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

The Journal and Letters of John M. Brooke

By: John Mercer Brooke

His copious correspondence about military and personal matters from the war yields detailed and often unexpected insights into the Confederacy's naval operations."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570034184

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9781570034183

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

THE QUEST FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM: A MORMON GENERATIONAL SAGA

By: JOHN J HAMMOND

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Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

THE QUEST FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM: A MORMON GENERATIONAL SAGA

By: JOHN J HAMMOND

This is the first volume of a multi-volume work entitled The Quest for the New Jerusalem: Mormon Generational Saga , and it ends with a listing of the titles of all sixteen volumes in this series which have been written to this point. Before discussing the first volume, it is necessary to describe the entire series. Around the year 2000 the author began a thorough investigation of his genealogical roots, and to his surprise discovered that many of his ancestors had played significant roles in the early history of America and central roles in the history of Mormonism. Wherever he looked, his ancestors were there: during the colonial King Phillip’s and French and Indian Wars in New England; at the Battle of Bunker (actually Breed’s) Hill and on a prison ship for two years on the Hudson River during the American Revolution; on whaling ships in the south Atlantic and northern Pacific during the 1840s; at Mormon Kirtland, Far West and Nauvoo during the turbulent and often bloody events of the 1830s and 1840s; in the earliest Mormon experiments with polygamy (almost all of the author’s ancestors were polygamists); in San Francisco and Sacramento during the earliest stages of the California Gold Rush; in the immigrant ships filled with Mormon converts crossing the Atlantic; in the wagon trains carrying the “saints” across the plains to Salt Lake City; during the establishment of the Mormon Church in Hawaii in the early 1850s; in the first haltering steps toward elementary and higher education in Utah; during the “Mormon War” with the U.S. army in Utah in 1857-58; in the operation of the early Salt Lake Theater; in the building of the transcontinental railroad across Utah in 1869; in the settlement of the wild “four corners area” during the 1880s and 1890s; in the rather secret and somewhat underhanded process by which Utah became a state; and in the pioneer settlement of southern Idaho in the early 1900s. The author felt impelled to tell these wonderful ancestral stories, and it became obvious that this could not be done without giving an account of the history of the Mormon Church—the two subjects were intimately interwoven. Furthermore, telling the linked ancestral/Mormon story, beginning in the American colonial period, could not be adequately undertaken without giving an account of significant events in the larger American story. In recent years a number of writers have given us fascinating, generational family stories; Alex Haley’s Roots is a well known example. Haley traced his African-American family all the way back to a slave taken from a village in Africa. In 1991 Chinese-American Jung Chang’s, in her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, told a wonderful story of three generations of Chinese women--her great grandmother, grandmother, and mother--reaching back to China. Adele Logan Alexander’s Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family is an account of several generations of the author’s African-American family. Concerning another example--James Fox’s The Langhornes of Virginia --reviewer Robert Skidelsky wrote: “It was a clever idea to use family history to write about social and political history.” What Fox does is to use “the Langhorne sisters as a peg on which to hang the story of the decline of the British aristocracy, or Empire, or both.” John Hammond’s multi-volume Mormon Generational Saga evolved into something very similar to Fox’s, but he utilizes family history to write about religious as well as social and political history. In fact, what has emerged is a very detailed examination of the early history of the Mormon Church, with a special focus upon how that history affected his ancestors. The series opens in the earliest years of colonial New England with an account of four of the author’s ancestral families and the early lives and ancesto

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462873650

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Liberty, Equality, Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson

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Liberty, Equality, Power

A History of the American People

By: John Murrin,James M. McPherson

Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, Concise Edition provides students with a clear understanding of how power is gained, lost, and used in both public and private life. This concise version retains the narrative clarity, unparalleled coverage, and thematic unity of the larger text while fashioning an unmatched integration of social and cultural history into a political story. The concise version' s emphasis on clarity and brevity provides a leaner and clearer presentation for introductory American history students. It retains the same strong chronological and thematic framework as the bigger text, but offers a more manageable option for instructors concerned about too much material and too little time.

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0534169430

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Securing the West

Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850

By: John R. Van Atta

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Securing the West

Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785–1850

By: John R. Van Atta

John R. Van Atta examines the visions of the founding generation and the increasing influence of ideological differences in the years after the peace of 1815. Americans expected the country to grow westward, but on the details of that growth they held strongly different opinions. What part should Congress play in this development? How much should public land cost? What of the families and businesses left behind, and how would society's institutions be established in the West? What of the premature settlers, the "squatters" who challenged the rule of law while epitomizing democratic daring?

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1421412756

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Book's by John L. Brooke

The Refiner's Fire

The Refiner's Fire

Columbia Rising

Columbia Rising

The Heart of the Commonwealth

The Heart of the Commonwealth

The Clerical Dilemma

The Clerical Dilemma

Climate Change and the Course of Global History

Climate Change and the Course of Global History

American Pronghorn

American Pronghorn

Brigham Young

Brigham Young

Wolf by the Ears

Wolf by the Ears

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

Ironclads and Big Guns of the Confederacy

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

Liberty, Equality, Power

Liberty, Equality, Power

Securing the West

Securing the West

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