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The Mathers

Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728

By: Robert Middlekauff

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The Mathers

Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596–1728

By: Robert Middlekauff

In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers—Richard, Increase, and Cotton Mather—in order to challenge the traditional telling of the secularization of Puritanism, a story of faith transformed by reason, science, and business. Delving into the Mathers' private papers and unpublished writings as well as their sermons and published works, Middlekauff describes a Puritan theory of religious experience that is more creative, complex, and uncompromising than traditional accounts have allowed. At the same time, he portrays changing ideas and patterns of behavior that reveal much about the first hundred years of American life.

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Univ of California Press

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0520923111

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9780520923119

Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

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Lives and Times

Individuals and Issues in American History: To 1877

By: Blaine T. Browne,Robert C. Cottrell

Lives and Times is a biographical reader designed for use in American history courses, with each volume consisting of thirteen chapters in which two significant individuals are examined in the context of a major historical issue or event. Written in a narrative style, this text offers students new and intriguing perspectives about major issues in the nation's political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and military history.

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346

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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144220558X

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9781442205581

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

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895

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130041

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9781538130049

American Philanthropy

By: Robert H. Bremner

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American Philanthropy

By: Robert H. Bremner

In this revised and enlarged edition of his classic work, Robert H. Bremner provides a social history of American philanthropy from colonial times to the present, showing the ways in which Americans have sought to do good in such fields as religion, education, humanitarian reform, social service, war relief, and foreign aid. Three new chapters have been added that concisely cover the course of philanthropy and voluntarism in the United States over the past twenty-five years, a period in which total giving by individuals, foundations, and corporations has more than doubled in real terms and in which major revisions of tax laws have changed patterns of giving. This new edition also includes an updated chronology of important dates, and a completely revised bibliographic essay to guide readers on literature in the field. "[This] book, as Bremner points out, is not encyclopedic. It is what he intended it to be, a pleasant narrative, seasoned with humorous comments, briefly but interestingly treating its principal persons and subjects. It should serve teacher and student as a springboard for further study of individuals, institutions and movements."—Karl De Schweinitz, American Historical Review "[American Philanthropy] is the starting point for both casual readers and academic scholars. . . . a readable book, important beyond its diminutive size."—Richard Magat, Foundation News

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University of Chicago Press

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0226073254

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9780226073255

American Literature Before 1880

By: Robert Lawson-Peebles

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American Literature Before 1880

By: Robert Lawson-Peebles

American Literature Before 1880 attempts to place its subject in the broadest possible international perspective. It begins with Homer looking westward, and ends with Henry James crossing the Atlantic eastwards. In between, the book examines the projection of images of the East onto an as-yet unrecognised West; the cultural consequences of Viking, Colombian, and then English migration to America; the growth and independence of the British American colonies; the key writers of the new Republic; and the development of the culture of the United States before and after the Civil War. It is intended both as an introduction for undergraduates to the richness and variety of American Literature, and as a contribution to the debate about its distinctive nature. The book therefore begins with a lengthy survey of earlier histories of American Literature.

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Routledge

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1317870387

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9781317870388

American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

By: Mitchell Robert Breitwieser

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American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

By: Mitchell Robert Breitwieser

Mary White Rowlandwon, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians during King Philip's War in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity chronicling her experience in grief, love, resentment, and ethnic trauma. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to uphold. He reveals where and how Rowlandson breaks with Puritan conventions. He points out that in American Puritan religious practice, real experiences were seen as siogns or emblems of moral abstractions. American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning will be essential reading for all who study early American literature and culture.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299126544

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9780299126544

Jens Jensen

Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens

By: Robert E. Grese

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Jens Jensen

Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens

By: Robert E. Grese

Jens Jensen was one of America's greatest landscape designers and conservationists. Using native plants and "fitting" designs, he advocated that our gardens, parks, roads, playgrounds, and cities should be harmonious with nature and its ecological processes--a belief that was to become a major theme of modern American landscape design. When Jensen died in 1951 at the age of 90, the New York Times called him "the dean of American landscape architecture." In Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens, Robert E. Grese evaluates Jensen's work against the background of landscape design traditions that included Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as earlier movements in Europe. Grese examines Jensen's part in the Chicago cultural renaissance that occurred just prior to World War I, a movement that brought social reform, a new understanding of ecology, organic trends in architecture, and great strides in American literature. Drawing on Jensen's writings and plans, interviews with people who knew him, and analyses of his projects, Grese presents a clear picture of Jensen's efforts to enhance and preserve "native" landscapes. Jens Jensen worked with some of the leading architects of his day--Sullivan and Wright among them--so many of his projects involved the extravagant estates of wealthy entrepreneurs in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and elsewhere. But Jensen also worked on schools, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, institutional homes, and government buildings. Long before environmental activists took over the idea, he foresaw the need to preserve the dunes, forests, prairies, and wetlands native to the Middle West. He championed the network of forest preserves around Chicago, protection of the Indiana Dunes (now a national lakeshore), the state park system in Illinois, and numerous parks in Wisconsin. Jens Jensen: Maker of Natural Parks and Gardens offers a compelling look at Jensen's visionary work and remarkable career.

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JHU Press

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0801859476

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9780801859472

Introduction to California Plant Life

Revised Edition

By: Robert Ornduff,Phyllis M. Faber,Todd Keeler Wolf

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Introduction to California Plant Life

Revised Edition

By: Robert Ornduff,Phyllis M. Faber,Todd Keeler Wolf

California's remarkably diverse plants range in size from the stately coast redwoods to the minute belly plants of the southern deserts. This is the only concise overview of the state's unique flora, its plant communities, and the environmental factors that shape them. 156 illustrations.

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Univ of California Press

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0520237048

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9780520237049

Perrysburg Historic Architecture

By: C. Robert Boyd

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Perrysburg Historic Architecture

By: C. Robert Boyd

A pictorial depiction of historic homes and buildings in Perrysburg, Ohio. The collection focuses on homes and is divided into decades beginning with the 1820's and ending with the 1910-1930.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738534021

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9780738534022

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

American Philanthropy

American Philanthropy

American Literature Before 1880

American Literature Before 1880

American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning

Jens Jensen

Jens Jensen

Introduction to California Plant Life

Introduction to California Plant Life

Perrysburg Historic Architecture

Perrysburg Historic Architecture

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