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  • Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation?

    Reformed Evangelism and Slavery in the Ante-Bellum American South

    by Iain Whyte ...
    Examining the history of slavery in the American South, it is impossible to separate the interpretations of Christianity from the arguments and counter-arguments surrounding liberation. In Tools of Control or Seeds of Liberation, Iain Whyte considers how this intertwining of ideologies impacted enslaved people and their relationship to religion. Tracing the legacy of the reformed tradition from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Send Back the Money!

    The Free Church of Scotland and American Slavery

    by Iain Whyte ...
    'Send Back the Money!' is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery 'Send back the Money!' campaign named after 'the hue and cry of the day' that encapsulated the argument that divided families, communities, and the Free ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora

    Series series Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World
    Faith and Slavery in the Presbyterian Diaspora considers how, in areas as diverse as the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa, men’s and women’s shared Presbyterian faith conditioned their interpretations of and interactions with the institution of chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how Presbyterians’ reactions to slavery –which ranged from abolitionism, to ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Beyond the Finite

    The Sublime in Art and Science

    Throughout its long history, and not just as the key aesthetic category for the Romantic Movement, the sublime has created the necessary link between aesthetic and moral judgment, offering the prospect of transcending the limits of measurement, even imagination. The best of science makes genuine claims to the sublime. For in science, as in art, every day brings the entirely new, the extreme, and ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Metropolis Berlin

    1880–1940

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte, David Frisby ...
    Series Book 46 - Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
    Metropolis Berlin: 1880-1940 reconstitutes the built environment of Berlin during the period of its classical modernity using over two hundred contemporary texts, virtually all of which are published in English translation for the first time. They are from the pens of those who created Berlin as one of the world’s great cities and those who observed this process: architects, city planners, ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Man-Made Future

    Planning, Education and Design in Mid-20th Century Britain

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning.Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Hot Art, Cold War � Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

    Hot Art, Cold War – Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.Translated into English for the first time from sixteen languages and introduced by scholarly essays, the texts in this volume offer a representative selection of the diverse responses ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Modernism and the Spirit of the City

    Edited by Iain Boyd Whyte ...
    Modernism and the Spirit of the City offers a new reading of the architectural modernism that emerged and flourished in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Rejecting the fashionable postmodernist arguments of the 1980s and '90s which damned modernist architecture as banal and monotonous, this collection of essays by eminent scholars investigates the complex cultural, social, and ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Hot Art, Cold War – Western and Northern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990

    Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990 is one of two text anthologies that trace the reception of American art in Europe during the Cold War era through primary sources.With the exception of those originally published in English, the majority of these texts are translated into English for the first time from eight languages, and are introduced by ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

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    Four British Folkways in America

    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Hot Protestants

    A History of Puritanism in England and America

    "The rise and fall of transatlantic puritanism is told through political, theological, and personal conflict in this exceptional history." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that ... Read more

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