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  • The Myth of American Individualism

    The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought

    by Barry Alan Shain ...
    Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • The Founders on God and Government

    by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Thomas E. Buckley, S J, Mark David Hall, Howard L. Lubert, Vincent Philip Muñoz, Barry Alan Shain0, Garrett Ward Sheldon1, James R. Stoner2, John Witte Jr.3 ...
    "In God We Trust?" The separation of church and state is a widely contested topic in the American political arena. Whether for or against, debaters frequently base their arguments in the Constitution and the principles of the American founding. However, Americans' perception of the founding has narrowed greatly over the years, focusing on a handful of eminent statesmen.By exploring the work of ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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    Alibi for a Judge & other plays

    Eight Full-Cast Vintage BBC Radio Dramatisations

    by Henry Cecil ...
    Narrated by Cecil Parker, Monica Grey, Norman Shelley, David Spenser, Naunton Wayne, Basil Dawson, Alan Barry, John Westbrook, Joan Matheson, Peter Sallis, Sarah Badel, Peter Howell, Paul Daneman, Peter Williams, Gerald Cross ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 21 min

    Eight thrilling tales from the writer of Brothers in Law, featuring courtroom cases, legal wranglings, conspiracy and blackmailBarrister and county court judge, Henry Cecil wrote numerous comic stories set in the legal world, most famously Brothers in Law. Collected here are eight vintage dramas based on his works, beginning with an adaptation of his debut novel, The Painswick Line, a tale of a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    The Playboy of the Western World & The Well of Saints

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama Productions

    by J.M. Synge ...
    Narrated by Dillie Keane, Cyril Cusack, Kate Binchy, Alan Barry, Aisling O'Sullivan, Finbar Lynch, Marie Kean, Kevin Flood, Rosalind Shanks, Martin Dempsey, Michael Elphick, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    Two of J M Synge’s remarkable plays and an exploration of the man, his work and his life on the Aran IslandsJ M Synge was one of the giants of Irish theatre, and a leading dramatist of the Irish Literary Renaissance. Together with W B Yeats and others, he co-founded Dublin’s famous Abbey Theatre in 1904, and was a director there until his death in 1909. He is best known for his comic masterpiece ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

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  • The White Image in the Black Mind

    African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925

    by Mia Bay ...
    How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American perceptions of whites between 1830 and 1925 to depict America's shifting attitudes about race in a ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • The Roads to Modernity

    The British, French, and American Enlightenments

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the ... Read more

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  • Conservatism

    A Rediscovery

    by Yoram Hazony ...
    The idea that American conservatism is identical to "classical" liberalism—widely held since the 1960s—is seriously mistaken.The award-winning political theorist Yoram Hazony argues that the best hope for Western democracy is a return to the empiricist, religious, and nationalist traditions of America and Britain—the conservative traditions that brought greatness to the English-speaking nations ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Civil War as a Theological Crisis

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Series series The Steven and Janice Brose Lectures in the Civil War Era
    Viewing the Civil War as a major turning point in American religious thought, Mark A. Noll examines writings about slavery and race from Americans both white and black, northern and southern, and includes commentary from Protestants and Catholics in Europe and Canada. Though the Christians on all sides agreed that the Bible was authoritative, their interpretations of slavery in Scripture led to a ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • America's God

    From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln

    by Mark A. Noll ...
    Religious life in early America is often equated with the fire-and-brimstone Puritanism best embodied by the theology of Cotton Mather. Yet, by the nineteenth century, American theology had shifted dramatically away from the severe European traditions directly descended from the Protestant Reformation, of which Puritanism was in the United States the most influential. In its place arose a ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    by Teresa Anne Murphy ...
    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Read more

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  • The Origins of American Religious Nationalism

    by Sam Haselby ...
    Series series Religion in America
    Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism. Following U.S. independence, the new republic faced vital challenges, including a vast and unique continental colonization project undertaken ... Read more

    $34.19 USD