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Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of ...

Man’s Better Angels: Romantic Reformers and the Coming of ...

Philip F. Gura

Philip Gura captures a Romantic moment that was soon overtaken by civil war and postwar pragmatism.
The Life of William Apess, Pequot

The Life of William Apess, Pequot

Philip F. Gura

Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life.
America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century

America's Instrument: The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century

Philip F. Gura

Philip Gura and Jame An illustrated history of 'America 's instrument," the five-stringed banjo, from its origins in the gourd instruments of enslaved Africans to the sophisticated musical machine so loved by Americans at the turn of the ...
Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

Truth's Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

Philip F. Gura

From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes Truth's Ragged Edge, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century.
Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical

Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelical

Philip F. Gura

Tracing Jonathan Edwards' life from his birth in 1703 to his untimely death in 1758, Gura magnificently reasserts Edwards rightful claim as the father of America's evangelical tradition.
American Transcendentalism: A History

American Transcendentalism: A History

Philip F. Gura

41 Cited in Philip Judd Brockway, Sylvester Judd (1813–1853): Novelist of Transcendentalism (Orono, Maine: University Press, 1941), 79. Also see Richard D. Hathaway, Sylvester Judd's New England (University Park: Pennsylvania State ...
A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New ...

A Glimpse of Sion's Glory: Puritan Radicalism in New ...

Philip F. Gura

Examines the development of radical sects dissenting from the mainstream of Puritan thought and analyzes the influence of these sects on New England culture
Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards Philip F. Gura. Loyalty: If such as these stand at a Distance, at such a Time, it will be much more taken Notice of, and will awaken the Princes Jealousy and Displeasure much more, than such a Behaviour in the common ...
C.F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873

C.F. Martin & His Guitars, 1796-1873

Philip F. Gura

On Panormo see Turnbull, Guitar, 68—70; Alexander Bellow, The Illustrated History of the Guitar (Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Franco Colombo Publications, 1970) , 173, 177—79; Stewart Button, The Guitar in England, 1800—1924. (New York: ...
Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher Collected Works, Foreword by Ken Fisher: ...

Philip A. Fisher

Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits, Paths to Wealth through Common Stocks, Conservative Investors Sleep Well, and Developing an Investment Philosophy Philip A. Fisher. Copyright © 1996, 2003 by Philip A. Fisher. All rights reserved.
A Political Companion to Philip Roth

A Political Companion to Philip Roth

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Aimee Pozorski, “On Philip Roth: Ethics and Elegy after the Holocaust,” Philip Roth, ed. Pozorski (Ipswich, MA: Salem, 2013), 6. 2. “Politics,” in Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014). 3. Ibid. 4. Philip Roth, I Married a ...
The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

The Cody family in America, 1698: descendants of Philip and ...

Lydia Sarah Cody

descendants of Philip and Martha, Massachusetts, biographical and genealogical Lydia Sarah Cody, International Cody Association. 293 Sylvester, b. ... 123 NANCY CODY 5 (John 4, Philip 3, Joseph 3, Philip 1), b. Oct. 6, 1786 at Dudley, ...
Critical Mass

Critical Mass

Philip Ball

Philip Ball ... l have been encouraged as ever by the good judgement of my agent Peter Robinson and the support of my wife Julia. Philip Ball London, October 2003 1.1 1.2 2.1 3.1 5.1 Picture credits Thomas Hobbes by Acknowledgements.
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

The Best Spiritual Writing 2012

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Philip Zaleski. Tfie 'Best Spiritual 'Writing 2012 4%~ llildly PHILIP ZALESKI 'Tfie ' Best Spirituaf Wrifing 2012 .%~ Ediredfiy PHILIP ZALESKI Introduction. Ixtradurtian PHILIP WDJIC ELY rlrliifl noon Front Cover.
Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Try to Control Yourself: The Regulation of Public Drinking ...

Dan Malleck

On normalization, I draw on the work of Philip Corrigan, notably Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer, The GreatArch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution (London: Blackwell, 1985), but also Philip Corrigan, “Viewpoint: ...
Walking Dead Omnibus

Walking Dead Omnibus

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Bruce Cooper is just one man—a single cog in the Woodbury machine—but he secretly meant the world to Philip. Other than Gabe, Bruce was the closest thing to a friend Philip had in this world. Philip confided in Bruce, let him see the ...
The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

The Exegesis of Philip K Dick

Philip K. Dick

Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the ...
Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

Materijali za istorijata na Makedonija

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Ward, Philip, The Small Publisher: A Manual and Case Histories (sec Ward, Audrey Joan) Ward, Philip, Television Plays, The Oleander Press, 1976. 8ViXl I; I6pp; pa/$3.25 (ISBN 0-902675-45-1); Important new British TV drama. Ward, Philip ...
Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Literary life of Charles Philip Brown [by himself].

Charles Philip Brown

Charles Philip Brown. Kanadi manuscripts stored up in the India House library, of which I framed a Catalogue, at the request of Professor Wilson. The Honourable Court of Directors in March 1837 bestowed upon me their thanks.
Crossroads in Literature and Culture

Crossroads in Literature and Culture

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Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995b. ''The short happy life or a science fiction writer.'' In: The shifting realities of Philip K. Dick. Selected literary and philosophical writings, ed. Lawrence Sutin, 44-53, London: Vintage Books. Dick, Philip Kindred. 1995c.
Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Narrative of the literary life of Charles Philip Brown, etc

Charles Philip BROWN

Charles Philip BROWN. that the art will prosper. I hope that it's effects ... Let them only begin with £ endeavours and full determination ; and God will open e way for their progress and final success. As I £ : had to make my own tools : to write my ...
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the ...

The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the ...

James Edward Burton

Lawrence Sutin (Novato, CA: Underwood-Miller). Dick, Philip K. (1991b [1963]), The Game-Players of Titan (London: Grafton). Dick, Philip K. (1991c [1977]), A Scanner Darkly (New York: Vintage). Dick, Philip K. (1991d [1981]), VALIS (New  ...
Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson

Studies in Numismatic Method: Presented to Philip Grierson

Philip Grierson

This volume of essays, offered by a circle of friends, colleagues and pupils working in Britain, Europe and North America, is intended to pay tribute to Philip Grierson's unique contribution to the study of numismatic method.
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney. In 1583 Sidney was knighted, and soon afterwards in the same year he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Sonnets written by him according to old fashion, and addressed to a lady in accordance with a ...
Philip Guston's Poor Richard

Philip Guston's Poor Richard

Debra Bricker Balken

In 1971, as the race for the presidency heated up, the artist Philip Guston (1913-1980) created a series of caricatures of Richard Nixon titled Philip Guston's Poor Richard.
The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney

Philip Sidney

A fascinating glimpse of Elizabethan life and politics is provided by the first full edition of Sir Philip Sidney's correspondence.
Financial Accounting and Equity Markets: Selected Essays of ...

Financial Accounting and Equity Markets: Selected Essays of ...

Philip Brown

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Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue

Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue

Philip Johnson

A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue Philip Johnson, Gus diZerega. CONTENTS. Foreword by Don Frew 7 Foreword by Lainie Petersen 9 Introduction Gus diZerega 11 Philip Johnson 14 1: The Nature of Spirituality Gus diZerega 17 Philip ...
Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy

Philip the Good: The Apogee of Burgundy

Richard Vaughan

Philip, who ruled from 1419 to 1467, was one of the most powerful and influential rulers of the fifteenth century.
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis

Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis

Philip Larkin

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.

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