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In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative ...

In Defense of the Religious Right: Why Conservative ...

Patrick Hynes

Anna Greenberg and Jennifer Berktold, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, “ Evangelicals in America,” p. 2, 5 April 2004, http://www.greenbergresearch.com/ articles/1230/757_Evangelicals%20in%20America.pdf. 5. The Barna Group ...
Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper

Michael Burgan

Ellen Weil and Gary K. Wolfe, Harlan Ellison: The Edge of Forever, (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2002), 117. 95. https://vault.fbi.gov/Jack%20the% 20Ripper/Jack%20the%20Ripper%20Part%20 1%20of%201/view. 96. Rumbelow ...
The making of the humanities: from early modern to modern ...

The making of the humanities: from early modern to modern ...

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from early modern to modern disciplines Rens Bod, Jaap Maat, Thijs Weststeijn. Introduction: The. Dawn. of. the. Modern. Humanities. Rens Bod Rens Bod This volume investigates the changes in subject, method and institutionalization of the  ...
Departure for Modern Europe: A Handbook of Early Modern ...

Departure for Modern Europe: A Handbook of Early Modern ...

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A Handbook of Early Modern Philosophy (1400-1700) Hubertus Busche. I. General Introduction its First International Congress Stefan Heßbrüggen-Walter The Early Modern System of Knowledge: An Overview of this Handbook The European ...
The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

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... editedby Graham Bartram Modern Irish Culture editedby JoeClearyand Claire Connolly Modern Italian Culture edited by Zygmunt G. Baranski and RebeccaJ. West Modern Latin AmericanCulture edited by JohnKing Modern Russian Culture ...
History Of Ancient and Modern Crosses

History Of Ancient and Modern Crosses

AA. VV.

In the following pages certain things supposed to be of comparatively modern origin have been traced back to the remotest historic ages of the world; as a consequence, it follows that the modern symbolical meaning given to such things is ...
Modern Magick

Modern Magick

Donald Michael Kraig

Ideal for beginning, intermediate, or advanced students, and perfect as a manual for magickal temples, this is essential reading for every true magician. "Modern Magick is a modern-day classic.
War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the ...

War as Spectacle: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the ...

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Naoko Yamagata is particularly interested in the contribution that Homeric studies can make to modern debates about the portrayal of violence in modern media and the question of the entertainment value of war. In Chapter 3, she offers  ...
The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain

The Formation of the Child in Early Modern Spain

Grace E. Coolidge

... machine has been questioned by scholars such as Allison Muri who trace the use of the words production and reproduction—despite all its apparently modern mechanistic implications—to an early modern context aligned with procreation or  ...
The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken

The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken

J. A. I. Champion

Preston epitomizes the proleptic notions of modern historiography.3O The case for the origins of modern historical method arising in the early modern period has been forcefully argued by F. Smith Fussner in The Historical Revolution (1962).
This Modern Love

This Modern Love

Will Darbyshire

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire.
Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret ...

Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret ...

Mark Sedgwick

Against the Modern World is the first history of Traditionalism, an important yet surprisingly little-known twentieth-century anti-modern movement.
Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern ...

Recontextualizing Texts: Narrative Performance in Modern ...

Atsuko Sakaki

This book offers the first systematic application in English of speech act theory to modern Japanese fictional narratives, based on a reading of five modern Japanese shosetsu as performances enacted by the narrator and the narratees in each ...
Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu ...

Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the Hindu ...

Lawrence A. Babb

00 In this comparative study of three modern religious movements, Lawrence A. Babb argues that thematic continuities exist between traditional Hinduism and its widely divergent modern expressions.
Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern

Slave Systems: Ancient and Modern

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Ancient and Modern Enrico Dal Lago, Constantina Katsari. merchant and intellectual elites who played such a large role in the creation of the modern Atlantic world kept the accomplishments of their ancestors in the ancient Mediterranean as ...
Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design

Amy Friend

This creates irresistible, modern quilts with precise--yet improvisational--flavor. Amy's patterns easily appeal to both the modern and the new traditional quilt maker alike.
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's ...

Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's ...

Jason T. Busch

"Inventing the Modern World explores innovation and its effect on the creation of objects and modern life.
Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

Private and Domestic Devotion in Early Modern Britain

Alec Ryrie

Early modern Christianity consisted of its lived experience. This collection and its companion volume (Worship and the Parish Church in Early Modern Britain, ed.
Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era

Trent and All That: Renaming Catholicism in the Early Modern Era

John W. O''Malley

The term indicates clearly what this book so eloquently demonstrates: that Early Modern Catholicism was an aspect of early modern history, which it strongly influenced and by which it was itself in large measure determined.
Quilters, Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories: With ...

Quilters, Their Quilts, Their Studios, Their Stories: With ...

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Alissa Haight Carlton lives in Los Angeles, California, and is the co-founder and executive director of the Modern Quilt Guild. She has written two books: “Modern Minimal: 20 Bold and Graphic Quilts,” and “Block Party: The Modern Quilting Bee  ...
Bishops and Power in Early Modern England

Bishops and Power in Early Modern England

Marcus K. Harmes

This book engages with many aspects of the social, political and religious history of early modern England and will therefore be key reading for undergraduates and postgraduates, and researchers working in the early modern field, and anyone ...
Bishops and Power in Early Modern England

Bishops and Power in Early Modern England

Marcus K. Harmes

This book engages with many aspects of the social, political and religious history of early modern England and will therefore be key reading for undergraduates and postgraduates, and researchers working in the early modern field, and anyone ...
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

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This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student embarking on their studies of the early modern period.
William Blake and the Moderns

William Blake and the Moderns

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Robert Bertholf and Annette Levitt have assembled thirteen essays that establish Blake as a “central voice molding modern literature and thought.” The essays in this volume examine Blake’s influence on modern poetry, the modern novel, ...
This Modern Love

This Modern Love

Will Darbyshire

"This Modern Love is a unique crowd-sourced book of letters, stories, and photographs about the state of modern romance by YouTuber Will Darbyshire"--
Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History

Early Modern Jewry: A New Cultural History

David B. Ruderman

... of Catholic Renewal 1540–1770 (Cambridge, 1998); and Kathleen Comerford and Hilmar Pabel, eds., Early Modern Catholicism: Essays in Honour of John W. O'Malley, S.J. (toronto, 2001). 24. randolph starn, “the early Modern Muddle,” ...
Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005): ...

Routledge Revivals: The Challenge of Islam (2005): ...

Douglas Pratt

Islam, Modern Islam and Judaism: The Isra«iliyyat in Modern Islamic Thought« in Ronald L. Nettler and Suha Taji-Farouki, eds, Muslim–Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic ...
Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief

Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Culture and Belief

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Witchcraft in early modern Kent: stereotypes and the background to accusations MALCOLM GASKILL The study of witchcraft has been one of the best ploughed fields in the landscape of early modern social history. There is scarcely an aspect  ...
The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison

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... Irish Cultureedited byJoe Cleary and Claire Connolly Modernism edited by Michael Levenson Modern Italian Culture edited by Zygmunt G. Barański and RebeccaJ. West Modern Latin American Culture edited by John King Modern Russian.
Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese ...

Erotic Grotesque Nonsense: The Mass Culture of Japanese ...

Miriam Rom Silverberg

Japanese modern times -- Japanese modern within modernity -- Placing the consumer-subject within mass culture -- Erotic grotesque nonsense as montage -- Japanese modern culture as politics -- The documentary impulse -- Japanese modern sites ...

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