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The Historians’ Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time

The Historians’ Paradox: The Study of History in Our Time

Peter Charles Hoffer

To reconcile this paradox — that history is impossible but necessary — Peter Charles Hoffer proposes a practical, workable philosophy of history for our times, one that is robust and realistic, and that speaks to anyone who reads, ...
Sensory Worlds in Early America

Sensory Worlds in Early America

Peter Charles Hoffer

In this ambitious work, Peter Charles Hoffer presents a "sensory history" of early North America, offering a bold new understanding of the role that sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch played in shaping the lives of Europeans, Indians, ...
Impeachment in America, 1635-1805

Impeachment in America, 1635-1805

Peter Charles Hoffer

One of the most significant books in constitutional history to have been published in a very long time.
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: ...

When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: ...

Peter Charles Hoffer

SeemanKing Philip's War: Colonial Expansion, Native Resistance, and the End of Indian Sovereignty by Daniel R. MandellThe Caning of Charles Sumner: Honor, Idealism, and the Origins of the Civil War by Williamjames Hull HofferBloodshed at ...
The Federal Courts: An Essential History

The Federal Courts: An Essential History

Peter Charles Hoffer

R. Reeves Anderson and Anthony J. Franze, “Commentary: The Court's Increasing Reliance on Amicus Curiae in the Past Term,” National Law Journal, August 24, 2011. A count of such briefs in the 2014–2015 term as listed in SCOTUSblog's ...
The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America

The Law's Conscience: Equitable Constitutionalism in America

Peter Charles Hoffer

The Law's Conscience is a history of equity in Anglo-American juris-prudence from the inception of the chancellor's court in medieval England to the recent civil rights and affirmative action decisions of the United States Supreme Court.
Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775

Prelude to Revolution: The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775

Peter Charles Hoffer

Leslie'sRetreat. 1. CharlesM. Endicott, “The EndicottFamily of Salem,”New England Historical andGenealogical Register 1(1847), 335–342; Robert Booth, Death ofan Empire: TheRise and Murderous Fallof Salem, America's Richest City (New ...
Law and People in Colonial America

Law and People in Colonial America

Peter Charles Hoffer

This revised edition of Law and People in Colonial America will incorporate recent scholarship and encompass American Indians, the French, and Spaniards as people who—on the fringes of English settlement—raised interesting questions.
Truth Imagined

Truth Imagined

Eric Hoffer

Blind as a child, Eric Hoffer--one of Americas most important thinkers and the author of The True Beleiver--regained his sight at the age of fifteen and became a voracious reader.
The Brave New World: A History of Early America

The Brave New World: A History of Early America

Peter Charles Hoffer

Wide-ranging in scope, inclusive in content, the revised edition of The Brave New World continues to provide professors, students, and historians with an engaging and accessible history of early North America.
Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher

Eric Hoffer: The Longshoreman Philosopher

Tom Bethell

Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer.
Law and People in Colonial America

Law and People in Colonial America

Peter Charles Hoffer

Documents of Old Gloucester, 1 : 28, Gloucester County Historical Society Library ). 4. William McEnery Offutt, Jr., "Law and Social Cohesion in a Plural Society: The Delaware Valley, 1680-1710" (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins University, 1987),  ...
In Our Time

In Our Time

Eric Hoffer

Eric Hoffer one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer approaches the critical problems of our time with the common sense that leads to startling conclusions and recommendations for an optimistic future.
Abram Hoffer (MD) Collection: The Founder of the ...

Abram Hoffer (MD) Collection: The Founder of the ...

High Doses of Niacin changed Psychatry

Writtenby Fannie Kahan. New and Revised Edition, Citadel Press, New York, NY, 1992. [21] Hoffer A: Five California Schizophrenics. J Schizophrenia 1:209-220, 1967. [Return to Paper] [22] Pauling L: Orthomolecular Psychiatry. Science ...
Working and Thinking on the Waterfront

Working and Thinking on the Waterfront

Eric Hoffer

Working and thinking on the waterfront is a glimpse into, not only Hoffer's personal life, but his process while postulating his great future works.
Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and ...

Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and ...

Eric Hoffer

This collection of the major writings of American longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer includes the complete text of "The True Believer" and important essays and aphorisms from all of his works
The history of the Daniel and Sarah (Heberling) Hoffer family

The history of the Daniel and Sarah (Heberling) Hoffer family

Giles Hoffer

Douglas Alan Powell, b. 1 Apr. 1954, Warsaw, Kos. Co., Ind. Michael is a graduate of the University of Houston, Texas, and is an accountant and C.P.A. in Houston. Douglas is a mechanic in Warsaw, Indiana. 34 Smith-Adams Family History, ...
Greek Americans: Struggle and Success

Greek Americans: Struggle and Success

Peter C. Moskos

To PFC Peter Shukas (1923–44), killed in action in France, uncle to Charles Moskos; SP4 James C. Shukas (1948–70), killed in action in Vietnam, cousin and godson to Charles Moskos; Patricia Shukas (1923–77), aunt to Charles Moskos;  ...
Life of Saint Charles Borromeo:

Life of Saint Charles Borromeo:

John Peter Giussano

John Peter Giussano, Aeterna Press. | O H N P E T E R G I U S S A NO LIFE OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO LIFE OF SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO JOHN PETER GIUSSANO COPYRIGHT ©. Front Cover.
A Knight of the Nets

A Knight of the Nets

Amelia E. Barr

... Catherine Parr Traill Charles A. Eastman Charles Dickens Charles Dudley Warner Charles Farrar Browne Charles Ives Charles Kingsley Charles Lathrop Pack Charles Whibley Charles Willing Beale Charlotte M. Braeme Charlotte M. Yonge ...
In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein

Peter H. Hassrick

The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein Peter H. Hassrick, Elizabeth J. Cunningham, Ernest Leonard Blumenschein ... 1894 with fellow art students Charles Allan Gilbert, Ernest Kaiser, Oscar Lentz, and his former roommate Charles Ebert. The five ...
Register

Register

University of Cambridge

... John Nicholas Dupaye, Frederick John Hague, Nigel Thornton Mittler, Peter Joseph Pugh, Anthony Roy Ryan, Gerard Charles Smith, Robert William Macintyre Taylor, Peter Murray Willey, Peter James Basil Ltx. Exhibitioner» 946 Thompson, ...
The Men who Make Our Novels

The Men who Make Our Novels

Charles Crittenton Baldwin

CHAPTER XLVI PETER B. KYNE “Peter B. Kyne is one of those dependable mortals —one of those who can be depended upon always to turn out a good job, quite according to specifications. So it is that the reader, running over the titles in a ...
Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology

Brook's Clinical Pediatric Endocrinology

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Charles G. D. Brook, Peter Clayton, Rosalind Brown. CLINICAL PEDIATRIC ENDOCRINOLOGY 6TH EDITION Edited by Charles Brook, Peter Clayton, Rosalind Brown ...
Who’s Buried Where in London

Who’s Buried Where in London

Peter Matthews

Alongside them are their brother Charles James Kray (1926–2000), who aided the twins and, like them, was imprisoned, and their parents, Violet Kray (1910–82 ) and Charles david Kray (1906–83). The twins were devoted to their mother, and  ...
Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

Peter FitzSimons

This comprehensive biography, written with typical flair by bestselling author Peter Fitzsimons, covers the triumphs and tragedies of not only Kingsford Smith's daring and controversial life but also of his companion aviators.
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660: Abstracts of ...

English Adventurers and Emigrants, 1609-1660: Abstracts of ...

Peter Wilson Coldham

RICHARD BRERETON v. CHARLES ATYE. 1 July to 13 August 1633. Thomas Eyre of St. Dionysius Backchurch, London, merchant aged 57. In September 1630 he was Treasurer of the Canada Company, of which Charles Atye is a member, ...
Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical ...

Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical ...

Peter E. Palmquist

Hunt — Hatchings firm of Black and Hunt (Edwin Black, Charles E. Hunt) was listed, but this probably was another Charles E. Hunt. From about 1874 until 1877 Hunt was a photographer with George Daniels Morse, after which he worked in ...

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