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Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America
Häftad, 1995
501 kr
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Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the …
American Originals
Homemade Varieties of Christianity
Häftad, 1997
531 kr
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In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy. Identifying six distinctive types, …
American Originals
Homemade Varieties of Christianity
E-bok, 2000
520 kr
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In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy. Identifying six distinctive types, …
Uneasy Center
Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America
E-bok, 2000
535 kr
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Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the …
The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
Inbunden, 2006
494 kr
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Revolution Down on the Farm
The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
Inbunden, 2008
1144 kr
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Agriculture is the most fundamental of all human activities. Today, those who till the soil or tend livestock feed a world population of approximately 6.5 billion. Fifty years ago, the planet could not have sustained such a large population, and according to present projections, farmers will have …
State of the Earth
Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
E-bok, 2006
148 kr
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An assessment of where we are, where we’re headed, and what we need to do before it’s too late: “Instructive, well-researched, and easy-to-read.” —John T. Ackerman, Strategic Studies Quarterly This era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, …
Revolution Down on the Farm
The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
E-bok, 2008
441 kr
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At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in …
State of the Earth
Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100
E-bok, 2006
459 kr
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The pace of human progress accelerated profoundly in the twentieth century, spawning revolutionary advances in medicine, agriculture, and industry. Between 1900 and 2000, the world''s population quadrupled, and production and consumption of goods increased by a factor of twelve. In The State of the …
Revolution Down on the Farm
The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929
E-bok, 2008
1102 kr
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At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than agriculture. Humans have been farming for thousands of years, and yet agriculture has undergone more fundamental changes in the past 80 years than in …
Southern Agrarians
With a new preface by the author
Häftad, 2001
619 kr
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The southern Agrarians were a group of twelve young men who joined, from 1929 to 1937, in a fascinating intellectual and political movement. Prominent among them were Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Donald Davidson. In the midst of the depression, these gifted writers tried, …
Peabody College
From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning
Inbunden, 2002
544 kr
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Today George Peabody College is a part of Vanderbilt University, as it has been since its merger in 1979. Its prior history was rich and complex. In this book, Paul Conkin, author of the award-winning history of Vanderbilt, Gone with the Ivy, tells the story of Peabody's many lives, of its …
Uneasy Center
Reformed Christianity in Antebellum America
E-bok, 2000
535 kr
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Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the …
American Originals
Homemade Varieties of Christianity
E-bok, 2000
520 kr
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In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of which reflects a significant break from western Christian orthodoxy. Identifying six distinctive types, …
New Deal
Häftad, 2014
217 kr
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Demonstrating the intellectual excitement that is the practice of history at its best, Paul Conkin's The New Deal is still one of the best known titles in the very popular American History Series, edited by John Hope Franklin and A. S. Eisenstadt.The New Deal is still the best succinct and coherent …
