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19 produkter
Crossroads of American History and Literature
Häftad, 1996
691 kr
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The Crossroads of American History and Literature collects two decades' worth of the best-known essays of Philip F. Gura. Beginning with a definitive overview of studies of colonial literature, Gura ranges through such subjects in colonial American history as the intellectual life of the …
Truth's Ragged Edge
Häftad, 2014
343 kr
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Philip F. Gura's Truth's Ragged Edge is perhaps the first comprehensive study of the early American novel since Richard Chase's 1957 classic, The American Novel and Its Tradition. Gura opens with the first truly homegrown genre of fiction: religious tracts, which were parables, intended to instruct …
Man’s Better Angels
Romantic Reformers and the Coming of the Civil War
Inbunden, 2017
429 kr
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Banks failed, credit contracted, inequality grew, and people everywhere were out of work while political paralysis and slavery threatened to rend the nation in two. As financial crises always have, the Panic of 1837 drew forth a plethora of reformers who promised to restore America to greatness. …
Liberty or Justice for All?
A Conversation across the American Centuries
Häftad, 2023
424 kr
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A riveting story of faith, politics, and ideas, Liberty or Justice for All? brings to life four of America’s greatest thinkers, whose dialogue across the ages has never been more relevant. The book traces a striking pattern—the vexed relationship of individual liberty to inclusive social justice—in …
Liberty or Justice for All?
A Conversation across the American Centuries
Inbunden, 2023
2383 kr
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A riveting story of faith, politics, and ideas, Liberty or Justice for All? brings to life four of America’s greatest thinkers, whose dialogue across the ages has never been more relevant. The book traces a striking pattern—the vexed relationship of individual liberty to inclusive social justice—in …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
E-bok, 2015
441 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess''s fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
E-bok, 2015
919 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess’s fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
Häftad, 2018
367 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798-1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess's fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
Ljudbok, 2015
298 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess'' fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by abuse, Apess …
Jonathan Edwards: Writings from the Great Awakening (LOA #245)
Av Jonathan Edwards, Philip F. Gura
E-bok, 2013
445 kr
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Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) is recognized today as a great theologian and philosopher. The historian Perry Miller has called him “one of America’s five or six major artists,” a writer possessed of “an intelligence which, as much as Emerson’s, Melville’s, or Mark Twain’s, is both an index of …
Reading with the Transcendentalists
Ten Works That Made a Movement
Häftad, 2026
419 kr
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Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers—including Ralph Waldo …
Reading with the Transcendentalists
Ten Works That Made a Movement
Inbunden, 2026
1279 kr
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Exploring the books and reading practices behind the creation of Transcendentalist philosophy and communityTranscendentalism emerged in early 19th century New England as a uniquely American philosophical, spiritual, and literary movement. Its first generation of thinkers—including Ralph Waldo …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
E-bok, 2015
276 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess’s fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
Life of William Apess, Pequot
E-bok, 2015
900 kr
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The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (1798–1839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century. Here, Philip F. Gura offers the first book-length chronicle of Apess’s fascinating and consequential life. After an impoverished childhood marked by …
America's Instrument
The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
Av Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman
Inbunden, 2027
1390 kr
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First published in 1999, this handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from rudimentary folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America. Now available in accessible paperback …
America's Instrument
The Banjo in the Nineteenth Century
Av Philip F. Gura, James F. Bollman
Häftad, 2027
396 kr
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First published in 1999, this handsome illustrated history traces the transformation of the banjo from rudimentary folk instrument to sophisticated musical machine and, in the process, offers a unique view of the music business in nineteenth-century America. Now available in accessible paperback …
Buried from the World
Inside the Massachusetts State Prison, 1829-1831
Av Jared Curtis, Philip F. Gura
Inbunden, 2005
364 kr
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