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Awash in a Sea of Faith
Christianizing the American People
Av Jon Butler
Häftad, 1992
393 kr
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Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience, Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe …
Berlin Cabaret
Häftad, 1996
428 kr
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Step into Ernst Wolzogen's Motley Theater, Max Reinhardt's Sound and Smoke, Rudolf Nelson's Chat noir, and Friedrich Hollaender's Tingel-Tangel. Enjoy Claire Waldoff's rendering of a lower-class Berliner, Kurt Tucholsky's satirical songs, and Walter Mehring's Dadaist experiments, as Peter Jelavich …
France, Fin de Siècle
Av Eugen Weber
Häftad, 1988
370 kr
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The end of the nineteenth century in France was marked by political scandals, social unrest, dissension, and “decadence.” Yet the fin de siècle was also an era of great social and scientific progress, a time when advantages previously reserved for the privileged began to be shared by the many. …
On or About December 1910
Early Bloomsbury and Its Intimate World
Häftad, 1997
518 kr
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On or about December 1910 human character changed, Virginia Woolf remarked, and well she might have. The company she kept, the Bloomsbury circle, took shape before the coming of World War I, and would have a lasting impact on English society and culture after the war. This book captures the …
Sophisticated Rebels
The Political Culture of European Dissent, 1968–1987, With a New Preface by the Author
Häftad, 1990
370 kr
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Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968 suppressions in Prague and Paris: dissenters learned their lesson and began to pursue their goals in patient, …
When Fathers Ruled
Family Life in Reformation Europe
Häftad, 1985
370 kr
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Here is a lively study of marriage and the family during the Reformation, primarily in Gemany and Switzerland, that dispels the commonly held notion of fathers as tyrannical and families as loveless.Did husbands and wives love one another in Reformation Europe? Did the home and family life matter …
When Time Shall Be No More
Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
Av Paul Boyer
Häftad, 1994
289 kr
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Millions of Americans take the Bible at its word and turn to like-minded local ministers and TV preachers, periodicals and paperbacks for help in finding their place in God’s prophetic plan for mankind. And yet, influential as this phenomenon is in the worldview of so many, the belief in biblical …
