06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
06/12/2012
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 Hilary E. Wyss 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4413-7… READ MORE
06/08/2012
"Like Avogadro's number or the rules of subjunctive verbs, the War of 1812 is one of those things that you learned about in school and promptly forgot without major consequence,"… READ MORE
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
06/06/2012
1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism Nicole Eustace 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4431-1 | $34.95 | £23.00 A volume in… READ MORE
06/06/2012
A Nation of Women: Gender and Colonial Encounters Among the Delaware Indians Gunlög Fur 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4182-2 | $39.95… READ MORE
06/05/2012
Friends and Strangers: The Making of a Creole Culture in Colonial Pennsylvania John Smolenski 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4239-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
06/05/2012
For a preview of our Fall 2012 books, take a look at the latest catalog in glorious PDF. Our forthcoming books cover an array of subjects, from medieval letters to… READ MORE
06/04/2012
New Netherland and the Dutch Origins of American Religious Liberty Evan Haefeli 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4408-3 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE
06/01/2012
The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype Marcy J. Dinius 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth Apr… READ MORE
