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Religion and Society in Frontier California
The chaotic and reputedly immoral society of the California mining frontier during the gold rush period greatly worried Protestant evangelicals from the Northeast, and they soon sent missionaries westward to transplant their...
The British Monarchy and the French Revolution
What prevented revolution in Britain during the French revolutionary era? How did George III’s monarchy withstand republican challenges? This book examines the British monarchy—and the values, beliefs, and images attached to...
Inheritance in Public Policy
Change Without Choice in Britain
Although politicians promise innovation and change when they run for office, once elected they face inherited commitments to programs initiated by their predecessors, legacies that severely limit their freedom of choice. In...
A Social Ontology
Moral and social philosophers often assume that humans beings are and ought to be autonomous. This tradition of individualism, or atomism, underlies many of our assumptions about ethics and law; it provides a...
Gouverneur Morris
An Independent Life
An engrossing biography of one of the most colorful and least well-known of the founding fathers A plainspoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all...
Between Fire and Sleep
Essays on Modern Polish Poetry and Prose
Twentieth-century Polish literature is often said to be a “witness to history,” a narrative of the historical and political disasters that visited the nation. In this insightful book, Jaroslaw Anders examines Poland’s...
Lodge in Vietnam
A Patriot Abroad
Henry Cabot Lodge became United States ambassador to South Vietnam in August 1963, a critical period in the evolution of American policy there. During the first of Lodge's two embassies in Saigon, a U.S. government-approved...
Selected Poems
French poet and critic Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636-1711) was by turns venerated (in the eighteenth century) and reviled (in the nineteenth century) as the lawgiver of French classicism. Today critics see his...
Stars and Other Signs
These poems, written over fifty years, address such subjects as the celerity of time, old age, art, literary acquaintances, and the author’s beloved New England landscape. They delight in sound and form, even as they...
The Bible for Children
From the Age of Gutenberg to the Present
For more than five centuries, parents, teachers, and preachers in Europe and America have written and illustrated Bibles especially for children. These children's Bibles vary widely, featuring different stories, various...