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American Colonial History
Clashing Cultures and Faiths
Thomas Kidd, a widely respected scholar of colonial history, deftly offers both depth and breadth in this accessible, introductory text on the American Colonial era. Interweaving primary documents and new scholarship with a...
Jewels by JAR
Called “the Fabergé of our time” by Diane von Furstenberg, Joel A. Rosenthal, who works in Paris under the name JAR, is one of the most acclaimed jewelry designers of the past thirty years. JAR is known for his use of precious and...
The Protestant Interest
New England After Puritanism
During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing...
The Crusader States
The only full account of life and culture in the twelfth-century crusader states, where religious battles raged and civilizations collided When the armies of the First Crusade wrested Jerusalem from...
The Siege of Acre, 1189-1191
Saladin, Richard the Lionheart, and the Battle That Decided the Third Crusade
The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189–1191) was the most...
The World of the Crusades
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusadersThroughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, but the...
Benjamin Franklin
The Religious Life of a Founding Father
A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin’s faith“Kidd vividly brings Franklin’s spiritual quest to life throughout his book, and he provides a direct line from Franklin...
The Crusader Armies
1099–1187
A major new history of the Crusades that illuminates the strength and sophistication of the Western and Muslim armies During the Crusades, the Western and Muslim armies developed various highly...
Europe Isn't Working
A timely and provocative account of why the euro has failed and why, as a result, the Union will unravel Europe's center-left is rapidly falling out of love with the European single currency. Fifteen years...
George Whitefield
America's Spiritual Founding Father
Winner of Christianity Today's 2016 Book Award for History/Biography: an engaging, balanced, and penetrating narrative biography of the charismatic eighteenth-century American evangelist George Whitefield...