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In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers' relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those who argue that they were Christians founding a Christian nation against those who see them as Deists or modern secular...

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In The Founders on God and Government Daniel Dreisbach, Mark Hall, and Jeffry Morrison bring together noted scholars to explore the role religion played in the political thoughts and deeds of nine founding fathers. The result is a seminal work that deepens our understanding of the relationship between faith and politics at America's founding.

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How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution This title explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history.

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Examines four attempts to answer the question of national identity that Americans faced in the wake of the American Revolution. This work explores a complicated political world in which boundaries between the personal and the political were fluid and ill-defined.

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The historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances an interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. According to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society.

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The reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), long regarded as the turning point in the Europeanization of Russia, witnessed the establishment of Russia's first modern navy, the Azov Sea fleet. This three-part study examines Russia's maritime experience in the 17th and early 18th centuries in order to address this central question.

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The first single-volume history of the mutual relations between the constituent parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland).

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This translation of the fourth book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations, has Latin and English on opposite pages.

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"The Fourth Crusade 1202-04: The Betrayal of Byzantium".

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In this remarkable new assessment of the Fourth Crusade, Jonathan Phillips follows the fortunes of the leading players and explores the conflicting motives that drove the expedition to commit the most infamous massacre of the crusading movement.

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In 1869, After an English defeat in battle in the Taranaki forest, one Maori boy, aged 5, was captured and adopted by the Prime Minister. Educated to become a lawyer and an 'English gentleman', Ngataua Omahuru had played a crucial role in New Zealand's history. This book gives an historical account of the Maori boy raised as an English gentleman.

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Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

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A readable and wide-ranging contribution to the social history of New England, this volume treats subjects as diverse as economic growth, wealth distribution, poor relief, local government, office-holding, leadership, urban development, and historiography.

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Presents a story of a German-Jewish family named Frank which, like Anne Frank's family and 25,000 other Dutch and other 'stateless' Jews, 'dived under' in Nazi-occupied Holland in 1942 - but miraculously survived. This book is based on personal testaments, records and family interviews.

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A new cornerstone reference for students, scholars, and general readers, on Frederick Douglass-his life, writings, speeches, political views, and legacy.

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The dynamic relationship between the power holders and various out- groups is emphasized in a study of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of America from the age of exploration to the Civil Rights movement and sexual revolution, in a revised edition of the history of freedom in Ame

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A thoroughly researched and clearly written account of the French military from the Revolution to the Restoration, exploring the evolving idea of merit -- .

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A pathbreaking study of the book trade and dissemination of the Enlightenment.

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