The Imperial Origins of the King`s Church in Early America 1607-1783, Bell
Автор: Nicholas Guyatt Название: Providence and the Invention of the United States, 1607–1876 ISBN: 0521687306 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521687300 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4277.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How did Americans come to think that God favored the United States above other nations? Making sense of previous diffuse debates on manifest destiny, millenarianism, and American mission, this book explains the origins and development of the idea that God has a special plan for America.
Описание: In the Beginning Was the Word provides a sweeping, engaging, and insightful survey of the relationship between the Bible and public issues from the beginning of European settlement through the American Revolution.
Описание: Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and living rooms of the heartland. Ordinary Americans were the agents who supported and participated in fight sports and determined its vision of masculinity.This work counters the economic determinism prevalent in studies of American fight sports, which overemphasize profit as the driving force in the popularization of these sports. The author also disputes previous scholarship's domestic focus, with an appreciation of how American fight sports are connected to the rest of the world.
Автор: Bell James Название: Empire, Religion and Revolution in Early Virginia, 1607-1786 ISBN: 113732791X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137327918 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 11179.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The book is a new study that examines the contrasting extension of the Anglican Church to England`s first two colonies, Ireland and Virginia in the 17th and 18th centuries. It discusses the national origins and educational experience of the ministers, the financial support of the state, and the experience and consequences of the institutions.
Описание: In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia. Green finds one overarching concern: that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the U.S. and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward flow of trade and values.
Описание: The myth of the eighteenth-century British "war machine" persists, perplexing those who search for the reasons why Britain lost the Revolutionary War. In this book, R. Arthur Bowler argues that although recent and traditional studies have pointed out many problems of the British forces in America, they have failed to appreciate a major weakness--lo
Автор: Ward Название: The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy, 1783–1919 ISBN: 1108040128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108040129 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published between 1922 and 1923, this was the first comprehensive survey of foreign policy during Britain`s emergence as a major power. Volume 1 includes a summary of the significant issues and preoccupations of successive British governments and monarchs leading up to the appointment of Britain`s first foreign secretary in 1782.
Автор: Black Jeremy Название: British Foreign Policy in an Age of Revolutions, 1783-1793 ISBN: 0521466849 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521466844 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a study of British foreign policy in a crucial period of international political development. It provides a comprehensive account of the subject, and acts as a guide to the nature of the British state in the period and to international relations. The book sheds particular light on the impact of the French Revolution and on the nature of British imperialism.
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