Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Studies in Cultural History)
By: Jon Butler
3.65
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the …
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1. Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
By: Keith Thomas
4.17
Format: 716 pages, Paperback
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were ta… read more
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"The fourteenth-century preacher, John Bromyard, used to tell the story of the shepherd who, asked if he knew who the Father, Son and Holy Ghost were, replied, 'The father and the son I know well for …"-Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
2. Wilderness and the American Mind
By: Roderick Nash
4.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Roderick Nash's classic study of America's changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide a… read more
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3. The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
By: James Fenimore Cooper
3.70
Format: 410 pages, Paperback
The wild rush of action in this classic frontier adventure story has made The Last of the Mohicans … read more
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"Is it justice to make evil, and then punish for it?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Do my brothers know the name of this favored people?"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!"-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
"Indijanac je stvorenje što ćete ga prije osjetiti nego vidjeti."-James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
4. Oliver Twist
By: Charles Dickens , George Cruikshank , Philip Horne
3.88
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an in… read more
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"Meat, ma'am, meat."-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
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"There are a good many books, are there not, my boy?"-Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
5. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution
By: C.L.R. James
4.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more
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6. The Democratization of American Christianity
By: Nathan O. Hatch
4.14
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
In this prize-winning book Nathan O. Hatch offers a provocative reassessment of religion and cultur… read more
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7. The Pelican Brief
By: John Grisham
3.84
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D… read more
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8. Desert Solitaire
By: Edward Abbey
4.00
Format: None pages,
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9. My First Summer in the Sierra
By: John Muir
3.97
Format: 68 pages, Paperback
In the summer of 1869, John Muir, a young Scottish immigrant, joined a crew of shepherds in the foo… read more
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10. Mohawk Saint: Catherine Tekakwitha and the Jesuits
By: Allan Greer
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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11. American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism
By: None
3.90
Format: 15 pages, Hardcover
The first comprehensive history of modern American evangelicalism to appear in a generation, Americ… read more
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12. Sarah Osborn's World: The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America (New Directions in Narrative History)
By: Catherine A. Brekus
4.23
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A colonial woman's riveting personal journal and correspondence opens a window on America's first-g… read more
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13. American Colonies: The Settling of North America
By: Alan Taylor
4.14
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
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14. A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
By: Donald Worster
4.14
Format: None pages,
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15. The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
By: Edward E. Baptist
4.34
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution--the nation's original sin, perhaps, but… read more
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16. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
By: Bernard Bailyn
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, Fulfillment, as a Postscrip… read more
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17. The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
By: Linford D. Fisher
3.78
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. … read more
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18. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
By: Tim Alberta
4.45
Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition
Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more
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19. Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
By: Lisa Brooks
4.14
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
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20. Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
By: Nadia Bolz-Weber
4.21
Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition
Annotation: "Nothing gives church folk anxiety quite like the subject of sex. And that's why in Sh… read more
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21. Christian Slavery: Conversion and Race in the Protestant Atlantic World (Early American Studies)
By: Katharine Gerbner
3.97
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Could slaves become Christian? If so, did their conversion lead to freedom? If not, then how could … read more
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22. Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People (Studies in Cultural History)
By: Jon Butler
3.65
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the … read more
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23. Revivalism and Social Reform
By: Timothy Lawrence Smith
3.89
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This is an important work, which should be read by anyone who is trying to understand nineteenth-ce… read more
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24. Profit: An Environmental History
By: Mark Stoll
3.62
Format: None pages, ebook
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25. The First Great Awakening: Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775
By: John Howard Smith Texas A&M University–Comm
3.90
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eightee… read more
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26. The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement
By: Neall W. Pogue
3.80
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
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