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“…The poems explore past, present, and future in different places from Canada through New Jersey, New York and New England to England and Europe, part of the speaker's journey. …”

“…This came in addition to the arrogance of the mostly New England middle class he met in his forming years. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover; Contents; Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition; Introduction; PART ONE: THE COLONIAL ERRAND INTO THE WILDERNESS; Good Newes from Virginia; A Modell of Christian Charity; God's Controversy with New England; The Latter-Day Glory Is Probably to Begin in America; PART TWO: REVOLUTION, CONSTITUTION, AND A NEW NATION'S DESTINY; The American States Acting Over the Part of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness; The United States Elevated to Glory and Honour; The Republic of the Israelites an Example to the American States; First Inaugural Address…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Machine generated contents note: 1 Introduction: The Creation of an American Metaphor 1 -- 2 The President, a Mammoth Cheese, and the "Wall of Separation": Jeffersonian Politics and the New England Baptists 9 -- 3 "Sowing Useful Truths and Principles": Thomas Jefferson and the Danbury Baptist Association 25 -- 4 "What the Wall Separates": A Jurisdictional Interpretation of the "Wall of Separation" 55 -- 5 Early References to a "Wall of Separation": Prefiguring the Jeffersonian Metaphor 71 -- 6 Creating "Effectual Barriers": Alternative Metaphors in Defense of Religious Liberty 83 -- 7 "Useful Truths and PrinciplesGerminate and Become Rooted" in the American Mind: Jefferson's -- Metaphor Enters Political and Juridical Discourse 95 -- 8 Conclusion: The Re-Creation of Church-State Law, Policy, and Discourse 107 -- Appendices: Documents from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson 129 -- 1 Proclamation Appointing a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, May 1774 131 -- 2 Address to the Inhabitants of the Parish of St. …”
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“…From the women who transformed stalks of flax into linen to clothe their families in nineteenth century New England to those who earn their dowries in the cotton-spinning factories of South India today, this book traces the origins of garment-making through time and around the world. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…John Witte and the uses of the law / Nomos, agape, and a sacramental jurisprudence / When Catholicism was part of the common law : the influence of the Catholic intellectual tradition / The reception of the medieval Ius Commune in the protestant reformation / Church laws as a means of ecumenical dialogue / Bearing witness to truth : Christianity at the crossroads of race and law / Human dignity and the Christian foundations of law and liberty / Calvinism and the logic of self-defense : rights, religion, and revolution / Scriptural interpretation and the New England tradition of rights after the glorious revolution : the example of Cotton Mather / Religious liberty in the Thirteenth Colony / "A wall of separation" : church-state relations in America and beyond / The shifting law and logic behind mandatory bible reading in American public schools / An integrative approach to government religious speech / Freedom of the church : religious autonomy in a secular age / Obeying conscience : the commands and costs of resisting the law / The legal basis of the sacramental theology of marriage / Law, religion, and education / Christianity, child well-being, and corporal punishment / To ratify or not to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child : gains and losses / Faith-based family law arbitration in secular democracies-is the end near? …”

“…As the author of The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been established as a major writer of the nineteenth century and the most prominent chronicler of New England and its colonial history. This introductory book for students coming to Hawthorne for the first time outlines his life and writings in a clear and accessible style. …”

“…Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. …”