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A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718

Contents: Beginnings of English Witchcraft; Witchcraft Under Elizabeth; Reginald Scot; Exorcists; James I and Witchcraft; Notable Jacobean Cases; Lancashire Witches and Charles I; Matthew Hopkins; … mehr »

geschrieben von Wallace Notestein (Autor)

Birth Control in America: The Career of Margaret Sanger

Combines biography of M. Sanger with social history of birth control movement. Winner of Bancroft Prize in American History 1971 and John Gilmary Shea Award of American Catholic Historical Association … mehr »

geschrieben von David M. Kennedy (Autor)

Caste and Class in a Southern Town

An extraordinarily powerful exposition of social patterns in a small town, this book has become … mehr »

geschrieben von John Dollard (Autor)

Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this … mehr »

geschrieben von Violet Barbour (Autor)

Modern Islamic Political Thought

The revival and power of religious feelings among Muslims since the Iranian Revolution presents a complicated and often perplexing picture of the politics of the Islamic world in the modern era. What … mehr »

geschrieben von Hamid Enayat (Autor)

Pan Chao: Foremost Woman Scholar of China, First Century A.D.

A pioneering work of scholarship on an … mehr »

geschrieben von Nancy Lee Swann (Autor)

The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought

A profoundly organic view of humanity in nature, the concept of "ages of man" made itself felt in nearly all forms of medieval discourse--sermons, Bible commentaries, moral and political treatises, … mehr »

geschrieben von J. A. Burrow (Autor)

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk is arguably one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American Conservatism.
Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of … mehr »

geschrieben von Russell Kirk (Autor)

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot

The book that launched the modern American conservative … mehr »

geschrieben von Russell Kirk (Autor)

The Era of Good Feelings

Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, this is the standard history of the years between Jefferson and Jackson. RAn agile piece of historical writingQwitty, selective, and illuminating.SQNew … mehr »

geschrieben von George Dangerfield (Autor)

The Era of Good Feelings

Winner of the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes, this is the standard history of the years between Jefferson and Jackson. RAn agile piece of historical writingQwitty, selective, and illuminating.SQNew … mehr »

geschrieben von George Dangerfield (Autor)

The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History for 1986, this highly acclaimed study approaches the space race as a problem in comparative public policy. Drawing on exhaustive research, author and ORBIS … mehr »

geschrieben von Walter A. McDougall (Autor)

The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind

To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals' fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 1970s, the Neandertals were being praised for their … mehr »

geschrieben von Erik Trinkaus (Autor) und Pat Shipman (Autor)

The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind

To most 19th-century scholars, the Neandertals' fierce, ridged brows were evidence of a "moral darkness" that set them apart from humans. Yet by the 1970s, the Neandertals were being praised for their … mehr »

geschrieben von Erik Trinkaus (Autor) und Pat Shipman (Autor)

The Strange Death of Liberal England

At the beginning of the twentieth century England's empire spanned the globe, its economy was strong, and its political system seemed immune to the ills that inflicted so many other countries. After a … mehr »

geschrieben von George Dangerfield (Autor)

Tradition and Crisis: Jewish Society at the End of the Middle Ages

Jacob Katz's landmark study of Jewish life in the High Middle Ages sheds new light on the origins of modernity, including Jewish-Gentile relations, the Jewish role in early capitalism, the beginnings … mehr »

geschrieben von Jacob Katz (Autor)