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The Battle of Ole Miss
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 18.99James Meredith broke the color barrier in 1962 as the first African American student at Ole Miss. The violent riot that followed would be one of the most deadly clashes of the civil rights era, seriously wounding scores of U.S. Marshals and killing two civilians, and forcing the federal government to send thousands of soldiers to restore the peace.... more...
Religion in American Politics
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 18.95The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention blocked the establishment of Christianity as a national religion. But they could not keep religion out of American politics. From the election of 1800, when Federalist clergymen charged that deist Thomas Jefferson was unfit to lead a "Christian nation," to today, when some Democrats want to embrace... more...
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 29.95How 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? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas... more...
The Barbary Wars
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 15.99The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's haltering steps toward commercial... more...
Napoleon Xylophone
Troubador Publishing Ltd 2012; Not AvailableNapoleon Xylophone is set to become a hero with a walking disability. When adventure comes knocking, Zam doesn?t let his disability get in the way of fighting the changelings, wytes and gargoyles that come to life in the underworld beneath Newcastle. more...
Liebesgaben
Erich Schmidt Verlag 2012; US$ 53.71Hauptbeschreibung Was ist eine Gabe? Löschen Tauschcharakter und Reziprozität die Gabe aus? Gibt es eine Gabe, die nicht erwidert werden will? Gibt es einen Überschuss des Gebens über die Gabe hinaus? Der Band untersucht solche und benachbarte Fragen, die aus den einschlägigen Theoriediskussionen bekannt sind, an literarischen Modellierungen von... more...
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