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Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier (2007)
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Ray, K. (2007). Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier. University of Tennessee Press

During its early years, the frontier region of Middle Tennessee developed from thinly settled outposts to a premier destination for thousands of land-hungry immigrants. The resulting population explosion led to a shift in political power from a small... Read More about Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and popular democracy on the Southwestern Frontier.

Place and Native American Indian history and culture (2007)
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Porter, J. (2007). J. Porter (Ed.). Place and Native American Indian history and culture. Peer Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften

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«Place remains a native concept rich with political meaning for North American culture as a whole, and for the world as a whole. This volume undertakes a broad and deep exploration of what the sense of place has meant in specific Indian cultu... Read More about Place and Native American Indian history and culture.

Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown (2007)
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Beech, M. A., & Hickson, K. E. (2007). Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown. I.B. Tauris

"Labour's Thinkers" seeks to examine the key ideas emphasised by the twelve individuals whom the authors judge to have made the most significant development to the political thought of the Labour Party since the 1930s. Hickson and Beech argue the Lab... Read More about Labour’s Thinkers: The Intellectual Roots of Labour from Tawney to Gordon Brown.

'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery (2007)
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Oldfield, J. (2007). 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery. Manchester University Press

How should we as Britons remember transatlantic slavery? How has slavery been remembered in the past? 'Chords of freedom' sets out to answer these questions and, in doing so, traces the way in which British transatlantic slavery has been absorbed int... Read More about 'Chords of freedom' : commemoration, ritual, and British transatlantic slavery.

Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata (2007)
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H. Szilágyi, I., Könczöl, M., Paksy, M., Takács, P., Tattay, S., & Cserne, P. (2007). Theatrum legale mundi: Symbola Cs. Varga oblata. Societas Sancti Stephani

A Festschrift for Professor Csaba Varga with contributions in English, German and French

The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811 (2006)
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Ray, K., Looney, J., Perdue, S., Haggard, R., & Lautenschlager, J. (2006). The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv301fsm

Volume Three of the definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death presents 567 documents covering the period from 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811. Jefferson is now firmly ensconced in retirement at Mont... Read More about The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 3: 12 August 1810 to 17 June 1811.

‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England (2006)
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Lawrence, J. (2006). ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781847794390

This book offers a comprehensive account of the methods and practice of learning modern languages, particularly Italian, in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. It is the first study to suggest a fundamental connection between langua... Read More about ‘Who the Devil taught thee so much Italian?’: Italian language learning and literary imitation in Early Modern England.

Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition (2006)
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Tyler, C. (2006). Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition. Continuum

The central claim of this book is that previous scholars have not appreciated the depths and complexities of the relationships between British idealist radicalism and the earlier idealist tradition of Kant, Fichte, Hegel and Carlyle. Colin Tyler expl... Read More about Idealist Political Philosophy: Pluralism and conflict in the absolute idealist tradition.

Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation (2006)
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Farrall, S., & Calverley, A. (2006). Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation. Open University Press

Why do people stop offending? What are the processes they undergo in stopping? What can be done to help more people who have offended put their pasts behind them? The growth of interest in why people stop offending and how they are resettled followin... Read More about Understanding desistance from crime : Theoretical directions in resettlement and rehabilitation.

Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625 (2005)
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Prior, C. W. (2005). Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511495991

© Charles W. A. Prior 2005 and Cambridge University Press, 2009. Proposing a new model for understanding religious debates in the churches of England and Scotland between 1603 and 1625, Charles Prior sets aside 'narrow' analyses of conflict over pred... Read More about Defining the Jacobean Church: The politics of religious controversy, 1603-1625.

The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press (2005)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2005). The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203003411

© 2006 Raphael Cohen-Almagor. All rights reserved. One of the dangers in any political system is that the principles that underlie and characterize it may, through their application, bring about its destruction. Liberal democracy is no exception. Mor... Read More about The scope of tolerance: Studies on the costs of free expression and freedom of the press.

The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005)
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Porter, J., & Roemer, K. M. (Eds.). (2005). The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521822831

© Cambridge University Press 2005 and 2006. This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: Literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the presen... Read More about The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature.