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Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.
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Traces the Perry family of Devon (1615-1753) who created Perry and Lane, the most important London firm trading to the Chesapeake and North America in the 17th century. In doing so, the story reveals the interrelatedness of social, commericial and political history.
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Jacopo Zabarella's two treatises On Methods and On Regressus (1578) are among the most important Renaissance discussions of how scientific knowledge should be acquired,... Læs mere
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This record of Florentine musician Jacopo Peri's wide-ranging investments and activities in the marketplace enables the... Læs mere
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Marking A. R. Wallace's death in 1913, James Costa presents in facsimile,... Læs mere
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Returns—third in a trilogy—explores the ways people recover and renew their roots. James Clifford looks at native peoples who have become not... Læs mere
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For Richard Posner, legal formalism and formalist judges--notably Antonin Scalia--present the main obstacles to coping with the dizzying pace of technological advance. Posner calls... Læs mere
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Transcendentalism went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Brandom’s new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to... Læs mere
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Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, Martha C. Nussbaum takes us to task for our religious... Læs mere
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A mere forty miles apart, these cities have enjoyed a rivalry since wistful Edinburgh lost parliamentary sovereignty and defiant Glasgow came into its industrial promise.... Læs mere
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China’s late-imperial history has been framed as a long coda of decline, played out during the Qing dynasty. Reappraising this... Læs mere
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Renunciation as a creative force is the animating idea behind Ross Posnock’s new book. Taking up acts of abandonment, rejection, and... Læs mere