Spheres of Liberty
Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1578063949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical overview of the concept of liberty in American culture and thought
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Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1578063949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA historical overview of the concept of liberty in American culture and thought
Author: Ryan C. Jenkins
Publisher: CFI
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781462116492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven the Prophet's most vehement critics--then and now--can at least agree on one thing: Joseph Smith was murdered in cold blood. This account begins in October 1838; Joseph is thirty-two years old and has less than six years to live. Well-researched and written in a clear, straightforward style, it's sure to capture the attention of latter-day saints and those not of the faith.
Author: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Publisher:
Published: 1884
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William B. Warner
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013-09-20
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 022606140X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution, Protocols of Liberty shows how American patriots—the Whigs—used new forms of communication to challenge British authority before any shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. To understand the triumph of the Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, William B. Warner argues that it is essential to understand the communication systems that shaped pre-Revolution events in the background. He explains the shift in power by tracing the invention of a new political agency, the Committee of Correspondence; the development of a new genre for political expression, the popular declaration; and the emergence of networks for collective political action, with the Continental Congress at its center. From the establishment of town meetings to the creation of a new postal system and, finally, the Declaration of Independence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that communication innovations contributed decisively to nation-building and continued to be key tools in later American political movements, like abolition and women’s suffrage, to oppose local custom and state law.
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 880
ISBN-13: 9780195162530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe bestselling author of "Washington's Crossing" and "Albion's Seed" offers a strikingly original history of America's founding principles. Fischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
Author: Michael D. Breidenbach
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2021-05-25
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 067424723X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.
Author: Nicholas Scott Baker
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013-11-04
Total Pages: 383
ISBN-13: 0674726391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the republic. The book analyzes the long, slow social and cultural transformations that predated, accompanied, and facilitated the institutional shift from republic to principality, from citizen to subject. More than a chronological narrative, this analysis covers a wide range of contributing factors to this transition, from attitudes toward officeholding, clothing, the patronage of artists and architects to notions of self, family, and gender. Using a wide variety of sources including private letters, diaries, and art works, Nicholas Baker explores how the language, images, and values of the republic were reconceptualized to aid the shift from citizen to subject. He argues that the creation of Medici principality did not occur by a radical break with the past but with the adoption and adaptation of the political culture of Renaissance republicanism.
Author: Kent P. Jackson
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 888
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume--the work of a lifetime--brings together all the Joseph Smith Translation manuscript in a remarkable and useful way. Now, for the first time, readers can take a careful look at the complete text, along with photos of several actual manuscript pages. The book contains a typographic transcription of all the original manuscripts, unedited and preserved exactly as dictated by the Prophet Joseph and recorded by his scribes. In addition, this volume features essays on the background, doctrinal contributions, and editorial procedures involved in the Joseph Smith Translation, as well as the history of the manuscripts since Joseph Smith's day.
Author: Ezra Taft Benson
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gouverneur Morris
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780865978348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiberty Fund is pleased to present this single-volume collection of Gouverneur Morris's writings. This edition will be a welcome addition to scholars of American and French history as the volume contains many writings that have never before been published. Providing his unique perspective, this is a wonderful and accessible single source that illuminates the political and economic thought of Gouverneur Morris.