Star Territory

Star Territory

Author: Gordon Fraser

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2021-06-04

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0812252926

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In Star Territory Gordon Fraser charts how the project of rationalizing the cosmos enabled the nineteenth-century expansion of U.S. territory and explores the alternative and resistant cosmologies of free and enslaved Blacks and indigenous peoples.


A Divinity for All Persuasions

A Divinity for All Persuasions

Author: T. J. Tomlin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0190669586

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A Divinity for All Persuasions uncovers the prevailing religious sensibility at the center of early America's most popular form of print: the almanac. Employing a wealth of archival material, T.J. Tomlin reveals the pan-Protestant sensibility distributed through the almanacs' pages between 1730 and 1820, finding that almanacs played an unparalleled role in reinforcing British North America's "shared religious culture."