The Cause of All Nations
The Cause of All Nations

Author: Don H Doyle

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2014-12-30

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0465080928

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When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed "perish from the earth." In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, and had begun with the American and French Revolutions. While battles raged at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, a parallel contest took place abroad, both in the marbled courts of power and in the public square. Foreign observers held widely divergent views on the war -- from radicals such as Karl Marx and Giuseppe Garibaldi who called on the North to fight for liberty and equality, to aristocratic monarchists, who hoped that the collapse of the Union would strike a death blow against democratic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowhere were these monarchist dreams more ominous than in Mexico, where Napoleon III sought to implement his Grand Design for a Latin Catholic empire that would thwart the spread of Anglo-Saxon democracy and use the Confederacy as a buffer state. Hoping to capitalize on public sympathies abroad, both the Union and the Confederacy sent diplomats and special agents overseas: the South to seek recognition and support, and the North to keep European powers from interfering. Confederate agents appealed to those conservative elements who wanted the South to serve as a bulwark against radical egalitarianism. Lincoln and his Union agents overseas learned to appeal to many foreigners by embracing emancipation and casting the Union as the embattled defender of universal republican ideals, the "last best hope of earth." A bold account of the international dimensions of America's defining conflict, The Cause of All Nations frames the Civil War as a pivotal moment in a global struggle that would decide the survival of democracy.

From Peoples Into Nations
From Peoples Into Nations

Author: John Connelly

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13: 0691167125

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Peoples of Eastern Europe -- Ethnicity on the edge of extinction -- Linguistic nationalism -- Nationality struggles : from idea to movement -- Insurgent nationalism : Serbia and Poland -- Cursed are the peacemakers : 1848 in East Central Europe -- The reform that made the monarchy unreformable : the 1867 compromise -- 1878 Berlin Congress : Europe's new ethno-nation states -- The origins of National Socialism : fin de siecle Hungary and Bohemia -- Liberalism's heirs and enemies : socialism vs. nationalism -- Peasant utopias : villages of yesterday and societies of tomorrow -- 1919 : a new Europe and its old problems -- The failure of national self-determination -- Fascism takes root : Iron Guard and Arrow Cross -- East Europe's anti-fascism -- Hitler's war and its East European enemies -- What Dante did not see : the Holocaust in Eastern Europe -- People's democracy : early postwar Eastern Europe -- Cold War and Stalinism -- Destalinization : Hungary's revolution -- National paths to communism : the 1960s -- 1968 and the Soviet bloc : reform communism -- Real existing socialism : life in the Soviet bloc -- The unraveling of communism -- 1989 -- East Europe explodes : the wars of Yugoslav succession -- East Europe joins Europe.

The Real All Americans
The Real All Americans

Author: Sally Jenkins

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2007-05-08

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0385522991

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Sally Jenkins, bestselling co-author of It's Not About the Bike, revives a forgotten piece of history in The Real All Americans. In doing so, she has crafted a truly inspirational story about a Native American football team that is as much about football as Lance Armstrong's book was about a bike. If you’d guess that Yale or Harvard ruled the college gridiron in 1911 and 1912, you’d be wrong. The most popular team belonged to an institution called the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Its story begins with Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt, a fierce abolitionist who believed that Native Americans deserved a place in American society. In 1879, Pratt made a treacherous journey to the Dakota Territory to recruit Carlisle’s first students. Years later, three students approached Pratt with the notion of forming a football team. Pratt liked the idea, and in less than twenty years the Carlisle football team was defeating their Ivy League opponents and in the process changing the way the game was played. Sally Jenkins gives this story of unlikely champions a breathtaking immediacy. We see the legendary Jim Thorpe kicking a winning field goal, watch an injured Dwight D. Eisenhower limping off the field, and follow the glorious rise of Coach Glenn “Pop” Warner as well as his unexpected fall from grace. The Real All Americans is about the end of a culture and the birth of a game that has thrilled Americans for generations. It is an inspiring reminder of the extraordinary things that can be achieved when we set aside our differences and embrace a common purpose.

A Light to the Nations
A Light to the Nations

Author: Michael W. Goheen

Publisher: Baker Academic

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1441214461

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There is a growing body of literature about the missional church, but the word missional is often defined in competing ways with little attempt to ground it deeply in Scripture. Michael Goheen, a dynamic speaker and the coauthor of two popular texts on the biblical narrative, unpacks the missional identity of the church by tracing the role God's people are called to play in the biblical story. Goheen shows that the church's identity can be understood only when its role is articulated in the context of the whole biblical story--not just the New Testament, but the Old Testament as well. He also explores practical outworkings and implications, offering field-tested suggestions for contemporary churches.

Disciples of All Nations
Disciples of All Nations

Author: Lamin O. Sanneh

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0195189604

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Tracing the rise of Christianity to its key role in Europe's maritime and colonial expansion, this text sheds light on the ways in which societies in Africa, Asia, and Latin America have been drawn into the Christian orbit.

From Every People and Nation
From Every People and Nation

Author: J. Daniel Hays

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2003-07-12

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0830826165

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With this careful, nuanced exegetical volume in the New Studies in Biblical Theology, J. Daniel Hays provides a clear theological foundation for life in contemporary multiracial cultures and challenges churches to pursue racial unity in Christ.

Reaching the Nations
Reaching the Nations

Author: Bryan K. Galloway

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-21

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781979938785

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Throughout the world, people are on the move. These diaspora people do life in two places: the country they presently reside and their homeland. Unfortunately, Christians often do life without ever knowing who these dispersed people. This book goes in detail discussing five disciplines Christians should develop in order to effectively reach the nations and more specifically diaspora people near their locale. Testimonials ... "Bryan Galloway is deeply practical, and wonderfully brilliant. He understands the basics of cultural interaction like few do. At the same time, he cares deeply for the least reached peoples of the world, and carries that compassion to the significant diaspora population of North America who need to experience God's love." --- Linda Bergquist, Church Planting Catalyst, North American Mission Board "Here is an excellent, yet brief, book to assist in reaching the peoples among us. Galloway has done a wonderful job helping us understand the movement of the nations from God's perspective and our necessary response. This highly practical guide sets forth disciplines that are easily applied in our contexts." --- JD Payne, pastor, missiologist, author Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration, and Mission "Bryan and I have rubbed shoulders numerous times over the last several years. I can attest from personal observation: he practices in everyday life what he teaches in this helpful book! You have to admire the simplicity and usefulness of the 5-W's and 5-F's. While helpful for the solo reader, this book would be even more valuable for small groups to study, ponder, and put into practice." --- Larry Stuckey, Coordinator of Diaspora Initiatives, WorldVenture "Reaching The Nations is a Biblically-based missional handbook that begins with the heart of Jesus as recorded in Scripture and results in concrete steps for reaching the diaspora living among us. The reader will find this book inspiring, challenging, practical and timely. Bryan Galloway brings together the disciplines of missiology and cultural anthropology along with decades of personal experience. Bryan has lived the lifestyle that he advocates in his book. Get ready to embark on a journey to change the world from your own neighborhood while answering life's greatest calling - to make disciples of all peoples!" --- Mark Weible, Director of Church Planting, Greater Orlando Baptist Association "Wow! This book is so practical. Bryan Galloway's expertise, experience and heart for introducing Jesus to all resident people groups in North America is evident throughout the presentation. It is worthy of a second read in order to select suggestions relative to the reader's sphere of influence. The material is biblically based and highly motivational. Bryan was truly led by the Holy Spirit in developing this tool for advancing the Kingdom among the unreached." --- Jerry Falley, New American Research Specialist, www.yourneighbor.us

To Bring the Good News to All Nations
To Bring the Good News to All Nations

Author: Lauren Frances Turek

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2020-05-15

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 1501748939

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When American evangelicals flocked to Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe in the late twentieth century to fulfill their Biblical mandate for global evangelism, their experiences abroad led them to engage more deeply in foreign policy activism at home. Lauren Frances Turek tracks these trends and illuminates the complex and significant ways in which religion shaped America's role in the late–Cold War world. In To Bring the Good News to All Nations, she examines the growth and influence of Christian foreign policy lobbying groups in the United States beginning in the 1970s, assesses the effectiveness of Christian efforts to attain foreign aid for favored regimes, and considers how those same groups promoted the imposition of economic and diplomatic sanctions on those nations that stifled evangelism. Using archival materials from both religious and government sources, To Bring the Good News to All Nations links the development of evangelical foreign policy lobbying to the overseas missionary agenda. Turek's case studies—Guatemala, South Africa, and the Soviet Union—reveal the extent of Christian influence on American foreign policy from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Evangelical policy work also reshaped the lives of Christians overseas and contributed to a reorientation of U.S. human rights policy. Efforts to promote global evangelism and support foreign brethren led activists to push Congress to grant aid to favored, yet repressive, regimes in countries such as Guatemala while imposing economic and diplomatic sanctions on nations that persecuted Christians, such as the Soviet Union. This advocacy shifted the definitions and priorities of U.S. human rights policies with lasting repercussions that can be traced into the twenty-first century.