The Puritan Way of Death 9780195022261

Life, Death, and the Western Way of War 0192858246, 9780192858245

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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death 1501767216, 9781501767210

Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China

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The Puritan Ordeal 9780674034174

More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant ex

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism 9780300137675

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of

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The Death of the American Death Penalty : States Still Leading the Way [1 ed.] 9781555537821, 9781555537807

The death penalty has largely disappeared as a national legislative issue and the Supreme Court has mainly bowed out, le

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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death 9780674054646

In the “hush harbors” of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path

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Godly Conversation: Rediscovering the Puritan Practice of Conference 1601781334, 9781601781338

This stimulating and important study examines the gathering of the saints in informal settings, or 'conferences, &#

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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination 9780226694160

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Pur

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Puritan Heroes 9781601786388, 1601786387

Who were the Puritans, and why are they important? What can we learn from them today? The Puritan movement began in Engl

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Puritan Influence in Wisconsin

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