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Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical problem-as a point of contestation and debate resolved through...

Theories and Dilemmas of Jewish Group DemarcationVolume XXV of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry explores new understandings and approaches to Jewish "e;ethnicity."e; In current parlance regarding multicultural diversity, Jews are often considered to belong socially to the "e;majority,"e; whereas...

The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day LandingsSeventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a fifty-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France.  It was the greatest sea-borne assault in human history. The code names given to the beaches where the...

Law, Religion, and the ConstitutionThe Agnostic Age: Law, Religion, and the Constitution is a book for lawyers, law professors, law students, lawmakers, and any citizen who cares about church-state conflict and about the relationship between religion and liberal democracy. It provides a way to understand and balance the conflicts that inevitably...

Volume I: Maximilian I to the Peace of Westphalia, 1493-1648Germany and the Holy Roman Empire offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial era in German and European history, from the great reforms of 1495-1500 to the dissolution of the Reich in 1806. Over two volumes, Joachim Whaley rejects the notion that this was a long period of decline,...

The Lost Story of Britain&'s Convict Disaster in AfricaThis is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over.  In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the America War of Independence, the British...