How the English and American Revolutions Produced the American Constitut
How and why did Americans conceive a republic built on individual liberty, in an era or oppressive monarchies? The author explores the origins of the rights and liberties which the Constitution protects. He tells the story of the revolutionary journey from British colonies to a nation with the worlds first written Constitution.
A detailed treatise on thirty two Worthington families of the 17th century in Lancashire and others worldwide whose ancestry can be traced to Lancashire produced from some of over 2,800 written references collected over more than ten years and containing pedigrees of each family and 76 maps and illustrations. A must for Worthington genealogists.
Forgery, Theft, and Sainthood in the Seventeenth Century
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of ......
This study examines the US Declaration of Independence as a political manifesto of the Enlightenment and the right to revolution. The author argues that there was a missed opportunity concerning the "rights of man" during the early constitutional debates.
The Formation of Race in Seventeenth-Century Virginia
The Making of American Whiteness shows that White supremacy was the guiding principle in the settlement of Virginia, the first colony that made up the United States of America, and for the organization of its civil society.
Charles II's succession to the throne came at a time of national turbulence: his father had been beheaded, Oliver Cromwell had usurped his right to reign. England was at sea among Europe's constantly shifting allegiances. But Henry Jermyn, a Suffolk commoner, lover to the queen mother and possibly even father to the king, was there to keep the ......
This volume contains the journals of four Moravians who traveled to and lived in the colony of Georgia between 1734 and 1737. The journals describe the passage to Georgia, life in early Georgia, and Moravian religious practices, and suggested reasons for the eventual abandonment of the Georgia Moravian settlement.
Empire, Land, and Religion in the Rappahannock Region
In The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia, Lonnie H. Lee traces the hidden history of a Huguenot emigrant community established in eight counties along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand.
"This book tells the story of religion and medicine in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world. It rejects simplistic frameworks of secularization and enlightenment and emphasizes, instead, continuing and powerful Protestant ideas of God's oversight in shaping and motivating human activity in the realms of narrative, medicine, missions, charity, and ......
