Roger Williams And The Creation Of The American Soul
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Author |
: John M. Barry |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143122883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143122886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by : John M. Barry
A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza For four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with religious persecution and ended in revolution, and along the way it defined the nature of America and of individual liberty. Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of Roger Williams, who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. This book is essential to understanding the continuing debate over the role of religion and political power in modern life.
Author |
: James A. Warren |
Publisher |
: Scribner |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2019-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501180422 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501180428 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis God, War, and Providence by : James A. Warren
The tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses frustrated in their own time” (Booklist, starred review) as determined Narragansett Indians refused to back down and accept English authority. A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Yet his orthodox brethren were convinced tolerance fostered anarchy and courted God’s wrath. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side by side, in peace. As the seventeenth century wore on, a steadily deepening antagonism developed between an expansionist, aggressive Puritan culture and an increasingly vulnerable, politically divided Indian population. Indian tribes that had been at the center of the New England communities found themselves shunted off to the margins of the region. By the 1660s, all the major Indian peoples in southern New England had come to accept English authority, either tacitly or explicitly. All, except one: the Narragansetts. In God, War, and Providence “James A. Warren transforms what could have been merely a Pilgrim version of cowboys and Indians into a sharp study of cultural contrast…a well-researched cameo of early America” (The Wall Street Journal). He explores the remarkable and little-known story of the alliance between Roger Williams’s Rhode Island and the Narragansett Indians, and how they joined forces to retain their autonomy and their distinctive ways of life against Puritan encroachment. Deeply researched, “Warren’s well-written monograph contains a great deal of insight into the tactics of war on the frontier” (Library Journal) and serves as a telling precedent for white-Native American encounters along the North American frontier for the next 250 years.
Author |
: John M. Barry |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 482 |
Release |
: 2012-12-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143122883 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143122886 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul by : John M. Barry
A revelatory look at the separation of church and state in America—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Influenza For four hundred years, Americans have fought over the proper relationships between church and state and between a free individual and the state. This is the story of the first battle in that war of ideas, a battle that led to the writing of the First Amendment and that continues to define the issue of the separation of church and state today. It began with religious persecution and ended in revolution, and along the way it defined the nature of America and of individual liberty. Acclaimed historian John M. Barry explores the development of these fundamental ideas through the story of Roger Williams, who was the first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, and who created in America the first government and society on earth informed by those beliefs. This book is essential to understanding the continuing debate over the role of religion and political power in modern life.
Author |
: Roger Williams |
Publisher |
: Applewood Books |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781557094643 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1557094640 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Key Into the Language of America by : Roger Williams
A discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
Author |
: Edwin Scott Gaustad |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 051701338X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780517013380 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Synopsis Liberty of Conscience by : Edwin Scott Gaustad
Author |
: Roger DAVIS |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 303 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674030244 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674030249 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Religious Liberty by : Roger DAVIS
Banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his refusal to conform to Puritan religious and social standards, Roger Williams established a haven in Rhode Island for those persecuted in the name of the religious establishment. Davis gathers together important selections from Williams's public and private writings on religious liberty, illustrating how this renegade Puritan radically reinterpreted Christian moral theology and the events of his day in a powerful argument for freedom of conscience and the separation of church and state.
Author |
: Roger Williams |
Publisher |
: Mercer University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0865547661 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780865547667 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience by : Roger Williams
"Not published for over 100 years, this text is now made available under the editorial direction of Richard Groves. The book includes a foreword by Edwin Gaustad and a series foreword by Walter B. Shurden."--BOOK JACKET.
Author |
: John M. Barry |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 826 |
Release |
: 2007-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781416563327 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1416563326 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Rising Tide by : John M. Barry
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award. An American epic of science, politics, race, honor, high society, and the Mississippi River, Rising Tide tells the riveting and nearly forgotten story of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. The river inundated the homes of almost one million people, helped elect Huey Long governor and made Herbert Hoover president, drove hundreds of thousands of African Americans north, and transformed American society and politics forever. The flood brought with it a human storm: white and black collided, honor and money collided, regional and national powers collided. New Orleans’s elite used their power to divert the flood to those without political connections, power, or wealth, while causing Black sharecroppers to abandon their land to flee up north. The states were unprepared for this disaster and failed to support the Black community. The racial divides only widened when a white officer killed a Black man for refusing to return to work on levee repairs after a sleepless night of work. In the powerful prose of Rising Tide, John M. Barry removes any remaining veil that there had been equality in the South. This flood not only left millions of people ruined, but further emphasized the racial inequality that have continued even to this day.
Author |
: John M. Barry |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 580 |
Release |
: 2005-10-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0143036491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780143036494 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Influenza by : John M. Barry
#1 New York Times bestseller “Barry will teach you almost everything you need to know about one of the deadliest outbreaks in human history.”—Bill Gates "Monumental... an authoritative and disturbing morality tale."—Chicago Tribune The strongest weapon against pandemic is the truth. Read why in the definitive account of the 1918 Flu Epidemic. Magisterial in its breadth of perspective and depth of research, The Great Influenza provides us with a precise and sobering model as we confront the epidemics looming on our own horizon. As Barry concludes, "The final lesson of 1918, a simple one yet one most difficult to execute, is that...those in authority must retain the public's trust. The way to do that is to distort nothing, to put the best face on nothing, to try to manipulate no one. Lincoln said that first, and best. A leader must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart." At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease.
Author |
: Edmund S. Morgan |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 187 |
Release |
: 2007-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393347838 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393347834 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis Roger Williams: The Church and the State by : Edmund S. Morgan
An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state. A classic of its kind, Edmund S. Morgan's Roger Williams skillfully depicts the intellectual life of the man who, after his expulsion in 1635 from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded what would become Rhode Island. As Morgan re-creates the evolution of Williams's thoughts on the nature of the church and the state, he captures with characteristic economy and precision the institutions that informed Williams's worldview, from the Protestant church in England to the Massachusetts government in the seventeenth century. In doing so, Morgan reveals the origins of a perennial—and heated—American debate, told through the ideas of one of the most brilliant polemicists on the subject, a man whose mind, as Morgan describes, "drove him to examine accepted ideas and carry them to unacceptable conclusions." Forty years after its first publication, Roger Williams remains essential reading for anyone interested in the church, the state, and the right relation of the two.