Offers more than fifty selections of the journalist's best work drawn from his twenty-six yera career as chief correspondent to the British newspaper "The Manchester Guardian"

America Observed: From the 1940's to the 1980's

History

COOKE, ALISTAIR

Wells, Ronald A.

Americas

Macmillan Pub. Co.

Integrating faith with introductory Western history, this text provides a Christian perspective on the major epochs, issues, and events of Western Civilization. It details the role of the Greeks and Hebrews, Jesus in history, the Renaissance, and more.

History Through the Eyes of Faith: Christian College Coalition Series

World

HarperOne

Ulster-American Religion: Episodes in the History of a Cultural Connection (The Irish in America)

This work offers an observation on the history of the cultural connections between Ulster and America for students of history, theology, politics, sociology and Irish studies.

Livingstone, David N>

Univ of Notre Dame Pr

David N. Livingstone and Ronald A. Wells are scholars interested in the cultural and social location of ideas. Their transatlantic religious and cultural history explores the connection between Presbyterianism in Northern Ireland and the United States over 150 years. They identify religious ideologies and practices in their various roles during this period, and situate them culturally. By observing how context shapes and interprets the Presbyterian religion and culture in Ulster and America, they reveal the way in which intellectual and cultural meanings of religious belief change over time.

The Wars of America: Christian views

Religion & Spirituality

Eerdmans

California matters, both as a place and as an idea. What famed historian Kevin Starr has called "the California Dream" is a vital part of American self-understanding. Just as America was meant to be a place of renewal, even redemption, for Europe, so too California was intended as a place of renewal for America. Therefore, California--place and idea--provides a fertile ground for scholars to think deeply about what it means to articulate "the promise of American life." This book follows in the train of George Marsden's classic The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship--believing that people of faith have a contribution to make to scholarship--and of Jay Green's more recent book, Christian Historiography: Five Rival Views--believing that scholars of faith should engage in moral inquiry. In this book, eight authors inquire into the moral questions that emerge from studying California.

California Dreaming: Society and Culture in the Golden State

Pickwick Publications

California matters, both as a place and as an idea. What famed historian Kevin Starr has called ""the California Dream"" is a vital part of American self-understanding. Just as America was meant to be a place of renewal, even redemption, for Europe, so too California was intended as a place of renewal for America. Therefore, California--place and idea--provides a fertile ground for scholars to think deeply about what it means to articulate ""the promise of American life."" This book follows in the train of George Marsden's classic The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship--believing that people of faith have a contribution to make to scholarship--and of Jay Green's more recent book, Christian Historiography: Five Rival Views--believing that scholars of faith should engage in moral inquiry. In this book, eight authors inquire into the moral questions that emerge from studying California. ""This superb collection demonstrates how much fresh historical insight can be gained by careful examination of a single state in the USA. The book's particular virtue is to show how a theological interpretive framework illuminates questions of race, urbanization, the environment, immigration, and more. The individual essays are penetrating, the entire effect superb."" --Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame ""Anyone with a curiosity about California will find matters to savor in this engaging volume. The essays reflect the moral seriousness of their authors and also offer accessible windows to contemplate some of the many diversities of a truly remarkable state."" --George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame ""The eclectic essays of California Dreaming give us glimpses of what has made the place coveted land and contested ground over the past two centuries. Filled with vibrant personalities and causes as diverse as the state itself, the stories told here remind us of the ongoing value of reflections--both historical and moral--upon the California experience."" --Richard Pointer, Westmont College ""As a resident of another border state, Texas, that is as much an idea as a place, I appreciate how California serves as a reflection in micro of what America itself can or should mean. This book inspires that sort of reflection and is, therefore, useful and of interest to anyone hoping to come to grips with questions of place and meaning in a postmodern era."" --Barry Hankins, Baylor University ""California, for good and perhaps not always for good, has been the beacon of America's future for a century and a half. Yet there are many Californias, and they lead us in different directions. In this thought-provoking book, eight Christian scholars engage the past and the present, north and south, race and gender, politics, and the landscape itself. Throughout, they pursue not an agenda but a moral perspective. There is much here to delight the mind."" --Paul Spickard, University of California, Santa Barbara Ronald Wells is Professor Emeritus of History at Calvin College, Michigan. He is now Associate Director of the Maryville-Lee Symposium on Faith and the Liberal Arts at Maryville College, Tennessee. His many books include History Through the Eyes of Faith, History and the Christian Historian and The Wars of America: Christian Views.

California Dreaming

Wipf and Stock

Chronicling California's early history California has recently been blessed with a number of careful and colorful works by authors who do not hesitate at--and perhaps even enjoy--shattering the state's historic icons in order to present an honest view of the state's formative events and their causes. Josiah Royce's California, published in 1886, is the prototype for this approach. In chronicling California's early history, Royce's intensely moral nature led him to, among other things, question and eventually debunk the glory attached to John C. Fremont and the Bear Flag Rebellion.
 With keen attention to detail, Royce produced a passionate narrative--at times ironic, at times outraged, at times in awe of pioneer courage--that is admired to this day. Preferring fact to myth and optimism to despair, he sought to ground our history in truth and to reveal the moral consequences of the American conquest of Mexican California.

California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book)

Royce, Josiah

Heyday Books

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America Observed: From the 1940's to the 1980's

History Through the Eyes of Faith: Christian College Coalition Series

Ulster-American Religion: Episodes in the History of a Cultural Connection (The Irish in America)

Ulster-American Religion: Episodes in the History of a Cultural Connection (The Irish in America)

The Wars of America: Christian views

California Dreaming: Society and Culture in the Golden State

California Dreaming

California: A Study of American Character : From the Conquest in 1846 to the Second Vigilance Committee in San Francisco (California Legacy Book)