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• milton in yosemite: PARADISE LOST AND THE NATIONAL PARKS IDEA

  - 2008-04-01

  ABSTRACT "Milton in Yosemite" investigates the reasons why certain English and American visitors to Yosemite so often described the valley in religious terms, particularly in terms of an Eden. Reformed Protestantism developed a peculiarly strong nostalgia for Eden that John Milton gave a powerful form in Paradise Lost. The poem's...

  Tags: America, angel, Boston, California, Cambridge, Earth, Emerson, garden, Park, Richard, Robert, temple, University of Oxford, Valley, Yale University

• The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America

  - 2007-09-22

  The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of America. By Colin G. Calloway. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 224 pages. $26.00. The 1763 Treaty of Paris, concluded among Great Britain, France, and Spain, ended the contest known as the French and Indian War in North America...

  Tags: America, France, Litigation, University of Oxford

• Reconceptualizing religious change: ethno-apostasy and change in religion among American Jews

  - 2006-12-22

  Since the 1960s, observers of American religion have recognized that individuals, through their personal choices, wield a collective power to reshape the religious landscape of the United States. Religious switching and the abandonment of religious affiliation are widely acknowledged to be inherent features of an environment where religion derives its...

  Tags: affiliation, America, analysis, Barry, Cohen, Gary, Israel, M., network, Phillips, Richard, Robert, U.S., University of Oxford

• H.W. Wilson's Art Full Text now features full-text coverage back to 2000 for Art in America, Antiques, and five Oxford University Press journals.(Social Sciences & Humanities)

  - 2006-07-01

  H.W. Wilson's Art Full Text now features full-text coverage back to 2000 for Art in America, Antiques, and five Oxford University Press journals. Full-text coverage for additional journals, including six titles from Intellect, Ltd., has been added beginning with the 2006 issues [800/367-6770; www.hwwilson.com].

  Tags: America, University of Oxford

• McCarthyism: political repression and the fear of communism

  - 2004-12-22

  THE 28-YEAR-OLD SEAMAN WAS PUZZLED. LAWRENCE PARKER HAD BEEN forced off his job as a waiter on the S.S. President Cleveland in February 1951 as a "poor security risk," but had not been told why. This was not the first time he had been barred from the waterfront under the...

  Tags: America, Communism, FBI, job, Joe, president, Robert, sanction, scare, transcript, U.S., U.S. Congress, University of Oxford, worker

• A merciless mercy. A MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By IAN DOWBIGGIN. Oxford University Press. 259 pp. $28.(Book Review) (book review)

  - 2003-05-01

  A MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By IAN DOWBIGGIN. Oxford University Press. 259 pp. $28. JUDGING FROM ITS unfortunate title, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America would appear to be just another in the dreary collection of recent...

  Tags: America, suicide, University of Oxford

• Historians look at Kennedy's Wars. - three books - book review

  - 2002-05-01

  Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Laos, Cuba and Vietnam. Lawrence Freedman. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]20.00. 528 pages. ISBN 0-19-513453-2. A Noble Cause? America and the Vietnam War. Gerard J. DeGroot. Longman. [pounds sterling]17.99 p.b. 391 pages. ISBN 0-582-28717-0. A Time for War: The United States and Vietnam, 1941 -1975. Robert D....

  Tags: America, Berlin, Cuba, FINANCE, University of Oxford, Vietnam

• What really matters in history? Environmental perspectives on modern America

  - 2002-04-01

  What really matters in history? In the introduction to Perspectives on Modern America: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), editor Harvard Sitkoff addresses that question with unusual candor. To organize the conference that laid the foundation for the book, Sitkoff writes, the history department...

  Tags: America, Conservation, Donald, environment, Environmental, environmentalism, pollution, Richard, Robert, South, University of Oxford, women

• Spiritual but not Religious. (Books In Review). (book review)

  - 2002-02-01

  SPIRITUAL BUT NOT RELIGIOUS. By ROBERT C. FULLER. Oxford University Press. 202 pp. $25. The subtitle is "understanding unchurched America," and the first thing the author wants us to understand is that the unchurched are not always, not even typically, indifferent to religion. But...

  Tags: America, Books, University of Oxford

• Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America.(Review)

  - 2001-06-22

  Taking Heaven by Storm: Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America. By John H. Wigger. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. ix, 269. $55.00.) Based on his 1994 dissertation of the same tide, this is the author's first book. It bears...

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