Andrew Murphy: 18 books
Ireland, Reading and Cultural Nationalism, 1790–1930
Bringing the Nation to Book
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
The emergence of an Irish 'common reader' in the nineteenth century had significant implications for the evolution of Irish cultural nationalism. The rise of literacy rates prompted a cultural crisis, with nationalists fearing that the beneficiaries of mass education were being drawn to populist publications...
Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration
The Political Thought of William Penn
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a sophisticated political thinker who contributed...
Political Religion and Religious Politics
Navigating Identities in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Profound demographic and cultural changes in American society over the last half century have unsettled conventional understandings of the relationship between religious and political identity. The "Protestant mainline" continues to shrink in numbers, as well as in cultural and political...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
by Trysh Thompson, G.G. Andrew, Laura VanArendonk Baugh
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Covalent bonds aren’t just about atoms sharing electron pairs anymore—it’s about the electricity that happens when you pair two geeks together. This anthology celebrates geeks of all kinds (enthusiasts, be it for comics, Dr. Who, movies, gaming, computers, or even grammar), and allows them to...
William Penn
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant England and across Europe. An...
Conscience and Community
Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical...
Prodigal Nation
Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2011
"Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.'" -Journal of American History "A wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation on how the theo-political stories we Americans tell ourselves resonate with and sometimes...
The Lively Experiment
Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
The Church of the English College in Rome
Its history, its restoration
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2016
This special publication is one of several to mark the occasion of the reopening of the restored church of the Venerable English College in Rome. It is in three parts. The first section is historical, a collection of articles on subjects related to the origins of the College, its church and the significance...
Regulatory Realities
The Implementation and Impact of Industrial Environmental Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Arguing that the performance of industrial environmental regulation is determined by the level and nature of the innovation it stimulates, this text aims to analyze the influence of different structures and styles of implementation on innovation in regulated companies. Further aims include: examining...
by ZR Southcombe, Andrew Black, Catherine Warren
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
So you want to be an artist? This book is the perfect book for budding young artists as they navigate what it means to be an artist. Join Zee and these real-life contemporary artists as they share advice, experience, and inspiration. With activities to try throughout the book, it's sure to help you on your own artist's journey.
Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease
Scientific Discoveries and New Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases remain the number one cause of death in developed countries and their prevalence is increasing rapidly in developing nations. This book brings together the recent information on these disorders and the links that exist between them in order to provide a complete...
Patronage and Dynasty
The Rise of the della Rovere in Renaissance Italy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
This collection of essays offers a thorough study of the patron-artist relationship through the lens of one of early modern Italy’s most powerful and influential historical families. Contributors present a longitudinal study of the della Rovere family’s ascent into Italian nobility. The della...
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