Lexington Books: 3858 books
by Aleksandra Ziolkowska-Boehm
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Kaia, Heroine of the 1944 Warsaw Rising tells the story of one woman, whose life encompasses a century of Polish history. Full of tragic and compelling experiences such as life in Siberia, Warsaw before World War II, the German occupation, the Warsaw Rising, and life in the Soviet Ostashkov prison,...
Both Prayed to the Same God
Religion and Faith in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
Both Prayed to the Same God is the first book-length, comprehensive study of religion in the Civil War. While much research has focused on religion in a specific context of the civil war, this book provides a needed overview of this vital yet largely forgotten subject of American History. Writing...
But Not Philosophy
Seven Introductions to Non-Western Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2001
George Anastaplo has written brilliantly and persuasively about ancient and modern Western political philosophy and literature and about American Constitutional history and law. With his latest book Anastaplo turns away from his areas of admitted expertise to offer, in his own words, 'the explorations...
Relief Work as Pilgrimage
“Mademoiselle Miss Elsie” in Southern France, 1945–1948
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
In 1945, Elsie C. Bechtel left her Ohio home for the tiny French commune of Lavercantière, where for nearly three years she cared for children displaced by the ravages of war. Bechtel’s diary, photographs, and letters home to her family provide the central texts of this study. From 1945 to 1948,...
Inventing the Holy Land
American Protestant Pilgrimage to Palestine, 1865–1941
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011
This book presents a historical study of the phenomenon of Holy Land tourism among American Protestants during the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. During this period, overseas travel was newly available to the Protestant middle class due to the invention and...
Gays and Grays
The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2007
Gays and Grays tells the story of a unique Catholic parish. Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco is in the center of the world's first gay neighborhood, The Castro. This parish was the center of the hostility to the arriving gay population in the 1970s; but paradoxically was itself transformed...
Applied Christian Ethics
Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. The book is divided in three parts. In the first section, “Foundation,” several contributors reveal their Christian realist roots and discuss the prophetic origins and multifarious agenda of social ethics. Thus, the...
Between Utopia and Dystopia
Erasmus, Thomas More, and the Humanist Republic of Letters
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2010
The figure of the intellectual looms large in modern history, and yet his or her social place has always been full of ambiguity and ironies. Between Utopia and Dystopia is a study of the movement that created the identity of the universal intellectual: Erasmian humanism. Focusing on the writings of...
by D. S. Likhachev, Christopher M. Arden-Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
This translation of Likhachev’s Poetika Drevnerusskoy Literatury (The Poetics of Early Russian Literature), provides a description of the basic themes of early (tenth to seventeenth century) Russian literature. Likhachev compares literary narrative with narrative used in the representational arts....
John Flavel
Puritan Life and Thought in Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
A nonconformist, unifier, husband of three deceased wives, victim of religious persecution, and author of what has been collected into six volumes of reprinted Works, John Flavel (c.1630-1691) of Dartmouth, England not only had an immense following during his own lifetime, but deeply influenced those...
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
Prisoner of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominantly Roman Catholic country populated by ethnic Poles. It features a triangular relationship among the...
The Pius War
Responses to the Critics of Pius XII
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
In the brutal fight that has raged in recent years over the reputation of Pope Pius XII_leader of the Catholic Church during World War II, the Holocaust, and the early years of the Cold War_the task of defending the Pope has fallen primarily to reviewers. These reviewers formulated a brilliant response...
by Alan Levine
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 1999
This collection of original essays by the nation's leading political theorists examines the origins of modernity and considers the question of tolerance as a product of early modern religious skepticism. Rather than approaching the problem through a purely historical lens, the authors actively demonstrate...
by Paul J. Rich
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Detailing two years in the life of a British political officer charged with establishing and maintaining British rule in the Kurdish district of Arbil in Iraq, this personal account provides a thorough discussion of Kurdish society from the viewpoint of Captain William Rupert Hay. Chronicling the...