Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality
expanded edition
Belden C. Lane
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Praise for the first edition:
"Lane offers an essay tour that is also a tour de
force." -- Catherine L. Albanese, Horizons
"Clearly written and grounded in far-ranging scholarship...
Anyone interested in American history and,
more specifically, with American spirituality will be deeply
enriched by studying (not just reading) this
brilliant text." -- Most Rev. Robert F. Morneau, auxiliary
bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin, St. Anthony
Messenger
"Read Belden Lane's book and you will encounter your own
desire for that elusive sacred country where
the ordinary world changes from the moment to the eternal, where
opposites are reconciled and all things
are drawn to the center in an irresistible confluence." --
Ruth M. Slickman, Review for Religious
"[Lane] points to things I have quietly suspected, though
never have been able to articulate... For a culture
obsessed with time and time management, Lane's study is a quiet
reminder of the formative effect of
space." -- George R. Graham, Weavings
This substantially expanded edition of Belden C. Lane's
Landscapes of the Sacred includes a new
introductory chapter that offers three new interpretive models
for understanding American sacred space.
Lane maintains his approach of interspersing shorter and more
personal pieces among full-length essays
that explore how Native American, early French and Spanish,
Puritan New England, and Catholic Worker
traditions has each expressed the connection between spirituality
and place. A new section at the end of the
book includes three chapters that address methodological issues
in the study of spirituality, the
symbol-making process of religious experience, and the tension
between place and placelessness in
Christian spirituality.
Belden C. Lane is the Hotfelder Distinguished Professor in the
Humanities in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint
Louis University.
$18.95 | paperback | 0-8018-6838-6
December 2001 paperback, 296 pp., 2 halftones
and 8 line drawings
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Sexual Revolution in
Early America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by Richard Godbeer
Hardcover
(April 2002)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801868009
Architecture and Town
Planning in Colonial North America
by James D. Kornwolf, Georgiana Wallis Kornwolf
Three volumes; vol 1: 608 pages, vol. 2: 768 pages; vol 3: 528
pages.
2699 halftones, 1196 line drawings.
Sold as a set only, Set price is $375.00.
Hardcover (November 2002)
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801859867
THE INVENTION OF
COMFORT
Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern Britain and Early
America
John E. Crowley
$42.00 | hardcover | 0-8018-6437-2
January 2001, 384 pp., 68 illus.
"The Invention of Comfort is obviously a labor of love.
Crowley has successfully tied the idea of comfort to its material
appurtenances. Every page offers interesting detail, worthwhile
insights, and useful connections--the illustrations are a major
contribution in themselves. This is a book that every instructor
in early American history will want to mine for lecture material.
It will be a standard reference work in material culture
studies."--Peter Charles Hoffer, University of Georgia,
author of The
Devil's Disciples and Law and People in Colonial America
How did our modern ideas of physical comfort originate? As John
E. Crowley demonstrates in The Invention of Comfort,
changes in the technology of comfort depended on a
fashion-conscious public's being made to feel discomfort with
surroundings that they had previously perceived as functionally
adequate.
Definitions of comfort changed over time, Crowley shows, and men
and women sometimes interpreted comfort differently.
Crowley begins by examining the material culture of heating and
illumination in British domestic environments during the
postmedieval centuries, when comfort was primarily a moral term
implying consolation and support. Comfort as a physical
ideal emerged in response to eighteenth-century material culture
in Britain and the colonies--artificial illumination and new
facilities for heating created an environment in which domestic
activities, and their attendant patterns of consumption, were
less
hindered by traditional elemental constraints. This emphasis on a
satisfying relationship between one's body and the immediate
physical environment comes close to our modern idea of comfort.
Written in an engaging style that will appeal to historians and
material culture specialists as well as to general readers, this
pathbreaking work brings together such disparate topics of
analysis as climate, fire, food, clothing, the senses, and
anxiety--especially about the night. Crowley highlights his
arguments with excerpts from historical documents--diaries,
travel
accounts, politeness manuals, and personal letters--and includes
analysis of architectural plans and domestic art (reproduced in
the book's many illustrations).
John E. Crowley is George Munro Professor of History at Dalhousie
University. He is the author of The
Privileges of Independence: Neomercantilism and the American
Revolution, also available from Johns Hopkins.
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REDEEMING THE REPUBLIC
Federalists, Taxation, and the Origins of the Constitution
Roger H. Brown
"A
skilful and challenging analysis with wide-ranging
implications... Brown stresses that the
Federalists believed human behavior could be improved through the
agency of a stronger, more
energetic federal government."--Keith Mason, History
"Interesting and valuable for reminding us that tax policy
was an important factor in the
making of the Constitution."--Jackson Turner Main, Journal
of American History
"A book for the policy `wonks' of the 1780s."--Jack N.
Rakove, Reviews in American
History
Why were Federalists at the 1787 Philadelphia
convention--ostensibly called to revise the
Articles of Confederation--so intent on scrapping the old system
and drawing up a completely
new frame of government?
In Redeeming the Republic, Roger Brown focuses on state
public-policy issues to show how
recurrent outbreaks of popular resistance to tax crackdowns
forced state governments to retreat
from taxation, propelling elites into support for the
constitutional revolution of 1787. The
Constitution, Brown contends, resulted from upper-class dismay
over the state governments'
inability to tax effectively for state and federal purposes. The
Framers concluded that, without a
rebuilt, energized central government, the confederation would
experience continued monetary
and fiscal turmoil until republicanism itself became endangered.
A fresh and searching study of the hard questions that divided
Americans in these critical years
and still do today, Redeeming the Republic shows how local
failures led to federalist resolve
and ultimately to a totally new frame of central government.
Roger H. Brown is professor emeritus in the Department of History
at the American University. He is the author of
The Republic in Peril: 1812 and The Struggle for the Indian
Stream Territory.
February 2000
paperback, 352 pp.
0-8018-4497-5 (hardcover) $39.95
0-8018-6355-4 (paperback) $18.95
April 16, 2002