"This is interpretation at its most daring and at its best" Widely respected scholar J. Richard Middleton suggests we have misread and misapplied the story of the binding of Isaac and explains that God desires more than silent obedience in ...
Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects.
Middleton summons us to repentance for such a mistaken understanding that has had disastrous practical implications. This is a repentance that he himself avows.
This outstanding book describes the history of these colonies, both individually and collectively. Since its first publication in 1992 it has become the established textbook for students of this period in American history.
Richard Middleton's 'The Ghost Ship' is a haunting tale of mystery and suspense that follows the journey of a ship lost in the fog, with a crew that seems to be trapped between the living and the dead.
" Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles "This new edition brings the classic survey text in colonial American history abreast of the latest scholarship without sacri??? cing any of the earlier versions' coherence, clarity, ...
Voicing the Popular renews the case for ambitious theory in musical and cultural studies, and, against the grain of much contemporary thought, insists on the progressive potential of a politics of the Low.