The Puritan Way of Death 9780195022261

Origins of the puritan concept of despair

This thesis traces the origins of the puritan concept of despair, from its beginnings in the early centuries of the Chri

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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death 9781501767234

Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death, in China

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Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death 1501767216, 9781501767210

Governing Death, Making Persons tells the story of how economic reforms and changes in the management of death in China

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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination 9780226694160

The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. “Pur

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The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism 9780300137675

In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of

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The Death of the American Death Penalty : States Still Leading the Way [1 ed.] 9781555537821, 9781555537807

The death penalty has largely disappeared as a national legislative issue and the Supreme Court has mainly bowed out, le

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Knocking on heaven's door: the path to a better way of death 9781451641974, 9781451641998, 1451641974

"A blend of memoir and investigation of the choices we face when our terror of death collides with the technologica

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The Anglo-Saxon way of death : burial rites in early England 9780750921039, 075092103X

This account of death and burial in Anglo-Saxon England offers insights into the society and customs of the Anglo-Saxons

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Puritan Influence in Wisconsin

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The Economy of Death

A discussion of waste in US government military spending, the entrenched influence & power of the military-industria

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