Author: Robert Dale Owen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An examination of spiritualist phenomena and an argument of the belief's importance by one of its leading nineteenth-century proponents.
The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next
Author: Robert Dale Owen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An examination of spiritualist phenomena and an argument of the belief's importance by one of its leading nineteenth-century proponents.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
An examination of spiritualist phenomena and an argument of the belief's importance by one of its leading nineteenth-century proponents.
The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next
Author: Robert Dale Owen
Publisher: New York : G.W. Carleton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher: New York : G.W. Carleton
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England
Author: Graham Robb
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"[An] entertaining work of geographical sleuthing.…Surprises abound." —The New Yorker An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land once served as a buffer between England and Scotland. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of the state. Today, its boundaries have vanished from the map and are matters of myth and generational memories. In The Debatable Land, historian Graham Robb recovers the history of this ancient borderland in an exquisite tale that spans Roman, Medieval, and present-day Britain. Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Debatable Land provides a crucial, missing piece in the puzzle of British history.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393285332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"[An] entertaining work of geographical sleuthing.…Surprises abound." —The New Yorker An oft-overlooked region lies at the heart of British national history: the Debatable Land. The oldest detectable territorial division in Great Britain, the Debatable Land once served as a buffer between England and Scotland. It was once the bloodiest region in the country, fought over by Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and James V. After most of its population was slaughtered or deported, it became the last part of Great Britain to be brought under the control of the state. Today, its boundaries have vanished from the map and are matters of myth and generational memories. In The Debatable Land, historian Graham Robb recovers the history of this ancient borderland in an exquisite tale that spans Roman, Medieval, and present-day Britain. Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Debatable Land provides a crucial, missing piece in the puzzle of British history.
Old and New
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 842
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Old and New
Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher:
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Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Includes: College directory [giving the name, locality, course of study, faculty, and number of students, of 175 or more of the Principal collegiate institutions of the United States]. [Boston, Robert Bros. 1872-74]
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ISBN:
Category : Liberalism (Religion)
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Includes: College directory [giving the name, locality, course of study, faculty, and number of students, of 175 or more of the Principal collegiate institutions of the United States]. [Boston, Robert Bros. 1872-74]
Catholic World
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Indiana Magazine of History
Author:
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
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Category : Indiana
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Talking to the Dead
Author: Barbara Weisberg
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061755168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Barbara Weisberg’s Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement—and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox—sisters aged eleven and fourteen—anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to séances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali–like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story.
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0061755168
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Barbara Weisberg’s Talking to the Dead blends biography and social history in this revelatory story of the family responsible for the rise of Spiritualism. A fascinating story of spirits and conjurors, skeptics and converts in the second half of nineteenth century America viewed through the lives of Kate and Maggie Fox, the sisters whose purported communication with the dead gave rise to the Spiritualism movement—and whose recanting forty years later is still shrouded in mystery. In March of 1848, Kate and Maggie Fox—sisters aged eleven and fourteen—anxiously reported to a neighbor that they had been hearing strange, unidentified sounds in their house. From a sequence of knocks and rattles translated by the young girls as a "voice from beyond," the Modern Spiritualism movement was born. Talking to the Dead follows the fascinating story of the two girls who were catapulted into an odd limelight after communicating with spirits that March night. Within a few years, tens of thousands of Americans were flocking to séances. An international movement followed. Yet thirty years after those first knocks, the sisters shocked the country by denying they had ever contacted spirits. Shortly after, the sisters once again changed their story and reaffirmed their belief in the spirit world. Weisberg traces not only the lives of the Fox sisters and their family (including their mysterious Svengali–like sister Leah) but also the social, religious, economic and political climates that provided the breeding ground for the movement. While this is a thorough, compelling overview of a potent time in US history, it is also an incredible ghost story.
The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Scientific theories
Author: Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophers
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Yorkshire
Author: Richard Morris
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297609440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region's most extraordinary people and places.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297609440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Yorkshire is 'a continent unto itself', a region where mountain, plain, coast, downs, fen and heath lie close. By weaving history, family stories, travelogue and ecology, Richard Morris reveals how Yorkshire took shape as a landscape and in literature, legend and popular regard. The result is a fascinating and wide-ranging meditation on Yorkshire and Yorkshireness, told through the prism of the region's most extraordinary people and places.