Books with Histories
David Pearson
Books with Histories
David Pearson
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The Birmingham banker Samuel Kenrick and Reverend James Wodrow of Ayrshire met as students at the University of Glasgow in the 1740s, and corresponded for over six decades. Covering the years 1784-1790, this is the second of four volumes of the letters of Samuel Kenrick and Rev.
How do British citizens really feel about the political system, their role in it, and the people who represent them? By focusing on the everyday political opinions, discussions, and interactions of ordinary British voters from 1918 to 1992, Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives provides a new and distinctive history of modern British democracy.
This book offers an alternative account of popular religion in early modernity by reconstructing a striking and unstudied community of seventeenth-century puritan immigrants to North America. In doing so, it presents unparalleled evidence for lay engagement with biblical scholarship and a new vision of lay puritanism in the Atlantic world.