Andrew R. Murphy is Professor of Political Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. His work on Penn has spanned several decades, including a biography, William Penn: A Life (2019), and the first study of Penn's political thought in fifty years, Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration (2016).
Télécharger le livre :  William Penn

On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-10-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration

In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart. Yet despite being widely neglected by scholars, he was a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-05-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Literature, Culture, and Tolerance

Questions of tolerance are as old as human society. In acknowledgment of the crucial importance of tolerance and intolerance in contemporary life, a conference was convened in 2007. The 16 papers included in this volume all have their origins in that conference, which...
Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2012-08-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence

The timely Blackwell Companion to Religion and Violence brings together an international, interdisciplinary group of scholars who provide a coherent state of the art overview of the complex relationships between religion and violence. This companion tackles one of the...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2011-04-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Prodigal Nation

"Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.'" -Journal of American History "A wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation on how the theo-political stories we Americans tell...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-11-19

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Télécharger le livre :  A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text

A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. The first single-volume book to provide an...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole. The first single-volume book to provide an...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2008-04-15
Collection : Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
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