Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P729
ISBN: 9780881469929
Price: $35.00
AMERICAN PROTEUS seeks to explain what it means for Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) to have created out of his life-experiences and encompassing cultural milieu a novel kind of fiction for a new kind of country. As a work of biographical criticism, this study charts the emergence of Brown's authorial voice as it developed throughout an amorphous, multifaceted, and conflicted apprenticeship. This eleven-year period of literary experimentation established the foundation for his brief yet momentous career as a publishing novelist that lasted from 1798 through 1801.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1056
ISBN: 9780881469943
Price: $45.00
The third volume of ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH: SELECTED WRITINGS offers readers selections from several of her longer works written between 1842 and the late 1880s: THE WESTERN CAPTIVE (1842), one of the first "paperback" novels sold in the United States; BERTHA AND LILY (1854), a novel featuring one of the first "fallen" heroines in the sentimental tradition; THE NEWSBOY, Oakes Smith's second novel of 1854 and her deepest foray into the lives of the working poor; “The Queen of Tramps” (1874-1888), a complete novel left in manuscript at the time of her death; and OLD NEW YORK (1853), a historical melodrama bringing a female lead character to the center of late-seventeenth century colonial rebellion in New York City.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P730
ISBN: 9780881469967
Price: $35.00
SINCLAIR LEWIS: THE 1920s AND THE SHAPING OF AMERICAN IDENTITY argues the importance of words, ideas, and values in sculpting twentieth-century identity. Here, Agran encourages literary scholars and all students of American culture to recognize that Lewis's reception in the twenties was formidable because of his sensitivity to the nation's history, its promise, and at points its troubling trajectory.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1057
ISBN: 9780881469981
Price: $32.00
While much has been written about Mary Phagan's murder and Leo Frank's subsequent trial over the past 115 years, very little has given voice to Lucille Selig Frank and other women connected to the horrific events that took place between 1913-1915. Lucille was part of a mission to make Governor John Slaton aware of the antisemitism being shown to Leo during his arrest and trial. She paid a heavy price for her courage.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P728
ISBN: 9780881469912
Price: $30.00
America's first appointed woman missionary kept a journal recording her experiences in a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, religiously pluralistic world. Charlotte Atlee White Rowe's 1815-1822 journal recounts her cross-cultural work among Hindus, Muslims, Eurasians, and Europeans in British India. Most of her entries come from her first years and reveal a ministry being shaped by experience and reflection. An introduction and conclusion sketch her life before and after India. It is a remarkable addition to mission, women's, and Baptist studies.
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Product Code: HH1060
ISBN: 9798897360055
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Known as a Renaissance man, Thomas Jefferson across the span of his life excelled in a variety of fields, from politics to architecture to historical linguistics. Here he is depicted in his domestic role as the father of six White children (two of whom lived to adulthood); the grandfather of twelve White grandchildren; and the father of five Black children by Sally Hemings (four of whom lived to adulthood).
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Product Code: HH1061
ISBN: 9798897360178
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The sixty-year period following the American Civil War was a time of great wealth accumulation and materialistic excess. This book examines the reasons for the new wealth and its unequal distribution, why quail were the preferred quarry of Gilded Age barons, what attracted the hunting moguls to the North Carolina Piedmont, what became of them and their hunting estates, and how technology produced changes that transformed the American landscape, causing the collapse of quail populations once thought limitless. The Pine Needles lodge, established in 1912, is examined in detail with novel stories based on records, memorabilia, and recollections of descendants of those involved in the establishment and management of the lodge.
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Product Code: HH1063
ISBN: 9798897360307
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First Baptist Church, Waco, Texas, which celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2026, is a moderate congregation of diverse social, economic, educational, and religious backgrounds. This book narrates key themes in the rich history of the church, which has been deeply affected by successive cultural contexts, including slavery, wars, the Depression, the Civil Rights movement, denominational conflicts, and secularization. Organized in 1851, the church has offered weekly worship in central Texas since that time.
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Product Code: P739
ISBN: 9798897360208
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John Dickinson's LETTERS FROM A FARMER IN PENNSYLVANIA (1767-1768) is one of the most consequential documents in American history. Written in response to Great Britain's unjust taxation policy, these twelve letters were first published serially in the newspapers and then in pamphlet form in multiple editions in several countries. With clear and compelling language directed to ordinary readers, the letters educated the colonists about their rights, galvanized them to resist Britain using only peaceful means, and implanted in them a sense of national unity and a distinct American identity.
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THE WORLD was one of the most ambitious treatises that René Descartes ever undertook; it was also brilliantly original, influential, and controversial. This new translation restores the text as a key part of Descartes's legacy. It includes a helpful introduction, a summary of the translated text, a chronology, a recommended bibliography, and two translated excerpts of the sister treatise to THE WORLD, the TREATISE ON MAN.
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Edited and translated by: Matthew Wells
Product Code: P742
ISBN: 9798897360246
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Aristotle's ALLEGATIONS provides a new, literal translation of the text traditionally called Aristotle's CATEGORIES, which was once the introductory text not only to Aristotle's corpus but also to philosophy as such. Most ambitiously, this book wishes to encourage readers to learn from Aristotle on the grounds that his teaching in the ALLEGATIONS might be true and to defend its worthiness as an introduction to philosophy proper.
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Product Code: P746
ISBN: 9798897360291
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In 2025, the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) reported that it was a fellowship of 266 Baptist conventions and unions from 134 countries and territories across the globe. These diverse Baptist groups included 51 million baptized believers in 176,000 churches. Readers may draw both inspiration and caution from the stories of the individuals who have led the BWA, lessons of history to better understand the past and shape the future.
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