Camp Floyd and the Mormons traces the history of the sojourn of "Johnston's Army" in Utah Territory from the beginning of the Utah War in 1857 through the abandonment of Camp Floyd in Cedar Valley west of Utah Lake at the outbreak of the Civil War. The book describes the relationship between the invading army and the local Mormon population, gives ......
This account discusses the outbreak of medical malpractice litigation in the 1840s in America that disrupted professional relations, injured individual reputations, and burdened physicians with legal fees and damage awards.
Aiming to provide a complete history of the Catholic Church in modern Peru, this detailed study examines the roots of the Peruvian church from the post-colonial period of the 1820s to the Pope's first visit in 1985. This social history explores the different ways in which the church has responded to political and social movements in Peru since its ......
The Publisher, Text, and Publication of America's First Britannica, 1789-183
This is the first study of the life and career of Thomas Dobson, arguably the most prominent American printer, publisher, and bookseller between the years 1785 and 1822, whose accomplishments included publication of the first American edition of the Hebrew Bible, and the first American edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Focusing on German Catholic systematic and fundamental theology from the 1860s to the onset of World War I, this volume begins with an introduction to the cultural and political patterns of the period and goes on to examine competing Catholic theologies and the work of individual theologians.
Studies in Russian and Polish Thought of the Romantic Epoch
Andrzej Walicki here examines the relations between Polish and Russian thinkers in the 1840s, analyzing these relations in a broad comparative perspective against the background of the main currents of European throughout of that time. The book demonstrates that despite the scarcity of documentation, the intellectual encounters between Adam ......
One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
One fall morning Jerry Ellis donned a backpack and began a long, lonely walk: retracing the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the nine hundred miles his ancestors had walked in 1838. The trail was the agonizing path of exile the Cherokees had been forced to take when they were torn from their southeastern homeland and relocated to Indian Territory. ......
The Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals 1740-1989
Provides an analysis that concerns Roman Catholics, public officials, social ethicists, theologians, and students need. This title includes a review of Catholic social teaching in its historical development.
