Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution
9 best books like Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Woody Holton): Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus, The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries, Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation, The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648-1815, What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
My favorite when it comes to Italian food. I love Marcella, though my Italian friend Christiana says Marcella and her adorable husband are "trailer court Italian."
We actually own TWO copies of this book, the nice newer copy you pick up to leaf through, and a tattered older copy that I learned...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
Not a Fan: Becoming a Completely Committed Follower of Jesus
| Author | Kyle Idleman |
| ISBN | 0310331935 |
Are you a follower of Jesus? Don't answer too quickly. In fact, you may want to read this book before you answer at all. Consider it a 'Define the Relationship' conversation to determine exactly where you stand. You may indeed be a passionate, fully devoted follower of Jesus. Or, you may be just a fan who...
The Night Battles: Witchcraft & Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
| ISBN | 0801843863 |
Based on research in the Inquisitorial archives, the book recounts the story of a peasant fertility cult centred on the benandanti. These men and women regarded themselves as professional anti-witches, who (in dream-like states) apparently fought ritual battles against witches and wizards, to...
| Author | Lisa Jardine |
| ISBN | 0385720017 |
In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative...
| Author | Sean Wilentz |
| ISBN | 0393058204 |
In this magisterial work, Sean Wilentz traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. One of our finest writers of history, Wilentz brings to life the era after the American Revolution, when the idea of democracy remained contentious, and Jeffersonians...
| Author | Peter Marshall |
| ISBN | 0300170629 |
Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished remain deeply contentious. Peter Marshall’s sweeping new history—the first major overview for general readers in a generation—argues that sixteenth-century England was a society neither desperate for nor allergic to change,...
| Author | Timothy C.W. Blanning |
| ISBN | 0670063207 |
The Pursuit of Glory brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in European history from the battered, introvert continent after the Thirty Years War to the dynamic one that experienced the French Revolution and the wars of Napoleon. Tim Blanning depicts the lives of ordinary people and the...
What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World
| Author | Taylor Mali |
| ISBN | 1452636273 |
Former middle-school teacher and teachers' advocate Taylor Mali struck a chord with his passionate response to a man at a dinner party who asked him what kind of salary teachers make—a poetic rant that has been seen and forwarded millions of times on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
Based...
