![]() ![]() You can’t go wrong with Robin Blackburn’s The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation, and Human Rights for 60% off. There’s never a bad time to catch up on some classic texts on American slavery. ![]() Get 40% off on Max Mueller’s Race and the Making of the Mormon People, Rachel McBride Lindsey’s A Communion of Shadows: Religion and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America, and Tisa Wenger’s Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal. UNC Press also had a series of great books in American religious history in the past year. (Just type in “01Holiday” at checkout.) I recommend Douglas Winiarski’s Darkness Falls on the Land of Light : Experience Religious Awakenings in Eighteenth-Century New England, Robert Parkinson’s The Common Cause: Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution, and Gideon Mailer’s John Witherspoon’s American Revolution, all of which published in the last couple years. ![]() The Omohundro Institute’s series on early America is the most consistently mind-blowing series out there, so it’s a good idea to stock up on their books while you can get the 40% off deal. And if you pre-order Kathryn Gin Lum and Paul Harvey’s Oxford Handbook of Religion and Race in American History, it will only cost you one child. If you haven’t read Rachel Hope Cleves’s Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America, then this is your year. (And if UPenn starts a sale, make sure to check out Sasha Turner’s Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica.)įor early America, I really enjoyed Michael Klarman’s The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, and have already preordered Christopher Grasso’s Skepticism and American Faith: From the Revolution to the Civil War. If you’re into the Caribbean, check out Terry Rey’s The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World and Katherine Paugh’s The Politics of Reproduction: Race, Medicine, and Fertility in the Age of Abolition. Since this year is the big anniversary for the Reformation, I’ve enjoyed Peter Marshall’s 1517: Martin Luther and the Invention of the Reformation and Craig Harline’s A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation. ![]() Perhaps the biggest sale is with Oxford University Press, where you can get 50% off most of their books. You’ll be hearing more about this soon-I promise. Who could down a holiday discount? (A big shout-out to William Black, who listed a lot of the press sales on twitter.)įirst and foremost, if you’re reading this blog, I hope you’ve pre-ordered American Nationalisms: Imagining Union in the Age of Revolutions, 1783-1833 (Cambridge University Press), of which I’ve heard great things. Out of Obscurity brings the story of Mormonism since the Second World War into sharp relief, explaining the ways in which a church very much rooted in its nineteenth century prophetic and pioneering past achieved unprecedented influence in the realms of American politics and international business.In a couple weeks I’ll post my favorite year-in-review lists-on early American history at Junto, and Mormon history at Juvenile Instructor-but today I thought I’d highlight some great sales going on with academic presses. The scholars draw on a wide variety of Mormon voices as well as those of outsiders, from Latter-day Saints in Hyderabad, India, to “Mormon Mommy blogs,” to evangelical “countercult” ministries. While most scholarship on Mormonism concerns its colorful but now well-known early history, the essays in this collection assess recent developments, such as the LDS Church’s international growth and acculturation its intersection with conservative politics in recent decades its stances on same-sex marriage and the role of women and its ongoing struggle to interpret its own tumultuous history. Mormonism is no longer merely a homegrown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West instead, it has captured the attention of political pundits, Broadway audiences, and prospective converts around the world. In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Maffly-Kipp, Archer Alexander Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. This book stands as the definitive exploration of Mormonism since World War II, charting a course for studies of this dynamic faith well into the twenty-first century.” “To observers who see Mormonism either as a remnant of the frontier American West or a captive of contemporary capitalism, this volume demonstrates the diverse ways in which the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has encountered and adapted to a globalized and diverse world. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. ![]()
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