This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. John Winthrop Jr.'s lively account of Indian corn emerges from a 17th-century English drive to improve agriculture through experiment, exchange, and practical knowledge. Written in response to Robert Boyle's curiosity, the essay reflects the interests of Hartlib, Boyle, and the Royal Society in learning from colonial observers about useful crops and farming methods. Winthrop, a colonial governor and firsthan...

"A Model of Christian Charity" is a sermon by Puritan leader John Winthrop, delivered on board the ship Arbella on April 8, 1630 while en route to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, although it might have been preached at the Holyrood Church in Southampton before the colonists embarked in the Winthrop Fleet. It is also known as "City upon a Hill" and denotes the notion of American exceptionalism.The sermon was known by reputation and preserved in contemporaneous manuscript copy held by t...

Rules of the Road is a very short book which attempts to reach across generations and communicate ideas on some essential subjects of our journey through life.

Although the author has contributed letters to a number of newspapers, these letters provide a flow of thoughts sent to one newspaper over a little more than a decade. A variety of viewpoints are presented on a variety of subjects.

A series of thoughts written to provide distraction and comfort during a difficult time in the author's life.

A series of previously published articles from various newspapers and magazines, including New York Times, Barron's, Trusts and Estates, Harpers, Greenwich Times, Charleston Business journal to mention a few. General categories include environment, travel, finance, and foreign affairs.

An effort to reach across a generational divide with observations, reactions and advice.

John Winthrop served as governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony for several years. His History of New England, 1630-1649 details life in the colony and narrates several controversies that arose within the plantation. Examples include the excommunication of Anne Hutchinson and a civil suit over a sow that expressed the tension between the aristocracy and democracy and led to the establishment of the bicameral system within the New England government. The Pequod war, treaties with other Nat...

Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse ...

"What makes the book so encompassing, informative, and relevant is that Haeger has avoided focusing on viticulture or enology or economy in isolation, and has instead looked at all of them in their historic and contemporary scientific and socio-cultural context. . . . Not everyone loves Riesling, but those of us who do will find our passion articulately explained and expressed in Haeger’s book."—Anne Krebiehl, MW, The World of Fine Wine "If you haven't bee...

This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from the sixteenth century through the present depicts the religious life of the American people within the context of American society. It addresses topics ranging from the European origins of American religious thought and the diversity of religion in America, to the relation of nationhood with religious practice and the importance of race, ethnicity, and gender in American religious history. Split into four parts this textbook ...

The twenty-first century has seen a renewed surge of cultural and critical interest in the works of the Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942), who was among the most-read and -acclaimed authors worldwide in the 1920s and1930s but after 1945 fell into critical disfavor and relative obscurity. The resurgence in interest in Zweig and his works is attested to by, among other things, new English translations and editions of his works; a Brazilian motion picture and a best-selling Fren...