Paul Keith Conkin
Auteur van The New Deal
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Paul K. Conkin Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Vanderbilt University is the author of numerous books, including The State of the Earth: Environmental Challenges on the Road to 2100, The Southern Agrarians, and When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals.
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Werken van Paul Keith Conkin
A Revolution Down on the Farm: The Transformation of American Agriculture since 1929 (2008) 48 exemplaren
Self-Evident Truths: Being a Discourse on the Origins and Development of the First Principles of American Government --… (1974) 11 exemplaren
Peabody College: From a Frontier Academy to the Frontiers of Teaching and Learning (2002) 6 exemplaren
The Four Foundations of American Government: Consent, Limits, Balance, and Participation (1994) 2 exemplaren
A History of Recent America 1 exemplaar
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- Vanderbilt University
Southern Historical Association (president | 1997)
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Over about a century, the US went from a rural economy in which one farm could support a few families to an urban one in which one farm supports hundreds. This was the result of huge changes in production methods and productivity. Conkin tells the story of farm policy, focusing on federal policy supporting farmers in various ways, throughout that time.
I am so pleased to have this book in my collection. I acquired it mainly for Chapter One - Restoration Christianity: Christians and Disciples (56 pages). Conkin does an excellent job summarizing the background of the Stone-Campbell religious heritage and many of the issues and motives behind it. He writes from the position of what I would term "informed outsider."
A helpful book for persons interested in learning about the Stone-Campbell religious heritage.
A helpful book for persons interested in learning about the Stone-Campbell religious heritage.
Persons interested in the Cane Ridge Revival will surely find this to be a helpful book. The author does an excellent job discussing the background, events, people and places leading up to and during the great revival in Bourbon County, Kentucky in the early 19th century.
In addition to aiding my understanding of the Revival, the author provides excellent analysis of causes of divisions in the American Presbyterian church in the late 18th and early 19th century.
I found the book to be very readable and is enhanced with a nice index.… (meer)
In addition to aiding my understanding of the Revival, the author provides excellent analysis of causes of divisions in the American Presbyterian church in the late 18th and early 19th century.
I found the book to be very readable and is enhanced with a nice index.… (meer)
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The author discussion the success in ministers during the revivals converting black, the controversies between ministers regarding how a revival ought to and ought not to be conducted; the excitements and reactions in consequence of the preaching and the perceived presence of God, disagreements regarding how a minister ought to conduct his preaching, disputes between the "New Light" and the more traditional orthodoxy of the Presbyterian Church on religious practice and doctrine; the subject of doctrine being the most interesting to me.
There is much in here to digest in only 177 pages but I think it is an important read for anyone interested in the subject of revivals.… (meer)