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Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835–1860
W. Jason Wallace
Although slaveholding southerners and Catholics in general had little in common, both groups found themselves relentlessly attacked in the northern evangelical press during the decades leading up to the Civil War. In Catholics, Slaveholders, and the Dilemma of American Evangelicalism, 1835–1860, W. Jason Wallace skillfully examines sermons, books, newspaper articles, and private correspondence of members of three antebellum groups—northern evangelicals, southern evangelicals, and Catholics—and argues that the divisions among them stemmed, at least in part, from disagreements over the role that religious convictions played in a free society.
Focusing on journals such as The Downfall of Babylon, Zion’s Herald, The…
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Why Choose the Liberal Arts?
Mark William Roche
In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of students and their parents.
Roche develops three overlapping arguments for a strong liberal arts education: first, the intrinsic value of learning for its own sake, including exploration of the profound questions that give meaning to life; second, the…
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CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics Awarded to Pablo Policzer
The Canadian Political Science Association announced Pablo Policzer’s The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile received the CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics 2010.
The CPSA Prize in Comparative Politics is a biennial competition established to recognize the contribution of Canadian political science to the field of comparative politics.
The jury wrote: “Pablo Policzer’s The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile asks a Weberian question: how is coercion controlled and used by authoritarian states? To explain variations over time in the use of coercion in Chile under the Pinochet dictatorship, Policzer distinguishes between two types of…
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