Peter J Wosh
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1049372 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter J Wosh |
| NOMBRES | Peter J |
| APELLIDO | Wosh |
| FIRMA | WOSH P J |
| AFILIACIONES | New York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7703-1302 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Bible Cause
John Fea has written a lively and reasonably comprehensive bicentennial history of the American Bible Society (ABS) that should prove useful for institutional administrators and academic scholars. Historians who know the ABS primarily as an early nineteenth-century creation that constituted part of the “benevolent empire” of Bible, tract, and Sunday school organizations will be surprised at the extent of the institution's reach. The society's sto…
An American Bible
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
A Fictive People
Spreading the Word
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among …
Spreading the Word
Sound Minds and Unsound Bodies
WA HEN Horace Mann reviewed the standard Massachusetts common school curriculum in his 1842 Board of Education report, he noted a major deficiency. Schools provided comprehensive instruction in Latin, Greek, algebra, and geometry, but they neglected even the most rudimentary education in health care. According to Mann, a nation of farmers and small-town dwellers required no formal physical training, but increasing numbers of Massachusetts residen…
Spreading the Word
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among …
Sound Minds and Unsound Bodies
WA HEN Horace Mann reviewed the standard Massachusetts common school curriculum in his 1842 Board of Education report, he noted a major deficiency. Schools provided comprehensive instruction in Latin, Greek, algebra, and geometry, but they neglected even the most rudimentary education in health care. According to Mann, a nation of farmers and small-town dwellers required no formal physical training, but increasing numbers of Massachusetts residen…
A Fictive People
Spreading the Word
Civil war, the completion of transcontinental railroads, rapid urbanization and industrialization, the rise of managerial capitalism, and new entanglements abroad rent the fabric of life in nineteenth-century America. Through all the turmoil, the American Bible Society thrived. This engaging book tells how a modest antebellum reform agency responded to cataclysmic social change and grew to be a nonprofit corporate bureaucracy that managed, among …
Spreading the Word
Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
An American Bible
The Bible Cause
John Fea has written a lively and reasonably comprehensive bicentennial history of the American Bible Society (ABS) that should prove useful for institutional administrators and academic scholars. Historians who know the ABS primarily as an early nineteenth-century creation that constituted part of the “benevolent empire” of Bible, tract, and Sunday school organizations will be surprised at the extent of the institution's reach. The society's sto…
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