All of us, whatever our individual beliefs, belong to a society shaped by the Christian tradition. It is an extraordinary history. Over the centuries since the death of Christ, his followers have known adversity and defeat as well as glory and power – the victories of Charlemagne, or the Crusades, matched by those of Hun, Moor, or Turk. Christianity has borne persecution and division, each taking its terrible toll martyrs. It has assumed unexpected forms, from fourth-century Arianism to seventeenth-century Quakerism. It has been the cause and the victim of war and holocaust. It has been challenged by the findings of such scientists as Galileo and Darwin and – never more markedly than our own 21st century – by a progressive secularism. Yet in every sphere of Western life and achievement – in our art and literature, our politics and our law, our philosophy – we find the enduring legacy of the Christian experience. Here is a sound, readable guide to Christianity as a whole – its origins, its revolutionary impact on human affairs, its development over twenty-one centuries, its role as a fundamental, powerful force in our world and our lives.

The Horizon History of Christianity,

History

Bainton, Roland

World

American Heritage Pub. Co., book trade

In the colonization of North America, Great Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden each sought a share. By the eighteenth century, only Great Britain and France remained as rivals for the heart of the continent. Three times, beginning in 1690, warfare arose between New France and New England. Settlements were destroyed, and armies clashed, yet nothing was settled. Each country regarded the Ohio Valley as its own. A small skirmish in 1754 touched off a war that spread to Europe, then to Africa, Asia, and even to islands in the Atlantic and Pacific. The fate of North America hung in the balance. This conflict, the Great War for the Empire, may well be called the first of the world wars. Here, award-winning historian Francis Russell brings to life the vast panorama that formed the background for this struggle in which the English redcoats fought side by side with American colonists against French soldiers and their Indian allies.

The French and Indian Wars,

RUSSELL,Francis

Children's Books

"From Lexington to Yorktown, this book covers the story of America's fight for independence in vivid detail. Lancaster brings the dilemmas faced by early Americans into sharp focus."

The American Heritage Book of the Revolution

LANCASTER, BRUCE

Americas

The American Heritage History of the Presidency

The American Heritage History of the Presidency

CUNLIFFE, Marcus

Exploration of Africa, (A Horizon caravel book)

Sterling, Thomas

American Album is a "family album" of the American nation. The 226 unusual photographs give an eyewitness view of seventy-five years in our past, showing the face of yesterday just as it was.

American Album. Rare Photographs Collected by the Editors of American Heritage. 1968. Cloth with dustjacket.

Politics & Social Sciences

JENSEN, Oliver

Anthropology

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