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Social scientists explain the Tea Party movement : with a selection of primary documents

The book deals with the various facets of the Tea Party movement. The book shows the irony in the Tea Party claims that it is a nativist movement drawing on fundamental principles from the Constitution. In fact, most of the ideological base of the movement comes from the writings of Russian born Ayn Rand, Austrian economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek, and the French economic journalist Claude-Frederic Bastiat. None of these people had anything to do with the American Revolution.Debunks the claim that the Tea Party is a nativist political movement with its roots in the American Revolution by looking at it from several angles.

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Faith and slavery in the Presbyterian diaspora

Faith and Slavery considers how in diverse places-the New Hebrides, Scotland, the United States, and East Central Africa-the Presbyterian faith shaped men's and women's interpretations of and interactions with chattel slavery. The chapters highlight how the particular ways Presbyterians framed the Reformed Tradition made slavery an especially problematic and fraught issue for adherents to the faith, and led to a variety of reactions to slavery-ranging from abolitionism, to indifference, to support.

Decolonizing the diet : nutrition, immunity, and the warning from early America

"Synthesizing the science of nutrition, immunity, and evolutionary genetics with a controversial new history of indigenous North America, Decolonizing the Diet shows how populations fail to recover from epidemics when their ability to hunt, gather, and farm nutritionally dense plants and animals is diminished by war, colonization, and cultural destruction"--