In Gottes eigenem Land: Religion und Macht in den USA. Notizen einer Reise
Travel accounts have played a long and distinguished role in understanding American life. From the founding of the republic, visitors from Europe have recorded their observations about that distant, strange new country on the other side of the Atlantic. Alexis de Tocqueville's extraordinarily p...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2010, Volume: 52, Issue: 3, Pages: 593-594 |
| Review of: | In Gottes eigenem Land (Berlin : WDL-Verl., 2008) (Pierard, Richard V.)
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| Summary: | Travel accounts have played a long and distinguished role in understanding American life. From the founding of the republic, visitors from Europe have recorded their observations about that distant, strange new country on the other side of the Atlantic. Alexis de Tocqueville's extraordinarily perceptive Democracy in America may be the most famous work in this genre, but hundreds and even thousands of others were published in Europe over the two and one-quarter centuries since the American Revolution. Their interpretations of our society range vastly in quality—from the trivial and banal to the highly insightful., Erich Geldbach's narrative may be regarded as one of the best works of this type. Born in Germany in 1939, he has been a lifelong Baptist. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csq098 |