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Roger Williams

Roger Williams Hard cover - 2005

by Edwin S. Gaustad

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A leading expert on the life of Roger Williams offers this authoritative biography of the founder of Rhode Island and the first Baptist Church in America, and a colonist who befriended Native Americans and took seriously their culture and their legal rights. Illustrations.

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Hard Cover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A biography, exploring the life of Roger Williams: first champion for the separation of church and state, advocate for a Native American population abused by British colonists, cofounder of the Baptist Church, and founder of the state o
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  • Title Roger Williams
  • Author Edwin S. Gaustad
  • Binding Hard Cover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 150
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-05-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780195183696_pod
  • ISBN 9780195183696 / 019518369X
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.24 x 6.42 x 0.93 in (23.47 x 16.31 x 2.36 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 17th Century
    • Cultural Region: New England
    • Geographic Orientation: Rhode Island
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025246
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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RELIGIOUS TURBULENCE AND TURMOIL PLAGUED ENGLAND IN THE seventeenth century, as they had in the sixteenth.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 05/01/2005, Page 1562
  • Ingram Children's Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 66

About the author

Edwin S. Gaustad is Professor of History and Religious Studies Emeritus at the University of California at Riverside. An authority on Roger Williams and on the subject of religious freedom, he is the author of Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams in America and Church and State in America, and is co-author of the award-winning The New Historical Atlas of Religion in America.