Embodied History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General David Bradley

David Bradley

Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease

Chuck Klienhans

This two-volume collection presents these English works in their original form

I grew up in a religious tradition—low church Methodism—in which Mary hardly featured

Embodied History SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General David BradleyOffering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts of the bodies that appeared in runaway advertisements and in seafaring, almshouse, prison, hospital, and burial records, Simon P. Newman uses physical