Covers the period from the lowering of the flag at Monterey in 1822, to the signing of the Constitution of 1849 - also at Monterey.

In this study of late nineteeth-century moral reform, Peggy Pascoe examines four specific cases--a home for Chinese prostitutes in San Francisco, California; a

The author demonstrates how Thomas Carlyle, in virtually all his writings, conducted a search for a new centre of social and political authority that would fit

One of the most eminent Anglican and Ecumenical scholars writing on an issue which lies at the heart of Anglican conflicts past and present.