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Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. Hardcover. x, 241p., cloth-covered boards, 6.25x9.5 inches, very good first edition in lightly worn unclipped dj. Religion in North America. On The American Peace Society and the New England Non-Resistant Society.

Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. Hardcover. xxi, 353p., very good condition in like dj. "Providing for the first time a national, regional, and local picture of religion's role in working-class formation, this book challenges the now common notion that the republican ideal constituted the principal ideological impulse behind the development of the early American labor movement. Uncovering the pervasive presence of Christian institutions, ritual, and language in the first flowerings of labor protest, Jama Lazerow argues that religion promoted a withering critique of industrializing America yet at the same time retarded the formation of working-class consciousness." - dj.

Albany NY: Weed, Parsons & Company, Printers, 1855. Pamphlet. 62p. self-wraps (title page is p.1) plus a blank, printed smallpoint in doublecolumns, disbound but holding nicely. First leaf (title & unprinted verso, or pp.1 & 2) and last leaf (the blank, or pp.63 & 64) bear mild, almost faint, small old semi-circular dampstains, adjacent leaves less affected, a quite satisfactory copy.