The Journals & Notebook of
 Nathan Bangs 1805-1806, 1817

 

Contents    Introduction    Maps    Images    Chronology    Bibliography    Archival Resources

 Bibliography

 Primary Sources

Bangs, Nathan. History of the Methodist Episcopal Church. New York: T. Mason and G. Lane, for the Methodist
          Episcopal Church, 1838-1841. [Link]

Bangs, Nathan. Letters to Young Ministers of The Gospel: On The Importance and Method of Study. New York:
          Methodist Book Concern, 1826.

Carroll, John. Case and his Contemporaries, or, The Canadian Itinerants' Memorial Constituting a Biographical
          History of Methodism in Canada, from its Introduction into the Province, till the Death of Rev. William
          Case in 1855
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Firth, Edith, ed. The Town of York 1793-1815: A Collection of Documents. Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1962.

Lackington, James. Memoirs of the forty-five first years of the life of James Lackington the present bookseller, Finsbury-
          Square, London
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Lee, Jesse. A short history of the Methodists, in the United States of America: Beginning in 1766, and continued till
          1809: To which is prefixed a brief account of their rise in England, in the year 1729.
Cokesbury Press, 1810.

Playter, G. F. The History of Methodism in Canada: With an Account of the Rise and Progress of the Work of God
          Among the Canadian Indian Tribes, and Occasional Notice of Civil Affairs of the Province
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Preston, Richard ed. Kingston Before the War of 1812: A Collection of Documents. Toronto: The Champlain Society,
          1959.

Ryerson, Egerton. Canadian Methodism: Its Epochs and Characteristics. Toronto: Wm. Briggs, 1882.

Stevens, Abel. Life and Times of Nathan Bangs. New York: Carlton & Porter, 1863.

Wesley, John. The Journal of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. sometime fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Enlarged from
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Cornish, George Henry. Cyclopedia of Methodism in Canada. Toronto: Methodist Book and Publishing House, 1881.

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Flores, Daniel F. “Respectable Methodists: Nathan Bangs and the rise of respectability in the Methodist Episcopal Church
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Herrmann, Richard Everett. “Nathan Bangs: apologist for American Methodism.” Ph.D. Diss. Emory U., 1973.

Kirby, James, Russell Richey and Kenneth Rowe. The Methodists. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996.

Lewis, Stephen Wayne. “Nathan Bangs and the impact of theological controversy on the development of early nineteenth
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Mills, David. The Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784-1850. Queen’s-McGill UP, 1988.

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Wilton, Carol. Popular Politics and Political Culture in Upper Canada, 1800-1850. Queen’s-McGill UP, 2000.

 

Edited by Scott McLaren
Book History Practicum
University of Toronto