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Book Year Book of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities

Download or read book Year Book of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities written by Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Charter  Constitution and By laws of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities  Richmond  Va

Download or read book Charter Constitution and By laws of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities Richmond Va written by Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Social Recorder of Virginia

Download or read book The Social Recorder of Virginia written by Henry Brantly Handy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preserving the Old Dominion

Download or read book Preserving the Old Dominion written by James Michael Lindgren and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1889 tradition-minded women, including many from Virginia's most prominent families, formed the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA), the first state preservation organization in the United States. And where better? After all, who else could so readily claim both colonial and Confederate heritage, both Jamestown and the White House of the Confederacy? In Preserving the Old Dominion cultural historian James Lindgren shows how the preservation movement strove to rebuild a revered past upon the foundations of its historic structures. While vividly capturing entertaining incidents - white-gloved pilgrimages, a Richmond costume ball, even a search for a Jamestown Rock to set back those arriviste New Englanders - and introducing battling (often with each other) preservationists, Lindgren also explores the serious consequences of these sometimes amusing efforts. He shows how the reinvention of the past shaped contemporary Virginia and the South. In a very real sense the battle between North and South was replayed at the end of the nineteenth century in a contest to control the nation's past. The AVPA's significance lies not only in the fact that it played a major role in the resurgence of conservatism in the late nineteenth-century South, but that it fits into a larger American picture where tradition-minded Americans tapped their history - whether imagined or real - to shape their identity. Preserving the Old Dominion incorporates history, anthropology, architecture, archaeology, religion, and politics; it will be of interest to historians in all fields as well as women's studies scholars.

Book Publication

Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historic Landscape Directory

Download or read book Historic Landscape Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamestowne Ancestors  1607 1699

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis
  • Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780806317670
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Jamestowne Ancestors 1607 1699 written by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A list of all the individuals who can be documented as having lived on [Jamestown] Island between 1607 and 1699, either as land owners or as members of the House of Burgesses or as other officials is presented here"--Pref.

Book Political Gastronomy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael A. LaCombe
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012-07-24
  • ISBN : 0812207157
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book Political Gastronomy written by Michael A. LaCombe and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The table constitutes a kind of tie between the bargainer and the bargained-with, and makes the diners more willing to receive certain impressions, to submit to certain influences: from this is born political gastronomy. Meals have become a means of governing, and the fate of whole peoples is decided at a banquet."—Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin, The Physiology of Taste, or, Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy The first Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621 was a powerfully symbolic event and not merely the pageant of abundance that we still reenact today. In these early encounters between Indians and English in North America, food was also symbolic of power: the venison brought to Plymouth by the Indians, for example, was resonant of both masculine skill with weapons and the status of the men who offered it. These meanings were clearly understood by Plymouth's leaders, however weak they appeared in comparison. Political Gastronomy examines the meaning of food in its many facets: planting, gathering, hunting, cooking, shared meals, and the daily labor that sustained ordinary households. Public occasions such as the first Thanksgiving could be used to reinforce claims to status and precedence, but even seemingly trivial gestures could dramatize the tense negotiations of status and authority: an offer of roast squirrel or a spoonful of beer, a guest's refusal to accept his place at the table, the presence and type of utensils, whether hands should be washed or napkins used. Historian Michael A. LaCombe places Anglo-Indian encounters at the center of his study, and his wide-ranging research shows that despite their many differences in language, culture, and beliefs, English settlers and American Indians were able to communicate reciprocally in the symbolic language of food.

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jamestown Archaeology

Download or read book Jamestown Archaeology written by William M. Kelso and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book showcases the latest information and newly discovered seventeenth-century artifacts from Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. Jamestown Archaeology: Remains to be Seen uses archaeological discoveries to greatly augment what we know about the settlement from written records. It discusses how the archaeological revelations recreate the backdrop where, amid Jamestown's growing fortifications, its houses, government buildings, churches, graves and village streets, the rule of law, representative democratic government, and venture capitalism took root in America. The volume examines the archaeological discoveries that date from the time of the first fortifications (James Fort 1607–1624) to the middle of the eighteenth century. It includes a chapter devoted specifically to how the fort was built, then redesigned and enlarged. It also addresses the archaeological examination of sites and artifacts relating to the Virginia Indians including a discussion of Pocahontas and the location of her lost grave in England. The 1676 "Bacon's" Rebellion is explored along with various episodes of destruction and the building of the first Virginia Capitol building, the Ludwell Statehouse Complex. The last chapter presents a comparative review of Jamestown Island maps drawn every century since the town was founded showing photographically and cartographically how much of the Island and its archaeological sites have been lost to erosion and rising water for 400 years, ending with thoughts about the need for rescuing sites today in the face of climate change, sea level rise, and more Island land erosion. This book is for historical archaeologists and historians as well as readers with an interest in the beginnings of America.

Book The Materiality of Individuality

Download or read book The Materiality of Individuality written by Carolyn L. White and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-08-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generally individuals in history are known for a particular reason - they somehow influenced history. Very little is known about the ordinary person who lived in the past. But historical archaeologists - through their interpretation of the material culture and historic record - can study the past on an individual level. This brings archaeological interpretation from a micro to a macro level - as opposed to the traditional level of society to community to individual interpretation. The cases presented in this volume engage material culture that is owned or used by a single person and is thus associated with an individual at some point in its uselife. The volume takes bodkins, shoes, beads, cloth, religious items, grave goods, as well as subassemblages from well-defined contexts from New England, the Chesapeake, New Orleans, Hawaii, Spanish colonial America, and London in the pursuit of the individual and the textured interpretation this analytical scale provides. This volume promises to present innovative approaches to a host of archaeological materials, drawing widely on the range of archaeological research for the historical period today. Capitalizing on several topics and research threads with great currency, such as the examination of material culture and interest in various and intersecting lines of identity construction, as well as presenting an international and multiregional approach to these topics, this volume will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, material culture scholars, and social historians interested in a wide variety of time periods and subfields.

Book Reading Early American Handwriting

Download or read book Reading Early American Handwriting written by Kip Sperry and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.

Book Jamestown Colony

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank E. Grizzard Jr.
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2007-03-21
  • ISBN : 1851096426
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Jamestown Colony written by Frank E. Grizzard Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-03-21 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamestown Colony is an authoritative and thorough treatment of all aspects of life in Jamestown, the first successful British colony in the New World. Four centuries after its founding, Jamestown has become the stuff of movies, legend, and tourism. This important work treats the reality behind the legends—Pocahontas, John Rolfe, Powhatan, John Smith, and others—and puts the stories into a broader context. More than 250 A–Z entries detail the colonial strategies, military considerations, political realities, and personal privations that went into the creation of the first enduring beachhead in the British effort to colonize the New World. Based on primary sources and ongoing archaeological work, this book is the most comprehensive look at life in Jamestown. The reader will find detailed scholarship on all the familiar names along with the stories of the lesser known, told in their own words when possible. Published in the quadricentennial of Jamestown's founding, this solid reference is an invaluable resource for the student and history buff.

Book Giving Preservation a History

Download or read book Giving Preservation a History written by Max Page and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents