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Book Revisiting New Netherland

Download or read book Revisiting New Netherland written by Joyce D. Goodfriend and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction explains why the Dutch moment in American history has been overlooked or trivialized and calls attention to signs of the emergence of a new narrative of American beginnings that gives due weight to the imprint of Dutch settlement in America. The essays are organized around six major themes: New Netherland and Historical Memory, New Netherland in the Atlantic World, The Political Economy of New Netherland, New Netherland’s Directors: A New Look, Family Research as a key to New Netherland’s History, and Writing the History of New Netherland in the Twenty-first Century. This volume holds great interest for historians of early America and of Dutch colonization. Contributors include: Willem Frijhoff, Charles Th. Gehring, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Firth Haring Fabend, Jaap Jacobs, Wim Klooster, Harry Macy, Jr., Dennis J. Maika, Simon Middleton, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Annette Stott, David William Voorhees, and Richard Waldron.

Book Human Nature in Its Fourfold State

Download or read book Human Nature in Its Fourfold State written by Thomas Boston and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Christian Intelligencer

Download or read book Christian Intelligencer written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Beverwijck

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  • Author : Janny Venema
  • Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9789065507600
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Beverwijck written by Janny Venema and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2003 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the English conquered New Netherland in 1664, they found a well-established society that was firmly held together by a Dutch-modelled government and church, and which maintained continuous communication with its fatherland, the Dutch Republic. Combined sources from American and Dutch archives provide a lively picture of every-day life in this colony. Newly wealthy traders, craftsmen and other workers, and people who survived thanks to a well-organized system of poor relief are the main characters in this study of one of its major communities, Beverwijck on the upper Hudson (present-day Albany, New York). Beavers and shell beads that served as money, daily visits by Indians, and the presence of African slaves make clear that Beverwijck was not only Dutch, but a new, 'American' society, as well.

Book Historical Discourse

Download or read book Historical Discourse written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Hypothetical Universalism

Download or read book English Hypothetical Universalism written by Jonathan D. Moore and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Preston (1587-1628) stands as a key figure in the development of English Reformed orthodoxy in the courts of ElizabetháI and JamesáVI. Often cited as a favorite of the English and American Puritans who came after him, he nevertheless stood as a bridge between the crown and the nonconformists. Jonathan D. Moore retrieves Preston from his traditional place as one of the "Calvinists against Calvin," provides a convincing argument for Preston's unique hypothetical universalism, and calls into question common misperceptions about Reformed theology and Puritanism.

Book The Future of Religion

Download or read book The Future of Religion written by Simon Vestdijk and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiegel Historiael

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  • Author : Jacob (Van Maerlant)
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2023-07-18
  • ISBN : 9781020407239
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Spiegel Historiael written by Jacob (Van Maerlant) and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive chronicle of Dutch and Flemish history, written by Jacob van Maerlant in the thirteenth century, is a masterpiece of medieval literature. Full of vivid descriptions and colorful characters, this book provides an unparalleled glimpse into the world of the Middle Ages. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Unknown Eros

Download or read book The Unknown Eros written by Coventry Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Creation Revisited

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  • Author : Peter William Atkins
  • Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780140174250
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Creation Revisited written by Peter William Atkins and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1994 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colonel

Download or read book The Colonel written by Alanna Nash and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost the only indisputable fact about Colonel Tom Parker is that he was the manager of the greatest performer in popular music: Elvis Presley. His real name wasn’t Tom Parker †“ indeed, he wasn’t an American at all, but a Dutch immigrant called Andreas van Kujik. And he certainly wasn’t a proper military colonel: he purchased his title from a man in Louisiana. But while the Colonel has long been acknowledged as something of a charlatan, this book is the first to reveal the extraordinary extent of the secrets he concealed, and the consequences for the career, and ultimately the life, of the star he managed. As Alanna Nash’ prodigious research has discovered, the Colonel left Holland most probably because, at the age of twenty, he bludgeoned a woman to death. Entering the US illegally, he then enlisted in the army as ‘Tom Parker’. But, with supreme irony for someone later styling himself as Colonel, Parker’s military career ended in desertion, and discharge after a psychiatrist had certified him as a psychopath. He then became a fairground barker, working sideshows with a zeal for small-scale huckstering and the casual scam that never left him. And by the height of Elvis’s success, Parker had become a pathological gambler who, at the same time as he was taking, amazingly, a full 50% of Presley’s earnings, frittered away all his wealth in the casinos of Las Vegas. As Nash shows, therefore, the often baffling trajectory of Elvis Presley’s career makes perfect sense once the secret imperatives of the Colonel’s life are known. Parker never booked Presley for a tour of Europe because of the dark secret that ensured he himself could never return there. Even at his most famous, Elvis was still being booked to play out-of-the-way towns in North Carolina †“ because the former fairground barker (who shamelessly negotiated as such even with top record company and film executives) knew them from his days on the circus circuit. And Elvis was trapped playing years of arduous seasons in Las Vegas †“ two shows nightly, seven days a week, until boredom and despair brought on the excessive drug use that killed him †“ because for Parker he was “an open chit†? whose huge earnings prevented his manager’s losses at the gambling tables being called in. Alanna Nash knew Parker towards the end of his life, and has now uncovered the whole story, improbable, shocking, and never less than compelling, of how this larger-than-life man made, and then unmade, popular music’s first and greatest superstar.

Book Looking Back

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  • Author : Norman Douglas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-10
  • ISBN : 9781258887346
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Looking Back written by Norman Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

Book Sagitta s Books of the Nameless Love

Download or read book Sagitta s Books of the Nameless Love written by John Henry MacKay and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first complete translation of the volume of six “books” that John Henry Mackay published pseudonymously as Die Bücher der namenlosen Liebe von Sagitta in 1913. The project was begun in 1905 and soon had its own problems, as described by Mackay in his introduction, “The History of a Fight for the Nameless Love.” This—and the collection all together—is an important historical document of the beginning of the homosexual emancipation movement in Germany a century ago and of the role that boy-lovers played in it. At the same time it gives an insight into the heart and mind of an accomplished writer who knew personally the joys and pains of “the nameless love”—which Oscar Wilde called “the Love that dare not speak its name.”

Book I Desire the Moon

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  • Author : Olive Custance
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9789080731448
  • Pages : 96 pages

Download or read book I Desire the Moon written by Olive Custance and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wall of Weeping

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  • Author : Edmond Fleg
  • Publisher : London : V. Gollancz ; New York : E.P. Dutton
  • Release : 1929
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 112 pages

Download or read book The Wall of Weeping written by Edmond Fleg and published by London : V. Gollancz ; New York : E.P. Dutton. This book was released on 1929 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Twilight of the Gods

Download or read book The Twilight of the Gods written by Élémir Bourges and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print in English, and here offered for the first time in a restored format, The Twilight of the Gods, Élémir Bourges' acknowledged masterpiece, was originally published in March, 1884, just two months before J.-K. Huysmans' groundbreaking À rebours. Both novels at once laid the groundwork for the Decadent Movement, and presented a striking challenge to Naturalism by, instead of depicting common existence, offering case studies of exceptional, extravagant beings. In Bourges' highly aesthetic work, we follow Charles d'Este, Duke of Blankenburg, who, along with his eccentric family, is exiled to Paris, where his excessive, luxurious lifestyle and the Wagnerian fate that follows him are like a chandelier falling from the sky.

Book The Men of the Nineties

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  • Author : Bernard Muddiman
  • Publisher : Alpha Edition
  • Release : 2023-05-18
  • ISBN : 9789357389044
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Men of the Nineties written by Bernard Muddiman and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2023-05-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Men of the Nineties, has been considered important throughout human history. In an effort to ensure that this work is never lost, we have taken steps to secure its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for both current and future generations. This complete book has been retyped, redesigned, and reformatted. Since these books are not scans of the authors' original publications, the text is readable and clear.