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Book English Bloods

Download or read book English Bloods written by Frederick de la Fosse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic. One such fellow was Frederick de la Fosse, whose well-meaning uncle paid £100 per annum for his young nephew to serve as a farm pupil in the northern reaches of Muskoka. Some years later, de la Fosse, under the pseudonym of Roger Vardon, wrote an illuminating and humorous biographical account of the trials and tribulations of the "English Bloods," the local epithet attached to these young lads attempting to hone farming skills in a land never intended to be agricultural. And, in so doing, de la Fosse chronicles the realities of pioneer life in the area. In the original text, published in 1930, a number of names were changed to conceal identities of the local people. Editor Scott D. Shipman has spent over eight years researching the authentic names and overall background for this new augmented edition of English Bloods. The richly descriptive text written by the keenly observant and erudite de la Fosse is complemented by archival visuals and annotations for today’s reader. Frederick de la Fosse went on to become a public librarian in Peterborough in 1910.

Book Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom

Download or read book Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom written by A. B. Wilkinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as "Mulattoes," "Mustees," and "mixed bloods"—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies. Thousands of mixed-heritage people appear in the records of English colonies, largely in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean, and this book provides a clear and compelling picture of their lives before the advent of the so-called one-drop rule. Wilkinson explores the ways mixed-heritage people viewed themselves and explains how they—along with their African and Indigenous American forebears—resisted the formation of a rigid racial order and fought for freedom in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies shaped by colonial labor and legal systems. As contemporary U.S. society continues to grapple with institutional racism rooted in a settler colonial past, this book illuminates the earliest ideas of racial mixture in British America well before the founding of the United States.

Book English Bloods

Download or read book English Bloods written by Frederick de la Fosse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-08-25 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating and humorous biographical account of the "English Bloods" young men sent to learn farming skills in Muskoka in pioneer times.

Book A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language written by T.J. Carty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first edition Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms established itself as a comprehensive dictionary of pseudonyms used by literary writers in English from the 16th century to the present day. This new Second Edition increases coverage by 35%! There are two sequences: Part I - which now includes more than 17,000 entries- is an alphabetical list of pseudonyms followed by the writer's real name. Part II is an alphabetical list of writers cited in Part I-more than 10,000 writers included-providing brief biographical details followed by pseudonyms used by the wrter and titles published under those pseudonyms. Dictionary or Literary Pseudonyms has now become a standard reference work on the subject for teachers, student, and public, high school, and college/universal librarians. The Second Edition will, we believe, consolidate that reputation.

Book History of England

Download or read book History of England written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth

Download or read book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Download or read book History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada written by James Anthony Froude and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of the English Poets  from Chaucer to Cowper

Download or read book The Works of the English Poets from Chaucer to Cowper written by Alexander Chalmers and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Cold Blood

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  • Author : Truman Capote
  • Publisher : Modern Library
  • Release : 2013-02-19
  • ISBN : 0812994388
  • Pages : 417 pages

Download or read book In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote’s masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.

Book The English Review

Download or read book The English Review written by Ford Madox Ford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blood Cries Afar

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  • Author : Sean McGlynn
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2013-03-01
  • ISBN : 0752492519
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Blood Cries Afar written by Sean McGlynn and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exactly 150 years after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, history came extremely close to repeating itself when another army set sail from the Continent with the intention of imposing foreign rule on England. This time the invasion force was under the command of Louis the Lion, son and heir of the powerful French king Philip Augustus. Taking advantage of the turmoil created in England by the civil war over Magna Carta and by King John’s disastrous rule, Prince Louis and his army of French soldiers and mercenaries allied with the barons of the English rebel forces. The prize was England itself.The invasion was one of the most dramatic episodes of British history. This is the first ever book on the subject. Blood Cries Afar tells a dramatic and violent but overlooked story, with a broad appeal to those interested in the history of England and France, the Middle Ages and war in an age of kings, knights, castles, battles and brutality.

Book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The English Dialect Dictionary  A C

Download or read book The English Dialect Dictionary A C written by Joseph Wright and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of American and English Law

Download or read book A Dictionary of American and English Law written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: