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Book Exiles  Refugees  and Rogues

Download or read book Exiles Refugees and Rogues written by Dennis A. O'Toole and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New England Encounters

Download or read book New England Encounters written by Alden T. Vaughan and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays, which were originally published in The New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, consider a wide range of areas in Native American-white relations: from Abenaki territory in northern Maine to Pequot lands in southern Connecticut; from profitable commerce to devastating warfare; from religious persuasion to labor exploitation; from cultural mixing to non-violent resistance; from literary representation to political argumentation. A comprehensive and insightful introduction by the editor places the richly diverse topics and perspectives within the broader context of New England ethnohistory. Most of the authors have added postscripts to their original essays commenting on recent scholarship and interpretations.

Book John Clarke and His Legacies

Download or read book John Clarke and His Legacies written by Sydney James and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Clarke and His Legacies is the first full-length biography of John Clarke (1609&–76), a principal founder of colonial Rhode Island. Although Roger Williams usually gets most of the attention, Sydney James shows that Clarke made a lasting contribution to the colony&—perhaps more so than Williams. Williams was the first Baptist minister in America, but he left his church after a very short time. And although Williams won the first charter for Rhode Island, the charter soon had to be replaced. Clarke, however, founded the first Baptist church in Newport, where he continued to contribute to the Baptist community. And in 1663 he procured the royal charter that would remain the foundation of government in Rhode Island until 1842. This inquiry into Clarke's life engages a variety of intriguing topics. It surveys a formative stage in American Baptist history, one that spurned dependency upon government more thoroughly than any part of the United States does today. Through the experience of Clark, we see pioneering American religious volunteerism, problems of church-state relations, and the peculiar nature of colonial relations with the parent country.

Book Early New England

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  • Author : David A. Weir
  • Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780802813527
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book Early New England written by David A. Weir and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of covenant was at the heart of early New England society. In this singular book David Weir explores the origins and development of covenant thought in America by analyzing the town and church documents written and signed by seventeenth-century New Englanders. Unmatched in the breadth of its scope, this study takes into account all of the surviving covenants in all of the New England colonies. Weir's comprehensive survey of seventeenth-century covenants leads to a more complex picture of early New England than what emerges from looking at only a few famous civil covenants like the Mayflower Compact. His work shows covenant theology being transformed into a covenantal vision for society but also reveals the stress and strains on church-state relationships that eventually led to more secularized colonial governments in eighteenth-century New England. He concludes that New England colonial society was much more "English" and much less "American" than has often been thought, and that the New England colonies substantially mirrored religious and social change in Old England.

Book Exiles  Refugees and Rogues

Download or read book Exiles Refugees and Rogues written by Dennis Allen O'toole and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-14 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of the birth of Rhode Island from 1636 to 1654.With hundreds of original quotes transcribed from early handwritten documents, this insightful analysis by historian Dennis Allen O'Toole makes you feel like you're living in the mid- 1600's, during the blossoming of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.Learn how the four original towns around Narragansett Bay (Providence, Portsmouth, Newport, and Warwick) coalesced into a union that was without precedent in the history of British Colonial America.Get into the minds of the colorful personalities who made Rhode Island unique: the peace-loving Roger Williams, the ambitious Arnolds (William and Benedict), the proud Anne Hutchinson, the over-grasping William Coddington, the cantankerous Samuel Gorton, the wise John Clarke, and many more.Learn why these settlers risked life and limb in the wilderness to defend their heartfelt principles: religious toleration, separation of church and state, "Democraticall" government, and soul liberty. And find out how they finally succeeded in attaining "as great liberties as any people that we can hear of under heaven."Here are some of the people, places and ideas you'll learn about: People: Roger Williams, John Winthrop, William Coddington, Samuel Gorton, John Clarke, Benedict Arnold, William Arnold, Anne Hutchinson, John Cotton, Sir Henry Vane, Canonicus, Miantonomi, Narragansett Indians, puritans, separatists Places: New England—17th century, colonial, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth colony, colonial Rhode Island, Providence, Providence Plantations, Portsmouth, Pocasset, New Netherland, Aquidneck Island, Newport, Warwick, Shawomet, Narragansett Bay Ideas: freedom of religion, liberty of conscience, separation of church and state, soul liberty, religious liberty, democracy, popular government, civil order, democratic government, New England towns, English common law, the antinomian controversy

Book Remarkable Rogues

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  • Author : Charles Kingston
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1921
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Remarkable Rogues written by Charles Kingston and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island

Download or read book The Colonial Metamorphoses in Rhode Island written by Sydney V. James and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert's final word on institutional development and change in colonial Rhode Island.

Book Home

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  • Author : Alison Blunt
  • Publisher : Taylor & Francis
  • Release : 2022-05-30
  • ISBN : 1000555526
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book Home written by Alison Blunt and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-05-30 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home articulates a ‘critical geography of home’ in which home is understood as an emotive place and spatial imaginary that encompasses lived experiences of everyday, domestic life alongside a wider, and often contested, sense of being and belonging in the world. Engaging with the burgeoning cross-disciplinary interest in home since the first edition was published, this significantly revised and updated second edition contains new research boxes, illustrations, and contemporary examples throughout. It also adds a new chapter on ‘Home and the City’ that extends the scalar understanding of home to the urban. The book develops the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of a critical geography of home, drawing on key feminist, postcolonial, and housing thinkers as well as contemporary methodological currents in non-representational thinking and performance. The book’s chapters consider the making and unmaking of home across the domestic scale – house-as-home; the urban – city-as-home; national – nation-as-home; and homemaking in relation to transnational migration and diaspora. Each chapter includes illustrative examples from diverse geographical contexts and historical time periods. Chapters also address some of the key cross-cutting dimensions of home across these scales, including digital connectivity, art and performance, more-than-human constructions of home, and violence and dispossession. The book ends with a research agenda for home in a world of COVID-19. The book provides an understanding of home that has three intersecting dimensions: that material and imaginative geographies of home are closely intertwined; that home, power, and identity are intimately linked; and that geographies of home are multi-scalar. This framework, the examples used to illustrate it, and the intended audience of academics and students across the humanities and social sciences will together shape the field of home studies into the future.

Book Homi K  Bhabha

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  • Author : Eleanor Byrne
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2009-04-30
  • ISBN : 135030977X
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Homi K Bhabha written by Eleanor Byrne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive introduction to the work of Homi K. Bhabha, a key figure in both postcolonial and post-structuralist theory, is accessible and engaging. It places Bhabha's work in context, considers his effect on contemporary criticism, offers readings of a range of texts to illustrate his theories, and features an interview with the theorist.

Book Rogue States

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  • Author : Noam Chomsky
  • Publisher : Haymarket Books
  • Release : 2015-08-03
  • ISBN : 1608464466
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Rogue States written by Noam Chomsky and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author and activist “has delivered another impressive argument that the U.S. flouts international law when it finds it convenient to do so” (Publishers Weekly). In this still-timely classic, Noam Chomsky argues that the real “rogue” states are the United States and its allies. Chomsky turns his penetrating gaze toward US involvement in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, and Latin America to trace the enduring combined effects of military domination and economic imperialism on these regions. “Noam Chomsky is like a medic attempting to cure a national epidemic of selective amnesia . . . [Rogue States is] a timely guide to the tactics that the powerful employ to keep power concentrated and people compliant . . . Chomsky’s work is crucial at a time when our empire perpetually disguises its pursuit of power under the banners of ‘aid,’ ‘humanitarian intervention,’ and ‘globalization.’ Americans have to begin deciphering the rhetoric. Chomsky’s a good place to start.” —The Village Voice “World-famous MIT linguist Chomsky has long kept up a second career as a cogent voice of the hard left, excoriating American imperialism, critiquing blinkered journalists and attacking global economic injustice.” —Publishers Weekly “Nothing escapes [Chomsky’s] attention . . . [Rogue States is] wonderfully lucid.” —PeaceWork Praise for Noam Chomsky “Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.” —The New York Times Book Review “The conscience of the American people.” —New Statesman “One of the radical heroes of our age . . . a towering intellect . . . powerful, always provocative.” —The Guardian

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Liberty s Exiles

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  • Author : Maya Jasanoff
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2012-03-06
  • ISBN : 1400075475
  • Pages : 490 pages

Download or read book Liberty s Exiles written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.

Book Forgotten Exiles

Download or read book Forgotten Exiles written by League of Nations Union and published by . This book was released on with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue Revolutionaries

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  • Author : Vanessa Mongey
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2020-09-25
  • ISBN : 0812297571
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Rogue Revolutionaries written by Vanessa Mongey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1822, the Mary departed Philadelphia and sailed in the direction of the Spanish colony of Puerto Rico. Like most vessels that navigated the Caribbean, the Mary brought together men who had served under a dozen different flags over the years. Unlike most crews, those aboard the Mary were in a different line of commerce: they exported revolution. In addition to rifles and pistols, the Mary transported a box filled with proclamations announcing the creation of the "Republic of Boricua." This imagined republic rested on one principle: equal rights for all, regardless of birthplace, race, or religion. The leaders of the expedition had never set foot in Puerto Rico. And they never would. When we think of the Age of Revolutions, George Washington, Robespierre, Toussaint Louverture, or Simón Bolívar might come to mind. But Rogue Revolutionaries recovers the interconnected stories of now-forgotten "foreigners of desperate fortune" who dreamt of overthrowing colonial monarchy and creating their own countries. They were not members of the political and economic elite; rather, they were ship captains, military veterans, and enslaved soldiers. As a history of ideas and geopolitics grounded in the narratives of extraordinary lives, Rogue Revolutionaries shows how these men of different nationalities and ethnicities claimed revolution as a universal right and reimagined notions of sovereignty, liberty, and decolonization. In the midst of wars and upheavals, the question of who had the legitimacy to launch a revolution and to start a new country was open to debate. Behind the growing power of nation-states, Mongey uncovers a lost world of radical cosmopolitanism grounded in the pursuit of material interests and personal prestige. In demonstrating that these would-be revolutionaries and their fleeting republics were critical to the creation of a new international order, Mongey reminds us of the importance of attending to failures, dead ends, and the unpredictable nature of history.

Book Nonviolent America

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  • Author : Louise Hawkley
  • Publisher : North Newton, Kansas : Bethel College
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Nonviolent America written by Louise Hawkley and published by North Newton, Kansas : Bethel College. This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rogue Mission

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  • Author : Jeffrey S. Stephens
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-04-04
  • ISBN : 1682611639
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Rogue Mission written by Jeffrey S. Stephens and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CIA agent Jordan Sandor's mission is more complex and has more at stake than any he has faced before. From Bermuda to the United Kingdom, from France to the deserts of Iraq, Jordan must face down villains both known and unknown, recognized and hidden, as he struggles to prevent the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. Needing help as never before, Sandor calls upon his usual group of talented associates, as well as top CIA analyst Beth Sharrow, a former lover still willing to risk her life and career to help Sandor.

Book Rogues and Scoundrels

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  • Author : Philip Walsingham Sergeant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Rogues and Scoundrels written by Philip Walsingham Sergeant and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: