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Book Keahey Clansmen Revisited

Download or read book Keahey Clansmen Revisited written by Emma Barrett Reeves and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William MacKeachey (d. ca 1780) in Richmond County, North Carolina. He had at least three sons: James (1749-1823), who married Mary Jane Jackson about 1780; John (1750-1823), who married Martha Jackson in 1780; and George (ca. 1755-1888), who married Sarah McFarland in 1799. Their descendants lived throughout the South, in California, Texas and elsewhere.

Book Seeking Sicily

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Keahey
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-11-08
  • ISBN : 1429990678
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Seeking Sicily written by John Keahey and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Keahey's exploration of this misunderstood island offers a much-needed look at a much-maligned land."—Paul Paolicelli, author of Under the Southern Sun Sicily is the Mediterranean's largest and most mysterious island. Its people, for three thousand years under the thumb of one invader after another, hold tightly onto a culture so unique that they remain emotionally and culturally distinct, viewing themselves first as Sicilians, not Italians. Many of these islanders, carrying considerable DNA from Arab and Muslim ancestors who ruled for 250 years and integrated vast numbers of settlers from the continent just ninety miles to the south, say proudly that Sicily is located north of Africa, not south of Italy. Seeking Sicily explores what lies behind the soul of the island's inhabitants. It touches on history, archaeology, food, the Mafia, and politics and looks to nineteenth- and twentieth-century Sicilian authors to plumb the islanders' so-called Sicilitudine. This "culture apart" is best exemplified by the writings of one of Sicily's greatest writers, Leonardo Sciascia. Seeking Sicily also looks to contemporary Sicilians who have never shaken off the influences of their forbearers, who believed in the ancient gods and goddesses. Author John Keahey is not content to let images from the island's overly touristed villages carry the story. Starting in Palermo, he journeyed to such places as Arab-founded Scopello on the west coast, the Greek ruins of Selinunte on the southwest, and Sciascia's ancestral village of Racalmuto in the south, where he experienced unique, local festivals. He spent Easter Week in Enna at the island's center, witnessing surreal processions that date back to Spanish rule. And he learned about Sicilian cuisine in Spanish Baroque Noto and Greek Siracusa in the southeast, and met elderly, retired fishermen in the tiny east-coast fishing village of Aci Trezza, home of the mythical Cyclops and immortalized by Luchino Visconti's mid-1940s film masterpiece, La terra trema. He walked near the summit of Etna, Europe's largest and most active volcano, studied the mountain's role in creating this island, and looked out over the expanse of the Ionian Sea, marveling at the three millennia of myths and history that forged Sicily into what it is today.

Book Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

Book Subject Catalog

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  • Author : Library of Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1004 pages

Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book The Genealogical Helper

Download or read book The Genealogical Helper written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family Fare

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  • Author : Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 574 pages

Download or read book Family Fare written by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Who s who in Genealogy   Heraldry

Download or read book Who s who in Genealogy Heraldry written by Mary Keysor Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bullock Twigs and Branches

Download or read book Bullock Twigs and Branches written by Marie Luter Upton and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremiah Bullock (d.1757/1758) lived in Sussex County, Virginia. His son, Charles Bullock, moved to Bladen County, North Carolina. And a grandson, Joel Bullock (1781-1860), married Rhoda Davis, and in 1818 moved to Marion County, Mississippi, and later to Lawrence County, Mississippi. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and elsewhere.

Book Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World

Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Ancient Greek World written by David Sacks and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the people, places and events found in over 2,000 years of Greek civilization.

Book The Families Somerville  Somervaill  Summerall  Summerell  Summerill  Summerlin  Sumlin  Sumrall  and Sumrill

Download or read book The Families Somerville Somervaill Summerall Summerell Summerill Summerlin Sumlin Sumrall and Sumrill written by James Harvey Hines and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Summerell (b.ca.1700), of Scottish lineage, married Sarah Barnes, daughter of John Barnes and Ann Jones of Isle of Wight County, Virginia. Descendants lived in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere.

Book Under the Southern Sun

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  • Author : Paul Paolicelli
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2014-04-22
  • ISBN : 146686902X
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Under the Southern Sun written by Paul Paolicelli and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently there has been a seemingly endless stream of books praising the glories of ancient and modern Rome, fretting over Venice's rising tides and moldering galleries, celebrating the Tuscan countryside, wines and cuisine. But there have been curiously few writings that deal directly with Italy as the country of origin for the grand- and great-grandparents of nearly twenty-six million Americans. The greatest majority—more than eight out of ten—of those American descendants of immigrant Italians aren't the progeny of Venetian doges or Tuscan wealth, but are the diaspora of Southern Italians, people from a place very different than Renaissance Florence or the modern political entity of Rome. Southern Italians, mostly from villages and towns sprinkled about the dramatic and remote countryside of Italian provinces even now tourists find only with determination and rental cars. In Under the Southern Sun: Stories of the Real Italy and the Americans It Created, journalist Paul Paolicelli takes us on a grand tour of the Southern Italy of most Italian-American immigrants, including Calabria, Basilicata, Puglia, Sicily, Abruzzo, and Molise, and explores the many fascinating elements of Southern Italian society, history, and culture. Along the way, he explores the concept of heritage and of going back to one's roots, the theory of a cultural subconscious, and most importantly, the idea of a Southern Italian "sensibility" – where it comes from, how it has been cultivated, and how it has been passed on from generation to generation. Amidst the delightful blend of travelogue and journalism are wonderful stories about famous Southern Italian-Americans, most notably Frank Capra and Rudolph Valentino, who were forced to leave their homeland and to adjust, adapt, and survive in America. He tells the story of the only large concentration camp built and run by the Fascists during World War II and of the humanity of the Southerners who ran the place. He visits ancient seaside communities once dominated by castles and watchtowers and now bathed in tanning oil and tourists, muses over Matera—what is probably Europe's oldest and most unknown city – and culminates in a fascinating exploration of how one's familial memory can influence his or her internal value system. This book is a celebration of Southern Italy, its people, and what it has given to its American descendants.

Book Sicily and the Mediterranean

Download or read book Sicily and the Mediterranean written by Claudia Karagoz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Sicily has for centuries been a meeting point where civilizations transformed one another and gave life to the cultural developments at the foundation of European modernity. The essays collected here explore Sicily as a place where these cultural interactions have produced conflict but also new material and intellectual exchange.

Book Decolonizing Development

Download or read book Decolonizing Development written by Jennifer Keahey and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-Soviet Latvia and post-apartheid South Africa are far apart geographically and yet have endured a similar history of colonial and authoritarian rule before transitioning to democracy at the end of the 20th century. This book examines these two nations in an unusual comparative study of post-authoritarian efforts to decolonize production and trade. The book combines an analysis of political economy and ecocultural heritage to unpack alternative trade formations. It also connects world systems thinking with Indigenous knowledge to articulate a decolonial theory of development and change over the longue durée. Conclusions and insights drawn are timely and important for a planet confronted by crises such as authoritarianism, laissez-faire capitalism, climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Book Ephemeral Territories

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  • Author : Erin Manning
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9781452905631
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Ephemeral Territories written by Erin Manning and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iberville s Gulf Journals

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  • Author : Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
  • Publisher : University of Alabama Press
  • Release : 1991-02-28
  • ISBN : 0817305394
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Iberville s Gulf Journals written by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1991-02-28 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The three journals included in Iberville's Gulf Journals record Iberville's service from 1699 to 1702.