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Book The History of the American Indians

Download or read book The History of the American Indians written by James Adair and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. Adair's written work, first published in England in 1775, is considered one of the finest histories of the Native Americans.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade written by Great Britain. Board of Trade. Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performing Blackness on English Stages  1500 1800

Download or read book Performing Blackness on English Stages 1500 1800 written by Virginia Mason Vaughan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual study of the tradition of blackface in stage performance.

Book Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae

Download or read book Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae written by and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Auction Records

Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Book Bulletin of the Pan American Union

Download or read book Bulletin of the Pan American Union written by Pan American Union and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New World  Inc

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Butman
  • Publisher : Little, Brown
  • Release : 2018-03-20
  • ISBN : 0316307874
  • Pages : 483 pages

Download or read book New World Inc written by John Butman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive. Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown," the world's first joint-stock company. Back then, in the mid-sixteenth century, England was a small and relatively insignificant kingdom on the periphery of Europe, and it had begun to face a daunting array of social, commercial, and political problems. Struggling with a single export-woolen cloth-the merchants were forced to seek new markets and trading partners, especially as political discord followed the straitened circumstances in which so many English people found themselves. At first they headed east, and dreamed of Cathay-China, with its silks and exotic luxuries. Eventually, they turned west, and so began a new chapter in world history. The work of reaching the New World required the very latest in navigational science as well as an extraordinary appetite for risk. As this absorbing account shows, innovation and risk-taking were at the heart of the settlement of America, as was the profit motive. Trade and business drove English interest in America, and determined what happened once their ships reached the New World. The result of extensive archival work and a bold interpretation of the historical record, New World, Inc. draws a portrait of life in London, on the Atlantic, and across the New World that offers a fresh analysis of the founding of American history. In the tradition of the best works of history that make us reconsider the past and better understand the present, Butman and Targett examine the enterprising spirit that inspired European settlement of America and established a national culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that continues to this day.

Book Catalogue of the     library of P A  Hanrott     which will be sold by auction

Download or read book Catalogue of the library of P A Hanrott which will be sold by auction written by Philip Augustus Hanrott and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Splendid  Choice and Curious Library of P A  Hanrott

Download or read book Catalogue of the Splendid Choice and Curious Library of P A Hanrott written by Philip Augustus Hanrott and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World

Download or read book Jews and Blacks in the Early Modern World written by Jonathan Schorsch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-12 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first in-depth treatment of Jewish images of and behavior toward Blacks during the period of peak Jewish involvement in Atlantic slave-holding.

Book Catalogue of the signet library

Download or read book Catalogue of the signet library written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature

Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature written by George Watson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1974 with total page 1296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Becoming Yellow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Keevak
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-18
  • ISBN : 1400838606
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Becoming Yellow written by Michael Keevak and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how East Asians became "yellow" in the Western imagination—and what it reveals about the problematic history of racial thinking In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their willingness to trade with the West, and their presumed capacity to become Christianized. But by the end of the seventeenth century the category of whiteness was reserved for Europeans only. When and how did Asians become "yellow" in the Western imagination? Looking at the history of racial thinking, Becoming Yellow explores the notion of yellowness and shows that this label originated not in early travel texts or objective descriptions, but in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century scientific discourses on race. From the walls of an ancient Egyptian tomb, which depicted people of varying skin tones including yellow, to the phrase "yellow peril" at the beginning of the twentieth century in Europe and America, Michael Keevak follows the development of perceptions about race and human difference. He indicates that the conceptual relationship between East Asians and yellow skin did not begin in Chinese culture or Western readings of East Asian cultural symbols, but in anthropological and medical records that described variations in skin color. Eighteenth-century taxonomers such as Carl Linnaeus, as well as Victorian scientists and early anthropologists, assigned colors to all racial groups, and once East Asians were lumped with members of the Mongolian race, they began to be considered yellow. Demonstrating how a racial distinction took root in Europe and traveled internationally, Becoming Yellow weaves together multiple narratives to tell the complex history of a problematic term.

Book Catalogue of the Library Removed from Stowe House  Buckinghamshire

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library Removed from Stowe House Buckinghamshire written by Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville Duke of Buckingham and Chandos and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The British Presence in Macau  1635 1793

Download or read book The British Presence in Macau 1635 1793 written by Rogério Miguel Puga and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo-Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. The British and Portuguese—longstanding allies in the West—pursued more complex relations in the East, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as “a community in search of a colony”.

Book Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery

Download or read book Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery written by Peter C. Mancall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a primary source collection of narratives about the travel and discovery in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe in the 16th century.