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Book The Old Eagle Nester

    Book Details:
  • Author : Doris West Brooks
  • Publisher : Black Dome Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780962852350
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book The Old Eagle Nester written by Doris West Brooks and published by Black Dome Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest

Download or read book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tongass National Forest  N F    North Sea Otter Sound Area Analysis

Download or read book Tongass National Forest N F North Sea Otter Sound Area Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book PCS Phosphate Mine Continuation

Download or read book PCS Phosphate Mine Continuation written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Possessions

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  • Author : Judith RICHARDSON
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2009-06-30
  • ISBN : 9780674042704
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper

Book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest

Download or read book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Windsor Magazine

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Book North Dakota Outdoors

Download or read book North Dakota Outdoors written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Country Life

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  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 980 pages

Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coos Bay District Area Resource s  Management Plan  RMP

Download or read book Coos Bay District Area Resource s Management Plan RMP written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science  Art  and Finance

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Saturday Review of Politics  Literature  Science and Art

Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics Literature Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest

Download or read book The Dove in the Eagle s Nest written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Fork Coal Program

Download or read book North Fork Coal Program written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: