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Book Travels Into North America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Kalm
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-08-25
  • ISBN : 110803151X
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book Travels Into North America written by Peter Kalm and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finnish-Swedish botanist Peter Kalm's influential observations about North America, translated into English and published in three volumes in 1770-1.

Book Travels Into North America

Download or read book Travels Into North America written by Pehr Kalm and published by London : The editor. This book was released on 1770 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels in North America  in the Years 1827 and 1828

Download or read book Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828 written by Basil Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed account of Captain Basil Hall's travels in North America between 1827 and 1828, first published in 1829.

Book Travels in North America  in the Years 1841 2

Download or read book Travels in North America in the Years 1841 2 written by Sir Charles Lyell and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Divinity Hall Library of the United Presbyterian Church

Download or read book Catalogue of the Divinity Hall Library of the United Presbyterian Church written by Scotland. - United Presbyterian Church. - Theological Hall. - Library and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture  1776   1914

Download or read book The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture 1776 1914 written by Ruth Livesey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays span the period from Independence to the First World War and trace an intellectual history of Anglo-American relations during that period. Leading scholars trace the hopes and fears inspired by the American model of democracy in the works of commentators, including Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, Charles Dilke, Matthew Arnold, Henry James and W. T. Stead. By examining the context of debates about American democracy and notions of ’culture’, citizenship, and race, the collection sheds fresh light on well-documented moments of British political history, such as the Reform Acts, the Abolition of Slavery Act, and the Anti-Corn Law agitation. The volume also explores the ways in which British Liberalism was shaped by the American example and draws attention to the importance of print culture in furthering radical political dialogue between the two nations. As the comprehensive introduction makes clear, this collection makes an important contribution to transatlantic studies and our growing sense of a nineteenth-century modernity shaped by an Atlantic exchange. It is an essential reference point for all interested in the history of the idea of democracy, its political evolution, and its perceived cultural consequences.

Book Food for Thought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lawrence C. Rubin
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-01-10
  • ISBN : 0786451513
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Food for Thought written by Lawrence C. Rubin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historically, few topics have attracted as much scholarly, professional, or popular attention as food and eating--as one might expect, considering the fundamental role of food in basic human survival. Almost daily, a new food documentary, cooking show, diet program, food guru, or eating movement arises to challenge yesterday's dietary truths and the ways we think about dining. This work brings together voices from a wide range of disciplines, providing a fascinating feast of scholarly perspectives on food and eating practices, contemporary and historic, local and global. Nineteen essays cover a vast array of food-related topics, including the ever-increasing problems of agricultural globalization, the contemporary mass-marketing of a formerly grassroots movement for organic food production, the Food Network's successful mediation of social class, the widely popular phenomenon of professional competitive eating and current trends in "culinary tourism" and fast food advertising. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Book Account of Pennsylvania and New Jersey  1685

Download or read book Account of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 1685 written by Thomas Budd and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men s Christian Association of Louisville  Kentucky

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Young Men s Christian Association of Louisville Kentucky written by Young Men's Christian Associations. Louisville, Ky. Library and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sources of Crossroads and Cultures  Volume II  Since 1300

Download or read book Sources of Crossroads and Cultures Volume II Since 1300 written by Bonnie G. Smith and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Selected Readings in American History

Download or read book Selected Readings in American History written by Theodore Calvin Pease and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 4 4 T Z

Download or read book Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico Volume 4 4 T Z written by Frederick Webb Hodge and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians. Reprint of 1912 edition. Volume 4/4 T-Z. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places and aboriginal words. Volume 1 A to G ISBN 9781582187488 Volume 2 H to M ISBN 9781582187495 Volume 3 N to S ISBN 9781582187509 Volume 4 T to Z ISBN 9781582187517

Book Masters of Small Worlds

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  • Author : Stephanie McCurry
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1995-05-11
  • ISBN : 0199879419
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Masters of Small Worlds written by Stephanie McCurry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-05-11 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study of the South Carolina Low Country, author Stephanie McCurry explores the place of the yeomanry in plantation society--the complex web of domestic and public relations within which they were enmeshed, and the contradictory politics of slave society by which that class of small farmers extracted the privileges of masterhood from the region's powerful planters. Insisting on the centrality of women as historical actors and gender as a category of analysis, this work shows how the fateful political choices made by the low-country yeomanry were rooted in the politics of the household, particularly in the customary relations of power male heads of independent households assumed over their dependents, whether slaves or free women and children. Such masterly prerogatives, practiced in the domestic sphere and redeemed in the public, explain the yeomanry's deep commitment to slavery and, ultimately, their ardent embrace of secession. By placing the yeomanry in the center of the drama, McCurry offers a significant reinterpretation of this volatile society on the road to Civil War. Through careful and creative use of a wide variety of archival sources, she brings vividly to life the small worlds of yeoman households, and the larger world of the South Carolina Low Country, the plantation South, and nineteenth-century America.

Book Rivers of Sand

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher D. Haveman
  • Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2020-07-01
  • ISBN : 1496219546
  • Pages : 436 pages

Download or read book Rivers of Sand written by Christopher D. Haveman and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages with a domain stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks, while at the same time demanding their emigration to Indian territory, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the arrival of detachment six in the West in late 1837, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were moved—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were relocated through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.

Book The Dixie Frontier

    Book Details:
  • Author : Everett Dick
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 1993-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780806123851
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book The Dixie Frontier written by Everett Dick and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1993-03-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dixie frontier was one of the most romantic and heroic of the entire North American continent. This engaging social history of the everyday life of the first settlers and pioneers has earned readers' praise over two generations.

Book Catalogue de la Biblioth  que du Parlement du Canada

Download or read book Catalogue de la Biblioth que du Parlement du Canada written by Canada. Parlement. Bibliothèque and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives

Download or read book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.