Download or read book Manhattan in Maps 1527 2014 written by Paul E. Cohen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume features 65 full-color maps charting Manhattan's development from the first Dutch settlement to the present. Each map is placed in context by an accompanying essay.
Download or read book Manhattan in Maps 1527 2014 written by Paul E. Cohen and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handsome volume features 65 full-color maps charting Manhattan's development from the first Dutch settlement to the present. Each map is placed in context by an accompanying essay.
Download or read book Culture Language at Crossed Purposes written by Jerome McGann and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and Language at Crossed Purposes unpacks the interpretive problems of colonial treaty-making and uses them to illuminate canonical works from the period. Classic American literature, Jerome McGann argues, is haunted by the betrayal of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Indian treaties—“a stunned memory preserved in the negative spaces of the treaty records.” A noted scholar of the “textual conditions” of literature, McGann investigates canonical works from the colonial period, including the Arbella sermon and key writings of William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Cotton Mather’s Magnalia, Benjamin Franklin’s celebrated treaty folios and Autobiography, and Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. These are highly practical, purpose-driven works—the record of Enlightenment dreams put to the severe test of dangerous conditions. McGann suggests that the treaty-makers never doubted the unsettled character of what they were prosecuting, and a similar conflicted ethos pervades these works. Like the treaty records, they deliberately test themselves against stringent measures of truth and accomplishment and show a distinctive consciousness of their limits and failures. McGann’s book is ultimately a reminder of the public importance of truth and memory—the vocational commitments of humanist scholars and educators.
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Download or read book Lost Islands written by Henry Stommel and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-03 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert oceanographer presents fascinating documentation of the historical, geographical, and anecdotal accounts of hundreds of phantom islands around the world. Scores of black-and-white illustrations and charts illuminate the text.
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Download or read book Murder Out Yonder written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-05-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York, in 1941 under the title and subtitle Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America."
Download or read book The Trouble Makers written by Celia Fremlin and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Married hell in a London suburb ... A truly superior thriller." — The New Yorker. In this suspenseful novel, Mary's gossiping friends can't soothe her obsession with the strange man haunting their neighborhood.
