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Book The Story of the Stewarts

Download or read book The Story of the Stewarts written by James King Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stewarts

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Stewart (of Ardvorlich.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN : 9780717945399
  • Pages : 32 pages

Download or read book The Stewarts written by John Stewart (of Ardvorlich.) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sugar in the Blood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Stuart
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-01-22
  • ISBN : 030796115X
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Sugar in the Blood written by Andrea Stuart and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1630s, lured by the promise of the New World, Andrea Stuart’s earliest known maternal ancestor, George Ashby, set sail from England to settle in Barbados. He fell into the life of a sugar plantation owner by mere chance, but by the time he harvested his first crop, a revolution was fully under way: the farming of sugar cane, and the swiftly increasing demands for sugar worldwide, would not only lift George Ashby from abject poverty and shape the lives of his descendants, but it would also bind together ambitious white entrepreneurs and enslaved black workers in a strangling embrace. Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas. As it grew, the sugar trade enriched Europe as never before, financing the Industrial Revolution and fuelling the Enlightenment. And, as well, it became the basis of many economies in South America, played an important part in the evolution of the United States as a world power and transformed the Caribbean into an archipelago of riches. But this sweet and hugely profitable trade—“white gold,” as it was known—had profoundly less palatable consequences in its precipitation of the enslavement of Africans to work the fields on the islands and, ultimately, throughout the American continents. Interspersing the tectonic shifts of colonial history with her family’s experience, Stuart explores the interconnected themes of settlement, sugar and slavery with extraordinary subtlety and sensitivity. In examining how these forces shaped her own family—its genealogy, intimate relationships, circumstances of birth, varying hues of skin—she illuminates how her family, among millions of others like it, in turn transformed the society in which they lived, and how that interchange continues to this day. Shifting between personal and global history, Stuart gives us a deepened understanding of the connections between continents, between black and white, between men and women, between the free and the enslaved. It is a story brought to life with riveting and unparalleled immediacy, a story of fundamental importance to the making of our world.

Book The Genealogy and History of the Stewart Family of Halifax County  Virginia  Caswell  and Person Counties  North Carolina  Trigg County  Kentucky

Download or read book The Genealogy and History of the Stewart Family of Halifax County Virginia Caswell and Person Counties North Carolina Trigg County Kentucky written by Martha Jane Stone and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book STEWART HERITAGE

    Book Details:
  • Author : CHARLES KINDER. BRADBURY
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9780992662417
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book STEWART HERITAGE written by CHARLES KINDER. BRADBURY and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Hanna Family

Download or read book A History of the Hanna Family written by Charles Elmer Rice and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Genealogy of Hugh Stewart and His Descendants

Download or read book Genealogy of Hugh Stewart and His Descendants written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Royal Stuarts

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  • Author : Allan Massie
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 2011-12-20
  • ISBN : 142995082X
  • Pages : 546 pages

Download or read book The Royal Stuarts written by Allan Massie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling...A masterly feat...A magnificent, sweeping, authoritative, warm yet wry history."--The Wall Street Journal In this fascinating and intimate portrait of the Stuarts, author Allan Massie takes us deep into one of history's bloodiest and most tumultuous reigns. Exploring the family's lineage from the first Stuart king to the last, The Royal Stuarts is a panoramic history of the family that acted as a major player in the Scottish Wars of Independence, the Union of the Crowns, the English Civil War, the Restoration, and more. Drawing on the accounts of historians past and present, novels, and plays, this is the complete story of the Stuart family, documenting their path from the salt marshes of Brittany to the thrones of Scotland and England and eventually to exile. The Royal Stuarts brings to life figures like Mary, Queens of Scots, Charles I, and Bonnie Prince Charlie, uncovering a family of strong affections and fierce rivalries. Told with panache, this is the gripping true story of backstabbing, betrayal, and ambition gone awry.

Book Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine

Download or read book Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine written by George Thomas Little and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland

Download or read book Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland written by E. R. Seary and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origins of nearly 3,000 surnames found on the eastern Canadian island, along with sometimes extensive information on etymology, genealogy, and Newfoundland history. Introduces the alphabetical catalogue with a survey of the history and linguistic origins, which include English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, French, Syrian, Lebanese, and Micmac. Appends lists of names by frequency and frequency by origin, and surnames recorded before 1700. First published in 1977, reprinted four times, and here revised with additions and corrections and reset in a more convenient format. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book The First Highlander

Download or read book The First Highlander written by James Robertson and published by John Donald. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the man responsible for writing a book that largely created the modern image of the Highlander. Stewart, a soldier proud to associate with the aristocracy, also launched attacks on his fellow lairds over the Clearances, which led to him being accused of Radicalism.

Book Settlements of Western Perthshire

Download or read book Settlements of Western Perthshire written by James Stewart and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Genealogy and History of the Stewart Family of Halifax County  Virginia  Caswell  and Person Counties  North Carolina  Trigg County  Kentucky

Download or read book The Genealogy and History of the Stewart Family of Halifax County Virginia Caswell and Person Counties North Carolina Trigg County Kentucky written by Martha Jane Stone and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Scotch Irish

    Book Details:
  • Author : James G. Leyburn
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 1989-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780807842591
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by James G. Leyburn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.

Book Britain s Royal Families

Download or read book Britain s Royal Families written by Alison Weir and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot. If George III did make such a marriage...then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot...' Britain's Royal Families provides in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the crown and royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family – with fascinating insight and often scandalous secrets. 'Staggeringly useful... combines solid information with tantalising appetisers.’ Mail on Sunday

Book A Genealogical History of the Royal and Illustrious Family of the Stewarts  from the Year 1034 to the Year 1710

Download or read book A Genealogical History of the Royal and Illustrious Family of the Stewarts from the Year 1034 to the Year 1710 written by George Crawfurd and published by . This book was released on 1710 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bolton s American Armory

Download or read book Bolton s American Armory written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: