Download or read book Virginia Country written by Betsy Wells Edwards and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes 27 homes in Virginia from Toddsbury built around 1690 to Woodside Farm built in 1850 with color photographs and histories of the families who live in them.
Download or read book Notes on the State of Virginia written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of an Old Virginia Country Boy written by J. Richard Grove and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2001-03-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author teaches us about the wisdom of ants in a very interesting and entertaining fashion. This book actually inspires the reader to want to know more about ants, and gives you a healthy respect for them. Ant B, who is the main character, has a short life span and she's busy trying to complete her mission and purpose in The Ant World for God's kingdom on earth. Two Bible verses refer to the ant: Proverbs 6:6 and Proverbs 30:25 The Ant World does exist. The ants can hear, they can see, and they do have a purpose. This is a children's book for ALL of God's children.
Download or read book I Die by This Country written by Fawzia Zouari and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel available to English readers by Fawzia Zouari, one of the most important North African authors writing today, begins with an emergency crew’s arrival at a Parisian apartment. Two emaciated young women, sisters, are brought out on stretchers. To the crowd of onlookers the women’s condition is mystifying; for the two sisters, this is the inescapable end to a tragic series of events. Inspired by an actual news story from the French headlines, I Die by This Country introduces us to Nacéra and Amira. Casting her mind back in the midst of the opening pages’ upheaval, Nacéra pieces together her fragmentary knowledge of her parents’ lives in rural French Algeria and their immigration to Paris in the years following Algeria’s war for independence. Her memories of how both she and Amira struggled to find their place as children of immigrants reveals the enormous stress of social exclusion and identity conflicts facing immigrant youth. Nacéra and her family yearn for acceptance, but the reader sees this dream becoming increasingly unattainable. Zouari’s frank prose and penetrating storytelling deftly relates the multigenerational experience of Franco-Algerian immigration during the last quarter of the twentieth century. As France continues, like so many western countries, to struggle with questions regarding national identity, immigration, and its colonial past, the experiences depicted in this novel resonate more than ever.
Download or read book Virginia Country written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best and Worst Country in the World written by Stephen Adams and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell." Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen Adams focuses on both the physical changes to the land over time and the changes in the way people viewed Virginia. The Best and Worst Country in the World reaches well beyond previous accounts of early American views of the land with the inclusion of fascinating and important pre-1700 sources, Native American perceptions, and prehuman geography and geology. A blend of history, literature, geology, geography, and natural history, enriched by illustrations ranging from a dinosaur footprint to John Smith's famous "Map of Virginia," Adams's work offers an ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and colored the human relationship with "the best and worst country in the world"--the early Virginia landscape.
Download or read book James Madison s Advice to My Country written by James Madison and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Madison was a small man whose quiet voice was often drowned by the hubbub of legislative debate, yet his words - as preserved in his speeches, essays, and letters - resound across the centuries with an authority unmatched by any historical figure of his generation. James Madison's "Advice to My Country" is designed as a ready reference to Madison's thought, including his most perceptive observations on government and human nature. This compendium brings together excerpts from his writings on a variety of political and social issues, ranging from agriculture to free trade, from religion and the state to legislative power, from friendship to fashion, from slavery to unity. Madison is widely cited by politicians, lawyers, and judges because many of the issues he wrote about, such as education, trade, and support for the arts, have contemporary relevance. This selection of short passages will enlighten those pundits who are prone to misquote Madison or enlist him in support of virtually any position in current political debate. With passages cross-referenced to The Papers of James Madison volumes, it will serve as a guide to investigate Madison's views further.
Download or read book Country Roads written by Susan De Alba and published by Rockbridge Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen self-guided driving tours with detailed maps trace the old roads that shaped the American frontier. The tours bring you to elegant plantations, rustic homesteads, historic urban districts, provincial hamlets, world-class stud farms, rural emporiums, hilltop churches, historic tunnels, the University of Virginia, Monticello, and more. Grab your camera and delight in the fascinating sights and scenes.
Download or read book A Map of Virginia With a Description of the Country the Commodities People Government and Religion Written by Captaine Smith Whereunto is Annexed the Proceedings of Those Colonies Since Their First Departure from England with the Discourses Orations and Relations of the Salvages Taken Faithfully Out of the Writings of Doctor Russell The Studley and Others And the Relations of Divers Other Observers By W S i e William Symonds First Compiled by R Pots Revised by William Symonds and Edited by J Abbay written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1612 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Houses of Virginia written by Kathryn Masson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treasures of American heritage showcased in this volume include such masterpieces as Colonial Williamsburg's Governor's Palace, George Washington's Mt. Vernon, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Robert E. Lee's Arlington House, and Stratford Hall Plantation--all presented in new photography commissioned for this book. (Architecture)
Download or read book The History and Present State of Virginia written by Robert Beverley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Download or read book VIRGINIA COUNTRY NAMES 200 7 written by Charles Massie Long and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Architecture of Jefferson Country written by K. Edward Lay and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "But what is less well known are the many important examples of other architectural idioms built in this Piedmont Virginia county, many by nationally renowned architects.".
Download or read book Plantations of Virginia written by Charlene C. Giannetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.
Download or read book Virginia in Our Country written by Jean Gottmann and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia s Government written by Virginia State Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Virginia Country Names Two Hundred and Seventy Years of Virginia History written by Charles Massie [From Old Catalog] Long and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
