Author : Samuel Gordon Smyth
Publisher :
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Berkeley County (W. Va.)
ISBN :
"This work 26 is a genealogy and history of the related families of John Van Meter, Thomas Shepherd and John Duke: settlers between 1730 and 1750 of the Northern Neck in the Valley of Virginia; conspicuous figures in the formative period, as their descendants have been in later developments, of Frederick and Berkeley Counties in what is now western Virginia."--Foreward.
Author : Anderson Galleries, Inc
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1925
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
Page : 1826 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780835216036
"This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Author : Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 21,33 MB
Release : 2015-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0786455225
The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.
Author : James Taylor Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,85 MB
Release : 1915
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Dosso Dossi
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892365050
Dosso Dossi has long been considered one of Renaissance Italy's most intriguing artists. Although a wealth of documents chronicles his life, he remains, in many ways, an enigma, and his art continues to be as elusive as it is compelling. In Dosso's Fate, leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines examine the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of his art, focusing on the development of new genres of painting, questions of style and chronology, the influence of courtly culture, and the work of his collaborators, as well as his visual and literary sources and his painting technique. The result is an important and original contribution not only to literature on Dosso Dossi but also to the study of cultural history in early modern Italy.
Author : Joël Bonnemaison
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815257
This personal observation of Tanna, an island in the southern part of the Vanuatu archipelago, presents an extraordinary case study of cultural resistance. Based on interviews, myths and stories collected in the field, and archival research, The Tree and the Canoe analyzes the resilience of the people of Tanna, who, when faced with an intense form of cultural contact that threatened to engulf them, liberated themselves by re-creating, and sometimes reinventing, their own kastom. Following a lengthy history of Tanna from European contact, the author discusses in detail original creation myths and how Tanna people revived them in response to changes brought by missionaries and foreign governments. The final chapters of the book deal with the violent opposition of part of the island population to the newly established National Unity government.
Author : Gilbert J. Hunt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 2021-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This is a famous educational text by Gilbert J. Hunt presenting an account of the War of 1812 in the style of the King James Bible. It starts with President James Madison and the congressional declaration of war and then describes the Burning of Washington, the Battle of New Orleans, and the Treaty of Ghent.
Author : Albert Harrison Van Deusen
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 18,72 MB
Release : 1912
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Pertti Anttonen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9518580073
A new interdisciplinary interest has risen to study interconnections between oral tradition and book culture. In addition to the use and dissemination of printed books, newspapers etc., book culture denotes manuscript media and the circulation of written documents of oral tradition in and through the archive, into published collections. Book culture also intertwines the process of framing and defining oral genres with literary interests and ideologies. The present volume is highly relevant to anyone interested in oral cultures and their relationship to the culture of writing and publishing. The questions discussed include the following: How have printing and book publishing set terms for oral tradition scholarship? How have the practices of reading affected the circulation of oral traditions? Which books and publishing projects have played a key role in this and how? How have the written representations of oral traditions, as well as the roles of editors and publishers, introduced authorship to materials customarily regarded as anonymous and collective?
