Book Description
Examines the failure of Providence Island, set up by English puritans in 1630 and extinct by 1641.
Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 23,68 MB
Release : 1993-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521352053
Examines the failure of Providence Island, set up by English puritans in 1630 and extinct by 1641.
Author : Tom Feiling
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1612194109
The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.
Author : Tom Feiling
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1612197086
The creation myth of the United States begins with the plucky English puritans of the Mayflower--but what about the story of its sister ship, the Seaflower. Few people today know the story of the passengers aboard the Seaflower, who in 1630 founded a rival puritan colony on an isolated Caribbean island called Providence. They were convinced that England’s empire would rise not in barren New England, but rather in tropical Central America. However, Providence became a colony in constant crisis: crops failed, slaves revolted . . . and then there were the pirates. And, as Tom Feiling discovers in this surprising history, the same drama was played out by the men and women who re-settled the island one hundred years later. The Island That Disappeared presents Providence as a fascinating microcosm of colonialism--even today. At first glance it is an island of devout churchgoers - but look a little closer, and you see that it is still dependent on its smugglers. At once intimate and global, this story of puritans and pirates goes to the heart of the contradictory nature of the Caribbean and how the Western World took shape.
Author : C. R. Hedgcock
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9781930133686
The Bakers are a Christian homeschooling family who, in their desire to help others, frequently find themselves in dangerous situations. In this story the Bakers are full of excitement as they head to the English countryside to celebrate Grandfather Wilson's eightieth birthday. When an elderly neighbor with Alzheimer's Disease tells a tale of treasure lost on the high seas the children are sure she has confused reality with fiction. Can the discovery of an ancient treasure help old Marge stay in her beloved cottage and out of a nursing home? This question sends the Bakers on their next quest.
Author : David Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 152613201X
This book is about the transformation of England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the ‘Adventurers for Irish land’, raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England’s empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell’s Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England’s empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.
Author : Michael J. Green
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0231542720
Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region and whether to partner with China, at the center of the continent, or Japan, looking toward the Pacific. Where should the United States draw its defensive line, and how should it export democratic principles? In a history that spans the eighteenth century to the present, Michael J. Green follows the development of U.S. strategic thinking toward East Asia, identifying recurring themes in American statecraft that reflect the nation's political philosophy and material realities. Drawing on archives, interviews, and his own experience in the Pentagon and White House, Green finds one overarching concern driving U.S. policy toward East Asia: a fear that a rival power might use the Pacific to isolate and threaten the United States and prevent the ocean from becoming a conduit for the westward free flow of trade, values, and forward defense. By More Than Providence works through these problems from the perspective of history's major strategists and statesmen, from Thomas Jefferson to Alfred Thayer Mahan and Henry Kissinger. It records the fate of their ideas as they collided with the realities of the Far East and adds clarity to America's stakes in the region, especially when compared with those of Europe and the Middle East.
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
Publisher :
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Monographic series
ISBN :
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1464 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : Fodor's
Publisher : Fodors Travel Publications
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1400008441
Detailed and timely information on accommodations, restaurants, and local attractions highlight these updated travel guides, which feature all-new covers, a dramatic visual design, symbols to indicate budget options, must-see ratings, multi-day itineraries, Smart Travel Tips, helpful bulleted maps, tips on transportation, guidelines for shopping excursions, and other valuable features. Original.
Author : Great Britain. Public Record Office
Publisher :
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1860
Category :
ISBN :