Author : John Nowell Linton Myres
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,14 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192822352
The dark ages of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh century are examined in this study, which draws attention to political and social factors linking Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England.
Author : R. G. Collingwood
Publisher : Yutang Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473311879
This early work by R. G. Collingwood was originally published in 1937 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Roman Britain and the English Settlements' is an informative work on Roman Britain and includes chapters on 'The Frontier After Hadrian', 'Caesar's Invasion', 'The Claudian Invasion', and much more. Robin George Collingwood was born on 22nd February 1889, in Cartmel, England. He was the son of author, artist, and academic, W. G. Collingwood. He was greatly influenced by the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile, and Guido de Ruggiero. Another important influence was his father, a professor of fine art and a student of Ruskin. He published many works of philosophy, such as Speculum Mentis (1924), An Essay on Philosophic Method (1933), and An Essay on Metaphysics (1940).
Author : David B. Quinn
Publisher : North Carolina Division of Archives & History
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN :
Sixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the English.
Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher : New York : Harper
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Robert Beverley
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1469607956
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.
Author : John N. L. Myres
Publisher :
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 1956
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Paul S. Boyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2012-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0199911657
This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.
Author : Henry Cabot Lodge
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 336886338X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Rowlandson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 49,89 MB
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1528785886
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of the “Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson” (1682). Mary Rowlandson (c. 1637-1711), nee Mary White, was born in Somerset, England. Her family moved to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the United States, and she settled in Lancaster, Massachusetts, marrying in 1656. It was here that Native Americans attacked during King Philip’s War, and Mary and her three children were taken hostage. This text is a profound first-hand account written by Mary detailing the experiences and conditions of her capture, and chronicling how she endured the 11 weeks in the wilderness under her Native American captors. It was published six years after her release, and explores the themes of mortal fragility, survival, faith and will, and the complexities of human nature. It is acknowledged as a seminal work of American historical literature.
