Newmarket
Author : Frank Siltzer
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Coursing
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Author : Frank Siltzer
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Coursing
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Author : Oxford and Cambridge university club libr
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Page : 544 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Cincinnati (Ohio), Public Library
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,79 MB
Release : 1888
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Author : Thomas Katheder
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1440129908
Scholars and arm-chair historians of eighteenth-century America will take great pleasure in reading this exceptionally well-researched slice of colonial history. In The Baylors of Newmarket, author Thomas Katheder has meticulously researched one of the wealthiest and most socially prominent yet least known families in colonial Virginia. Drawing on mostly unpublished sources, including British and French archives and Virginia court documents, The Baylors of Newmarket is the fascinating and tragic story of Col. John Baylor III and his son John IV, including Col. Baylor's relentless pursuit of equine perfection and his son's delusional quest for the perfect Virginia mansion. The Baylors of Newmarket places the family in the larger context of a pre-Revolutionary Anglo-Virginian elite that sought to emulate the British gentry in culture, education, books and reading, dress, furnishings, and behavior. After the Revolution, the Baylors struggled to maintain what was becoming an increasingly outmoded lifestyle. This extensively referenced history also describes in rich detail the library begun by Col. Baylor III and expanded by his son John IV within the context of a strong book culture among the pre-Revolutionary Virginia gentry that has been largely underappreciated by scholars.
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Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1863
Category : Art
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Author : John Philip Hore
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Andrew Hopper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317143280
Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son in 1660. England’s Fortress shines new light on this significant yet surprisingly understudied figure through a selection of essays addressing a wide range of topics, from military history to poetry. Divided into two sections, the volume reflects key aspects of Fairfax’s life and career which are, nevertheless, as interconnecting as they are discrete: Fairfax the soldier and statesman, and Fairfax the husband, horseman and scholar. This fresh account of Fairfax’s reputations and legacy questions assumptions about neatly demarcated seventeenth-century chronological, geographic and cultural boundaries. What emerges is a man who subverts as much as he reinforces assumed characteristics of martial invincibility, political disengagement and literary dilettantism.
Author : William Lewis Sachse
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521081719
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 31,33 MB
Release : 1915
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Author : J. Kent Clark
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780838639979
Considered simply as a story, the narrative has intrinsic drama, with a complex protagonist, a vivid cast of historical characters, and enough conflict (including family conflicts) for several novels. The cast is headed by the redoubtable Wharton clan and by the party leaders, royal and non-royal, who dominated the period. The characters are usually vivid, often confused, sometimes psychotic, and (in the Restoration era) seldom pure. History is sometimes indistinguishable from gossip - some of it supplied by the Whartons. Political drama often becomes social drama.