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Impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics and industrial development in 1862.
Author : Samuel Phillips Day
Publisher : London : T.C. Newby
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1864
Category : Canada
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Impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics and industrial development in 1862.
Author : John May
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2024-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1476695245
In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today's North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. This ended tragically and became known as The Lost Colony, its fate a mystery to this day. James I resumed the effort with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 on an island in the James River in today's Virginia. This book relates the histories of the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies to enable a full understanding of the founding of English America. Important events in America's beginnings, including the wreck of the Sea Venture (which inspired William Shakespeare's The Tempest), the Algonquin chief Powhatan's plans to make the newcomers useful to him, and the relationship between Pocahontas and English Captain John Smith are highlighted.
Author : Richard Ohmann
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780819562944
A reissue of a controversial analysis of the literature profession.
Author : Michael A. Beatty
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786415588
For about a century and a half after they arrived from England, America's first permanent colonists considered themselves to be English. They were proud of their heritage and loyal to their country. England's royal family truly was the royal family of America--until the era of the American Revolution, when the colonies fought for their independence from England and its rulers. Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Charles II, James II, William III and Mary II, Anne, George I, George II, and George III--the English royals who were also the royals of early America--are all covered in this work. It begins with Queen Elizabeth I, as it was during her rule that Sir Walter Ralegh established his settlements in America, and ends with King George III, as it was during his rule that the American Revolution began. A biographical sketch is provided for each royal and his or her spouse and legitimate children. Brief mention is made of mistresses and illegitimate children.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2015
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Author : El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2022-01-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2322422193
This book is an attempt to cover the history, language and culture of two most famous superpowers of the 20th and 21st centuries and evaluate their impact, glory and tribulations. Like a man's life, it has its ups and downs which can balance his human value, shared between qualities and shortcomings. This is a rather optimistic goal to try and summarize the long Anglo-Saxon history from the Stonehenge era to Donald Trump's Proud Boys' storming of the Capitol; many centuries indeed. This is in what concerns the people of these great nations. As far as their language is concerned English, it is a great language with a long history (Old, Middle and Modern). It is the language of Shakespeare.
Author : David Stick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807841105
Traces the history of the first English colony in America
Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801482823
In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain--hopeful and fearful--about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Each group was curious about the other, and interpreted through their own standards and traditions. At the same time both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture.These meetings and early relationships are recorded in a wide variety of sources. Native people maintained oral traditions about the encounters, and these were written down by English recorders at the time of contact and since; many are maintained to this day. English venturers, desperate to make readers at home understand how difficult and potentially rewarding their enterprise was, wrote constantly of their own experiences and observations and transmitted native lore. Kupperman analyzes all these sources in order to understand the true nature of these early years, when English venturers were so fearful and dependent on native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain.Building on the research in her highly regarded book Settling with the Indians, Kupperman argues convincingly that we must see both Indians and English as active participants in this unfolding drama.
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Americanisms
ISBN : 1784161861
'Funny, wise, learned and compulsive' - GQ Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Route 66 of American language and popular culture. In Made in America, Bryson tells the story of how American arose out of the English language, and along the way, de-mythologizes his native land - explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn't won, why Americans say 'lootenant' and 'Toosday', how they were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origins of the words G-string, blockbuster, poker and snafu. 'A tremendously sassy work, full of zip, pizzazz and all those other great American qualities' Will Self, Independent on Sunday
Author : Trevor Burnard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,66 MB
Release : 2010-06
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ISBN : 0199809836
A volume of bibliographic information on the colonization of English America, including: general overviews, textbooks, surveys, bibliographies, journals and more.