The Lindsays of America
Author : Margaret Isabella Lindsay
Publisher : Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Lindsay family
ISBN :
Author : Margaret Isabella Lindsay
Publisher : Albany, N.Y., J. Munsell's sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Lindsay family
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Author : James Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9780955516337
Author : Alexander Fleming
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 14,69 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1788851463
The Flemish are among the most important if under-appreciated immigrant groups to have shaped the history of medieval and early modern Scotland. Originating in Flanders, Northern Europe's economic powerhouse (now roughly Belgium and the Netherlands), they came to Scotland as soldiers and settlers, traders and tradesmen, diplomats and dynasts, over a period of several centuries following the Norman Conquest of England in the eleventh century. Several of Scotland's major families – the Flemings, Murrays, Sutherlands, Lindsays and Douglases for instance– claim elite Flemish roots, while many other families arrived as craftsmen, mercenaries and religiously persecuted émigrés. Adaptable and creative people, Flemish immigrants not only adjusted to Scotland's very different environment, but left their profound mark on the country's economic, social and cultural development. From pantiles to golf, from place names to town planning, the evidence of Flemish influence is still readily traceable in Scotland today. This book examines the nature of Flemish settlement in Scotland, the development of economic, diplomatic and cultural links between Scotland and Flanders, and the lasting impact of the Flemish people on Scottish society and culture.
Author : Randy Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781629727387
"This memoir traces one man's journey through his family history when a DNA test reveals that his dad was not his biological father"--
Author : E. J. Lindsay
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 1925
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Author : Lisa A. Lindsay
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 146963113X
A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan's journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this "free" man's struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan's survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan's transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of African descent.
Author : Lindsay Wong
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551527375
In this jaw-dropping, darkly comedic memoir, a young woman comes of age in a dysfunctional Asian family whose members blamed their woes on ghosts and demons when in fact they should have been on anti-psychotic meds. Lindsay Wong grew up with a paranoid schizophrenic grandmother and a mother who was deeply afraid of the “woo-woo”—Chinese ghosts who come to visit in times of personal turmoil. From a young age, she witnessed the woo-woo’s sinister effects; at the age of six, she found herself living in the food court of her suburban mall, which her mother saw as a safe haven because they could hide there from dead people, and on a camping trip, her mother tried to light Lindsay’s foot on fire to rid her of the woo-woo. The eccentricities take a dark turn, however, when her aunt, suffering from a psychotic breakdown, holds the city of Vancouver hostage for eight hours when she threatens to jump off a bridge. And when Lindsay herself starts to experience symptoms of the woo-woo herself, she wonders whether she will suffer the same fate as her family. On one hand a witty and touching memoir about the Asian immigrant experience, and on the other a harrowing and honest depiction of the vagaries of mental illness, The Woo-Woo is a gut-wrenching and beguiling manual for surviving family, and oneself. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.
Author : Lindsay M. Chervinsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674986482
The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet—the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government? On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries—Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph—for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the US Constitution did not create or provide for such a body. Washington was on his own. Faced with diplomatic crises, domestic insurrections, and constitutional challenges—and finding congressional help lacking—Washington decided he needed a group of advisors he could turn to. He modeled his new cabinet on the councils of war he had led as commander of the Continental Army. In the early days, the cabinet served at the president’s pleasure. Washington tinkered with its structure throughout his administration, at times calling regular meetings, at other times preferring written advice and individual discussions. Lindsay M. Chervinsky reveals the far-reaching consequences of Washington’s choice. The tensions in the cabinet between Hamilton and Jefferson heightened partisanship and contributed to the development of the first party system. And as Washington faced an increasingly recalcitrant Congress, he came to treat the cabinet as a private advisory body to summon as needed, greatly expanding the role of the president and the executive branch.
Author : Alexander William Crawford Lindsay Earl of Crawford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1840
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Author : Kelsey Jackson Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2022-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 900450379X
This is the first study of Jacobean Scotland's largest library: the collection assembled over several generations by the Lindsays of Balcarres.