Author: John DisturnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Champlain, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
A Trip Through the Lakes of North America
Author: John DisturnellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Champlain, Lake
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Catalogue of a valuable collection of books and pamphlets relating to America
Author: Clarke Robert and coPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385498201
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Bibliotheca Americana. Catalogue of a Valuable Collection of Books and Pamphlets Relating to America ... With a Descriptive List of the Ohio Valley Historical Series. For Sale by Robert Clarke & Co
Author: Clarke, Robert and CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Biographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerObject Lessons
Author: Sarah Anne CarterPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190225041
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.
The catalogue of the Melbourne public library. Suppl. catalogue
Author: Melbourne state libr. of VictoriaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Le province de Quebec
Author: André BeaulieuPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633425
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
There is no doubt that local and regional history, considered by many as a kind of minor historical study, has a pressing need for a systematic inventory of its resources. This collection shows the durability, the vividness, and the astonishing productivity of a sector of history which is the stronghold of the history-lover rather than the professional historian. The nature and content of each book determines its selection. For each book included, the compilers have weighed its contribution to local history and regional history rather than the style in which it is written—narrative, memoir, descriptive study, or novel. It is this criterion of selection that has permitted the retention of several general histories of a varied nature—Bouchette, Charlevoix, Nicholas Denys, La Potherie, Lescarbot, Hanotaux, Sulte, etc.— where local and regional life takes on a major importance for reasons of order in history, method, or quite simply because local life is the principal object of the study itself. The editors have also retained certain works—those of George W. Brown, Arthur Buies, George M. Grant, Blodwen Davies, etc.—because they are primarily descriptive and contain numerous elements in which local history blends with the manners and customs of the inhabitants of certain regions. This bibliography is designed primarily for historiographers who have until now paid little attention to local, regional, or parochial history. It will also be invaluable for librarians who suffer from the numerous difficulties involved in the classification of such works. Since 1950, all works published in Canada are, by virtue of the book deposit law, provided to the National Library of Canada, and recorded in Canadiana.