Author: Donald Grant MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Works of Donald G. Mitchell: American lands and letters; Leather-Stocking to Poe's Raven
Author: Donald Grant MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Letters from the Promised Land
Author: H. Arnold BartonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452905457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Swedish immigrants tell their own stories in this collection of letters, diaries, and memoirs--a perfect book for those interested in history, immigration, or just the daily lives of early Swedish-American settlers.
The Land was Everything
Author: Victor Davis HansonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684845016
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Before storms that can destroy his crops in an instant, the farmer stands implacable. To fluctuations in temperature that can deprive his children of their future, the farmer pays no heed. Every day the elements remind him that his future is secure only through constant effort. Like the creepers and crawlers he seeks to eradicate, the farmer toils away in the lush anonymity of his grid of vines, his tradition one of impervious resolve.
English Lands Letters and Kings: Queen Anne and the Georges
Author: Donald Grant MitchellPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465593888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
We open in this book upon times—belonging to the earlier quarter of the eighteenth century—when, upon the Continent of Europe, Peter the Great was stamping out sites for cities in the bogs by the Finland gulf—when that mad-cap Swedish King Charles XII. was cutting his bloody swathe through Poland—when Louis XIV., tired at last of wars, and more tired of Marlborough, was nearing the end of his magnificent career, and when King Mammon was making ready his huge bloat of the Mississippi Bubble for France and of the South Sea Company for England. Queen Anne, that great lady of the abounding ringlets—so kindly and so weak—was now free from the clutch of Sara of "Blenheim"; and veering sometimes, under Harleyan influences, toward her half-brother the "Pretender;" and other times under persuasion of such as Somers, favoring her cousins of Hanover. The visitor to London in those times could have taken the "Silent way" along the river—a shilling for two oarsmen and sixpence for a "scull"—from the Bridge to Limehouse; or he might encounter, along the Strand, sooty chimney sweepers and noisy venders of eggs and butter, with high-piled baskets upon their heads. Sir Roger de Coverley coming to town—if we may believe Addison—cannot sleep the first week by reason of the street cries; while Will Honeycomb, on the other hand, likens these cries to songs of nightingales: always and everywhere this difference of ear, between those who love the country and those who love the towns! There were lumbering hackney cabs in London streets to be hired at ten shillings a day (of twelve hours) for those who preferred this to the "Silent way"; and there were grand coaches for those who could pay for such display; evidences of wealth were growing year by year.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Author: Kerby A. MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195348224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
Letters
Author: William C. BryantPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 9780823209958
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794
Author: Pierce ButlerPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570036897
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
A political insiders perspective on the inaugural Congresses from one of South Carolinas signers of the Constitution
The great American land bubble
Author: Aaron Morton SakolskiPublisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610162986
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays
Author: J. Hector St. John de CrèvecoeurPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674051815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Published in London just as the idea of an “American” was becoming a reality, Letters introduced Europeans to America’s landscape, customs, and then-new people. Moore’s reader’s edition situates these twelve letters, which shift from hope to disillusion, in the context of thirteen other essays representative of Crèvecoeur’s writings in English.
The Land Before Her
Author: Annette KolodnyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807841112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
To discover how women constructed their own mythology of the West, Kolodny examines the evidence of three generations of women's writing about the frontier. She finds that, although the American frontiersman imagined the wilderness as virgin land, an unsp