Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
Author: Charles Austin BeardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Reports of the Superintending School Committee, Superintendent of Schools, Principals of Senior and Junior High Schools, Department Heads and School Agent for the Year ...
Author: Bangor (Me.) Superintendent of SchoolsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Author: Wilson WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelmsford (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Index to the General and Special Legislation of the State of Vermont
Author: Albert P. CrossRoot Genealogical Records. 1600-1870
Author: James Pierce RootEvery Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Author: George Francis DowPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486157857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Comprehensive, reliable account of 17th-century life in one of the country's earliest settlements. Contemporary records, over 100 historically valuable pictures vividly describe early dwellings, furnishings, medicinal aids, wardrobes, trade, crimes, more.
Religion and the Making of Nigeria
Author: Olufemi VaughanPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822373874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship, Vaughan traces Nigeria’s social, religious, and political history from the early nineteenth century to the present. During the nineteenth century, the historic Sokoto Jihad in today’s northern Nigeria and the Christian missionary movement in what is now southwestern Nigeria provided the frameworks for ethno-religious divisions in colonial society. Following Nigeria’s independence from Britain in 1960, Christian-Muslim tensions became manifest in regional and religious conflicts over the expansion of sharia, in fierce competition among political elites for state power, and in the rise of Boko Haram. These tensions are not simply conflicts over religious beliefs, ethnicity, and regionalism; they represent structural imbalances founded on the religious divisions forged under colonial rule.
The Waterman Family
Author: The Old Leather Man
Author: Dan W. DeLucaPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574457
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut’s caves his home. Ebook Edition Note: Six of the 111 illustrations have been redacted.