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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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History
Author: Cemetery Inscriptions of Castlereagh Anglican Cemetery, Upper Castlereagh Methodist Cemetery, McCarthy's Lane Cemetery Near Penrith NSW
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ISBN: 9780959376432
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1612-1865
Author: N. RodgersPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230625223
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This book tackles a hitherto neglected topic by presenting Ireland as very much a part of the Black Atlantic world. It shows how slaves and sugar produced economic and political change in Eighteenth-century Ireland and discusses the role of Irish emigrants in slave societies in the Caribbean and North America.
A History of the American People
Author: Paul JohnsonPublisher: Harper
ISBN: 9780060168360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
Book Description
"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other national story holds such tremendous lessons, for the American people themselves and for the rest of mankind." Johnson's history is a reinterpretation of American history from the first settlements to the Clinton administration. It covers every aspect of U.S. history--politics; business and economics; art, literature and science; society and customs; complex traditions and religious beliefs. The story is told in terms of the men and women who shaped and led the nation and the ordinary people who collectively created its unique character. Wherever possible, letters, diaries, and recorded conversations are used to ensure a sense of actuality. "The book has new and often trenchant things to say about every aspect and period of America's past," says Johnson, "and I do not seek, as some historians do, to conceal my opinions." Johnson's history presents John Winthrop, Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, Cotton Mather, Franklin, Tom Paine, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison from a fresh perspective. It emphasizes the role of religion in American history and how early America was linked to England's history and culture and includes incisive portraits of Andrew Jackson, Chief Justice Marshall, Clay, Lincoln, and Jefferson Davis. Johnson shows how Grover Cleveland and Teddy Roosevelt ushered in the age of big business and industry and how Woodrow Wilson revolutionized the government's role. He offers new views of Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover and of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and his role as commander in chief during World War II. An examination of the unforeseen greatness of Harry Truman and reassessments of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush follow. "Compulsively readable," said Foreign Affairs of Johnson's unique narrative skills and sharp profiles of people. This is an in-depth portrait of a great people, from their fragile origins through their struggles for independence and nationhood, their heroic efforts and sacrifices to deal with the `organic sin' of slavery and the preservation of the Union to its explosive economic growth and emergence as a world power and its sole superpower. Johnson discusses such contemporary topics as the politics of racism, education, Vietnam, the power of the press, political correctness, the growth of litigation, and the rising influence of women. He sees Americans as a problem-solving people and the story of America as "essentially one of difficulties being overcome by intelligence and skill, by faith and strength of purpose, by courage and persistence...Looking back on its past, and forward to its future, the auguries are that it will not disappoint humanity." This challenging narrative and interpretation of American history by the author of many distinguished historical works is sometimes controversial and always provocative. Johnson's views of individuals, events, themes, and issues are original, critical, and admiring, for he is, above all, a strong believer in the history and the destiny of the American people.
Early Days of Windsor, N.S. Wales
Author: Rev. James SteelePublisher:
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Category : Pioneers
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Abridged Decimal Classification and Relativ Index
Author: Melvil DeweyPublisher:
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Category : Classification, Dewey decimal
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Highways and Byways
Author: John MathewsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780957898752
Category : Street names
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
The Publisher
Author: History of the County of Middlesex, Canada
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Category : Middlesex (Canada : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
Book Description