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Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Dedication Ceremonies for an Historical Marker for the Site of the Edward Mandell House Home, 1704 West Avenue, Austin, Texas, Saturday, November 5th, 1988 at Eleven O'clock in the Morning
Dedication Ceremonies for an Historical Marker for the Caswell House, Friday Afternoon, May 3rd, 1985, at 6:00 O'clock, 1404 West Avenue, Austin, Texas
Author: Travis County Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Dedication Ceremonies for an Historical Marker for the Jane Yelvington McCallum House, Sunday, October 13, 1991 at Three O'clock in the Afternoon at 613 West 32nd Street, Austin, Texas
Author: Dedication Ceremonies for an Historical Marker for Ward Memorial United Methodist Church, 2105 Parker Lane, Austin, Texas, 11:50 O'clock in the Morning
Author: Travis County (Tex.). Historical CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historical markers
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Dedication Ceremonies for an Historical Marker for the Mauthe Mansion, 408 West Fourteenth Street, Austin, Texas
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Photocopy of typescript.
Dedication Ceremonies for the Historical Marker at the Openheimer-Montgomery Building at 105 West Eighth Street, Austin, Texas
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Typescript (Photocopy).
Europe 1715-1919
Author: Shirley Elson RoesslerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742568792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Europe 1715-1919 explores the tumultuous period in European history between the Age of Enlightenment and World War I. By integrating political, social, economic, and cultural history, Shirley Elson Roessler and Reny Miklos provide an entertaining and comprehensive account of the emergence of modern Europe. With clear and eloquent prose, the book explains the ideas of the Enlightenment and their effect on the social fabric of Europe, the watershed of the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, the advances of the Industrial Revolution, and the centrifugal forces of nationalism that led, ultimately, to the disaster of World War I. Eminently readable, Europe 1715-1919 will appeal to students, scholars, and all interested in the history of modern Europe.
The Banjo on Record
Author: Uli HeierPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The appeal of the banjo has been shown to be timeless and universal---adaptable to almost any form of popular music. It was one of just a few instruments that could be faithfully reproduced in the early days of sound recording, and its recording history dates back to 1889. Heier documents that history on cylinders and 78-rpm disks in the pre-LP era ending in the mid-1950s. The book offers a comprehensive compilation of all such recordings on which the banjo plays a solo role or dominant part. Organized by performer or performing group, the recordings are listed chronologically with location, date, matrix number, and take-digit as available, as well as manufacturer and catalog number. Biographical information on the banjoist is provided wherever possible, and all performers anywhere in the world known to have recorded any type of music on banjo are included even if no data on the actual disks is available. Introduced in a foreword by British discographer Brian Rust, the discography also includes a narrative account of the banjo in phonograph recording history by Lowell Schreyer and an essay on the history of the banjo itself by Robert Lloyd Webb. In addition to the discography proper, the editors have provided a preface, A Quick Look at the Banjo Family, identifying the instruments; an extensive bibliography of sources; an index of all tune titles; and reproductions of 92 recording labels. These elements all combine to make this volume a true discopedia of the banjo.
To the End of the Earth
Author: Stanley M. HordesPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231503180
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes concluded that there was, in New Mexico and the Southwest, a Sephardic legacy derived from the converso community of Spanish Jews. In To the End of the Earth, Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over the past five hundred years. He follows the crypto-Jews from their Jewish origins in medieval Spain and Portugal to their efforts to escape persecution by migrating to the New World and settling in the far reaches of the northern Mexican frontier. Drawing on individual biographies (including those of colonial officials accused of secretly practicing Judaism), family histories, Inquisition records, letters, and other primary sources, Hordes provides a richly detailed account of the economic, social and religious lives of crypto-Jews during the colonial period and after the annexation of New Mexico by the United States in 1846. While the American government offered more religious freedom than had the Spanish colonial rulers, cultural assimilation into Anglo-American society weakened many elements of the crypto-Jewish tradition. Hordes concludes with a discussion of the reemergence of crypto-Jewish culture and the reclamation of Jewish ancestry within the Hispano community in the late twentieth century. He examines the publicity surrounding the rediscovery of the crypto-Jewish community and explores the challenges inherent in a study that attempts to reconstruct the history of a people who tried to leave no documentary record.
Native Providence
Author: Patricia E. RubertonePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496223993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth century. Native Providence tells the stories of the city's Native residents at this historical moment and in the decades before and after, a time when European Americans claimed that Northeast Natives had mostly vanished. Denied their rightful place in modernity, men, women, and children from Narragansett, Nipmuc, Pequot, Wampanoag, and other ancestral communities traveled diverse and complicated routes to make their homes in this city. They found each other, carved out livelihoods, and created neighborhoods that became their urban homelands--new places of meaningful attachments. Accounts of individual lives and family histories emerge from historical and anthropological research in archives, government offices, historical societies, libraries, and museums and from community memories, geography, and landscape. Patricia E. Rubertone chronicles the survivance of the Native people who stayed, left, and returned, or lived in Providence briefly, who faced involuntary displacement by urban renewal, and who made their presence known in this city and in the wider Indigenous and settler-colonial worlds. Their everyday experiences reenvision Providence's past and illuminate documentary and spatial tactics of inequality that erased Native people from most nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history.