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Author: Robert Beverley Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469607956 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 383
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While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author: Robert Beverley Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469607956 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 383
Book Description
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Author: Beverley C. Southgate Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415256575 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 224
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This is a highly accessible introductory survey of historians' views about the nature and purpose of their subject and discusses the traditional model of history as an account of the past 'as it was'.
Author: Beverley C. Southgate Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317862570 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 246
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Is history factual, or just another form of fiction? Are there distinct boundaries between the two, or just extensive borderlands? How do novelists represent historians and history? The relationship between history and fiction has always been contentious and sometimes turbulent, not least because the two have traditionally been seen as mutually exclusive opposites. However, new hybrid forms of writing – from historical fiction to docudramas to fictionalised biographies – have led to the blurring of boundaries, and given rise to the claim that history itself is just another form of fiction. In his thought-provoking new book, Beverley Southgate untangles this knotty relationship, setting his discussion in a broad historical and philosophical context. Throughout, Southgate invokes a variety of writers to illuminate his arguments, from Dickens and Proust, through Virginia Woolf and Daphne du Maurier, to such contemporary novelists as Tim O’Brien, Penelope Lively, and Graham Swift. Anyone interested in the many meeting points between history and fiction will find this an engaging, accessible and stimulating read.
Author: Beverley C. Southgate Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 9780415350983 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 240
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From an experienced author is this examination of the purpose of history at a time when the role of humanities has been questioned. Exceptional in studying the future of the subject as well as its past, this is a must read for all students.
Author: Beverley A. Steele Publisher: MacMillan Caribbean ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 508
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This book blends up to date scholarship from primary sources with fascinating detail of its people and their often turbulent struggle for survival. It provides a detailed chronological historical anaylsis but focuses especially on the story and every day lives of its inhabitants from the earliest days of settlement to the overthrow, and execution, of the revolutionary Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in 1981, and beyond.
Author: Pamela Hopkins Publisher: Blackthorn Press ISBN: 9781906259150 Category : Beverley (England) Languages : en Pages : 430
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Beverley is the county town of East Yorkshire and has a long and distinguished history, told here by the town's historian form earliest times to the year 2000.
Author: Beverly Swerling Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0743218450 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 594
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A sweeping epic of two families—one Dutch, one English—from the time when New Amsterdam was a raw and rowdy settlement, to the triumph of the Revolution, when New York became a new nation’s city of dreams. In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settlement of Nieuw Amsterdam; but soon lust, betrayal, and murder will make them mortal enemies. In their struggle to survive in the New World, Lucas and Sally make choices that will burden their descendants with a legacy of secrets and retribution, and create a heritage that sets cousin against cousin, physician against surgeon, and, ultimately, patriot against Tory. In what will be the greatest city in the New World, the fortunes of these two families are inextricably entwined by blood and fire in an unforgettable American saga of pride and ambition, love and hate, and the becoming of the dream that is New York City.
Author: Robert Beverley
Author: Robert Beverley
Author: Beverley C. Southgate
Author: Beverley C. Southgate
Author: Beverley C. Southgate
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Author: Beverley Minster (Beverley, England)
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