Author: Thomas Read Rootes CobbPublisher: Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
An Historical Sketch of Slavery
Author: Thomas Read Rootes CobbPublisher: Scholarly Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Cherokee
Author: James MooneyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their history from the time of their fi rst contact with whites until the end of the nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles won and lost, treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed and people massacred. There is humanity along with inhumanity in the relations between the Cherokee and other groups, Indian and non-Indian; there is fortitude and persistence balanced with disillusionment and frustration. In these respects, the history of the Cherokee epitomizes the experience of most Native Americans. The Cherokee Nation ceased to exist as a political entity seven years after the initial study was done, when Oklahoma became a state.
Patronage of British Art, an historical sketch: comprising an account of the rise and progress of Art and Artists in London, from the beginning of the reign of George the Second: together with a History of the Society for the management and distribution of the Artists Fund ... Illustrated with notes, historical, biographical, and explanatory
Author: John PYE (Engraver.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
An Historical Sketch of Commerce and Navigation, from the Birth of the Saviour Down to the Present Date (1860)
Author: George CoggeshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Historical Sketches of North Carolina
Author: John Hill WheelerPublisher:
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Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Origin, Rise and Progress of the East India Company
Author: Hinduism and Buddhism: An Historical Sketch (Complete)
Author: Sir Charles EliotPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465528741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
Book Description
Probably the first thought which will occur to the reader who is acquainted with the matters treated in this work will be that the subject is too large. A history of Hinduism or Buddhism or even of both within the frontiers of India may be a profitable though arduous task, but to attempt a historical sketch of the two faiths in their whole duration and extension over Eastern Asia is to choose a scene unsuited to any canvas which can be prepared at the present day. Not only is the breadth of the landscape enormous but in some places it is crowded with details which cannot be omitted while in others the principal features are hidden by a mist which obscures the unity and connection of the whole composition. No one can feel these difficulties more than I do myself or approach his work with more diffidence, yet I venture to think that wide surveys may sometimes be useful and are needed in the present state of oriental studies. For the reality of Indian influence in Asia—from Japan to the frontiers of Persia, from Manchuria to Java, from Burma to Mongolia—is undoubted and the influence is one. You cannot separate Hinduism from Buddhism, for without it Hinduism could not have assumed its medieval shape and some forms of Buddhism, such as Lamaism, countenance Brahmanic deities and ceremonies, while in Java and Camboja the two religions were avowedly combined and declared to be the same. Neither is it convenient to separate the fortunes of Buddhism and Hinduism outside India from their history within it, for although the importance of Buddhism depends largely on its foreign conquests, the forms which it assumed in its new territories can be understood only by reference to the religious condition of India at the periods when successive missions were despatched.
Historical Sketch of English Literature with specimens from the best authors
Author: G. A. MARQUISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, in European Turkey, Asia Minor, and Armenia
Author: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign MissionsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Historical Sketch of the Order of Knights Templar
Author: Theodore S. GourdinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knights Templar (Masonic order)
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description