Author: Jasper DanckaertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labadists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage to New York
Author: Jasper DanckaertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labadists
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679-80
Author: Jasper DanckaertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labadists
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage to New York and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679 - 80
Author: Jasper DanckaertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labadists
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Journal of a Voyage to New York, and a Tour in Several of the American Colonies in 1679-80
Author: Jasper DanckaertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Chesapeake House
Author: Cary CarsonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 080783811X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched the experience of visiting historic sites. In this beautifully illustrated volume, a team of historians, curators, and conservators draw on their far-reaching knowledge of historic structures in Virginia and Maryland to illuminate the formation, development, and spread of one of the hallmark building traditions in American architecture. The essays describe how building design, hardware, wall coverings, furniture, and even paint colors telegraphed social signals about the status of builders and owners and choreographed social interactions among everyone who lived or worked in gentry houses, modest farmsteads, and slave quarters. The analyses of materials, finishes, and carpentry work will fascinate old-house buffs, preservationists, and historians alike. The lavish color photography is a delight to behold, and the detailed catalogues of architectural elements provide a reliable guide to the form, style, and chronology of the region's distinctive historic architecture.
Valuable Historical Library & Collections of Engravings ...
Author: Frederick Dawson StonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Protestant Empire
Author: Carla Gardina PestanaPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that Europeans created. Protestant Empire is the first comprehensive survey of the dramatic clash of peoples and beliefs that emerged in the diverse religious world of the British Atlantic, including England, Scotland, Ireland, parts of North and South America, the Caribbean, and Africa. Beginning with the role religion played in the lives of believers in West Africa, eastern North America, and western Europe around 1500, Carla Gardina Pestana shows how the Protestant Reformation helped to fuel colonial expansion as bitter rivalries prompted a fierce competition for souls. The English—who were latecomers to the contest for colonies in the Atlantic—joined the competition well armed with a newly formulated and heartfelt anti-Catholicism. Despite officially promoting religious homogeneity, the English found it impossible to prevent the conflicts in their homeland from infecting their new colonies. Diversity came early and grew inexorably, as English, Scottish, and Irish Catholics and Protestants confronted one another as well as Native Americans, West Africans, and an increasing variety of other Europeans. Pestana tells an original and compelling story of their interactions as they clung to their old faiths, learned of unfamiliar religions, and forged new ones. In an account that ranges widely through the Atlantic basin and across centuries, this book reveals the creation of a complicated, contested, and closely intertwined world of believers of many traditions.
The First Germans in North America and the German Element of New Netherland
Author: Otto LohrPublisher:
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Category : German Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
The Ordeal of the Longhouse
Author: Daniel K. RichterPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807867918
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
Richter examines a wide range of primary documents to survey the responses of the peoples of the Iroquois League--the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, Senecas, and Tuscaroras--to the challenges of the European colonialization of North America. He demonstrates that by the early eighteenth century a series of creative adaptations in politics and diplomacy allowed the peoples of the Longhouse to preserve their cultural autonomy in a land now dominated by foreign powers.
Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies
Author: Julia Cherry SpruillPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393317589
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
A seminal work exploring the daily life and status of southern women in colonial America, describes the domestic occupation, social life, education, and role in government of women of varied classes.