Author: John Dunn HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Memoirs of a Captivity Among the Indians of North America, from Childhood to the Age of Nineteen
Author: John Dunn HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian captivities
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
Author: Elizabeth Oakes SmithPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460405102
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh and includes many of Oakes Smith’s other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine’s spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh’s rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the “captive” of the title, returns Tecumseh’s love and embraces life apart from white society. These texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith’s Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.
A Day in a Working Life [3 volumes]
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Author: Gary WestfahlPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1610694031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Ideal for high school and college students studying history through the everyday lives of men and women, this book offers intriguing information about the jobs that people have held, from ancient times to the 21st century. This unique book provides detailed studies of more than 300 occupations as they were practiced in 21 historical time periods, ranging from prehistory to the present day. Each profession is examined in a compelling essay that is specifically written to inform readers about career choices in different times and cultures, and is accompanied by a bibliography of additional sources of information, sidebars that relate historical issues to present-day concerns, as well as related historical documents. Readers of this work will learn what each profession entailed or entails on a daily basis, how one gained entry to the vocation, training methods, and typical compensation levels for the job. The book provides sufficient specific detail to convey a comprehensive understanding of the experiences, benefits, and downsides of a given profession. Selected accompanying documents further bring history to life by offering honest testimonies from people who actually worked in these occupations or interacted with those in that field.
Catalogue of Books in the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario on November 1, 1912
Author: Ontario. Legislative LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Romantic Indians
Author: Tim FulfordPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191534234
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since. It is, therefore, also a book about exploration, empire, and the forms of representation that exploration and empire gave rise to-in particular the form we have come to call Romanticism, in which 'Indians' appear everywhere. It is not too much to say that Romanticism would not have taken the form it did without the complex and ambiguous image of Indians that so intrigued both the writers and their readers. Most of the poets of the Romantic canon wrote about them-not least Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge; so did many whom we have only recently brought back to attention-including Bowles, Hemans, and Barbauld. Yet Indians' formative role in the aesthetics and politics of Romanticism has rarely been considered. Tim Fulford aims to bring that formative role to our attention, to show that the images of native peoples that Romantic writers received from colonial administrators, politicians, explorers, and soldiers helped shape not only these writers' idealizations of 'savages' and tribal life, but also their depictions of nature, religion, and rural society. The romanticization of Indians soon affected the way that real native peoples were treated and described by generations of travellers who had already, before reaching the Canadian forest or the mid-western plains, encountered the literary Indians produced back in Britain. Moreover, in some cases Native Americans, writing in English, turned the romanticization of Indians to their own ends. This book highlights their achievement in doing so-featuring fascinating discussions of several little-known but brilliant Native American writers.
British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author: A Guide to Matrimonial Happiness, in a series of letters written by a Lady of distinction to her relation shortly after her marriage. [i.e. Eugenia Stanhope.] A new edition
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Author: Eugenia STANHOPECatalogue of the signet library
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382116642
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason
Author: Thomas Bayly HowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Author: Howard ZinnPublisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609805933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn. New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.