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Author: Paul M. Pressly Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820335673 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
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DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div
Author: Paul M. Pressly Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820335673 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 386
Book Description
DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div
Author: Andrea Lerner Publisher: Tucson : Sun Tracks : University of Arizona Press ISBN: Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 296
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This first anthology devoted to Native American writings from the Pacific Northwest gathers the work of thirty-four artists who testify to the vibrancy of its native cultures. The 137 selections--prose as well as poetry--represent works of such well-known authors as James Welch, Duane Niatum, and Mary TallMountain, and also showcase many lesser-known writers at the start of their careers.
Author: James Axler Publisher: Gold Eagle ISBN: 9780373638505 Category : Africa Languages : en Pages : 0
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An ancient artifact with the alleged power to unlock secrets hidden for 2,000 years and restore the control of the ruthless Sumerian god has the Cerebus warriors battling bloodthirsty rebels in their determination to prevent such a destiny. Original.
Author: Betty Baker Publisher: Harpercollins ISBN: 9780060203818 Category : Languages : en Pages : 80
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Chakoh, a young Apache of the sixteenth century, learns from Esteban, a Spanish slave, the Spaniard's way of life as well as the meaning of such virtues as honor and courage.
Author: Barry Ray Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1477251944 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 233
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Joshua MacAllisterthe mountain man's mountain mantakes on the challenge of teaching a twenty-year-old adventurer how to survive in the inhospitable Rocky Mountains. Joshua's long time enemy, Reginald Bevy, accuses him of stealing his client. Reginald Bevy had lost an ear to Josh in a drunken, barroom brawl, and is not a forgiving man. They come in contact with a Grizzly Bear that decapitates one of their horses, and continues to follow them on their journey through the Rockies. They are attacked by hostile Indians, barely survive a massive avalanche and are constantly harassed by three aggressive wolves
Author: Roger G. Hatheway Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 9780738547701 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 132
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On July 18, 1915, the Rim of the World Drive was dedicated as politicians, businessmen, and local luminaries looked on. What followed is the incredible story of how a road changed the lives of San Bernardino Mountain visitors and residents alike. In a single generation, the slow 19th-century lifestyle that moved at the pace of horses was transformed into the streamlined and fast-paced 20th-century age of the automobile. By the 1930s, a realigned high-gear route led up the hill from San Bernardino to Crestline, then along the crest to Lake Arrowhead, Running Springs, and Big Bear, and finally down the hill to Redlands. This fascinating evolution of Southern California's landmark Rim of the World Drive--from Native American trail to state highway--is showcased here in a meticulously researched presentation of rare photographs, many never before published.
Author: Buzz Anderson Publisher: ISBN: 9780578934440 Category : Languages : en Pages : 814
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"Look! There are men riding atop the giant craft. Some climb near the top of wooden poles. Others pull on thick twine. They are adorned in strange capes and wear odd coverings on their heads. They must be gods from the land beyond the setting sun!"Charquin lifted his hand high above his head in greeting. His fellow tribesmen, following their leader's gesture, did the same.The strange vessel banked across the wind and headed out to sea. An acknowledging puff of blue-gray smoke appeared at the center, signaling the presence of fire. Then came a deafening roar. There was a long silence after the last speck of the visitors' craft disappeared.Finally, Charquin spoke. "What we have seen must be remembered."Spain is on the move in California and in turmoil at home. As wars ensue and revolutions brew, a Gypsy woman flees her captors, a young soldier dreams of a future, and a French naval officer conquers a dancer's heart.On the crescent shores of the great bay, a priest battles inner demons while pursuing men's souls. An Ohlone chief is worried. He does not understand his spirit guide, the Lioness. He hopes the shaman's lifeforce in his young daughter will point the way.Set during the latter half of the turbulent eighteenth century, Five Hundred Moons spans nearly five decades and two continents. During the course of Five Hundred Moons, we follow the spirited Carmona family, Alta California's Ohlone people, the zealous Junipero Serra and his Franciscan missionaries, and the heavy-handed Spanish military that sought to control them all. As richly drawn as the landscapes they inhabit, Anderson's characters meet indignity and deprivation with resourcefulness and compassion in the timeless search for where they fit in a world undergoing monumental change.
Author: A. Bertram Chandler Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1473211298 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 104
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Derek Calver touches down on Lorn and is determined to join the Rim Runners to explore desolate planets. He joins the crew of Lorn Lady and sets forth for Mellise, inhabited by intelligent amphibians; for Groller, where the natives have just qualified as humanoids; for Stree with its tea loving lizards; and for Tharn, home of a pre-industrial civilization.
Author: Freya Stark Publisher: ISBN: 9780719546198 Category : Authors, English Languages : en Pages : 404
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A selection of letters, including several previously unpublished, written by Freya Stark on her famous journeys. She often travelled to places alone as no other European woman had done and tells of events that are now of historical interest such as the rise of Mussolini, and the First World War.
Author: William Sloane Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1590179064 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 481
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In the 1930s, William Sloane wrote two brilliant novels that gave a whole new meaning to cosmic horror. In To Walk the Night, Bark Jones and his college buddy Jerry Lister, a science whiz, head back to their alma mater to visit a cherished professor of astronomy. They discover his body, consumed by fire, in his laboratory, and an uncannily beautiful young widow in his house—but nothing compares to the revelation that Jerry and Bark encounter in the deserts of Arizona at the end of the book. In The Edge of Running Water, Julian Blair, a brilliant electrophysicist, has retired to a small town in remotest Maine after the death of his wife. His latest experiments threaten to shake up the town, not to mention the universe itself.
Author: Paul M. Pressly
Author: Paul M. Pressly
Author: Andrea Lerner
Author: James Axler
Author: Betty Baker
Author: Barry Ray
Author: Roger G. Hatheway
Author: Buzz Anderson
Author: A. Bertram Chandler
Author: Freya Stark
Author: William Sloane