Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Colonial Courier
National Courier
Author: On His Majesty's Service
Author: Jacqueline D'ArcyPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1838599304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
George Augustus Robinson's voice, both in the past and in the contemporary world, is an important one. He has been used and sometimes abused by historians and others in debates about colonisation and Aboriginality.
The Complete Colonial Gentleman
Author: Michał RozbickiPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813917504
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Examining the American planters' aspirations from the perspective of cultural theory and in the comparative context of a larger British world, Rozbicki asserts that for this emerging elite, the genteel quest was the only feasible route to identity and authority: it became a central dynamic of their lives, crucial to their ambitious struggles with provincialism and the metropolitan condescension toward colonial "upstarts." The author also shows how this determined quest played a vital but little-understood role in the construction of a new American identity, as the European model enabled the colonial elite to achieve sufficient maturity, confidence, and pride in their virtues and rights to defy the British in the 1770s. Originally asserting the gentlemanly ideals of liberty and equality against the British crown, Revolutionary gentry inadvertently cultivated them in the fertile ground of nonelite culture.
Yearbook
Author: Daughters of the American ColonistsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
The Yonge Street Story, 1793-1860
Author: F.R. (Hamish) BerchemPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770704256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
This is the remarkable story of the trail that became the longest street in the world, as officially recognized by The Guinness Book of Records. Begun in 1794, Yonge Street was planned by the ambitious Lieutenant Governor John Graves Simcoe as a military route between Lake Ontario and Lake Huron. Anxious to bolster Upper Canada’s defences against the new republic to the south, which he heartily loathed, Simcoe had his Queen’s Rangers survey and develop the route from Toronto to present-day Holland Landing, and laid out lots for settlement. Even the trusty Rangers, as one surveyor complained in 1799, needed little excuse to lay down tools and vanish "to carouse upon St. George’s day." Handsomely illustrated with the author’s drawings, and painstakingly researched, this book captures the not-so-distant days when muddy Yonge Street was the backbone of pioneer Ontario.
The Colonial Magazine and Commercial-maritime Journal
Author: Our First Hero - Premier Sir Richard Dry
Author: Nigel BurchPublisher: BookPOD
ISBN: 0987371371
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Sir Richard Dry was the most popular and revered figure of 19th Century Tasmania. Was he also Australia’s first gay political leader? You decide. He was extraordinarily generous, gregarious, hospitable and public spirited. Though endowed with little business sense and afflicted by gambling, he inherited considerable wealth, which he enjoyed and spread around liberally. His great passions were education, railways, self-government and opposition to the convict system. Sadly, he died just before our first railway was completed.
Report of Old Fort Nassau Colonial Monument Commission of New Jersey, 1920
Author: New Jersey. Old Fort Nassau Colonial Monument CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester City (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Race against Empire
Author: Penny M. Von EschenPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801471702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the black presses of the time, Penny M. Von Eschen offers a vivid portrayal of the African diaspora in its international heyday, from the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress to early cooperation with the United Nations. Tracing the relationship between transformations in anti-colonial politics and the history of the United States during its emergence as the dominant world power, she challenges bipolar Cold War paradigms. She documents the efforts of African-American political leaders, intellectuals, and journalists who forcefully promoted anti-colonial politics and critiqued U.S. foreign policy. The eclipse of anti-colonial politics—which Von Eschen traces through African-American responses to the early Cold War, U.S. government prosecution of black American anti-colonial activists, and State Department initiatives in Africa—marked a change in the very meaning of race and racism in America from historical and international issues to psychological and domestic ones. She concludes that the collision of anti-colonialism with Cold War liberalism illuminates conflicts central to the reshaping of America; the definition of political, economic, and civil rights; and the question of who, in America and across the globe, is to have access to these rights.