Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Acts of Sederunt of the Lords of Council and Session, from the 15th of January 1553 to the 11th of July 1790
Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Indian Captive, Indian King
Author: Timothy J. ShannonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances and in a printed narrative he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his tribulations as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner of war. Aberdeen’s magistrates called him a liar and banished him from the city, but Williamson defended his story. Separating fact from fiction, Timothy J. Shannon explains what Williamson’s tale says about how working people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims of empire, found ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it. Exiled from Aberdeen, Williamson settled in Edinburgh, where he cultivated enduring celebrity as the self-proclaimed “king of the Indians.” His performances and publications capitalized on the curiosity the Seven Years’ War had ignited among the public for news and information about America and its native inhabitants. As a coffeehouse proprietor and printer, he gave audiences a plebeian perspective on Britain’s rise to imperial power in North America. Indian Captive, Indian King is a history of empire from the bottom up, showing how Williamson’s American odyssey illuminates the real-life experiences of everyday people on the margins of the British Empire and how those experiences, when repackaged in travel narratives and captivity tales, shaped popular perceptions about the empire’s racial and cultural geography.
The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712
Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
The London Gazette
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 1228
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland: 1686-1689
Author: Scotland. Privy CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
Author: Scotland. Privy CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description