Author: Canterbury, England (Province). Faculty officePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Calendar of Marriage Licenses Issued by the Faculty Office. 1632-1714
Author: Canterbury, England (Province). Faculty officePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canterbury (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
A Calendar of Marriage Licenses Issued by the Faculty Office
Author: Edward A. FryPublisher: Corinthian Press
ISBN: 9780811514781
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ill-Starred General
Author: Lee McCardellPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789124344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 621
Book Description
A rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling, Ill-Starred General is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history’s most vital eras. The career of Edward Braddock began during the court intrigues of Queen Anne and George I, gained momentum in continental military campaigns in the early 1750s, and ended abruptly in the rout of his American army near present-day Pittsburgh in 1755. This highly acclaimed biography reveals the man—and the politics—behind his defeat, one of the major setbacks to British imperial power in the American colonies. “Braddock was the first English general that Americans had ever seen in action, and although he lost his life fighting for them, they detested him...What [McCardell] has done is to replace a historical puppet with a credible human being, and...to explain how a carefully planned colonial expedition can go wrong.”—Naomi Bliven, The New Yorker “The breadth, depth and care of McCardell’s research on Ill-Starred General are amazing and delightful. He has labored with that fidelity which every honest historian must display and with that luck which crowns the efforts of the fortunate.”—George Swetnam, Pittsburgh Press “A first-rate biography.”—Lynn Montross, New York Times “A genial and readable interpretation that will revivify an important figure in early American history. It is the kind of well-documented book that will appeal to both the general reader and the historian.”—W. R. Jacobs, American Historical Review
Salem Press Historical and Geneological Record
Author: The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine
Author: Reader's Index and Guide
Author: Infortunate
Author: Susan E. KleppPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047133
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
First published by Penn State Press in 1992, The Infortunate has become a staple for teachers and students of American history. William Moraley's firsthand account of bound servitude provides a rare glimpse of life among the lower classes in England and the American colonies during the eighteenth century. In the decade since its original publication, Susan Klepp and Billy Smith have unearthed new information on Moraley's life, both before his ill-fated venture as an indentured servant from England to the "American Plantations" and after his return to England. This revised edition features this additional information while presenting the autobiography in a new way, offering more explicit emphasis for students and teachers in college, university, and high school about how to read and interpret Moraley's autobiography.
Publications
Author: Parish Register SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Bishops' Transcripts and Marriage Licences, Bonds and Allegations
Author: Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806315690
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Given by Eugene Edge III.
The Arms of the Family
Author: John T. ShawcrossPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813185114
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
John T. Shawcross's groundbreaking new study of John Milton is an essential work of scholarship for those who seek a greater understanding of Milton, his family, and his social and political world. Shawcross uses extensive new archival research to scrutinize several misunderstood elements of Milton's life, including his first marriage and his relationship with his brother, brother-in-law and nephews. Shawcross examines Milton's numerous royalist connections, complicating the conventional view of Milton as eminent Puritan and raising questions about the role his connections played in his relatively mild punishment after the Restoration. Unique in its methodology, The Arms of the Family is required reading not only for students of Milton but also for students of biography in general. Entire chapters dedicated to Milton's brother Christopher, his brother-in-law Thomas Agar, and his nephews Edward and John Phillips, illuminate the domestic forces that helped shape Milton's point of view. The final chapters reconsider Milton's political and sociological ideology in the light of these domestic forces and in the religious context of his three major poetic works: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes. The Arms of the Family is a seminal work by a preeminent Miltonist, marking a major advance in Milton studies and serving as a model for those engaged in family history, social history, and the early modern period.