Author: Howard AmesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melodrama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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The Fortune Teller of Dismal Swamp
Author: Howard AmesburyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Melodrama, American
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
After the Circus
Author: Lawrence E. ChenowethPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Pikeville Folks
Author: Bert C. RawleyDramatic Compositions Copyrighted in the United States, 1870 to 1916
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1680
Book Description
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
Author: Charles RoysterPublisher: Knopf
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European manufactured goods. Moving from the plantations of Virginia and Antigua to the warehouses of London and Glasgow, from the Gold Coast of Africa to the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains, from the iron furnaces of southern Wales to the subscribers' room of Lloyd's of London, Professor Royster gives us the story of the Dismal Swamp Company, a fantastically delusional enterprise that proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. Examining the interconnected lives of the company's partners, Royster reveals a colonial order built on a system of cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt that seems hauntingly familiar. He writes about the many schemers and dreamers (including George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, two William Byrds, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Morris) who failed to amass their desired fortunes, and a few realists (Samuel Gist, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Anthony Bacon) who succeeded, but at the dire expense of others. And we see the breakdown of this culture and the transition to a more democratic, though similar, system after the Revolution. Throughout Royster's narrative we seepossessors possessed by their possessions, slaveholders possessed by slavery, and heirs possessed by litigation. Connecting all their stories are their unceasing efforts to make something substantial out of the insubstantial--chief among them the almost unbelievable delusion that fortunes could bemade from the Dismal Swamp.
Collection of Plays Ca. 1870-1914
Author: Claim Ninety-six
Author: Leo WarePlays of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Colonial American Travel Narratives
Author: VariousPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440672881
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Four journeys by early Americans Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, and Dr. Alexander Hamilton recount the vivid physical and psychological challenges of colonial life. Essential primary texts in the study of early American cultural life, they are now conveniently collected in a single volume. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 548
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