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Author: William ByrdPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The London Diary, 1717-1721, and Other Writings. Edited by Louis B. Wright and Marion Tinling. [With a Portrait.].
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Author: William ByrdThe Americans: The Colonial Experience
Author: Daniel J. BoorstinPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Winner of the Bancroft Prize In this brilliantly original book, written for the general reader, the American past becomes richly meaningful to the present.
The Literature of Early America
Author: Rex J. BurbankPublisher: Merrill Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
American Colonial Writers, 1606-1734
Author: Emory ElliottPublisher: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Restores the place of early-American literature and its writers beyond just the New England sermon - long thought to be the only literary form accessible to the colonial population.
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Author: Philip Alexander BrucePublisher:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Vols. 1-28, 30-31, 33-34 include the society's Proceedings... at its annual meeting... 1893-1923, 1926.
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Evening's Empire
Author: Craig KoslofskyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521896436
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This illuminating guide to the night opens up an entirely new vista on early modern Europe. Using diaries, letters, legal records and representations of the night in early modern religion, literature and art, Craig Koslofsky explores the myriad ways in which early modern people understood, experienced and transformed the night.
Writings on American History
Author: The Winterthur Museum Libraries Collection of Printed Books and Periodicals: General catalog
Author: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum. LibrariesPublisher: Scholarly Resources, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
To find more information about Rowman and Littlefield titles, please visit www.rowmanlittlefield.com.
A "topping People"
Author: Emory G. EvansPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813927900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.