America The Glorious

Author : Michael G. Hall,Lawrence H. Leder,Michael Kammen
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838662

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The Glorious Revolution in America by Michael G. Hall,Lawrence H. Leder,Michael Kammen Pdf

England's Glorious Revolution of 1688 created a major crisis among the British colonies in America. Following news of the English Revolution, a series of rebellions and insurrections erupted in colonial America from Massachusetts to Carolina. Although the upheavals of 1689 were sparked by local grievances, there were also general causes for the repudiation of Stuart authority. Originally published in 1964. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Phillip Lopate
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 929 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780525436270

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The Glorious American Essay by Phillip Lopate Pdf

A monumental, canon-defining anthology of three centuries of American essays, from Cotton Mather and Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace and Zadie Smith—selected by acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate "Not only an education but a joy. This is a book for the ages." —Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances The essay form is an especially democratic one, and many of the essays Phillip Lopate has gathered here address themselves—sometimes critically—to American values. We see the Puritans, the Founding Fathers and Mothers, and the stars of the American Renaissance struggle to establish a national culture. A grand tradition of nature writing runs from Audubon, Thoreau, and John Muir to Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard. Marginalized groups use the essay to assert or to complicate notions of identity. Lopate has cast his net wide, embracing critical, personal, political, philosophical, literary, polemical, autobiographical, and humorous essays. Americans by birth as well as immigrants appear here, famous essayists alongside writers more celebrated for fiction or poetry. The result is a dazzling overview of the riches of the American essay.

Author : Jeff Shaara
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345458681

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The Glorious Cause by Jeff Shaara Pdf

In Rise to Rebellion, bestselling author Jeff Shaara captured the origins of the American Revolution as brilliantly as he depicted the Civil War in Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure. Now he continues the amazing saga of how thirteen colonies became a nation, taking the conflict from kingdom and courtroom to the bold and bloody battlefields of war. It was never a war in which the outcome was obvious. Despite their spirit and stamina, the colonists were outmanned and outfought by the brazen British army. General George Washington found his troops trounced in the battles of Brooklyn and Manhattan and retreated toward Pennsylvania. With the future of the colonies at its lowest ebb, Washington made his most fateful decision: to cross the Delaware River and attack the enemy. The stunning victory at Trenton began a saga of victory and defeat that concluded with the British surrender at Yorktown, a moment that changed the history of the world. The despair and triumph of America’s first great army is conveyed in scenes as powerful as any Shaara has written, a story told from the points of view of some of the most memorable characters in American history. There is George Washington, the charismatic leader who held his army together to achieve an unlikely victory; Charles Cornwallis, the no-nonsense British general, more than a match for his colonial counterpart; Nathaniel Greene, who rose from obscurity to become the finest battlefield commander in Washington’s army; The Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman who brought a soldier’s passion to America; and Benjamin Franklin, a brilliant man of science and philosophy who became the finest statesman of his day. From Nathan Hale to Benedict Arnold, William Howe to “Light Horse” Harry Lee, from Trenton and Valley Forge, Brandywine and Yorktown, the American Revolution’s most immortal characters and poignant moments are brought to life in remarkable Shaara style. Yet, The Glorious Cause is more than just a story of the legendary six-year struggle. It is a tribute to an amazing people who turned ideas into action and fought to declare themselves free. Above all, it is a riveting novel that both expands and surpasses its beloved author’s best work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:819693394

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The Glorious Revolution in America by Anonim Pdf

Author : Susan Strawn
Publisher : Voyageur Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781610602495

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Knitting America by Susan Strawn Pdf

“Susan has placed the history of knitting within the context of American history, so we can clearly see how knitting is intertwined with such subjects as geography, migration, politics, economics, female emancipation, and evolving social mores. She has traced how a melting pot of knitting traditions found their way into American culture via vast waves of immigration, expanded opportunity for travel, and technology.” —Melanie Falick This is the history that Knitting America celebrates. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pattern booklets, posters, postcards, black-and-white historical photographs, and contemporary color photographs of knitted pieces in private collections and in museums, this book is an exquisite view of America through the handiwork of its knitters.

Author : Owen Matthews
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408833988

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Glorious Misadventures by Owen Matthews Pdf

The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818 Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov ? diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire and gambler. His quest to plant Russian colonies from Siberia to California led him to San Francisco, where he was captivated by Conchita, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the Spanish Governor, who embodied his dreams of both love and empire. From the glittering court of Catherine the Great to the wilds of the New World, Matthews conjures a brilliantly original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders.

Author : David S. Lovejoy
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780819572608

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The Glorious Revolution in America by David S. Lovejoy Pdf

An outstanding examination of the Crises that lead to the colonial rebellions of 1689.

Author : Henry Franklin Graff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:28736083

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America, the Glorious Republic by Henry Franklin Graff Pdf

Author : Henry Franklin Graff,Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : 0395429579

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America, the Glorious Republic by Henry Franklin Graff,Houghton Mifflin Company Pdf

Author : Chris J. Magoc
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461666271

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So Glorious a Landscape by Chris J. Magoc Pdf

So Glorious a Landscape: Nature and the Environment in American History and Culture surveys the vast and interdisciplinary subject of American natural and environmental studies. It examines the literary landscape that has inspired a local, regional, and national sense of place; explores the dynamic meaning and significance of nature across time, place, culture, and gender; and looks at the essence and history of environmental change. The first all-encompassing introductory survey of environ-mental history and cultural studies, this volume provides students and scholars with carefully chosen selections from major essayists, naturalists, preachers, geographers,novelists, scientists, and historians whose works have shaped the fields of literary ecology and environmental history. The essays trace the changing American landscape and ideas about nature from the seventeenth century to the present. By analyzing a range of material, So Glorious a Landscape provides a fresh perspective on what nature is in American life, what forces have shaped its profound place and changing definition, and what the work of environmental historians tells about the relationship of nature, culture, and power in America. So Glorious a Landscape is an excellent resource for courses in American studies, environmental history, and American culture.

Author : Stuart McConnell
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863305

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Glorious Contentment by Stuart McConnell Pdf

The Grand Army of the Republic, the largest of all Union Army veterans' organizations, was the most powerful single-issue political lobby of the late nineteenth century, securing massive pensions for veterans and helping to elect five postwar presidents from its own membership. To its members, it was also a secret fraternal order, a source of local charity, a provider of entertainment in small municipalities, and a patriotic organization. Using GAR convention proceedings, newspapers, songs, rule books, and local post records, Stuart McConnell examines this influential veterans' association during the years of its greatest strength. Beginning with a close look at the men who joined the GAR in three localities -- Philadelphia; Brockton, Massachusetts; and Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin - McConnell goes on to examine the Union veterans' attitudes towards their former Confederate enemies and toward a whole range of noncombatants whom the verterans called "civilians": stay-at-home townsfolk, Mugwump penion reformers, freedmen, women, and their own sons and daughters. In the GAR, McConnell sees a group of veterans trying to cope with questions concerning the extent of society's obligation to the poor and injured, the place of war memories in peacetime, and the meaning of the "nation" and the individual's relation to it. McConnell aruges that, by the 1890s, the GAR was clinging to a preservationist version of American nationalism that many white, middle-class Northerners found congenial in the face of the social upheavals of that decade. In effect, he concludes, the nineteenth-century career of the GAR is a study in the microcosm of a nation trying to hold fast to an older image of itself in the face of massive social change.

Author : Graff,Dr Henry F Graff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0395425328

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America by Graff,Dr Henry F Graff Pdf

A comprehensive chronological approach to American history which also examines political, economic, and social history.

Author : Robert McCracken Peck,Patricia Tyson Stroud
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 0812243803

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A Glorious Enterprise by Robert McCracken Peck,Patricia Tyson Stroud Pdf

A history of the renowned museum recounts key moments in its evolution as a research and education center, as well as the role of such individuals as Thomas Jefferson and John James Audubon in championing its purpose.

Author : Henry Franklin Graff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : United States
ISBN : 0395429595

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America, the Glorious Republic by Henry Franklin Graff Pdf

Author : Paul Gascoigne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781849837453

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Glorious by Paul Gascoigne Pdf

Even people who don't know football know who 'Gazza' is. The man born as Paul John Gascoigne to a working-class family in the North-East has found headlines on the front pages almost as often as the back pages throughout his life, thanks in great part to his more than colourful lifestyle. But it is for his time as a footballer of the very highest order that Gazza's name will forever live in sporting history. During a career that spanned more than ten different clubs, among them Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, and which included countless unforgettable England performances, Gazza established himself as one of the sport's all-time greats: a master of skill, flair and invention like none that his country had produced before nor perhaps ever will again. Told in Gazza's own unique voice and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos from the moments that he feels defined his career,Glorious: My World, Football and Meis a celebration, offering an unrivalled insight into the mind of this greatest of footballers.