Big Chief Elizabeth

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : John Murray
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444731781

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Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton Pdf

In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face had enthralled Elizabethan London. Now Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor. Ralegh's gamble would result in the first English settlement in the New World, but it would also lead to a riddle whose solution lay hidden in the forests of Virginia. A tale of heroism and mystery, Big Chief Elizabeth is illuminated by first-hand accounts to reveal a remarkable and long-forgotten story.

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : America
ISBN : 0965180093

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Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton Pdf

"For almost twenty years the fate of Ralegh's colonists was to remain a mystery. When a new wave of settlers sailed to America to found Jamestown, their efforts to locate the lost colony were frustrated by the mighty chieftain Powhatan - father of Pocahontas - who vowed to drive the English out of America, though Pocahontas herself made valiant attempts to thwart the massacre of settlers. While Ralegh's "savage" Manteo had played a pivotal role in establishing the first English settlement in America, he had also unwittingly contributed to one of the earliest chapters in the decimation of the Native American population."--Jacket.

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0340794712

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Big Chief Elizabeth - Qpd Edition by Giles Milton Pdf

Author : Giles Milton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : America
ISBN : OCLC:1028721835

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Big Chief Elizabeth by Giles Milton Pdf

Author : Kevin Kokomoor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683343530

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La Florida by Kevin Kokomoor Pdf

La Florida explores a Spanish thread to early American history that is unfamiliar or even unknown to most Americans. As this book uncovers, it was Spanish influence, and not English, which drove America’s early history. By focusing on America’s Spanish heritage, this collection of stories complicates and sometimes challenges how Americans view their past, which author Kevin Kokomoor refers to as “the country’s founding mythology.” Dig deeper into Hispanic and Caribbean history, and how important happenings elsewhere in the Spanish colonial world influenced the discovery and colonization of the American Southeast. Follow Spanish sailors discovering the edges of a new continent and greedy, violent conquistadors quickly moving in to find riches, along with Catholic missionaries on their search for religious converts. Learn how Spanish colonialism in Florida sparked the British’s plans for colonization of the continent and influenced some of the most enduring traditions of the larger Southeast. The key history presented in the book will challenge the general assumption that whatever is important or interesting about this country is a product of its English past.

Author : American Poland-China Record Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Poland
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094205709

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American Poland-China Record by American Poland-China Record Association Pdf

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 3056 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451682960

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Philippa Gregory's Tudor Court 6-Book Boxed Set by Philippa Gregory Pdf

The six-book bosed set of the bestselling Tudor Court novels by Philippa Gregory, #1 New York Times bestselling author and "the queen of royal fiction" (USA TODAY): The Constant Princess, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Virgin's Lover, and The Other Queen.

Author : Philippa Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743256155

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The Virgin's Lover by Philippa Gregory Pdf

A fictional portrait of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I follows the young queen as she copes with intrigues aimed at placing Mary, Queen of Scots, on the British throne, and her passion for the traitorous Robert Dudley.

Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409038276

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The Elizabethans by A.N. Wilson Pdf

England under Elizabeth I. A time of war and plague, politics and rebellion, personal heroism and religious fanaticism. When if you were born poor you stayed poor, and the thumbscrews and the rack could be the grim prelude to the executioner's block. But it was also an age that encouraged literary genius, global exploration, and timeless beauty. When the lowly privateer Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe with no reliable navigational instruments and only a drunken, mutinous crew for company. When the Queen's favourite, the wealthy and handsome Robert Dudley, was widely suspected of having killed his wife. And when only the machinations of ruthless intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham prevented Elizabeth's kingdom from descending into anarchy and political chaos. The Elizabethans is a panoramic, exhilarating depiction of an intensely colourful period by master-historian, A N Wilson. This is what life under Elizabeth I was really like.

Author : Joy L. Lowe,Kathryn I. Matthew
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0810847442

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Colonial America in Literature for Youth by Joy L. Lowe,Kathryn I. Matthew Pdf

In this book, Colonial America is defined as the years from 1607 when Jamestown was founded to 1776 when the American Revolution began, following the signing of the Declaration of Independence. The focus of the book is on the English settlements that fought for independence from England and became the United States of America.

Author : Peter Marshall,David Manuel
Publisher : Revell
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780800732714

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The Light and the Glory by Peter Marshall,David Manuel Pdf

Now revised and expanded for the first time in more than thirty years, this classic will now be available for a new generation of readers.

Author : Peter Marshall,David Manuel,Anna Wilson Fishel
Publisher : Revell
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780800733735

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The Light and the Glory for Young Readers by Peter Marshall,David Manuel,Anna Wilson Fishel Pdf

These young readers' editions of the popular history texts reveal how God was at work in America's history from the very beginning. For ages 9 to 12.

Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812203417

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The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand by Michael Leroy Oberg Pdf

Roanoke is part of the lore of early America, the colony that disappeared. Many Americans know of Sir Walter Ralegh's ill-fated expedition, but few know about the Algonquian peoples who were the island's inhabitants. The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand examines Ralegh's plan to create an English empire in the New World but also the attempts of native peoples to make sense of the newcomers who threatened to transform their world in frightening ways. Beginning his narrative well before Ralegh's arrival, Michael Leroy Oberg looks closely at the Indians who first encountered the colonists. The English intruded into a well-established Native American world at Roanoke, led by Wingina, the weroance, or leader, of the Algonquian peoples on the island. Oberg also pays close attention to how the weroance and his people understood the arrival of the English: we watch as Wingina's brother first boards Ralegh's ship, and we listen in as Wingina receives the report of its arrival. Driving the narrative is the leader's ultimate fate: Wingina is decapitated by one of Ralegh's men in the summer of 1586. When the story of Roanoke is recast in an effort to understand how and why an Algonquian weroance was murdered, and with what consequences, we arrive at a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of what happened during this, the dawn of English settlement in America.

Author : John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1467 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598842999

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Encyclopedia of Tudor England [3 volumes] by John A. Wagner,Susan Walters Schmid Ph.D. Pdf

Authority and accessibility combine to bring the history and the drama of Tudor England to life. Almost 900 engaging entries cover the life and times of Henry VIII, Mary I, Elizabeth I, William Shakespeare, and much, much more. Written for high school students, college undergraduates, and public library patrons—indeed, for anyone interested in this important and colorful period—the three-volume Encyclopedia of Tudor England illuminates the era's most important people, events, ideas, movements, institutions, and publications. Concise, yet in-depth entries offer comprehensive coverage and an engaging mix of accessibility and authority. Chronologically, the encyclopedia spans the period from the accession of Henry VII in 1485 to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. It also examines pre-Tudor people and topics that shaped the Tudor period, as well as individuals and events whose influence extended into the Jacobean period after 1603. Geographically, the encyclopedia covers England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and also Russia, Asia, America, and important states in continental Europe. Topics include: the English Reformation; the development of Parliament; the expansion of foreign trade; the beginnings of American exploration; the evolution of the nuclear family; and the flowering of English theater and poetry, culminating in the works of William Shakespeare.

Author : Valerie Anand
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459248434

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The House of Allerbrook by Valerie Anand Pdf

Lady-in-waiting Jane Sweetwater's resistance to the legendary attentions of Henry VIII may have saved her pretty neck, but her reward is a forced and unhappy marriage with a much older man and a harsh life on his farm. Her only consolation is that she still lives upon her beloved Exmoor, the bleak yet beautiful land that cradles Allerbrook House, her family home. Played out in this remote, forbidding place, Jane's long and storied life is fraught with change: her fiercely protective nature leads her to assume responsibility not only for her own husband and child, but also for the rebellious son of her wayward sister. In time, she regains the position of a woman with status and property, but she cannot ignore the rumblings from London, as the articles of faith change with every new coronation. Jane's small world is penetrated by plotting, treachery and even thwarted love as those she holds dearest are forced to choose between family loyalty and fealty to the crown.