The Royal Family Of Concord

Author : Paula Ivaska Robbins
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781462837885

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The Royal Family of Concord by Paula Ivaska Robbins Pdf

The Royal Family of Concord chronicles the lives of the most important family in nineteenth century Concord. Squire Samuel Hoar was a lawyer and congressman; he and his son were founders of the anti-slavery Republican Party in Massachusetts. Rockwood Hoar was a judge, US Attorney General under Grant, and a congressman. His daughter, Elizabeth, was engaged to Charles, the brilliant younger brother of Ralph Waldo Emerson, who tragically died just before they were to wed. She became the sister, assistant, and muse to Waldo and a close friend of many in the Transcendental circle, especially Margaret Fuller.

Author : Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Families of royal descent
ISBN : 9780806349459

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Families Directly Descended from All the Royal Families in Europe (495 to 1932) and Mayflower Descendants bound with Supplement by Elizabeth M. Leach Rixford Pdf

This book is the first basic tool in English to trace the origins of Chinese surnames. At the heart of the work are three principal chapters. Chapter 1 describes the history of Chinese surnames, the research on Chinese surnames in literature, and reasons surnames have changed in Chinese history. Chapter 2, by far the largest of the chapters, delivers a genealogical analysis of more than 600 Chinese surnames. Chapter 3 consists of an annotated bibliography of Chinese and English language sources on Chinese surnames. The work concludes with separate indexes to family names, authors, titles, and Chinese-character stroke numbers (one mechanism used for grouping Chinese characters).

Author : Linda Dowling
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781664153936

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Galahad in the Gilded Age: by Linda Dowling Pdf

Galahad in the Gilded Age is the story of George William Curtis, regarded at the beginning of his career as little more than a handsome, amusing young man from a socially prominent family. His life would change dramatically after four years traveling in Europe and the Levant, from which he returned to find himself a literary celebrity—“the Howadji”—following the appearance of two books describing his Middle East experiences that some considered so provocatively sensuous as to border on obscenity. Yet during this early celebrity, Curtis would find his life changing profoundly—discovering marital happiness, facing financial bankruptcy and finding himself irresistibly drawn into increasingly bitter controversies: the national battle against slavery, against wide-spreading political corruption, and against what Curtis regarded as a wholly unreasonable resistance to granting women the right to vote. George William Curtis, a contemporary would conclude after his death, was “the best knight of our time.”

Author : Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195140361

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The Emerson Brothers by Ronald A. Bosco,Joel Myerson Pdf

Features a narrative and epistolary biography, based upon the correspondence exchanged among the four Emerson brothers and the women who were most important to them. The Emerson brothers' correspondence is the last body of personal writings remaining in manuscript from Ralph Waldo Emerson and his extended family.

Author : Tiffany K. Wayne
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781438109169

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Encyclopedia of Transcendentalism by Tiffany K. Wayne Pdf

Presents a reference guide to transcendentalism, with articles on significant works, writers, concepts and more.

Author : Megan Marshall
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0618711694

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The Peabody Sisters by Megan Marshall Pdf

Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways our American Brontes. The story of these remarkable sisters -- and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day -- has never before been fully told. Twenty years in the making, Megan Marshall's monumental biograpy brings the era of creative ferment known as American Romanticism to new life. Elizabeth, the oldest sister, was a mind-on-fire thinker. A powerful influence on the great writers of the era -- Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau among them -- she also published some of their earliest works. It was Elizabeth who prodded these newly minted Transcendentalists away from Emerson's individualism and toward a greater connection to others. Mary was a determined and passionate reformer who finally found her soul mate in the great educator Horace Mann. The frail Sophia was a painter who won the admiration of the preeminent society artists of the day. She married Nathaniel Hawthorne -- but not before Hawthorne threw the delicate dynamics among the sisters into disarray. Marshall focuses on the moment when the Peabody sisters made their indelible mark on history. Her unprecedented research into these lives uncovered thousands of letters never read before as well as other previously unmined original sources. The Peabody Sisters casts new light on a legendary American era. Its publication is destined to become an event in American biography. This book is highly recommended for students and reading groups interested in American history, American literature, and women's studies. It is a wonderful look into 19th-century life.

Author : Plato
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0801494656

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The Roots of Political Philosophy by Plato Pdf

Opening an entirely new dimension of Platonic studies, this volume addresses major themes: the nature of law, property, and acquisitiveness; Socrates' famous "demonic voice"; the poetic claim to inspiration; and the psychology of the tyrannic.

Author : Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly,Adam Morton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317072881

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Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics, c.1500-1800 by Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly,Adam Morton Pdf

Queens Consort, Cultural Transfer and European Politics examines the roles that queens consort played in dynastic politics and cultural transfer between their natal and marital courts during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. This collection of essays analyses the part that these queens played in European politics, showing how hard and soft power, high politics and cultural influences, cannot be strictly separated. It shows that the root of these consorts’ power lay in their dynastic networks and the extent to which they cultivated them. The consorts studied in this book come from territories such as Austria, Braunschweig, Hanover, Poland, Portugal, Prussia and Saxony and travel to, among other places, Britain, Naples, Russia, Spain and Sweden. The various chapters address different types of cultural manifestation, among them collecting, portraiture, panegyric poetry, libraries, theatre and festivals, learning, genealogical literature and architecture. The volume significantly shifts the direction of scholarship by moving beyond a focus on individual historical women to consider ‘queens consort’ as a category, making it valuable reading for students and scholars of early modern gender and political history.

Author : N. H. Keeble
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470758168

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The Restoration by N. H. Keeble Pdf

This cultural history challenges the standard depiction of the 1660s as the beginning of a new age of stability, demonstrating that the decade following the Restoration was just as complex and exciting as the revolutionary years that preceded it.

Author : Eve LaPlante
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451620672

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Marmee & Louisa by Eve LaPlante Pdf

A great niece and cousin of Louisa May Alcott draws on newly uncovered family papers to present a revisionist portrait of Louisa's relationship with her mother, discussing how Abigail May served as the intellectual and emotional center of Louisa's life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004360761

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Royal and Elite Households in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Anonim Pdf

The authors bring fresh approaches to the subject of royal and noble households in medieval and early modern Europe with a focus on the nuclear and extended royal family, their household attendants, noblemen and noblewomen as courtiers, and physicians.

Author : Alan H. Cadwallader,Michael Trainor
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647533971

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Colossae in Space and Time by Alan H. Cadwallader,Michael Trainor Pdf

The ancient site of Colossae in south-west Turkey has been sorely neglected by archaeologists and biblical commentators. It has never been excavated. Modern scholarship in general has been content to repeat nineteenth century assessments, especially those of J.B. Lightfoot and W.M. Ramsay. This is the first modern contribution to gather the archaeological, historical, classical and biblical materials related to the site and its region, some of which is published in English for the first time. It marks a major step forward in scholarship on Colossae, and is designed to restore Colossae to time and space, to its material and comparative significance. Colossae emerges as a site of uninterrupted human activity in dynamic interaction with its neighbours from before the Achaemenid period to beyond the end of Byzantine control. Evidence of a chalcolithic origin of Colossae is presented along with an assessment of the relationship of the site to the modern city of Honaz. An array of international scholars have brought their specialisations in various periods and disciplines to yield a radically new assessment of the history and importance of the site. All future scholarship will be able to use this volume as the necessary foundation for research. The volume includes the first chronology of the ancient site and the first English translation of the key Byzantine text centred on the ancient city, as well as major new insights into the text of the Epistle to the Colossians.

Author : A. Lloyd Moote
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520075467

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Louis XIII, the Just by A. Lloyd Moote Pdf

In this fascinating biography, A. Lloyd Moote provides the first authoritative account of one of the most enigmatic figures of seventeenth-century Europe. Contrary of popular portrayals of the monarch as a hapless kind, Moote argues that Louis XIII was a ruler who powerfully shaped his people's destiny.

Author : Robert A. Gross
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780374711887

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The Transcendentalists and Their World by Robert A. Gross Pdf

One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

Author : William King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1776
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : UOM:39015035994956

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The Original Works of William King ... by William King Pdf