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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0811818179
In an evocative sequel to the acclaimed "New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, " Sexton returns with an in-depth visual journey through the hidden mansions--some inhabited, many now long abandoned--of Louisiana's River Road. 200+ color photos.
Author : Cheryl H. White, PhD, and W. Ryan Smith, MA
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626198753
Louisiana plantations evoke images of grandeur and elegance. Beyond the facade of stately homes are stories of hope and subjugation, tragedy and suffering, shame and perseverance and war and conquest. After sixteen workers axed most of the Houmas House's ancient oak trees, referred to as "the Gentlemen," eight of the surviving trees eerily twisted overnight in grief over the losses wrought by a great Mississippi River flood. An illegal duel to reclaim lost honor left the grounds of Natchez's Cherokee Plantation bloodstained, but the victim's spirit may still wander there today. A mutilated slave girl named Chloe still haunts the halls of the Myrtles Plantation in St. Francisville. Cheryl H. White and W. Ryan Smith reveal the dark history, folklore and lasting human cost of Louisiana plantation life.
Author : Carl Thompson,Katrina O'Loughlin,Éadaoin Agnew,Betty Hagglund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1480 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315473161
The ‘memsahibs’ of the British Raj in India are well-known figures today, frequently depicted in fiction, TV, and film. In recent years, they have also become the focus of extensive scholarship. Less familiar to both academics and the general public, however, are the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century precursors to the memsahibs of the Victorian and Edwardian era. Yet British women also visited and resided in India in this earlier period, witnessing first-hand the tumultuous, expansionist decades in which the East India Company established British control over the subcontinent. Some of these travellers produced highly regarded accounts of their experiences, thereby inaugurating a rich tradition of women’s travel writing about India. In the process, they not only reported events and developments in the subcontinent; they also contributed to them, helping to shape opinion and policy on issues such as colonial rule, religion, and social reform. This new set in the Chawton House Library Women’s Travel Writing series assembles seven of these accounts, six by British authors (Jemima Kindersley, Maria Graham, Eliza Fay, Ann Deane, Julia Maitland and Mary Sherwood) and one by an American (Harriet Newell). Their narratives – here reproduced for the first time in reset scholarly editions – were published between 1777 and 1854, and recount journeys undertaken in India, or periods of residence there, between the 1760s and the 1830s. Collectively they showcase the range of women’s interests and activities in India, and also the variety of narrative forms, voices and personae available to them as travel writers. Some stand squarely in the tradition of Enlightenment ethnography; others show the growing influence of Evangelical beliefs. But all disrupt any lingering stereotypes about women’s passivity, reticence, and lack of public agency in this period, when colonial women were not yet as sequestered and debarred from cross-cultural contact as they would later be during the Raj. Their narratives are consequently a useful resource to students and researchers across multiple fields and disciplines, including women’s writing, travel writing, colonial and postcolonial studies, the history of women’s educational and missionary work, and Romantic-era and nineteenth-century literature.
Author : John Britton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Architecture
ISBN : OSU:32435065340713
Author : James Norris Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1801
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590115196
Author : James Norris Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Architecture
ISBN : HARVARD:HXJFPU
Author : Matthew Richley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Bishop Auckland (England)
ISBN : OXFORD:590840196
Author : Matthew Richley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000662105
Author : Thomas Bateman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Burial
ISBN : OXFORD:302812801
Author : Thomas BATEMAN (Local Secretary, for Derbyshire, of the Society of Antiquaries.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017078244
Author : Bethany E. Bultman
Publisher : Compass America Guides
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0679006478
A long time resident of New Orleans writes about the food, design and ethnic culture of the area. Primer on Creole and Cajun cuisines, Secrets of the French Quarter and more.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555014298
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10062066
Author : Elena González-Cascos,Carlos Herrero
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443804707
This book presents a thorough edition of a so-far unpublished manuscript preserved at St Alban's English College in Valladolid, Spain. Written by Philip M. Perry, who was rector of this Catholic seminary from 1768 until his death in 1774, the Sketch of the Ancient British History provides a historical account stretching from the arrival of the Romans in Britain up to and including St Columba’s Christianizing mission in the sixth century and possesses an intrinsic value insofar as it is genuinely (and historically) anchored in major historical and cultural phenomena: the history of the English Church and the huge influence of Bede’s work, the religious history of Europe since the sixteenth century, the perception of antiquity during the Enlightenment or the theological and historiographical debates of the eighteenth century. Additionally, the edition includes an inventory of bibliographical sources used by Philip Perry and extant at St Alban’s as well as the author’s own transcript of the Stannington military diploma (AD 124), a unique historical document registered by Perry himself around 1761.
Author : Richard Ayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1818
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z136984305