A Son of the Old Dominion (Classic Reprint)

A Son of the Old Dominion (Classic Reprint)

Author: Mrs. Burton Harrison

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-26

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780484807371

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Excerpt from A Son of the Old Dominion Flower had pulled up on the road at a point where the wood opened into a bosky dell, its grassy carpet sprinkled with blue blossoms of the fairy flax. In the tangle of tender leaves and bracken surrounding this sylvan nook, sprang so many wild pink azaleas and tall blue lupines, under branches starred with the ivory disks of dogwood, he could hardly be expected to distinguish among them the blossom face of a girl, who, upon hearing him approach, had resolved to lie perdue until he should pass on. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Virginia Country

Virginia Country

Author: Betsy Wells Edwards

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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Describes 27 homes in Virginia from Toddsbury built around 1690 to Woodside Farm built in 1850 with color photographs and histories of the families who live in them.


The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century

The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century

Author: Warren M. Billings

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780807812372

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This book is a convenient collection of seventeenth-century Virginia documentary source material. Using the observations, descriptions, and legal documents of the colonists themselves, this book makes it possible to reconstruct the process by which order was established in the wilderness during Virginia's first century.


Dominion

Dominion

Author: Tom Holland

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13: 0465093523

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A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for slaves. How astonishing it was, then, that people should have come to believe that one particular victim of crucifixion-an obscure provincial by the name of Jesus-was to be worshipped as a god. Dominion explores the implications of this shocking conviction as they have reverberated throughout history. Today, the West remains utterly saturated by Christian assumptions. As Tom Holland demonstrates, our morals and ethics are not universal but are instead the fruits of a very distinctive civilization. Concepts such as secularism, liberalism, science, and homosexuality are deeply rooted in a Christian seedbed. From Babylon to the Beatles, Saint Michael to #MeToo, Dominion tells the story of how Christianity transformed the modern world.


Report

Report

Author: Virginia. Board of Agriculture

Publisher:

Published: 1896

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Rereading the Revolution

Rereading the Revolution

Author: Benjamin S. Lawson

Publisher: Popular Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780879728182

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Approximately fifty historical novels dealing with the American Revolution were published in the United States in the single ten-year period from 1896 to 1906. Benjamin Lawson critically examines the narrative strategies employed in these many novels, the ways in which fiction is made to serve the purpose of vivifying national history. The British conventions of the historical romance in one sense seem to preclude radical declarations of literary independence even in books purportedly about a war against Britain. Working within the formula, these many writers nonetheless created fictional plots which parallel and reflect the enveloping concerns of the War for Independence. Just as the war was sometimes viewed as an Anglo-American family squabble, these metaphorical narratives depict familial and love interests.