Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak

Colonial Voices: Hear Them Speak

Author: Kay Winters

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2015-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0147511623

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Follow an errand boy through colonial Boston as he spreads word of rebellion. It's December 16, 1773, and Boston is about to explode! King George has decided to tax the colonists' tea. The Patriots have had enough. Ethan, the printer's errand boy, is running through town to deliver a message about an important meeting. As he stops along his route at the bakery, the schoolhouse, the tavern, and more readers learn about the occupations of colonial workers and their differing opinions about living under Britain's rule. This fascinating book is like a field trip to a living history village. * "Winter’s strong, moving text is supported by a thoughtful design that incorporates the look of historical papers, and rich paintings capture the individuals and their circumstances as well as what’s at stake."—Booklist, starred review


Rhode Island, 1636-1776

Rhode Island, 1636-1776

Author: Jesse McDermott

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780792264101

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Enhanced by period maps and first-person accounts, presents the history of colonial Rhode Island.


New York, 1609-1776

New York, 1609-1776

Author: Michael Burgan

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780792263906

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Provides a history of New York from the arrival of the Dutch to its becoming independent from the British.


Mesoamerican Voices

Mesoamerican Voices

Author: Matthew Restall

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2005-11-07

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1316224295

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Mesoamerican Voices, first published in 2006, presents a collection of indigenous-language writings from the colonial period, translated into English. The texts were written from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries by Nahuas from central Mexico, Mixtecs from Oaxaca, Maya from Yucatan, and other groups from Mexico and Guatemala. The volume gives college teachers and students access to important new sources for the history of Latin America and Native Americans. It is the first collection to present the translated writings of so many native groups and to address such a variety of topics, including conquest, government, land, household, society, gender, religion, writing, law, crime, and morality.


California, 1542-1850

California, 1542-1850

Author: Robin Santos Doak

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9780792263913

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Discusses the early history and colonial life in California.


Colonial Voices

Colonial Voices

Author: Pramod K. Nayar

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-02-28

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1118278976

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This accessible cultural history explores 400 years of British imperial adventure in India, developing a coherent narrative through a wide range of colonial documents, from exhibition catalogues to memoirs and travelogues. It shows how these texts helped legitimize the moral ambiguities of colonial rule even as they helped the English fashion themselves. An engaging examination of European colonizers’ representations of native populations Analyzes colonial discourse through an impressive range of primary sources, including memoirs, letters, exhibition catalogues, administrative reports, and travelogues Surveys 400 years of India’s history, from the 16th century to the end of the British Empire Demonstrates how colonial discourses naturalized the racial and cultural differences between the English and the Indians, and controlled anxieties over these differences


Silenced Voices

Silenced Voices

Author: Inez Hollander

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0896802698

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Like a number of Netherlanders in the post-World War II era, Inez Hollander only gradually became aware of her family's connections with its Dutch colonial past, including a Creole great-grandmother. For the most part, such personal stories have been, if not entirely silenced, at least only whispered about in Holland, where society has remained uncomfortable with many aspects of the country's relationship with its colonial empire. Unlike the majority of memoirs that are soaked in nostalgia for tempo dulu, Hollander's story sets out to come to grips with her family's past by weaving together personal records with historical and literary accounts of the period. She seeks not merely to locate and preserve family memories, but also to test them against a more disinterested historical record. Hers is a complicated and sometimes painful personal journey of realization, unusually mindful of the ways in which past memories and present considerations can be intermingled when we seek to understand a difficult past. Silenced Voices is an important contribution to the literature on how Dutch society has dealt with its recent colonial history.


Voices of the Enslaved

Voices of the Enslaved

Author: Sophie White

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2019-10-25

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 1469654059

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In eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded. Focusing on four especially dramatic court cases, Voices of the Enslaved draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators. Carefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.