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.


Colonial Voices

Colonial Voices

Author: Joy Damousi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-06-17

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 0521516315

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Innovative study of the role of language in the 'civilising' project of the British Empire in colonial Australia.


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.


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.


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.


Graveyards of the Pacific

Graveyards of the Pacific

Author: Robert D. Ballard

Publisher: National Geographic Society

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 9780792263876

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Offers an underwater tour of World War II Pacific battle sites at Midway, Guadalcanal, Truk Lagoon, Pearl Harbor, and Bikini Atoll.


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


Our Voices

Our Voices

Author: Kevin O'Brien

Publisher: Our Voices

Published: 2019-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781943532568

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Our Voices II: the DE-Colonial Project will showcase decolonizing projects which work to destable and disquiet colonial built environments. The land, towns, and cities on which we live have always been Indigenous places yet, for the most part our Indigenous value sets and identities have been disregarded or appropriated. Indigenous people continue to be gentrified out of the places to which they belong and neo‐liberal systems work to continuously subjugate Indigenous involvement in decision‐making processes in subtle, but potent ways. However, we are not, and have never been cultural dopes. Rather, we have, and continue to subvert the colonial value sets that overlay our places in important ways.