The West Family Register
Author: Letta Brock Stone
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 570
ISBN-13:
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Utopia
Author: Thomas More
Publisher: e-artnow
Published: 2019-04-08
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 8027303583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUtopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
For the Colony in Virginea Britannia, Lawes Divine, Morall and Martiall, Etc
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Powhatan Indians of Virginia
Author: Helen C. Rountree
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-07-10
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 080618986X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmong the aspects of Powhatan life that Helen Rountree describes in vivid detail are hunting and agriculture, territorial claims, warfare and treatment of prisoners, physical appearance and dress, construction of houses and towns, education of youths, initiation rites, family and social structure and customs, the nature of rulers, medicine, religion, and even village games, music, and dance. Rountree’s is the first book-length treatment of this fascinating culture, which included one of the most complex political organizations in native North American and which figured prominently in early American history.
Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2005-09-07
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1429930772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCamilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author: John Bernard Burke
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Published: 1852
Total Pages: 1280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowhatan's Mantle
Author: Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006-12-01
Total Pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9780803298613
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConsidered to be one of the all-time classic studies of southeastern Native peoples, Powhatan's Mantle proves more topical, comprehensive, and insightful than ever before in this revised edition for twenty-first century scholars and students.
First Seventeen Years
Author: Charles E. Hatch
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780806347394
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA permanent settlement was the objective. Support, financial and popular, came from a cross section of English life. It seems obvious from accounts and papers of the period that it was generally thought that Virginia was being settled for the glory of God, for the honor of the King, for the welfare of England, and for the advancement of the Company and its individual members.
The Boys in the Boat (Movie Tie-In)
Author: Daniel James Brown
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2023-12-05
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0593512308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney—exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.
The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215
Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780806316093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the signing of the Magna Charta, twenty-five men, representing the barons, signed as sureties of the baronial performance, in effect pledging the barons to fulfill their obligations to the Crown in accordance with the terms of the Great Charter. Of these twenty-five sureties only seventeen have identified descendants. Each of the seventeen is represented in the celebrated "Magna Charta Sureties," which traces their connections--line by line and generation by generation--to approximately 160 American colonists. Eight years have passed since the publication of the last edition of this work, however, and in the interval a great many additions, corrections, and revisions have accumulated. Brought to a very high standard by the unremitting efforts of its editor, Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., this fifth edition incorporates new lines, corrects errors in existing lines, adds recently discovered material, and supplies references where they had previously been omitted. The result is a reliable and authoritative collection of interlocking pedigrees which carry the ancestry of some 160 American colonists back to the thirteenth century. With the possible exception of Weis's "Ancestral Roots" (also published by Genealogical Publishing Co.), this is probably the very best work ever written on the pre-colonial ancestry of American colonists.
