Artisan Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1879
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13:
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The Marvels
Author: Brian Selznick
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0545922127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDon't miss Selznick's other novels in words and pictures, The Invention of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck, which together with The Marvels, form an extraordinary thematic trilogy! A breathtaking new voyage from Caldecott Medalist Brian Selznick.Two stand-alone stories--the first in nearly 400 pages of continuous pictures, the second in prose--create a beguiling narrative puzzle.The journey begins at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage.Nearly a century later, runaway Joseph Jervis seeks refuge with an uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits and ghostly presences, captivates Joseph and leads him on a search for clues about the house, his family, and the past.A gripping adventure and an intriguing invitation to decipher how the two stories connect, The Marvels is a loving tribute to the power of story from an artist at the vanguard of creative innovation.
Lucan's Egyptian Civil War
Author: Jonathan Tracy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-09-22
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1107072077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how a cultural clash between traditional Pharaonic and latter-day Ptolemaic Egypt is used to mirror the Roman civil war.
The Haitian Revolution
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Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2014-09-03
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1624661777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful." --Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Author: Jane Landers
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780826323972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Author: J. Garrigus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-06-24
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1403984433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves and the largest and wealthiest free population of people of African descent in the New World. Garrigus explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they shaped a new 'American' identity.
Jewish American Literature
Author: Jules Chametzky
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 1264
ISBN-13: 9780393048094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of Jewish-American literature written by various authors between 1656 and 1990.
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Author: David Patrick Geggus
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-08-12
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0253109264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries. Geggus's fine-grained essays explore central issues and little-studied aspects of the conflict, including new historiography and sources, the origins of the black rebellion, and relations between slaves and free people of color. The contributions of vodou and marronage to the slave uprising, Toussaint Louverture and the abolition question, the policies of the major powers toward the revolution, and its interaction with the early French Revolution are also addressed. Questions about ethnicity, identity, and historical knowledge inform this essential study of a complex revolution.
The Plantation Machine
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0812248295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus trace how the plantation machine developed between 1748 and 1788 and was perfected against a backdrop of almost constant external war and imperial competition.
The Haitian Maroons
Author: Jean Fouchard
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The setting is Saint-Domingue, the richest of all the European colonies in the Americas. The time embraces the earliest days of the colony and focuses sharply on the closing years of the 18th century. The protagonists are the masses of fugitive slaves, men and women maroons, and their unsung leaders such as Boukman, Macandal, Polydor, who by guile, determination and bloody sacrifice made it possible to create the Haitian republic. All told against the backdrop of daily slave life and the politics of the mainland and the colony."--Back cover.
