George Boyle White Surveyor Colonial Citizen Diarist

Author : Les Dalton
Publisher : Les Dalton
ISBN 13 : 0992533600
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Boyle White surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist written by Les Dalton and published by Les Dalton. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1826, George Boyle White, then just twenty-four years old, arrived at Sydney Cove from Calcutta. He had served as navigator in the East India Company for seven years. While employed for a short time as a clerk in the Colonial Secretary’s office he learned the skills of a land surveyor. Appointed assistant surveyor in the Surveyor General’s Department he set out Maitland and other major towns in the Hunter Valley region. Surveyor General, Thomas Mitchell, appointed White second-in-charge of his first expedition into the interior. In his report on the expedition Mitchell judged White to be “an accurate and indefatigable surveyor”.

Author : Les Dalton
Publisher : Les Dalton
ISBN 13 : 0992533619
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book George Boyle White: surveyor, colonial citizen, diarist written by Les Dalton and published by Les Dalton. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dedicated diarist, White compiled a detailed account of colonial life in the Hunter Valley away from its hub in Sydney. In the privacy of his diary, where ‘an opinion could be given without incurring censure’, commentaries on other colonials could be harsh, while casting himself as imposed upon by family and friends. A nervous public speaker he could, when aroused, write an abrasive letter or stir public controversy. He was fond of reading the classics, filled notebooks with quotations and quoted them in his diaries. Feeling isolated in the antipodes he followed closely news of world events. Perhaps he can best be thought of as a thwarted intellectual living in a colonial backwater. Elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1858, he chaired an inquiry with significant outcomes for land settlement. He was, said a contemporary, not only a historian, and an eyewitness, but “a prominent actor in the parts he recorded”.

Author : Peter F. Smith
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Footprints of Maitland’s Old Hands Trilogy written by Peter F. Smith and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-10-27 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the heritage of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia! Fascinating facts, bewitching stories and awe-inspiring vintage photographs reveal its people and places, alluring readers to inhabit this treasured landscape. THE FOOTPRINTS OF MAITLAND’S OLD HANDS trilogy is a grand tapestry and a go-to guide to transport you back in time. Its an ambitious and comprehensive study of Maitland and its neighbouring historical estates. The author devoted thirty years to weave the tale of this town, weighing untold data left idle in ignored documents and undisturbed memories. With the keen eye of a seasoned historian, three centuries of Maitland’s history, gateway to the Hunter Valley, are recorded for future generations. Footprints left by ancestors are no longer hidden by nature’s fury of floods, fires or human forgetfulness. This three-book work is a treasure-trove for tens-of-thousands, young and old, whose families made Maitland the heritage gateway to the Hunter!

Author : James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884 written by James Hammond Trumbull and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905 written by Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel Ignatiev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135070695
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How the Irish Became White written by Noel Ignatiev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...from time to time a study comes along that truly can be called ‘path breaking,’ ‘seminal,’ ‘essential,’ a ‘must read.’ How the Irish Became White is such a study.' John Bracey, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, University of Massachussetts, Amherst The Irish came to America in the eighteenth century, fleeing a homeland under foreign occupation and a caste system that regarded them as the lowest form of humanity. In the new country – a land of opportunity – they found a very different form of social hierarchy, one that was based on the color of a person’s skin. Noel Ignatiev’s 1995 book – the first published work of one of America’s leading and most controversial historians – tells the story of how the oppressed became the oppressors; how the new Irish immigrants achieved acceptance among an initially hostile population only by proving that they could be more brutal in their oppression of African Americans than the nativists. This is the story of How the Irish Became White.

Author : Nancy Isenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110160848X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Trash written by Nancy Isenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller A New York Times Notable and Critics’ Top Book of 2016 Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction One of NPR's 10 Best Books Of 2016 Faced Tough Topics Head On NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2016’s Great Reads San Francisco Chronicle's Best of 2016: 100 recommended books A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2016 Globe & Mail 100 Best of 2016 “Formidable and truth-dealing . . . necessary.” —The New York Times “This eye-opening investigation into our country’s entrenched social hierarchy is acutely relevant.” —O Magazine In her groundbreaking bestselling history of the class system in America, Nancy Isenberg upends history as we know it by taking on our comforting myths about equality and uncovering the crucial legacy of the ever-present, always embarrassing—if occasionally entertaining—poor white trash. “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win,” says Isenberg of the political climate surrounding Sarah Palin. And we recognize how right she is today. Yet the voters who boosted Trump all the way to the White House have been a permanent part of our American fabric, argues Isenberg. The wretched and landless poor have existed from the time of the earliest British colonial settlement to today's hillbillies. They were alternately known as “waste people,” “offals,” “rubbish,” “lazy lubbers,” and “crackers.” By the 1850s, the downtrodden included so-called “clay eaters” and “sandhillers,” known for prematurely aged children distinguished by their yellowish skin, ragged clothing, and listless minds. Surveying political rhetoric and policy, popular literature and scientific theories over four hundred years, Isenberg upends assumptions about America’s supposedly class-free society––where liberty and hard work were meant to ensure real social mobility. Poor whites were central to the rise of the Republican Party in the early nineteenth century, and the Civil War itself was fought over class issues nearly as much as it was fought over slavery. Reconstruction pitted poor white trash against newly freed slaves, which factored in the rise of eugenics–-a widely popular movement embraced by Theodore Roosevelt that targeted poor whites for sterilization. These poor were at the heart of New Deal reforms and LBJ’s Great Society; they haunt us in reality TV shows like Here Comes Honey Boo Boo and Duck Dynasty. Marginalized as a class, white trash have always been at or near the center of major political debates over the character of the American identity. We acknowledge racial injustice as an ugly stain on our nation’s history. With Isenberg’s landmark book, we will have to face the truth about the enduring, malevolent nature of class as well.

Author : J H L Cumpston
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Mitchell: Surveyor General and Explorer written by J H L Cumpston and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical novel "Thomas Mitchell: Surveyor General and Explorer" is dedicated to the famous explorer who mapped a significant portion of Australia. The book chronicles the details of his life from his birth and upbringing in Stirlingshire, Scotland, through to his military career, starting when he joined the British army in Portugal as a volunteer in the Peninsular War, at the age of sixteen. He subsequently took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales in 1827. The following year he became Surveyor General and remained in this position until his death. Mitchell was knighted for his great contribution to the surveying of Australia.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John M. Curran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
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Download or read book Prices of Clothing written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: