The Fatal Land

Author : Matthew P. Dziennik
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196725
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fatal Land written by Matthew P. Dziennik and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Matthew P. Dziennik has written a compelling account of the Scottish Highland soldier and his service in Great Britain's American colonies during the French and Indian War and America's Revolutionary War. In the middle to the late decades of the eighteenth century, the British state recruited more than twelve thousand soldiers from the Highlands of Scotland for the purpose of expanding and defending Britain's American empire, thereby transforming the most maligned region of the British Isles into a key sustainer of British imperialism. Dziennik's fascinating history corrects the mythologized image of the Highland soldier as a noble savage, a primitive if courageous relic of clanship, revealing instead how the Gaels used their military service to further their own interests in terms of material security and social status. Using both English and Gaelic sources, the author re-creates the experiences and the mindset of the Highland soldier in the New World and demonstrates in the process how a periphery of the British Isles became a center of the British Empire." -- [Tiré de la jaquette].

Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394753666
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fatal Shore written by Robert Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1988-02-12 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This incredible true history of the colonization of Australia explores how the convict transportation system created the country we know today. "One of the greatest non-fiction books I’ve ever read ... Hughes brings us an entire world." —Los Angeles Times Digging deep into the dark history of England's infamous efforts to move 160,000 men and women thousands of miles to the other side of the world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Hughes has crafted a groundbreaking, definitive account of the settling of Australia. Tracing the European presence in Australia from early explorations through the rise and fall of the penal colonies, and featuring 16 pages of illustrations and 3 maps, The Fatal Shore brings to life the history of the country we thought we knew.

Author : Mark Braverman
Publisher : BookPros, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0984076077
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fatal Embrace written by Mark Braverman and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Fatal Embrace, Braverman provocatively argues that Jewish exclusivism is being enacted in the colonial, expansionist nature of the State of Israel. He also contends that the attempts by Christians to atone for anti-Semitism have resulted in the suppression of honest interfaith dialogue on the issue, blocking progress toward a just peace. This book is a call to action directed at Christians and other Americans.

Author : Richard Slotkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504090365
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fatal Environment written by Richard Slotkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-23 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A two-time National Book Award finalist’s “ambitious and provocative” look at Custer’s Last Stand, capitalism, and the rise of the cowboys-and-Indians legend (The New York Review of Books). In The Fatal Environment, historian Richard Slotkin demonstrates how the myth of frontier expansion and subjugation of Native Americans helped justify the course of America’s rise to wealth and power. Using Custer’s Last Stand as a metaphor for what Americans feared might happen if the frontier should be closed and the “savage” element be permitted to dominate the “civilized,” Slotkin shows the emergence by 1890 of a mythos redefined to help Americans respond to the confusion and strife of industrialization and imperial expansion. “A clearly written, challenging and provocative work that should prove enormously valuable to serious students of American history.” —The New York Times “[An] arresting hypothesis.” —Henry Nash Smith, American Historical Review

Author : Sir Clements Robert Markham
Publisher : Cambridge : The University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lands of Silence written by Sir Clements Robert Markham and published by Cambridge : The University Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lands of Silence, A History of Arctic and Antarctic Exploration by Clements Robert Markham, first published in 1921, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : F. C. CHANNING, ESQUIRE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LAND REVENUE SETTLEMENT OF THE GURGAON DISTRICT written by F. C. CHANNING, ESQUIRE and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Ayrton Paris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108069967
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End written by John Ayrton Paris and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1824 second edition explores the natural history, landscapes and health-giving climate of picturesque parts of Cornwall.

Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Frothingham Hunnewell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lands of Scott written by James Frothingham Hunnewell and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Bailey Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The (old) Farmer's Almanack written by Robert Bailey Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: