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Author : John Jacob Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar written by John Jacob Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the grammar and writing system of West Indian Creole
Author : Faith Smith
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813921433
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Creole Recitations written by Faith Smith and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Jacob Thomas (1841-1889) was one of the leading members of a newly emergent intelligentsia in nineteenth-century Trinidad--a group that could be identified as both "Victorian" and "Pan-Africanist"--who not only challenged British imperialist accounts of Trinidad but also tried to show the interconnections, bloodlines, and origins of "Caribbean" and "English" identities usually perceived as separate and distinct. As a member of that emerging black lower middle class, Thomas was well known for his 1869 study of Trinidad's Creole language, as well as for Froudacity (1889), his pointed and witty response to the travel narrative of the Victorian James Anthony Froude, an early example of "writing back to empire." Responding to Trinidad's transformation by significant migrations from the eastern Caribbean, West Africa, and the Indian subcontinent, he sought to "tame" the working-class energies that radicalized his work and to bring them in line with "modern" conceptions of the nation. As a defender of francophone cultural production in a British colony, though a loyal subject of Queen Victoria, and as a pan-Africanist whose commitments were simultaneously diasporic and local, Thomas complicates current discussions of colonial and postcolonial intellectuals, Black Atlantic paradigms, and Victorian intellectual life. In Creole Recitations, the first full-length study of Thomas, Faith Smith puts his texts in dialogue with other narratives by local and international Pan-Africanists, Victorian intellectuals, and local and regional blacks, coloreds, and whites. Shedding light on the intellectual terrain of the late nineteenth century, she provides an important context for better-known figures of twentieth-century Caribbean literature such as C. L. R. James, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid.
Author : Bridget Brereton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (534 download)
Download or read book John Jacob Thomas written by Bridget Brereton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006221831X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Astoria written by Peter Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Author : Sarah M. Fuller Harris
Publisher : Curiosmith
ISBN 13 : 9781946145581
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Memoir of Jacob Thomas written by Sarah M. Fuller Harris and published by Curiosmith. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacob Thomas (1811-1837) was born at Newburgh, N.Y.; and in 1825, the family moved to Elbridge, N.Y. He was baptized in 1828, into the First Baptist Church of Elbridge by Rev. C. M. Fuller. Sarah Harris, the author of this book was the daughter of Rev. Fuller. Jacob Thomas spent five years at Hamilton Theological Seminary preparing for the ministry. In 1836, he was ordained, got married, and left for India. After spending six months sailing to India, three month traveling up the Brahmaputra River, only three hours from his destination, a large tree fell on his boat and crushed him. "It began to rain, and he had just gone inside of the boat, when a huge tree precipitated itself from the shore, across the bowels of my brother, sinking him and the boat into the deep." "How dark and deeply mysterious are the ways of Providence!" His wife, Sarah Thomas, married Rev. Osgood, printer in Maulmain, and remained a missionary for eight years.Author Sarah M. Fuller (1814-1893) was born at Grafton, Vermont. She was the daughter of Rev. Cyrenius M. Fuller, who became pastor of the Baptist Church at Elbridge in 1827. Jacob Thomas was baptized at this church in 1828. She married Edward Lansing Harris (1816-1897), a Baptist pastor, and they eventually moved to Wisconsin.
Author : James Anthony Froude
Publisher : New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The English in the West Indies written by James Anthony Froude and published by New York : Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1888 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Pen
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813125987
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book I Wonder as I Wander written by Ron Pen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louisville native John Jacob Niles (1892–1980) is considered to be one of our nation’s most influential musicians. As a composer and balladeer, Niles drew inspiration from the deep well of traditional Appalachian and African American folk songs. At the age of sixteen Niles wrote one of his most enduring tunes, “Go ’Way from My Window,” basing it on a song fragment from a black farm worker. This iconic song has been performed by folk artists ever since and may even have inspired the opening line of Bob Dylan’s “It Ain’t Me Babe.” In I Wonder as I Wander: The Life of John Jacob Niles, the first full-length biography of Niles, Ron Pen offers a rich portrait of the musician’s character and career. Using Niles’s own accounts from his journals, notebooks, and unpublished autobiography, Pen tracks his rise from farm boy to songwriter and folk collector extraordinaire. Niles was especially interested in documenting the voices of his fellow World War I soldiers, the people of Appalachia, and the spirituals of African Americans. In the 1920s he collaborated with noted photographer Doris Ulmann during trips to Appalachia, where he transcribed, adapted, and arranged traditional songs and ballads such as “Pretty Polly” and “Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair.” Niles’s preservation and presentation of American folk songs earned him the title of “Dean of American Balladeers,” and his theatrical use of the dulcimer is credited with contributing to the popularity of that instrument today. Niles’s dedication to the folk music tradition lives on in generations of folk revival artists such as Jean Ritchie, Joan Baez, and Oscar Brand. I Wonder as I Wander explores the origins and influences of the American folk music resurgence of the 1950s and 1960s, and finally tells the story of a man at the forefront of that movement.
Author : Axel Madsen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0471009350
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by Axel Madsen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Deal Maker: How William C. Durant Made General Motors: "A well-written biography."-New York Times On Stanwyck: The Life and Times of Barbara Stanwyck: "Madsen's admirably researched, insightful portrait of her aloof nature . . . reveals she was always torn between her wish to give of herself and her need to be in control."-Christian Science Monitor On Chanel: A Woman of Her Own: "Fascinating . . . . Takes the reader behind the coromandel veneers of Chanel's life."-New York Times Book Review "Carefully knits together the complex pattern of Chanel's complicated existence. It's not an easy task."-Toronto Globe and Mail On Gloria and Joe: "Axel Madsen finally gives the public a fascinating chronicle of the romance that could have ruined more than two careers."-Dallas Morning News On Cousteau: "Both critical and understanding. And it is exceptionally readable. Readers are well advised to take the plunge."-Chicago Tribune On Malraux: "Will stand as the best of more than a dozen books about Malraux in print."-Kansas City Star
Author : John Jacob Holtzapffel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156222
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Hand or Simple Turning written by John Jacob Holtzapffel and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Victorian classic offers full coverage of basic lathe techniques. Projects include billiard ball, egg cups, ash trays, vases, more. First paperback reprint. 800 illustrations.
Author : Faith Lois Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (338 download)
Download or read book John Jacob Thomas and Caribbean Intellectual Life in the Nineteenth Century written by Faith Lois Smith and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas G. Pavel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674299665
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Fictional Worlds written by Thomas G. Pavel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.
Author : Arthur D. Howden Smith
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1596057491
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (96 download)
Download or read book John Jacob Astor written by Arthur D. Howden Smith and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some weeks later a dray drove up to the Astor store, then at 68 Pine Street, and delivered a number of very heavy little kegs which chinked faintly as they were rolled in through the door. "What on earth are those, Jacob?" Sarah demanded when she happened in during the afternoon. "Der fruits of our East India pass," he answered, his deep-set eyes twinkling merrily. "Money?" He nodded. "Ho-how much?" "Fifty-five t'ousan' dollar." "Jacob!" she gasped. And well she might. It was as rich a coup as he ever achieved. -from "Fur and Tea" New Yorkers can't escape the name Astor: it graces theaters, hotels, street names, and even an entire Queens neighborhood. This delightful biography of the "landlord of New York" explains how John Jacob Astor, who arrived in the city a poor immigrant in 1784, created such a fortune-in real estate, fur, and trade with China-not only for himself but for the city and nation around him that his influence could not be denied. Author Arthur D. Howden Smith was, in the early years of the 20th century, a tremendously popular author of pulp fiction on a par with E.E. "Doc" Smith and Edgar Rice Burroughs. And the same boisterous enthusiasm that made his adventure tales of pirates and Vikings so riproaring readable bursts forth from this classic biography as well. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Howden Smith's Commodore Vanderbilt: An Epic of American Achievement. ARTHUR DOUGLAS HOWDEN SMITH (1887-1945) was an enormously prolific and diverse writer, penning numerous short stories, biographies, and business studies, but he is best remembered for his many pulp novels, including Porto Bello Gold (a prequel to Treasure Island), The Dead Go Overside, The Doom Trail, Swain's Saga, and others.
Author : J. J. Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Froudacity written by J. J. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H.W. Brands
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476726930
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Masters of Enterprise written by H.W. Brands and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early years of fur trading to today's Silicon Valley empires, America has proved to be an extraordinarily fertile land for the creation of enormous fortunes. Each generation has produced one or two phenomenally successful leaders, often in new industries that caught contemporaries by surprise, and each of these new fortunes reconfirmed the power of fanatically single-minded visionaries. John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt were the first American moguls; John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, and J. P. Morgan were kingpins of the Gilded Age; David Sarnoff, Walt Disney, Ray Kroc, and Sam Walton were masters of mass culture. Today Oprah Winfrey, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates are giants of the Information Age. America has again and again been the land of dizzying mountains of wealth. Here, in a wittily told and deeply insightful history, is a complete set of portraits of America's greatest generators of wealth. Only such a collective study allows us to appreciate what makes the great entrepreneurs really tick. As H. W. Brands shows, these men and women are driven, they are focused, they deeply identify with the businesses they create, and they possess the charisma necessary to persuade other talented people to join them. They do it partly for the money, but mostly for the thrill of creation. The stories told here -- including how Nike got its start as a business-school project for Phil Knight; how Robert Woodruff almost refused to take control of Coca-Cola to spite his father; how Thomas Watson saved himself from prison by rescuing Dayton, Ohio, from a flood; how Jay Gould nearly cornered the gold market; how H. L. Hunt went from gambling at cards to gambling with oil leases -- make for a narrative that is always lively and revealing and often astonishing. An observer in 1850, studying John Jacob Astor, would not have predicted the rise of Henry Ford and the auto industry. Nor would a student of Ford in 1950 have anticipated the takeoff of direct marketing that made Mary Kay Ash a trusted guide for millions of American women. Full of surprising insights, written with H. W. Brands's trademark flair, the stories in Masters of Enterprise are must reading for all students of American business history.
Author : Jacob Israel
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1662909233
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Calling written by Jacob Israel and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas James shall be his name," the Messenger says mysteriously. "The world will change because of him." In the small town of Bethel, in a time not unlike our own, a child with a great purpose is born. Years later, alienated and abused by his peers, Thomas suffers a devastating loss. When it appears he has nothing left to live for his true calling begins. While trying to escape the sinister powers that be, a terrifying vision haunts him. Miraculous events seem to follow the peculiar young man as he struggles to come to terms with what he was born to do. The stage is set. The time is at hand. The truth will rise and a revolution will begin. The startling revelation of who Thomas James truly is will change the lives of those around him and set off a chain of events long ago foretold. There is more to this novel then one might think. Inside these pages hides a treasure just waiting to be discovered. If you've ever wondered if there is more to life, or why it is we suffer, then this story will not only captivate you-it may just open your eyes to a truth that could set you free. Find out what is in all of us that makes us heed The Calling. The Messenger smiles curiously, "There is a great truth that must be told. A wicked spirit spreads it wings and humanity is its ignorant prisoner...Thomas James is the key.
Author : John Jacob Astor
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1253 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book A Journey in Other Worlds (另外宇宙之旅：未來傳奇) written by John Jacob Astor and published by Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 1253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey In Other Worlds: A Romance Of The Future
Author : Thomas Morton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book New English Canaan of Thomas Morton written by Thomas Morton and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
