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Author : Thomas Hammond
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Download or read book Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond written by Thomas Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1780 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Hammond
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813939682
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Memoirs on the Life and Travels of Thomas Hammond, 1748-1775 written by Thomas Hammond and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated manuscript from the eighteenth century now being published for the first time, Thomas Hammond's memoirs are a major discovery. Hammond was a self-educated but remarkably gifted writer with a knack for seizing unlikely opportunities for adventure. We follow this abandoned waif as he embarks on a long journey through bewildering foreign lands—working by turns as a stableboy, jockey, servant to French nobles, itinerant circus rider, and entertainment entrepreneur—only to recover his home and father at the end of his travels. Personal narratives by the eighteenth century’s non-elites are exceedingly rare, and Hammond’s memoir provides a wonderfully vivid depiction of the texture of everyday life in that era. Possessed of a dry wit, Hammond can be hilarious, offering uproarious descriptions of stableboy pranks or the highly unsanitary conditions of a Portuguese inn; but he can also be compellingly frank about his emotions, revealing how deprived of love he felt as a young boy, describing climbing into an oven for warmth after having lost his mother to smallpox, or earnestly recounting how he fell in love with his master's (supposed) wife. This edition includes numerous illustrations from the original manuscript—Hammond’s own hand-drawn travel maps and depictions of bullfighting as well as various images of the equestrian life collected by Hammond, many in brilliant color.
Author : Srividhya Swaminathan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317112997
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Invoking Slavery in the Eighteenth-Century British Imagination written by Srividhya Swaminathan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, audiences in Great Britain understood the term ’slavery’ to refer to a range of physical and metaphysical conditions beyond the transatlantic slave trade. Literary representations of slavery encompassed tales of Barbary captivity, the ’exotic’ slaving practices of the Ottoman Empire, the political enslavement practiced by government or church, and even the harsh life of servants under a cruel master. Arguing that literary and cultural studies have focused too narrowly on slavery as a term that refers almost exclusively to the race-based chattel enslavement of sub-Saharan Africans transported to the New World, the contributors suggest that these analyses foreclose deeper discussion of other associations of the term. They suggest that the term slavery became a powerful rhetorical device for helping British audiences gain a new perspective on their own position with respect to their government and the global sphere. Far from eliding the real and important differences between slave systems operating in the Atlantic world, this collection is a starting point for understanding how slavery as a concept came to encompass many forms of unfree labor and metaphorical bondage precisely because of the power of association.
Author : Albert J. Rivero
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108871925
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
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Author : L. Bertelsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299648
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)
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Author : Friends' Library (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia written by Friends' Library (Philadelphia, Pa.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia
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Total Pages : 366 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library of the Four Monthly Meetings of Friends of Philadelphia written by Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 270 pages
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Author : Otis Library
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Total Pages : 192 pages
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Author : Girolamo Benzoni
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Author : University Microfilms International
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : U.M.I.
ISBN 13 : 9780835721011
Total Pages : 894 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)
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Author : Dunstan Prial
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312426002
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Author : James Hammond (of Newport.)
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of James Hammond's Circulating Library, Newport, R.I. written by James Hammond (of Newport.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
ISBN 13 : 9780060161583
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Lost Continent written by Bill Bryson and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1989 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Author : Ted Genoways
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393292584
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm written by Ted Genoways and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.
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Total Pages : 998 pages
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Author : Booker T. Jones
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316485578
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Time Is Tight written by Booker T. Jones and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long-awaited memoir of Booker T. Jones, leader of the famed Stax Records house band, architect of the Memphis soul sound, and one of the most legendary figures in music. From Booker T. Jones's earliest years in segregated Memphis, music was the driving force in his life. While he worked paper routes and played gigs in local nightclubs to pay for lessons and support his family, Jones, on the side, was also recording sessions in what became the famous Stax Studios-all while still in high school. Not long after, he would form the genre-defining group Booker T. and the MGs, whose recordings went on to sell millions of copies, win a place in Rolling Stone's list of top 500 songs of all time, and help forge collaborations with some of the era's most influential artists, including Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, and Sam & Dave. Nearly five decades later, Jones's influence continues to help define the music industry, but only now is he ready to tell his remarkable life story. Time is Tight is the deeply moving account of how Jones balanced the brutality of the segregationist South with the loving support of his family and community, all while transforming a burgeoning studio into a musical mecca. Culminating with a definitive account into the inner workings of the Stax label, as well as a fascinating portrait of working with many of the era's most legendary performers-Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, and Tom Jones, among them-this extraordinary memoir promises to become a landmark moment in the history of Southern Soul.
