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Author : Edmund Ruffin
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Total Pages : 838 pages
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Download or read book The Farmers' Register written by Edmund Ruffin and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1434941140
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Great Dismal Swamp in Myth and Legend written by and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Struzik
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830801
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Swamplands written by Edward Struzik and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive magic of certain landscapes. A cloudy river flows into an Arctic wetland where sandhill cranes and muskoxen dwell. Further south, cypress branches hang low over dismal swamps. Places like these-collectively known as swamplands or peatlands-often go unnoticed for their ecological splendor. They are as globally significant as rainforests, yet, because of their reputation as wastelands, they are being systematically drained and degraded. Swamplands celebrates these wild places, as journalist Edward Struzik highlights the unappreciated struggle to save peatlands by scientists, conservationists, and landowners around the world. An ode to peaty landscapes in all their offbeat glory, the book is also a demand for awareness of the myriad threats they face. It inspires us to see the beauty and importance in these least likely of places. Our planet's survival might depend on it.
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Total Pages : 788 pages
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Download or read book The Farmer's Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 786 pages
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Download or read book The Farmers' Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin Joel Berland
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469606941
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Dividing Line Histories of William Byrd II of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his 1728 Virginia-North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland's landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library--the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd's sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.
Author : Jack Temple Kirby
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469623862
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Poquosin written by Jack Temple Kirby and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means 'swamp-on-a-hill,' was transliterated as 'poquosin' by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political, economic, and military history with the story of the landscape, Kirby shows how Native American, African, and European peoples have adapted to and modified this Tidewater area in the nearly four hundred years since the arrival of Europeans. Kirby argues that European settlement created a lasting division of the region into two distinct zones often in conflict with each other: the cosmopolitan coastal area, open to markets, wealth, and power because of its proximity to navigable rivers and sounds, and a more isolated hinterland, whose people and their way of life were gradually--and grudgingly--subjugated by railroads, canals, and war. Kirby's wide-ranging analysis of the evolving interaction between humans and the landscape offers a unique perspective on familiar historical subjects, including slavery, Nat Turner's rebellion, the Civil War, agricultural modernization, and urbanization.
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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book General Technical Report SRS written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Australia. Public Works Department
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Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Report from the Public Works Department for the Year Ended 30th June ... written by South Australia. Public Works Department and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : South Australia. Public Works Dept
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Total Pages : 466 pages
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Download or read book Report written by South Australia. Public Works Dept and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 472 pages
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Download or read book American Architect written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 414 pages
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Download or read book The North Carolina Coastal Zone and Its Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108917038
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War. Karen Cook Bell's enlightening and original contribution to the study of slave resistance in eighteenth-century America explores the individual and collective lives of these women and girls of diverse circumstances, while also providing details about what led them to escape. She demonstrates that there were in fact two wars being waged during the Revolutionary Era: a political revolution for independence from Great Britain and a social revolution for emancipation and equality in which Black women played an active role. Running from Bondage broadens and complicates how we study and teach this momentous event, one that emphasizes the chances taken by these 'Black founding mothers' and the important contributions they made to the cause of liberty.
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Total Pages : 1008 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Knopf
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Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company written by Charles Royster and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1999 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing narrative Charles Royster traces the rise and fall of the eighteenth-century transatlantic culture that was built on the insatiable demand in Europe for Virginia tobacco and the equally insatiable American demand for European manufactured goods. Moving from the plantations of Virginia and Antigua to the warehouses of London and Glasgow, from the Gold Coast of Africa to the valleys of the Allegheny Mountains, from the iron furnaces of southern Wales to the subscribers' room of Lloyd's of London, Professor Royster gives us the story of the Dismal Swamp Company, a fantastically delusional enterprise that proposed draining and developing a vast morass along the Virginia-North Carolina border. Examining the interconnected lives of the company's partners, Royster reveals a colonial order built on a system of cronyism, conspicuous consumption, and debt that seems hauntingly familiar. He writes about the many schemers and dreamers (including George Washington, Robert "King" Carter, two William Byrds, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, and Robert Morris) who failed to amass their desired fortunes, and a few realists (Samuel Gist, Dr. Thomas Walker, and Anthony Bacon) who succeeded, but at the dire expense of others. And we see the breakdown of this culture and the transition to a more democratic, though similar, system after the Revolution. Throughout Royster's narrative we seepossessors possessed by their possessions, slaveholders possessed by slavery, and heirs possessed by litigation. Connecting all their stories are their unceasing efforts to make something substantial out of the insubstantial--chief among them the almost unbelievable delusion that fortunes could bemade from the Dismal Swamp.
Author : South Australia
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Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book Acts of the Parliament of South Australia written by South Australia and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595342311
Total Pages : 701 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The WPA Guide to North Carolina written by Federal Writers' Project and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor.
