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Understanding Colonial Handwriting

Author : Harriet Stryker-Rodda
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806311531
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (115 download)

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Book Synopsis Understanding Colonial Handwriting by : Harriet Stryker-Rodda

Download or read book Understanding Colonial Handwriting written by Harriet Stryker-Rodda and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1980 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In genealogical research it is all very well to locate original records, but to read them correctly is another matter altogether. Few people know this better than Harriet Stryker-Rodda who, after years of experience searching through colonial records, has developed a simple technique for reading colonial handwriting. In this handy little book, Mrs. Stryker-Rodda presents examples of colonial letter forms and script, showing the letter forms in the process of development and marking the ways in which they differ from later letter forms. She also provides a comparison of English and American handwriting and examples of name forms and signatures all to bear out her central thesis, that the reader must find meaning in a group of symbols without needing to see each letter of which the whole is composed. This excellent guidebook is indispensable in dealing with the problems of reading and interpretation"--Publisher website (August 2007).

Reading Early American Handwriting

Author : Kip Sperry
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806308463
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Early American Handwriting by : Kip Sperry

Download or read book Reading Early American Handwriting written by Kip Sperry and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed to teach you how to read and understand the handwriting found in documents commonly used in genealogical research. It explains techniques for reading early American documents, provides samples of alphabets and letter forms, and defines terms and abbreviations commonly used in early American documents such as wills, deeds, and church records.

The Devil's Handwriting

Author : George Steinmetz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226772446
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Handwriting written by George Steinmetz and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany’s overseas colonial empire was relatively short lived, lasting from 1884 to 1918. During this period, dramatically different policies were enacted in the colonies: in Southwest Africa, German troops carried out a brutal slaughter of the Herero people; in Samoa, authorities pursued a paternalistic defense of native culture; in Qingdao, China, policy veered between harsh racism and cultural exchange. Why did the same colonizing power act in such differing ways? In The Devil’s Handwriting, George Steinmetz tackles this question through a brilliant cross-cultural analysis of German colonialism, leading to a new conceptualization of the colonial state and postcolonial theory. Steinmetz uncovers the roots of colonial behavior in precolonial European ethnographies, where the Hereros were portrayed as cruel and inhuman, the Samoans were idealized as “noble savages,” and depictions of Chinese culture were mixed. The effects of status competition among colonial officials, colonizers’ identification with their subjects, and the different strategies of cooperation and resistance offered by the colonized are also scrutinized in this deeply nuanced and ambitious comparative history.

Handwriting in America

Author : Tamara Plakins Thornton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300074413
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Handwriting in America by : Tamara Plakins Thornton

Download or read book Handwriting in America written by Tamara Plakins Thornton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging history, the author demonstrates handwriting in America from colonial times to the present. Exploring such subjects as penmanship, pedagogy, handwriting analysis, autograph collecting, and calligraphy revivals, Thornton investigates the shifting functions and meanings of handwriting. 57 illustrations.

Colonial Handwriting

Author : Charles Knowles Bolton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Handwriting written by Charles Knowles Bolton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America

Author : E. Jennifer Monaghan
Publisher : Studies in Print Culture and t
ISBN 13 : 9781558495814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (958 download)

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Book Synopsis Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America by : E. Jennifer Monaghan

Download or read book Learning to Read and Write in Colonial America written by E. Jennifer Monaghan and published by Studies in Print Culture and t. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced teacher of reading and writing and an award-winning historian, E. Jennifer Monaghan brings to vibrant life the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, she examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the sometimes wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners. For the most part, religious motives underlay reading instruction in colonial America, while secular motives led to writing instruction. Monaghan illuminates the history of these activities through a series of deeply researched and readable case studies. An Anglican missionary battles mosquitoes and loneliness to teach the New York Mohawks to write in their own tongue. Puritan fathers model scriptural reading for their children as they struggle with bereavement. Boys in writing schools, preparing for careers in counting houses, wield their quill pens in the difficult task of mastering a "good hand." Benjamin Franklin learns how to compose essays with no teacher but himself. Young orphans in Georgia write precocious letters to their benefactor, George Whitefield, while schools in South Carolina teach enslaved black children to read but never to write. As she tells these stories, Monaghan clears new pathways in the analysis of colonial literacy. She pioneers in exploring the implications of the separation of reading and writing instruction, a topic that still resonates in today's classrooms. Monaghan argues that major improvements occurred in literacy instruction and acquisition after about 1750, visible in rising rates of signature literacy. Spelling books were widely adopted as they key text for teaching young children to read; prosperity, commercialism, and a parental urge for gentility aided writing instruction, benefiting girls in particular. And a gentler vision of childhood arose, portraying children as more malleable than sinful. It promoted and even commercialized a new kind of children's book designed to amuse instead of convert, laying the groundwork for the "reading revolution" of the new republic.

Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America

Author : William J. Scheick
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813185130
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America by : William J. Scheick

Download or read book Authority and Female Authorship in Colonial America written by William J. Scheick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should women concern themselves with reading other than the Bible? Should women attempt to write at all? Did these activities violate the hierarchy of the universe and men's and women's places in it? Colonial American women relied on the same authorities and traditions as did colonial men, but they encountered special difficulties validating themselves in writing. William Scheick explores logonomic conflict in the works of northeastern colonial women, whose writings often register anxiety not typical of their male contemporaries. This study features the poetry of Mary English and Anne Bradstreet, the letter-journals of Esther Edwards Burr and Sarah Prince, the autobiographical prose of Elizabeth Hanson and Elizabeth Ashbridge, and the political verse of Phyllis Wheatley. These works, along with the writings of other colonial women, provide especially noteworthy instances of bifurcations emanating from American colonial women's conflicted confiscation of male authority. Scheick reveals subtle authorial uneasiness and subtextual tensions caused by the attempt to draw legitimacy from male authorities and traditions.

Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future

Author : Nancy K. Florida
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316220
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future written by Nancy K. Florida and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located at the juncture of literature, history, and anthropology, Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future charts a strategy of how one might read a traditional text of non-Western historical literature in order to generate, with it, an opening for the future. This book does so by taking seriously a haunting work of historical prophecy inscribed in the nineteenth century by a royal Javanese exile--working through this writing of a colonized past to suggest the reconfiguration of the postcolonial future that this history itself apparently intends. After introducing the colonial and postcolonial orientalist projects that would fix the meaning of traditional writing in Java, Nancy K. Florida provides a nuanced translation of this particular traditional history, a history composed in poetry as the dream of a mysterious exile. She then undertakes a richly textured reading of the poem that discloses how it manages to escape the fixing of "tradition." Adopting a dialogic strategy of reading, Florida writes to extend--as the work's Javanese author demands--this history's prophetic potential into a more global register. Babad Jaka Tingkir, the historical prophecy that Writing the Past, Inscribing the Future translates and reads, is uniquely suited for such a study. Composing an engaging history of the emergence of Islamic power in central Java around the turn of the sixteenth century, Babad Jaka Tingkir was written from the vantage of colonial exile to contest the more dominant dynastic historical traditions of nineteenth-century court literature. Florida reveals how this history's episodic form and focus on characters at the margins of the social order work to disrupt the genealogical claims of conventional royal historiography--thus prophetically to open the possibility of an alternative future.

Colonizing Animals

Author : Jonathan Saha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108997155
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Colonizing Animals written by Jonathan Saha and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the writings of Burmese nationalists and the experiences of subaltern groups, he also shows how animals were mobilized by Burmese anticolonial activists in opposition to imperial rule. In demonstrating how animals - such as elephants, crocodiles, and rats - were important actors never fully under the control of humans, Saha uncovers a history of how British colonialism transformed ecologies and fostered new relationships with animals in Myanmar. Colonizing Animals introduces the reader to an innovative historical methodology for exploring interspecies relationships in the imperial past, using innovative concepts for studying interspecies empires that draw on postcolonial theory and critical animal studies.

Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198711865
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)

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Book Synopsis Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels by : Andrew Hadfield

Download or read book Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles selected for this anthology of travel and colonial writing in the English Renaissance period represent the world-picture of 16th and 17th century English readers. The extracts are grouped geographically and prefaced by headnotes.

"Return" in Post-colonial Writing

Author : Vera Mihailovich-Dickman
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789051836486
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis "Return" in Post-colonial Writing by : Vera Mihailovich-Dickman

Download or read book "Return" in Post-colonial Writing written by Vera Mihailovich-Dickman and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1994 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For writers and academics prominent in the field of the New Literatures in English today, the notion of return explodes into rich semantic difference to reveal the diversity of preoccupations underlying the use of the common tongue. From the Caribbean to Australia, Guyana to South Africa, India to Great Britain, literary, political and personal history collaborate in the poetic metamorphosis of an otherwise everyday experience. Now a state of being, now a reading rich with cross-cultural age, return draws from the collective memory, invokes revenants, digs up forgotten history, quests for roots. Just as it creates a dialogue with the past, textual or real, it negotiates turning points and perpetuates reversals. It reclaims territory, tradition and language in its yearning for home. Fraught with the tensions arising from awareness of the impossibility of return, from the exhilarations of imaginary, fictional return - even from the glimmering hope of a possible return - its contemplation can also lead to appreciation of the infinite re-turn, re-newal and re-creation that is the beauty of human experience. Discussion ranges from revenant supernaturalism in West Indian literature and the exploration of return in Australian, African and Indo-Anglian fiction to Caribbean poetry, South African praise poets, and West African drama. Writers treated include Ama Ata Aidoo, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Jean D'Costa, Bessie Head, Matsemela Manaka, Salman Rushdie, Derek Walcott, and Patrick White. The personal, biographical dimension of physical return is encompassed via the examination of the life and works of such writers as Es'kia Mphahlele and Wole Soyinka, and through autobiographical reflections. The essays, stories and poetry in this collection challenge patterns of conditioned reading and call for a multilayered polylogue with reality.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts

Author : Orietta Da Rold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107102464
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts written by Orietta Da Rold and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the methods and knowledge required to understand how, why, and for whom manuscripts were made in medieval Britain.

Ways of Writing

Author : David D. Hall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812222083
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Ways of Writing written by David D. Hall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways of Writing is about the making of texts in seventeenth-century New England, whether they were fashioned into printed books or disseminated in handwritten form. David D. Hall explores issues of authority and authenticity, the roles of intermediaries, and the political and social contexts of publication, among other issues.

Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671

Author : Thomas Scanlan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521643054
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671 by : Thomas Scanlan

Download or read book Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671 written by Thomas Scanlan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-16 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at implications of colonialism for both English and Americans.

The New England Primer

Author : John Cotton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The New England Primer written by John Cotton and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Universal Penman

Author : George Bickham
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486206165
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Penman written by George Bickham and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1941-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An essential part of any art library, and a book of permanent value not affected by seasonal styles." — American Artist. Here is Bickham's famous treasury of English roundhand calligraphy from 1740. Includes 125 pictorial scenes, over 200 script pictures, 19 complete animals, 275 lettered specimens, more than 100 panels, frames, cartouches, and other effects, and more.

Latin Palaeography

Author : Bernhard Bischoff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367264
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (672 download)

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Download or read book Latin Palaeography written by Bernhard Bischoff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-04-12 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, by the greatest living authority on medieval palaeography, offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account in any language of the history of Latin script. It also contains a detailed account of the role of the book in cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance, which outlines the history of book illumination. Designed as a textbook, it contains a full and updated bibliography. Because the volume sets the development of Latin script in its cultural context, it also provides an unrivalled introduction to the nature of medieval Latin culture. It will be used extensively in the teaching of latin palaeography, and is unlikely to be superseded.