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Willoughbyland

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250112842
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Willoughbyland written by Matthew Parker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the 1650s, wrecked by plague and civil war, England was in ruins. Yet shimmering on the horizon was a vision of paradise called Willoughbyland. When Sir Walter Raleigh set out to South America to find the legendary city of El Dorado, he paved the way for an endless series of adventurers who would struggle against the harsh reality of South America’s wild jungles. Six decades later, when a group of English gentlemen expelled from England chose to establish a new colony there, they named the settlement in honor of its founder—Sir Francis Willoughby. Located in the lush landscape between the Amazon and Orinoco rivers, in what is now Suriname, Willougbyland experienced one of colonialism’s most spectacular rises. But as planters and traders followed explorers, and mercenaries and soldiers followed political dissidents, the one-time paradise became a place of terror and cruelty, of sugar and slavery. A microcosm of the history of empire, this is the hitherto untold story of that fateful colony.

Bastard Tongues

Author : Derek Bickerton
Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429930306
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Bastard Tongues written by Derek Bickerton and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Do Isolated Creole Languages Tend to Have Similar Grammatical Structures? Bastard Tongues is an exciting, firsthand story of scientific discovery in an area of research close to the heart of what it means to be human—what language is, how it works, and how it passes from generation to generation, even where historical accidents have made normal transmission almost impossible. The story focuses on languages so low in the pecking order that many people don't regard them as languages at all—Creole languages spoken by descendants of slaves and indentured laborers in plantation colonies all over the world. The story is told by Derek Bickerton, who has spent more than thirty years researching these languages on four continents and developing a controversial theory that explains why they are so similar to one another. A published novelist, Bickerton (once described as "part scholar, part swashbuckling man of action") does not present his findings in the usual dry academic manner. Instead, you become a companion on his journey of discovery. You learn things as he learned them, share his disappointments and triumphs, explore the exotic locales where he worked, and meet the colorful characters he encountered along the way. The result is a unique blend of memoir, travelogue, history, and linguistics primer, appealing to anyone who has ever wondered how languages grow or what it's like to search the world for new knowledge.

Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era

Author : Henk Menke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000329976
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Social Aspects of Health, Medicine and Disease in the Colonial and Post-colonial Era written by Henk Menke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1600s, enslaved people, and after abolition of slavery, indentured labourers were transported to work on plantations in distant European colonies. Inhuman conditions and new pathogens often resulted in disease and death. Central to this book is the encounter between introduced and local understanding of disease and the therapeutic responses in the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific contexts. European response to diseases, focussed on protecting the white minority. Enslaved labourers from Africa and indentured labourers from India, China and Java provided interpretations and answers to health challenges based on their own cultures and medicinal understanding of the plants they had brought with them or which they found in the natural habitat of their new homes. Colonizers, enslaved and indentured labourers learned from each other and from the indigenous peoples who were marginalized by the expansion of plantations. This volume explores the medical, cultural and personal implications of these encounters, with the broad concept of medical pluralism linking the diversity of regional and cultural focus offered in each chapter. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Natural Drugs from Plants

Author : Hany El-Shemy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1803560207
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Natural Drugs from Plants written by Hany El-Shemy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Drugs from Plants emphasizes the importance of medicinal plants for drug discovery worldwide. Chapters discuss the active ingredients of certain medicinal plants, their mechanisms of action, and how they can be used to treat different diseases.

Suriname

Author : Philip Briggs
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 : 1841629103
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Suriname written by Philip Briggs and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sugar Barons

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802777996
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Sugar Barons written by Matthew Parker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those who travel there today, the West Indies are unspoiled paradise islands. Yet that image conceals a turbulent and shocking history. For some 200 years after 1650, the West Indies were the strategic center of the western world, witnessing one of the greatest power struggles of the age as Europeans made and lost immense fortunes growing and trading in sugar-a commodity so lucrative it became known as "white gold." As Matthew Parker vividly chronicles in his sweeping history, the sugar revolution made the English, in particular, a nation of voracious consumers-so much so that the wealth of her island colonies became the foundation and focus of England's commercial and imperial greatness, underpinning the British economy and ultimately fueling the Industrial Revolution. Yet with the incredible wealth came untold misery: the horror endured by slaves, on whose backs the sugar empire was brutally built; the rampant disease that claimed the lives of one-third of all whites within three years of arrival in the Caribbean; the cruelty, corruption, and decadence of the plantation culture. While sugar came to dictate imperial policy, for those on the ground the British West Indian empire presented a disturbing moral universe. Parker brilliantly interweaves the human stories of those since lost to history whose fortunes and fame rose and fell with sugar. Their industry drove the development of the North American mainland states, and with it a slave culture, as the plantation model was exported to the warm, southern states. Broad in scope, rich in detail, The Sugar Barons freshly links the histories of Europe, the West Indies, and North America and reveals the full impact of the sugar revolution, the resonance of which is still felt today.

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

Author : Hakluyt Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by Hakluyt Society and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631

Author : Thomas Rundall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631 written by Thomas Rundall and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives of Eminent Individuals Celebrated in American History

Author : Jared Sparks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Lives of Eminent Individuals Celebrated in American History written by Jared Sparks and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India

Author : Hakluyt Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Voyages Towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India written by Hakluyt Society and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631

Author : Thomas Rundall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317090241
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Narratives of Voyages towards the North-West, in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India, 1496 to 1631 written by Thomas Rundall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains accounts of the voyages of Cabot, Davis, Frobisher, and others, drawn chiefly from the works of Hakluyt, Purchas, Harris and Foxe. The supplementary material includes the 1848 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1849.

Panama Fever

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307472531
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Panama Fever written by Matthew Parker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-03-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Panama Canal was the costliest undertaking in history; its completion in 1914 marked the beginning of the “American Century.” Panama Fever draws on contemporary accounts, bringing the experience of those who built the canal vividly to life. Politicians engaged in high-stakes diplomacy in order to influence its construction. Meanwhile, engineers and workers from around the world rushed to take advantage of high wages and the chance to be a part of history. Filled with remarkable characters, Panama Fever is an epic history that shows how a small, fiercely contested strip of land made the world a smaller place and launched the era of American global dominance.

Monte Cassino

Author : Matthew Parker
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385513399
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Monte Cassino written by Matthew Parker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monte Cassino is the true story of one of the bitterest and bloodiest of the Allied struggles against the Nazi army. Long neglected by historians, the horrific conflict saw over 350,000 casualties, while the worst winter in Italian memory and official incompetence and backbiting only worsened the carnage and turmoil. Combining groundbreaking research in military archives with interviews with four hundred survivors from both sides, as well as soldier diaries and letters, Monte Cassino is both profoundly evocative and historically definitive. Clearly and precisely, Matthew Parker brilliantly reconstructs Europe’s largest land battle–which saw the destruction of the ancient monastery of Monte Cassino–and dramatically conveys the heroism and misery of the human face of war.

A new naval History; or, Compleat view of the British Marine, etc

Author : John ENTICK
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 932 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A new naval History; or, Compleat view of the British Marine, etc written by John ENTICK and published by . This book was released on 1757 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wild Coast

Author : John Gimlette
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654142
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Wild Coast written by John Gimlette and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2012 Between the Orinoco and the Amazon lies a fabulous forested land, barely explored. Much of Guiana seldom sees sunlight, and new species are often tumbling out of the dark trees. Shunned by the conquistadors, it was left to others to carve into colonies. Guyana, Suriname and Guyane Franaise are what remain of their contest, and the 400 years of struggle that followed. Now, award-winning author John Gimlette sets off along this coast, gathering up its astonishing story. His journey takes him deep into the jungle, from the hideouts of runaway slaves to penal colonies, outlandish forts, remote Amerindian villages, a 'Little Paris' and a space port. He meets rebels, outlaws and sorcerers; follows the trail of a vicious Georgian revolt, and ponders a love-affair that changed the face of slavery. Here too is Jonestown, where, in 1978, over 900 Americans, members of Reverend Jones's cult, committed suicide. The last traces are almost gone now, as the forest closes in. Beautiful, bizarre and occasionally brutal, this is one of the great forgotten corners of the Earth: the Wild Coast.

Historical Dictionary of the British Empire

Author : Kenneth J. Panton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810875241
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the British Empire written by Kenneth J. Panton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Britain was the dominant world power, its strength based in large part on its command of an Empire that, in the years immediately after World War I, encompassed almost one-quarter of the earth’s land surface and one-fifth of its population. Writers boasted that the sun never set on British possessions, which provided raw materials that, processed in British factories, could be re-exported as manufactured products to expanding colonial markets. The commercial and political might was not based on any grand strategic plan of territorial acquisition, however. The Empire grew piecemeal, shaped by the diplomatic, economic, and military circumstances of the times, and its speedy dismemberment in the mid-twentieth century was, similarly, a reaction to the realities of geopolitics in post-World War II conditions. Today the Empire has gone but it has left a legacy that remains of great significance in the modern world. The Historical Dictionary of the British Empire covers its history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Britain.