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Book Synopsis Tales of Our New Possessions (Classic Reprint) by : R. van Bergen
Download or read book Tales of Our New Possessions (Classic Reprint) written by R. van Bergen and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of Our New PossessionsThe book can be introduced as a supplementary reader in the fourth, fifth, or sixth grades. As an historical reader, it is an excellent companion-volume to Tales Of Discovery and Pacific History Stories. A little tact on the teacher's part will make these stories the most attractive and valuable Of any in the varied selection Of supplementary readers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Book Synopsis Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Montgomery Skinner
Download or read book Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Montgomery Skinner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Myths and Legends of Our New Possessions and Protectorate Ararats in the Sierras, in Alaska, in Hawaii, in the Philippines. It sets us a-thinking when we find Noah in a Hawaiian myth, and there called Nuu when we learn of the white god of Mexico who is to return and free his people, for which reason houses in the southwest are still built with doors opening toward the sunrise, that the faithful may see him early when he advances out of the East, to which he went so long ago. We have forgotten all we never knew about the people who first recounted the deluge legend, but everywhere we hear, among primitive tribes, of floods that covered the globe, of a chosen one who survived the cataclysm and re peopled the earth, restoring to it, also, the serpents, birds, and quadrupeds that he had saved from the waters. How much more dramatic and portentous are these records than the possible beginning of the story in some local freshet! Eden is in both hemispheres. Sodom has been destroyed on both continents. Helen is not alone of Troy, but of Molokai and California. Coming to a later time, we find our dear old Rip Van Winkle to be only the phantom of an earlier personage. The man who fell asleep among the hills and awoke to find himself and the world grown old is at home in Germany and the Orient and on our Western plains, quite as well as in the mountains of our Hud son; yet we refuse to yield his place to any proto type, and insist that Rip shall inhabit our Catskills. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions: Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient by : Murat Halstead
Download or read book The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions: Including the Ladrones, Hawaii, Cuba and Porto Rico The Eldorado of the Orient written by Murat Halstead and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Possessions by : Sara Flannery Murphy
Download or read book The Possessions written by Sara Flannery Murphy and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A gripping, chilling read that’s part love story, part mystery, and completely original, it’s sensuous, scary, and utterly thrilling." —Anton DiSclafani, author of The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls In this electrifying literary debut, a young woman who channels the dead for a living crosses a dangerous line when she falls in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances. In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, a private service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow workers, known as "bodies", wear the discarded belongings of the dead and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits—numbing their own minds and losing themselves in the process. Edie has been a body at the Elysian Society for five years, an unusual record. Her success is the result of careful detachment: she seeks refuge in the lotuses’ anesthetic effects and distances herself from making personal connections with her clients. But when Edie channels Sylvia, the dead wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes obsessed with the glamorous couple. Despite the murky circumstances surrounding Sylvia’s drowning, Edie breaks her own rules and pursues Patrick, moving deeper into his life and summoning Sylvia outside the Elysian Society’s walls. After years of hiding beneath the lotuses’ dulling effect, Edie discovers that the lines between her own desires and those of Sylvia have begun to blur, and takes increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. Suddenly, she finds her quiet life unraveling as she grapples not only with Sylvia’s growing influence and the questions surrounding her death, but with her own long-buried secrets. A tale of desire and obsession, deceit and dark secrets that defies easy categorization, The Possessions is a seductive, absorbing page-turner that builds to a shattering, unforgettable conclusion.
Download or read book The American Catalogue written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American national trade bibliography.
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Cumulated Index to the Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Book Synopsis The Rhetoric of Empire by : David Spurr
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Empire written by David Spurr and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The white man's burden, darkest Africa, the seduction of the primitive: such phrases were widespread in the language Western empires used to talk about their colonial enterprises. How this language itself served imperial purposes--and how it survives today in writing about the Third World--are the subject of David Spurr's book, a revealing account of the rhetorical strategies that have defined Western thinking about the non-Western world.Despite historical differences among British, French, and American versions of colonialism, their rhetoric had much in common. The Rhetoric of Empire identifies these shared features--images, figures of speech, and characteristic lines of argument--and explores them in a wide variety of sources. A former correspondent for the United Press International, the author is equally at home with journalism or critical theory, travel writing or official documents, and his discussion is remarkably comprehensive. Ranging from T. E. Lawrence and Isak Dineson to Hemingway and Naipaul, from Time and the New Yorker to the National Geographic and Le Monde, from journalists such as Didion and Sontag to colonial administrators such as Frederick Lugard and Albert Sarraut, this analysis suggests the degree to which certain rhetorical tactics penetrate the popular as well as official colonial and postcolonial discourse.Finally, Spurr considers the question: Can the language itself--and with it, Western forms of interpretation--be freed of the exercise of colonial power? This ambitious book is an answer of sorts. By exposing the rhetoric of empire, Spurr begins to loosen its hold over discourse about--and between--different cultures.
Book Synopsis The True Possession (Classic Reprint) by : Isabel Foster
Download or read book The True Possession (Classic Reprint) written by Isabel Foster and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The True Possession In sending out this story, I have realized that we can only give that which is our own. We can theorize and perhaps deliver good advice, but unless we have proven and applied our theories we do not make the experience our own, and have, therefore, no just right to expect what we say to reach or help anyone, be cause no one is willing to receive something from some one to whom that something does not belong. This is even more true about thoughts than about material things. It often seems strange to us that children do not more readily respond to that which we have given time and labor to explain, but do we pause to consider whether we are attempting to give something we do not possess? Whether it be love, unselfishness or anything else. It is not what we teach, however able it may be, it is what we are, that reaches them, and we need never look for their response to anything less. To those, who put this story in the hands of children, I can say it is a gift for each little one, for they can make the truth in it their own, as the one who gives it to them has proven it more than once. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Book Synopsis New Little Americans by : Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Download or read book New Little Americans written by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis New Tales, Vol. 2 of 4 (Classic Reprint) by : Mrs. Opie
Download or read book New Tales, Vol. 2 of 4 (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. Opie and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Tales, Vol. 2 of 4 A dancel No, indeed, (n'ied Manor, frowning aside at Clara; it was a Hall, and a very charming one it was. You were there then Yes, we were both there -why were not you of the party P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis America's Insular Possessions, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by : Charles Harcourt Forbes-Lindsay
Download or read book America's Insular Possessions, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Charles Harcourt Forbes-Lindsay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-21 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from America's Insular Possessions, Vol. 1 of 2 The following pages treat of the American posses sions abroad, including the Philippine Islands, to which a separate volume has been devoted. The chapter on the Great Antilles is justified by our intimate relations to the alien islands of the group and their historical and commercial connection with Porto Rico. Guam occupies what may seem to be an undue amount of space in the book, because there is no popular description of that little island extant, and its history is only to be gathered piecemeal from a number of works inaccessible to the general reader. Moreover, Guam is destined to become in the future a possession of no little importance to the United States. The section on Panama and the Canal covers the story of the enterprise from its inception to the point at which the form of the waterway was finally decided upon and its construction definitely begun. The section includes a description of the Canal as it will ultimately be built. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis An Observer in the Philippines by : John Bancroft Devins
Download or read book An Observer in the Philippines written by John Bancroft Devins and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Observer in the Philippines: Or Life in Our New Possessions The work which Doctor Devins has done as a result of his visit to the Philippine Islands in: writing, this volume, is an exceedingly useful one. I have examined the manuscript with as much care as I could give it in the very short time which other duties permitted, and it seems to me that he has told the story of the Philippine Islands and of the conditions existing there with as earnest a desire to reach the truth as possible. Of course deductions and inferences made from observations are a matter of opinion and are much affected by one's standpoint. Doctor Devins is a Protestant clergyman and looks at the situation from a possibly somewhat different standpoint than that of a Protestant layman or from that of a Catholic layman or a Catholic clergyman, but yet it seems to me there is very little in the book to which exception could be taken by either a Protestant layman or by a good Catholic, whether priest or parishioner. The critical issue as to the friars might present some differences of opinion, but generally the picture which is painted in this book is true to nature and to the facts as Doctor Devins saw them. It is of the utmost importance that the people of America should know the truth about the Philippines; should understand so far as they can the atmosphere, political, moral and social, which there is in the Islands, and this book I am sure will tend greatly to promote such knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels by : John Glendening
Download or read book Science and Religion in Neo-Victorian Novels written by John Glendening and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel — a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives — has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to Victorians, this subject often appears in neo-Victorian novels including those by such well-known authors as John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, and Mathew Kneale. This book discusses novels in which nineteenth-century science, including geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, interacts with religion through accommodations, conflicts, and crises of faith. In general, these texts abandon conventional religion but retain the ethical connectedness and celebration of life associated with spirituality at its best. Registering the growth of nineteenth-century secularism and drawing on aspects of the romantic tradition and ecological thinking, they honor the natural world without imagining that it exists for humans or functions in reference to human values. In particular, they enact a form of wonderment: the capacity of the mind to make sense of, creatively adapt, and enjoy the world out of which it has evolved — in short, to endow it with meaning. Protagonists who come to experience reality in this expansive way release themselves from self-anxiety and alienation. In this book, Glendening shows how, by intermixing past and present, fact and fiction, neo-Victorian narratives, with a few instructive exceptions, manifest this pattern.
