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Devil-Land

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141984589
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Devil-Land written by Clare Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

Devil's Gate

Author : Tom Rea
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182008
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Devil's Gate written by Tom Rea and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch of the Oregon Trail—to show how ownership of a place can translate into owning its story. Seemingly in the middle of nowhere, Devil’s Gate is the center of a landscape that threatens to shrink any inhabitants to insignificance except for one thing: ownership of the land and the stories they choose to tell about it. The static serenity of the once heavily traveled region masks a history of conflict. Tom Sun, an early rancher, played a role here in the lynching of the only woman ever hanged in Wyoming. The lynching was dismissed as swift frontier justice in the wake of cattle theft, but Rea finds more complicated motives that involve land and water rights. The Sun name was linked with the land for generations. In the 1990s, the Mormon Church purchased part of the Sun ranch to memorialize Martin’s Cove as the site of handcart pioneers who froze to death in the valley in 1856. The treeless, arid country around Devil’s Gate seems too immense for ownership. But stories run with the land. People who own the land can own the stories, at least for a time.

The Dark Land

Author : D M Shepard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781578337514
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Dark Land written by D M Shepard and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lured by her high peaks and vast forests, adventurers swarm to the siren call of Alaska's backcountry. Her harsh bite scars many. Some never return. "Please find my son's remains..." Haunted by the last request of her foster mother, experienced outdoorswoman, Rose Long, skis into the Wrangell-St. Elias wilderness to search for clues surrounding the missing man. Concerned about the suspicious circumstances surrounding the older woman's death, her childhood friend, Ulrik, joins the quest to protect the woman he secretly loves. Ancient evil seethes in the ice-locked boreal forest, watching their every move during the long northern nights. The legend of the Headless Ravine is steeped in blood. The Dark Land's hunger for flesh never sleeps, even in the deepest cold of winterƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚€ƒƒ‚‚ƒ‚‚"and it has marked Rose as its next victim.

The Devil's Chain

Author : Keely Stauter-Halsted
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501701665
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Chain written by Keely Stauter-Halsted and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half-century before Poland’s long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country’s burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil’s Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland’s struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the Poles’ growing anxiety about white slavery, venereal disease, and eugenics by examining the regulation of the female body, the rise of medical authority, and the role of social reformers in addressing the problem of paid sex. Stauter-Halsted argues that the sale of sex was positioned at the juncture of mass and elite cultures, affecting nearly every aspect of urban life and bringing together sharply divergent social classes in what had long been a radically stratified society. She captures the experiences of the impoverished women who turned to the streets and draws a vivid picture of the social milieu that shaped their choices. The Devil’s Chain demonstrates that discussions of prostitution and its attendant disorders—sexual deviancy, alcoholism, child abuse, vagrancy, and other related problems—reflected differing visions for the future of the Polish nation.

The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross

Author : Laura de Mello e Souza
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292787510
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross written by Laura de Mello e Souza and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Her work shows how the Inquisition reinforced the view held in Europe (particularly Portugal) that the colony was a purgatory where those who had sinned were exiled, a place where the Devil had a wide range of opportunities. Her focus on the three centuries of the colonial period, the multiple regions in Brazil, and the Indian, African, and Portuguese traditions of magic, witchcraft, and healing, make the book comprehensive in scope. Stuart Schwartz of Yale University says, "It is arguably the best book of this genre about Latin America...all in all, a wonderful book." Alida Metcalf of Trinity University, San Antonio, says, "This book is a major contribution to the field of Brazilian history...the first serious study of popular religion in colonial Brazil...Mello e Souza is a wonderful writer."

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

Author : Simon Thurley
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008389977
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court written by Simon Thurley and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England.

The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories

Author : John W. Harden Sr.
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807866776
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Tramping Ground and Other North Carolina Mystery Stories written by John W. Harden Sr. and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first colonization at Roanoke Island, the bizarre and inexplicable have shrouded the Tar Heel State. From history and legend, John Harden records ominous events that have shaped or colored state history.

The Devils Untold Story

Author : Ethan Millan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1524520608
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book The Devils Untold Story written by Ethan Millan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a world where blood, lust, power, loyalty, and desires to kill are taken to their limits. Out of the darkness where that mans lust for power is allowed to exist, the unimaginable emerged. From the forgotten legends of ancient times, they have been called forth into the world once againdevils. From within the shadows, rogue hunters arise, operating for their own reasons but aim for the same goals. The devils do not walk unchallenged. Terror doesnt flourish without resistance, and a battle for survival erupts. An age that changed from peace to violence and sin, trading blood for blood, humanity may be lost. But from the ashes of destroyed hope, a new legend emerges, a figure harbored by death, respectfully feared by devils, and distrusted by humanity. A stolen child who became a devil slayer and who became a devil, his name is Heartnik. Try to kill me if you can, but ready or not, Im coming for you.

The Jersey Devil

Author : James F. McCloy
Publisher : B B& A Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780912608112
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Jersey Devil written by James F. McCloy and published by B B& A Publishers. This book was released on 1976 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the course of its extraordinary history, the Jersey Devil has been exorcised, shot, electrocuted, declared officially dead, and scoffed as foolishness--none of which has had any effect on it or the people who persist in seeing it!This mysterious creature is said to prowl the lonely sand trails and mist-shrouded marshes of the Pine Barrens, and emerge perioducally to rampage through the towns and cities of New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, leaving many communities in near-hysteria.The authors show that while a few appearances have been out-right fraud and others have likely been the result of mass hysteria, this creature has been seen by enough sane, sober, and responsible citizens to keep the possiblity of its existence alive and tantalizing.Over 50,000 in print

Regarding the Use of the Trust Land and Resources of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Regarding the Use of the Trust Land and Resources of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Resources and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands

Author : United States. Department of the Interior
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Decisions of the Department of the Interior and the General Land Office in Cases Relating to the Public Lands written by United States. Department of the Interior and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land of Sunshine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Land of Sunshine

Author : Charles Fletcher Lummis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Sunshine written by Charles Fletcher Lummis and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Code

Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United states code: Volume 4

Author : United States
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1332 pages
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Download or read book United states code: Volume 4 written by United States and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rehabilitation of the Devil's Lake Sioux Tribe and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, ND. Hearings ... on H.R. 7262 and 6152. Feb. 23 and Mar. 14, 1950

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Public lands
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Rehabilitation of the Devil's Lake Sioux Tribe and the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, ND. Hearings ... on H.R. 7262 and 6152. Feb. 23 and Mar. 14, 1950 written by United States. Congress. House. Public lands and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Devil's Hand

Author : Jack Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982123753
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book The Devil's Hand written by Jack Carr and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's been twenty years since 9/11, two decades since the United States was attacked on home soil and set out to make the guilty pay with their lives. In the shadows, the enemy has been patient--learning, and adapting. And the enemy is ready to strike again. A new president offers hope to a country weary of conflict. He's a young, popular, self-made visionary...but he's also a man with a secret. Halfway across the globe a regional superpower struggles with sanctions imposed by the United States and her European allies, a country whose ancient religion spawned a group of ruthless assassins. Faced with internal dissent and extrajudicial targeted killings by the United States and Israel, the Supreme Leader puts a plan in motion to defeat the most powerful nation on earth. Meanwhile, a young PhD student has gained access to a bioweapon thought to be confined to a classified military laboratory known only to a select number of officials. A second-generation agent, he has been assigned a mission that will bring his adopted homeland to its knees."--Back cover.