Strangers Within the Realm
Title | Strangers Within the Realm PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
A collection of essays dealing with British expansion in the 17th and 18th centuries. An introduction surveys British imperial history, providing a context for the focus on specific ethnic groups--Native Americans, African-Americans, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, and Germans--and how these groups effected British expansion in Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and the West Indies. A conclusion assesses the impact of North American colonies on British society and politics. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Strangers Within the Realm
Title | Strangers Within the Realm PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard Bailyn |
Publisher | Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press |
Pages | 482 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire
Savages Within the Empire
Title | Savages Within the Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Bickham |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2005-12-08 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199286965 |
Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts,including newspapers, imperial policy, museum exhibits, the Enlightenment, missionary records, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. He thusreveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture.
Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times
Title | Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2024-06-03 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004693319 |
This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and described as such by their contemporaries. This central category – which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women – is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such “others” are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.
Diversity and Accommodation
Title | Diversity and Accommodation PDF eBook |
Author | Michael J. Puglisi |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780870499692 |
The contributors to this collection argue that traditional views - of ethnic and cultural isolation, of German clannishness and Scots-Irish individualism - contain a kernel of truth but are far too restrictive and simplistic.
Strangers in Blood
Title | Strangers in Blood PDF eBook |
Author | Jean Elizabeth Feerick |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1442641401 |
Strangers in Blood explores, in a range of early modern literature, the association between migration to foreign lands and the moral and physical degeneration of individuals. Arguing that, in early modern discourse, the concept of race was primarily linked with notions of bloodline, lineage, and genealogy rather than with skin colour and ethnicity, Jean E. Feerick establishes that the characterization of settler communities as subject to degenerative decline constituted a massive challenge to the fixed system of blood that had hitherto underpinned the English social hierarchy. Considering contexts as diverse as Ireland, Virginia, and the West Indies, Strangers in Blood tracks the widespread cultural concern that moving out of England would adversely affect the temper and complexion of the displaced individual, changes that could be fought only through willed acts of self-discipline. In emphasizing the decline of blood as found at the centre of colonial narratives, Feerick illustrates the unwitting disassembling of one racial system and the creation of another.
Strangers in the Universe
Title | Strangers in the Universe PDF eBook |
Author | Clifford D. Simak |
Publisher | |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1956 |
Genre | Medicine |
ISBN |