The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America
Title | The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America PDF eBook |
Author | A. Talbot Bethell |
Publisher | Genealogical Publishing Com |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2009-06 |
Genre | Bahamas |
ISBN | 0806350504 |
The history of the colonization of the Bahamas and the first royal governor, Woodes Rogers, Esquire; interwoven with the history of the United States. The author begins the book with the history of the New World, starting in A.D. 986 with the arrival of n
The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America
Title | The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Talbot Bethell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | American loyalists |
ISBN | 9780806365619 |
The History of the Early Settlers of the Bahamas is augmented by a brief account of the history of the New World, its colonizaiton and the development of the American colonies, giving events which led up to the American Revolution.
The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America ... 3rd Edition, Revised
Title | The Early Settlers of the Bahamas and Colonists of North America ... 3rd Edition, Revised PDF eBook |
Author | Arnold Talbot BETHELL |
Publisher | |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 1937 |
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The Story of the Bahamas
Title | The Story of the Bahamas PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Albury |
Publisher | MacMillan Education, Limited |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780333171325 |
A Cold Welcome
Title | A Cold Welcome PDF eBook |
Author | Sam White |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2017-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674981340 |
Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman–History Today Prize Finalist Winner of the Roland H. Bainton Book Prize “Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.” —Times Literary Supplement When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, winters in which everything froze, even the Rio Grande. A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe’s earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown. As we confront our own uncertain future, it offers a powerful reminder of the unexpected risks of an unpredictable climate. “A remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America...This beautifully written, important book leaves us in no doubt that we ignore the chronicle of past climate change at our peril. I found it hard to put down.” —Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age “Deeply researched and exciting...His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities.” —New York Review of Books
Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery
Title | Islanders in the Stream: From aboriginal times to the end of slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Craton |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 497 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820313823 |
From two leading historians of Bahamian history comes this groundbreaking work on a unique archipelagic nation. Islanders in the Stream is not only the first comprehensive chronicle of the Bahamian people, it is also the first work of its kind and scale for any Caribbean nation. This comprehensive volume details the full, extraordinary history of all the people who have ever inhabited the islands and explains the evolution of a Bahamian national identity within the framework of neighboring territories in similar circumstances. Divided into three sections, this volume covers the period from aboriginal times to the end of formal slavery in 1838. The first part includes authoritative accounts of Columbus’s first landfall in the New World on San Salvador island, his voyage through the Bahamas, and the ensuing disastrous collision of European and native Arawak cultures. Covering the islands’ initial settlement, the second section ranges from the initial European incursions and the first English settlements through the lawless era of pirate misrule to Britain’s official takeover and development of the colony in the eighteenth century. The third, and largest, section offers a full analysis of Bahamian slave society through the great influx of Empire Loyalists and their slaves at the end of the American Revolution to the purported achievement of full freedom for the slaves in 1838. This work is both a pioneering social history and a richly illustrated narrative modifying previous Eurocentric interpretations of the islands’ early history. Written to appeal to Bahamians as well as all those interested in Caribbean history, Islanders in the Stream looks at the islands and their people in their fullest contexts, constituting not just the most thorough view of Bahamian history to date but a major contribution to Caribbean historiography.
Bristol and America
Title | Bristol and America PDF eBook |
Author | Bristol (England) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 1967 |
Genre | United States |
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