Home Colonies
Title | Home Colonies PDF eBook |
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Pages | 38 |
Release | 1834 |
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Dutch Colonial Homes in America
Title | Dutch Colonial Homes in America PDF eBook |
Author | Roderic H. Blackburn |
Publisher | Rizzoli International Publications |
Pages | 246 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
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This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work-- written by eminent experts in the field-- "Dutch Colonial Homes in America" explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago.
The Empire at Home
Title | The Empire at Home PDF eBook |
Author | James Trafford |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2020-12-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780745341002 |
How is Britain enacting colonialism at home?
Colonial Homes
Title | Colonial Homes PDF eBook |
Author | Verna Fisher |
Publisher | Nomad Press |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2001-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1619304198 |
Taking young readers on a journey back in time, this dynamic series showcases various aspects of colonial life, from people and clothing to homes and food. Each book contains creative illustrations, interesting facts, highlighted vocabulary words, end-of-book challenges, and sidebars that help children understand the differences between modern and colonial life and inspire them to imagine what it would have been like to grow up in colonial America. The volumes in this series focus on the colonists but also include relevant information about Native Americans, offering a variety of perspectives on life in the colonies. A picture of domestic life in colonial times, this reference discusses the construction of the first colonial homes in Jamestown; the mysterious disappearance of the Roanoke colony; the wattle-and-daub houses built by colonists in Massachusetts; Swedish-influenced log cabins; and Native American tipis, longhouses, and wigwams.
Domestic Colonies
Title | Domestic Colonies PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Arneil |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2017-09-29 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0192525115 |
Modern colonization is generally defined as a process by which a state settles and dominates a foreign land and people. This book argues that through the nineteenth and into the first half of the twentieth centuries, thousands of domestic colonies were proposed and/or created by governments and civil society organizations for fellow citizens as opposed to foreigners and within their own borders rather than overseas. Such colonies sought to solve every social problem arising within industrializing and urbanizing states. Domestic Colonies argues that colonization ought to be seen during this period as a domestic policy designed to solve social problems at home as well as foreign policy designed to expand imperial power. Three kind of domestic colonies are analysed in this book: labour colonies for the idle poor, farm colonies for the mentally ill and disabled, and utopian colonies for racial, religious, and political minorities. All of them were justified by an ideology of colonialism that argued if people were segregated in colonies located on empty land and engaged in agrarian labour, this would improve both the people and the land. Key domestic colonialists analysed in this book include Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Kropotkin, Robert Owen, and Booker T. Washington. The turn inward to colony thus requires us to rethink the meaning and scope of colonization and colonialism in modern political theory and practice.
Home Colonies. An account of a visit to the D. H. C. of Frederick's Oord, Wellem's Oord, and Veenhuizen, in ... 1833, etc. By a member of the Agricultural Employment Institution
Title | Home Colonies. An account of a visit to the D. H. C. of Frederick's Oord, Wellem's Oord, and Veenhuizen, in ... 1833, etc. By a member of the Agricultural Employment Institution PDF eBook |
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Pages | 56 |
Release | 1834 |
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Home Life in Colonial Days
Title | Home Life in Colonial Days PDF eBook |
Author | Alice Earle |
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Pages | 306 |
Release | 2016-11-22 |
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ISBN | 9781540564641 |
A book which throws new light on our early history, "Home Life in Colonial Days" is a charming holiday gift of most unusual value, appealing to everyone who is of colonial blood; to everyone who now lives in the homes so greatly changed; and to every woman, - the homemaker. "The kitchen in all the farmhouses of all the colonies was the most cheerful, homelike, and picturesque room in the house; indeed, it was in town houses as well. The walls were often bare, the rafters dingy; the windows were small, the furniture meager; but the kitchen had a warm, glowing heart that spread light and welcome, and made the poor room a home.... The ears of corn were often piled into the attic until the floor was a foot deep with them. I once entered an ell bedroom in a Massachusetts farmhouse where the walls, rafters, and four-post bedstead were hung solid with ears of yellow corn, which truly "made a sunshine in a shady place." -Alice Morse Earle "Readable and curiously interesting....Mrs. Earle has remarkable zest and skill." -New Outlook "Useful and attractive....A fascinating volume." -The Dial "No other single volume constructs with such completeness, fairness and suggestiveness the atmosphere of colonial homes." -The Herald, Boston "Unique....valuable as well as entertaining." -Mail and Express "Mrs. Earle has already gained distinction as a fascinating chronicler of early American life and manners, and few writers carry the imagination back to the family traditions of olden times with the force and graphic power which she exercises over the minds of her readers." -The Bookman "An exceedingly interesting account....Especially recommended to those who wish aid in reproducing accurately the life and costumes of Colonial times." -University of North Carolina Extension Bulletin "Splendid material....Children will be interested in listing some of our modern furnishings that Pilgrims did not have." -Normal Instructor and Primary Plans