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This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution
in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish
politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further
illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish
nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
Includes FULL COLOR maps and illustrations. Presents a significant
look at the cold weather and mountain training facility of the U.S.
Marine Corps in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
On the morning of August 9, 1757, British and colonial officers
defending the besieged Fort William Henry surrendered to French
forces, accepting the generous "parole of honor" offered by General
Montcalm. As the column of British and colonials marched with their
families and servants to Fort Edward some miles south, they were
set upon by the Indian allies of the French. The resulting
"massacre," thought to be one of the bloodiest days of the French
and Indian War, became forever ingrained in American myth by James
Fenimore Cooper's classic novel The Last of the Mohicans.
In Betrayals, historian Ian K. Steele gives us the true story
behind Cooper's famous book, bringing to life men such as British
commander of Fort William Henry George Monro, English General Webb,
his French counterpart Montcalm, and the wild frontier world of
Natty Bumppo. The Battle of Lake George and the building of the
fort marked the return of European military involvement in
intercolonial wars, producing an explosive mixture of the
contending martial values of Indians, colonials, and European
regulars. The Americans and British who were attacked after
surrendering, as well as French officers and their Indian allies
(the latter enraged by the small amount of English booty allowed
them by the French), all felt deeply betrayed. Contemporary
accounts of the victims--whose identities Steele has carefully
reconstructed from newly discovered sources--helped to create a
powerful, racist American folk memory that still resonates today.
Survivors included men and women who were adopted into Indian
tribes, sold to Canadians in a well-established white servant
trade, or jailed in Canada or France as prisoners of war.
Explaining the motives for the most notorious massacre of the
colonial period, Steele offers a gripping tale of a fledgling
America, one which places the tragic events of the Seven Years' War
in a fresh historical context. Anyone interested in the fact behind
the fiction will find it fascinating reading.
Exploding the curious myth that the ocean is a barrier rather than
a highway for communication, this unusual interdisciplinary study
examines the English Atlantic context of early American life. From
the winterless Caribbean to the ice-locked Hudson Bay, maritime
communications in fact usually met the legitimate expectations for
frequency, speed, and safety, while increased shipping, new postal
services, and newspapers hastened the exchange of news. These
changes in avenues of communications reflected--and, in turn,
enhanced--the political, economic, and social integration of the
English Atlantic between 1675 and 1740. As Steele deftly describes
the influence of physical, technological, socioeconomic, and
political aspects of seaborne communication on the community, he
suggests an exciting new mode of analyzing Colonial history.
This volume explores the ways in which the complicated revolution
in British newspapers, the New Journalism, influenced Irish
politics, culture, and newspaper practices. The essays here further
illuminate the central role of the press in the evolution of Irish
nationalism and modernism in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
The book is bilingual and contains 5 of Henry David Thoreau's most
famous political essays both in English and Georgian languages:
"Civil Disobedience," "Slavery in Massachusetts," "A Plea for
Captain John Brown," "Life Without Principle" and "The Last Days of
John Brown." This is the first scholarly, fully annotated edition
of Thoreau's political essays in the world. It contains over 700
footnotes which explain Thoreau's ideas, Slavery, Abolitionism and
the 19th century politics in historical context. Zviad Kliment
Lazarashvili is the first Georgian translator of Henry David
Thoreau's political essays. His pioneering translations, historical
analyses and commentaries on Thoreau's works were first introduced
in 2008 as an academic treatise, Henry David Thoreau: Hero of the
American Nation (2008). This is the second edition with even more
detailed notes and commentaries, which includes introduction by
Zviad kliment Lazarashvili, and the translator's biography by
George P. Stasen. The book also contains illustrations and copies
of historical documents relevant to the 19th century Abolitionism
and New England.
This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for
the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American
Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the
colonies during this pivotal point in history.
The Human Tradition in Colonial America is an entertaining as well
an enlightening book that brings the colonial period to life
through the stories of the colorful participants who helped mold
the British dependency that would eventually become the United
States.
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