Virginia Wine: Four Centuries of Change, Andrew A. Painter
Автор: O`Connor D`Arcy Название: Secret Treasure of Oak Island: The Amazing True Story of a Centuries-Old Treasure Hunt ISBN: 1493037005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781493037001 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This treasure hunting book is the prequel to History Channel`s popular show The Curse of Oak Island. In this new edition, D`Arcy O`Connor shares the most recent treasure hunts and finds on Oak Island, a small patch of land off the coast of Nova Scotia. The notorious Captain Kidd was rumored to have left part of his treasure somewhere along here, among other buried treasures. In 1795, when Daniel McGinnis and two friends started to dig up the island, they found what turned out to be an elaborately engineered shaft constructed of oak logs, nonindigenous coconut mats, and landfill that came to be known as the Money Pit. Ever since that summer day in 1795, the possibility of what might be hidden in the depths of a small island has made it the site of the world`s longest, most expensive, and most perplexing treasure hunt. O`Connor recounts the fascinating stories and amazing discoveries of past and current treasure seekers who have sought Oak Island`s fabled treasure for over two hundred years. It has baffled scientists and madmen, scholars and idiots, millionaires and get-rich-quick schemers, psychics, engineers, charlatans, and even a former president of the United States. The island has consumed the fortunes-and in some cases, the lives-of those who have obsessively set out to unlock its secret.
Автор: Marilyn E. Weigold Название: Peconic Bay: Four Centuries of History on Long Island`s North and South Forks ISBN: 0815609426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815609421 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 16680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by Long Island Sound, the Peconic Bay region, including the North and South Forks, has only recently been recognized for its environmental and economic significance. The story of the waterway and its contiguous land masses is one of farmers and fishermen, sailing vessels and submarines, wealthy elite residents, and award winning vineyards.Peconic Bay examines the past 400 years of the region’s history, tracing the growth of the fishing industry, the rise of tourism, and the impact of a military presence in the wake of September 11. Weigold introduces readers to the people of Peconic Bay’s colorful history—from Albert Einstein and Captain Kidd, to Clara Barton and Kofi Annan—as well as to the residents who have struggled, and continue to struggle, over the well-being of their community and their estuarine connection to the planet. Throughout, Weigold brings to life the region’s rich sense of place and shines a light on its unique role in our nation’s history.
Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Автор: Robert H. Jackson Название: Regional Conflict and Demographic Patterns on the Jesuit Missions among the Guarani in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries ISBN: 9004366148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004366145 Издательство: Brill Цена: 132830.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In the 17th and 18th centuries Spain and Portugal contested control of the disputed Rio de la Plata borderlands. The Jesuit missions among the Guarani played an important role in regional conflict through the provision of manpower for campaigns and supplies. However, regional conflict and particularly the mobilization of the mission militia and the movement of soldiers on campaign had demographic consequences for the populations of the missions such as the spread of contagion. This study documents regional conflict in the Rio de la Plata, the militarization of the Jesuit missions, and the demographic consequences of conflict for the mission populations.
Название: A Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries) ISBN: 9004349936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004349933 Издательство: Brill Цена: 227130.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This Companion to the Abbey of Le Bec in the Central Middle Ages (11th–13th Centuries) offers the first major collection of studies dedicated to the medieval abbey of Le Bec, one of the most important, and perhaps the single most influential, monastery in the Anglo-Norman world. Following its foundation in 1034 by a knight-turned-hermit called Herluin, Le Bec soon developed into a religious, cultural and intellectual hub whose influence extended throughout Normandy and beyond. The fourteen chapters gathered in this Companion are written by internationally renowned experts of Anglo-Norman studies, and together they address the history of this important medieval institution in its many exciting facets. The broad range of scholarly perspectives combined in this volume includes historical and religious studies, prosopography and biography, palaeography and codicology, studies of space and identity, as well as theology and medicine.Contributors are Richard Allen, Elma Brenner, Laura Cleaver, Jean-Herve Foulon, Giles E.M. Gasper, Laura L. Gathagan, Veronique Gazeau, Leonie V. Hicks, Elizabeth Kuhl, Benjamin Pohl, Julie Potter, Elisabeth van Houts, Steven Vanderputten, Sally N. Vaughn, and Jenny Weston.
Автор: Guy Brunet Название: Mariage et metissage dans les societes coloniales - Marriage and misgeneration in colonial societies: Ameriques, Afrique et Iles de l`Ocean Indien (XVI e –XX e siecles) - Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVI th –XX th centuries) ISBN: 3034316054 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783034316057 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 94110.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: La conqu te de vastes empires coloniaux par les puissances europ ennes, suivie par des mouvements migratoires d'ampleur variable selon les territoires et les poques, a donn naissance de nouvelles soci t s. Les principaux groupes humains, indig nes, sous diff rentes appellations, colons d'origine europ enne et leurs descendants, et parfois esclaves arrach s au continent africain, se sont m lang s parfois rapidement et avec une forte intensit , parfois plus tardivement ou marginalement. Les unions, officialis es par des mariages ou rest es consensuelles, provoqu l'apparition de nouvelles g n rations m tisses et ainsi qu'un ph nom ne de cr olisation. L'effectif de chacun de ces groupes humains, et l'existence ventuelle de barri res entre eux, ont produit des degr s de m tissage tr s divers que les administrateurs des soci t s coloniales ont tent de classifier. Les seize textes r unis dans cet ouvrage abordent la mani re dont les populations se sont m lang es, ainsi que la position des m tis dans les nouvelles soci t s. Ces questions sont abord es dans une perspective de long terme, du XVIe au XXe si cle, et propos de nombreux territoires, du Canada la Bolivie, des Antilles Madagascar, de l'Alg rie l'Angola. The conquest of large colonial empires by European powers, followed by migratory flows, more or less important depending on places and periods, gave birth to new societies. The most important human groups, indigenous, European born settlers and their descendants, and sometimes slaves snatched from the African continent, mixed, more or less early, more or less intensely. Unions, legally registered or not, and misgeneration lead to the appearance of mixed-blood generations and to a process of creolisation. The numerical strength of these human groups, and the existence of barriers between them, produced various degrees of misgeneration that the authorities of the colonial societies tried to identify and to classify. The sixteen texts gathered in this book study the way that these populations got mixed, and the place of mixed-blood people in the new societies. These issues are tackled in a long-term perspective, about various territories, from Canada to Bolivia, from the French West Indies to Madagascar, from Algeria to Angola.
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