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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

By: Lorri Glover,Daniel Blake Smith

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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

By: Lorri Glover,Daniel Blake Smith

A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1429930969

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9781429930963

An American Betrayal

Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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An American Betrayal

Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears

By: Daniel Blake Smith

The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school. Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America.

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Henry Holt and Company

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142997396X

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Our Family Dreams

The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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Our Family Dreams

The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

By: Daniel Blake Smith

In the early years after the Revolution, Americans were on the move, seeking to establish a new way of life. And, more than the church or the school or the courthouse, it was the family that nurtured the American Dream. In this novel-like narrative, Daniel Blake Smith vividly brings to life the Fletchers, a family of loving, ambitious, at times insecure pioneers who scattered across the vast expanse of post-revolutionary America but kept in touch through letters despite their wildly different life paths. On a hard scrabble farm in Vermont, the patriarch, Jesse Fletcher, struggled with debt and depression but managed to educate his children, especially his son Elijah, a Yankee who moved to Virginia, shocked by the horrors of slavery but then seduced by the plantation lifestyle. Another son, Calvin, left at age 17 for Indianapolis to become a self-made lawyer, banker, and a prominent citizen and passionate abolitionist. The grandchildren include Indiana, a women's education activist who donated her home to create Sweet Briar College; black sheep Lucian, who went to California to join in the gold rush; and physician Billy captured as a spy during the Civil War. Through letters and diaries, we find in Our Family Dreams that the Fletchers appear surprisingly similar to us; they dream, fret, fight, and love. Despite numerous heartaches and setbacks, their spirit of enterprise, sacrifice, mobility, and education endures as American values to this day.

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Macmillan

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1137279818

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9781137279811

Inside the Great House

Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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Inside the Great House

Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

By: Daniel Blake Smith

Inside the Great House explores the nature of family life and kinship in planter households of the Chesapeake during the eighteenth century—a pivotal era in the history of the American family. Drawing on a wide assortment of personal documents—among them wills, inventories, diaries, family letters, memoirs, and autobiographies—as well as on the insights of such disciplines as psychology, demography, and anthropology, Daniel Blake Smith examines family values and behavior in a plantation society. Focusing on the emotional texture of the household, he probes deeply into personal values and relationships within the family and the surrounding circle of kin. Childrearing practices, male-female relationships, attitudes toward courtship and marriage, father-son ties, the character and influence of kinship, familial responses to illness and death, and the importance of inheritance—all receive extended treatment. A striking pattern of change emerges from this mosaic of life in the colonial South. What had once been a patriarchal, authoritarian, and emotionally restrained family environment altered profoundly during the latter half of the eighteenth century. The personal documents cited by Smith clearly point to the development after 1750 of a more intimate, child-centered family life characterized by close emotional bonds and by growing autonomy—especially for sons—in matters of marriage and career choice. Well-to-do planter families inculcated in their children a strong measure of selfconfidence and independence, as well as an abiding affection for their family society. Smith shows that Americans in the North as well as in the South were developing an altered view of the family and the world beyond it—a perspective which emphasized a warm and autonomous existence. This fascinating study will convince its readers that the history of the American family is intimately connected with the dramatic changes in the lives of these planter families of the eighteenth-century Chesapeake.

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Cornell University Press

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1501718010

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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

By: Lorri Glover,Daniel Blake Smith

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The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America

By: Lorri Glover,Daniel Blake Smith

In this2gripping account of shipwreck, mutiny, perseverance, and deliverance, the epic story of the wreck of the "Sea Venture" and its consequences for the survival of Jamestown . . . is told for the first time.--James Horn, author of "A Land As God Made It.

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348

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Macmillan

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0805086544

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9780805086546

Farmers and Fishermen

Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

By: Daniel Vickers

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Farmers and Fishermen

Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850

By: Daniel Vickers

Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and fishermen in eastern Massachusetts, Vickers identifies who worked for whom and under what terms. Seventeenth-century farmers, for example, maintained patriarchal control over their sons largely to assure themselves of a labor force. The first generation of fish merchants relied on a system of clientage that bound poor fishermen to deliver their hauls in exchange for goods. Toward the end of the colonial period, land scarcity forced farmers and fishermen to search for ways to support themselves through wage employment and home manufacture. Out of these adjustments, says Vickers, emerged a labor market sufficient for industrialization.

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UNC Press Books

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0807839957

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Our Family Dreams

The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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The Fletchers' Adventures in Nineteenth Century America

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St. Martin's Press

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1466879386

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An American Betrayal

Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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Cherokee Patriots and the Trail of Tears

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Henry Holt and Company

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142997396X

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Abominable Science

Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other Famous Cryptids

By: Daniel Loxton,Donald R. Prothero

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Abominable Science

Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and other Famous Cryptids

By: Daniel Loxton,Donald R. Prothero

Presents arguments for and against the existence of five notable cryptids and challenges the pseudoscience that furthers their legendary statuses, while providing an exploration of the nature and subculture of cryptozoology.

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434

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Columbia University Press

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0231153201

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Westward Into Kentucky

The Narrative of Daniel Trabue

By: Daniel Trabue

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Westward Into Kentucky

The Narrative of Daniel Trabue

By: Daniel Trabue

A lively memoir that covers many events in colonial Virginia, the Revolution, and early Kentucky statehood.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081319119X

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Raccoon

By: Daniel Heath Justice

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Raccoon

By: Daniel Heath Justice

Masked bandits of the night, raiders of farm crops and rubbish bins, raccoons are notorious for their indifference to human property and propriety. Yet they are also admired for their intelligence, dexterity, and determination. Raccoons have thoroughly adapted to human-dominated environments—they are thriving in numbers greater than at any point of their evolutionary history, including in new habitats. Raccoon surveys the natural and cultural history of this opportunistic omnivore, tracing its biological evolution, social significance, and image in a range of media and political contexts. From intergalactic misanthropes and despoilers of ancient temples to coveted hunting quarry, unpredictable pet, and symbols of wilderness and racist stereotype alike, Raccoon offers a lively consideration of this misunderstood outlaw species.

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Reaktion Books

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1789144256

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Inside the Great House

Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

By: Daniel Blake Smith

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Planter Family Life in Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake Society

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Cornell University Press

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Beginning Oracle SQL

By: Lex deHaan,Karen Morton,Tim Gorman,Inger Jorgensen,Daniel Fink,Andrew Morton

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Beginning Oracle SQL

By: Lex deHaan,Karen Morton,Tim Gorman,Inger Jorgensen,Daniel Fink,Andrew Morton

Beginning Oracle SQL is your introduction to the interactive query tools and specific dialect of SQL used with Oracle Database. The book is a revision of the classic Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus by Lex de Haan, and has been updated to cover developments in Oracle's version of the SQL query language. Written in an easygoing and example-based style, Beginning Oracle SQL is the book that will get you started down the path to successfully writing SQL statements and getting results from Oracle database. Takes an example-based approach, with clear and authoritative explanations Introduces both SQL and the query tools used to execute SQL statements Shows how to create tables, populate them with data, and then query that data to generate business results

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1430271965

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Book's by Daniel Blake Smith

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

An American Betrayal

An American Betrayal

Our Family Dreams

Our Family Dreams

Inside the Great House

Inside the Great House

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown

Farmers and Fishermen

Farmers and Fishermen

Our Family Dreams

Our Family Dreams

An American Betrayal

An American Betrayal

Abominable Science

Abominable Science

Westward Into Kentucky

Westward Into Kentucky

Raccoon

Raccoon

Inside the Great House

Inside the Great House

Beginning Oracle SQL

Beginning Oracle SQL

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