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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli

By: Ian St John

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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli

By: Ian St John

This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age – Gladstone and Disraeli. Following the parallel careers of both men, it focuses upon a series of contentious questions, ranging from why Disraeli opposed Corn Law repeal in 1846 and Gladstone abandoned his High Tory politics for Peelism, to whether Disraeli was ever an Imperialist and why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish Home Rule. By juxtaposing the contrasting interpretations advocated by historians, it brings home to students how history is a continually evolving subject in which every generation poses new questions, or reformulates answers to old ones – encouraging those studying the subject to realise that history is an ongoing dialogue to which they are called upon to contribute.

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Anthem Press

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1783085304

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9781783085309

Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Putnam Demos

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Entertaining Satan

Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England

By: John Putnam Demos

In the first edition of the Bancroft Prize-winning Entertaining Satan, John Putnam Demos presented an entirely new perspective on American witchcraft. By investigating the surviving historical documents of over a hundred actual witchcraft cases, he vividly recreated the world of New England during the witchcraft trials and brought to light fascinating information on the role of witchcraft in early American culture. Now Demos has revisited his original work and updated it to illustrate why these early Americans' strange views on witchcraft still matter to us today. He provides a new preface that puts forth a broader overview of witchcraft and looks at its place around the world--from ancient times right up to the present.

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560

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Oxford University Press

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0199726310

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9780199726318

A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

By: John Adams Vinton

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A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

By: John Adams Vinton

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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205

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385207908

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9783385207905

A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: Comprising Its Topography, Geology, Mineralogical Resources, Civil Divisions, Canals, Railroads and Public Institutions; Together with General Statistics

By: John Disturnell,Orville Luther Holley

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A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: Comprising Its Topography, Geology, Mineralogical Resources, Civil Divisions, Canals, Railroads and Public Institutions; Together with General Statistics

By: John Disturnell,Orville Luther Holley

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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486

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3385109094

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9783385109094

The Willoughby Family of New England

By: Isaac John Greenwood

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The Willoughby Family of New England

By: Isaac John Greenwood

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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338549639X

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Thinking Through the Past

A Critical Thinking Approach to U. S. History

By: John Erwin Hollitz

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A Critical Thinking Approach to U. S. History

By: John Erwin Hollitz

The historiographical approach of this reader gives students the opportunity to strengthen their critical-thinking skills through the examination of historical sources. Each chapter includes an introduction to the historical problem, information on the setting, the investigation, questions to consider, the sources, and a conclusion.

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340

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0618046682

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9780618046683

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

THE QUEST FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM: A MORMON GENERATIONAL SAGA

By: JOHN J HAMMOND

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Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

THE QUEST FOR THE NEW JERUSALEM: A MORMON GENERATIONAL SAGA

By: JOHN J HAMMOND

This is the first volume of a multi-volume work entitled The Quest for the New Jerusalem: Mormon Generational Saga , and it ends with a listing of the titles of all sixteen volumes in this series which have been written to this point. Before discussing the first volume, it is necessary to describe the entire series. Around the year 2000 the author began a thorough investigation of his genealogical roots, and to his surprise discovered that many of his ancestors had played significant roles in the early history of America and central roles in the history of Mormonism. Wherever he looked, his ancestors were there: during the colonial King Phillip’s and French and Indian Wars in New England; at the Battle of Bunker (actually Breed’s) Hill and on a prison ship for two years on the Hudson River during the American Revolution; on whaling ships in the south Atlantic and northern Pacific during the 1840s; at Mormon Kirtland, Far West and Nauvoo during the turbulent and often bloody events of the 1830s and 1840s; in the earliest Mormon experiments with polygamy (almost all of the author’s ancestors were polygamists); in San Francisco and Sacramento during the earliest stages of the California Gold Rush; in the immigrant ships filled with Mormon converts crossing the Atlantic; in the wagon trains carrying the “saints” across the plains to Salt Lake City; during the establishment of the Mormon Church in Hawaii in the early 1850s; in the first haltering steps toward elementary and higher education in Utah; during the “Mormon War” with the U.S. army in Utah in 1857-58; in the operation of the early Salt Lake Theater; in the building of the transcontinental railroad across Utah in 1869; in the settlement of the wild “four corners area” during the 1880s and 1890s; in the rather secret and somewhat underhanded process by which Utah became a state; and in the pioneer settlement of southern Idaho in the early 1900s. The author felt impelled to tell these wonderful ancestral stories, and it became obvious that this could not be done without giving an account of the history of the Mormon Church—the two subjects were intimately interwoven. Furthermore, telling the linked ancestral/Mormon story, beginning in the American colonial period, could not be adequately undertaken without giving an account of significant events in the larger American story. In recent years a number of writers have given us fascinating, generational family stories; Alex Haley’s Roots is a well known example. Haley traced his African-American family all the way back to a slave taken from a village in Africa. In 1991 Chinese-American Jung Chang’s, in her Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, told a wonderful story of three generations of Chinese women--her great grandmother, grandmother, and mother--reaching back to China. Adele Logan Alexander’s Homelands and Waterways: The American Journey of the Bond Family is an account of several generations of the author’s African-American family. Concerning another example--James Fox’s The Langhornes of Virginia --reviewer Robert Skidelsky wrote: “It was a clever idea to use family history to write about social and political history.” What Fox does is to use “the Langhorne sisters as a peg on which to hang the story of the decline of the British aristocracy, or Empire, or both.” John Hammond’s multi-volume Mormon Generational Saga evolved into something very similar to Fox’s, but he utilizes family history to write about religious as well as social and political history. In fact, what has emerged is a very detailed examination of the early history of the Mormon Church, with a special focus upon how that history affected his ancestors. The series opens in the earliest years of colonial New England with an account of four of the author’s ancestral families and the early lives and ancesto

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462873650

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9781462873654

Gazetteer of the State of New York

By: John Homer French

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Gazetteer of the State of New York

By: John Homer French

French's unsurpassed Gazetteer of the State of New York is a complete history & description of every county, city, town, village, & locality in New York. But more than that it is a record of the founders & early settlers of practically every locality in the state-an astonishing achievement & the reason that the book has remained among the top genealogical reference works for New York State. Of course, no single person could have generated all this information on his own, so under the supervision of J.H. French "surveyors & agents were instructed to visit every city, town, & village, to search records, examine documents, consult the best living, printed, & manuscript authorities, & to make returns to the general office of all the reliable matter & information obtained." Thus was created an accurate & comprehensive gazetteer, with descriptions of each county, city, town, & village arranged according to a uniform plan (of more value today to the genealogist than ever before). Information provided for each locality includes founding (& founders), early settlements (& settlers), historical sketch to the time of writing, loading institutions, schools, & churches, prominent & representative citizens, stories of general & local interest, statistics from state censuses, & names of every natural & man made topographical feature. Preceding this core part of the Gazetteer is a full 150-page survey of the government, topography, & institutions of the state of New York. Outstanding as the Gazetteer is, its usefulness as a research tool is severely limited by the lack of an index to the thousands of narnes that appear in the text & footnotes. But this reprint edition puts an end to this unfortunate situation, as it incorporates Frank Place's Index of Names, a 16000-name index first published in 1962 by the Cortland County Historical Society. In 1969 the Society issued a second printing of the Index incorporating a "Supplement" of additions & corrections, & a third printing in 1983 included a "Supplementary Index to Place Names." With the Society's permission, we have incorporated the final index edition of 1983 with our reprint of the Gazetteer, making it the most complete & the most useful edition ever published.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806314567

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The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli

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Entertaining Satan

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A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

A Biographical Sketch Rev. Zechariah Symmes

A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: Comprising Its Topography, Geology, Mineralogical Resources, Civil Divisions, Canals, Railroads and Public Institutions; Together with General Statistics

A Gazetteer of the State of New-York: Comprising Its Topography, Geology, Mineralogical Resources, Civil Divisions, Canals, Railroads and Public Institutions; Together with General Statistics

The Willoughby Family of New England

The Willoughby Family of New England

Thinking Through the Past

Thinking Through the Past

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

Volume 1 Family and Mormon Church Roots: Colonial Period to 1820

Gazetteer of the State of New York

Gazetteer of the State of New York

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