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Buccaneers and Privateers

The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725

By: Richard Frohock

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Buccaneers and Privateers

The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725

By: Richard Frohock

In the late seventeenth century, Spain dominated the Caribbean and Central and South America, establishing colonies, mining gold and silver, and gathering riches from Asia for transportation back to Europe. Seeking to disrupt Spain's nearly unchecked empire-building and siphon off some of their wealth, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British adventurers--both legitimate and illegitimate--led numerous expeditions into the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many voyagers wrote accounts of their exploits, captivating readers with their tales of exotic places, shocking hardships and cruelties, and daring engagements with national enemies. Widely distributed and read, buccaneering and privateering narratives contributed significantly to England's imaginative, literary rendering of the Americas in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and they provided a venue for public dialogue about sea rovers and their position within empire. This book takes as its subject the literary and rhetorical construction of voyagers and their histories, and by extension, the representation of English imperialism in popular sea-voyage narratives of the period.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611493870

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Heroes of Empire

The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764

By: Richard Frohock

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Heroes of Empire

The British Imperial Protagonist in America, 1596-1764

By: Richard Frohock

Over the past decade, literary scholars have become increasingly engaged with colonial studies and have fashioned various points of focus in their investigations of imperialist narratives, including the figure of woman, cannibalism, the romance of the first encounter, and the tropicopolitan. This book builds on existing work by offering a new focal point: the evolution of the British imperial hero in America from Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of... Guiana (1596) to James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764), with concentration on narratives produced between the year of Cromwell's Western Design (1655) and the British raid on Cartegena (1741). Each individual chapter isolates a distinct type of colonial hero, furnishing examples from a wide variety of narratives, including some nonfiction essays and tracts, but chiefly novels, plays, and poems.

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236

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University of Delaware Press

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0874138795

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The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

A History of the South

By: John Richard Alden

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The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

A History of the South

By: John Richard Alden

In 1763 the oppressive program of Grenville set up a tempo of resentment. Virginia and Maryland soon struck against the abuse of liberty, with Patrick Henry as their spokesman. Rioting followed the Carolinas and Georgia. With the Townshend Acts of 1767 the crisis worsened. In nine more years the “Tea and Trumpets” period—to use Mr. Alden’s phrase—would explode into the Revolution. These events form but a single, bright strand in the intricate story of the South during the Revolution. This volume—the first complete account yet written of an exciting period—ranges from the demography of the South (including White, Negro, and Indian groups), through the War of Independence, into the critical early years of the Union. The emphasis throughout is upon political and social change. The network of historic conditions and human motives is treated with consummate skill; and the heroic story of the war, with its gallery of personalities on both sides, is vigorously narrated. The book also gives a valuable account both of the origins and evolution of Southern sectionalism and of the role of the South in creating the Union. Besides the full-scale record of the colony-states on the Atlantic seaboard, the development of the Old Southwest is brilliantly detailed, including Indian warfare, the settlement of Kentucky and Tennessee, and many other related topics.

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480

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LSU Press

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080710003X

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9780807100035

Protecting Your Collection

A Handbook, Survey, & Guide for the Security of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Archives, & Works of Art

By: Slade Richard Gandert,Peter Gellatly

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Protecting Your Collection

A Handbook, Survey, & Guide for the Security of Rare Books, Manuscripts, Archives, & Works of Art

By: Slade Richard Gandert,Peter Gellatly

Here is a practical volume that focuses on the major security problems for libraries, archives, and museums. Written by a respected librarian and security consultant, Protecting Your Collection provides provides a thorough review of the procedures for protecting library, art, and archival collections against losses from theft, fire, flooding, and mutilation. Author Slade Gandert includes fascinating interviews with librarians, rare book dealers, archivists, detectives, and security professionals to find out who steals from institutional collections--how they do it and why they do it. Each chapter features case studies of intriguing security leaks in the institutional system and describes their outcome. This important book is beneficial reading for library staff and administrators.

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168

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Routledge

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1317940466

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9781317940463

Inside/Outside

Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology

By: Richard Price

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Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology

By: Richard Price

Beginning with a high schooler mesmerized by a stay on the Navajo and Hopi reservations and running through the founding of a major university department and the aftermath of a decision, a decade later, to forego permanent academic affiliations, Richard Price’s story is told with honesty, humor, and insight into the inner workings of academic politics from the 1960s to the present. Inside/Outside relates his life as an anthropologist, historian, and Caribbeanist—from conducting predawn discussions with Maroon historians deep in the rainforest of Suriname to editing the world’s first book series on Atlantic history and culture; from weekly meetings with Claude Le ́vi-Strauss in Paris to long-term collaboration with Sidney Mintz; from adventures at sea with Martiniquan fishermen to negotiating the ivory towers of Harvard, Yale, and Johns Hopkins; from explorations of the art of Romare Bearden to number crunching from the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. It is a tale of life experiences and often-unconventional life decisions, inside (and outside) the academic world. Readers look over Price’s shoulders—and those of his wife and research partner, Sally Price—as he developed the ideas for some of the twentieth- and twenty-first century’s most important books in the fields of history, anthropology, and Caribbean studies.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820362662

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9780820362663

Confronting the Horror

The Novels of Nelson Algren

By: James Richard Giles

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Confronting the Horror

The Novels of Nelson Algren

By: James Richard Giles

Giles (English, Northern Illinois U.) examines the novels of the American author, Nelson Algren, and places them in the traditions of American literary naturalism, existential modernism, and the American urban novel. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Kent State University Press

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0873383788

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9780873383783

Violence in the Contemporary American Novel

An End to Innocence

By: James Richard Giles

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Violence in the Contemporary American Novel

An End to Innocence

By: James Richard Giles

Framing his study with two cases of violence involving children in Chicago, he notes the degree to which violence in the novels is perpetrated by adults against children or, even more shockingly, by children against children.".

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570033285

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9781570033285

Alfred Kazin

A Biography

By: Richard M. Cook

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Alfred Kazin

A Biography

By: Richard M. Cook

Born in 1915 to barely literate Jewish immigrants in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Alfred Kazin rose from near poverty to become a dominant figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and one of Americas last great men of letters. Biographer Ri

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Yale University Press

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0300145047

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9780300145045

Charlotte and the American Revolution

Reverend Alexander Craighead, the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Foothills Fight for Independence

By: Richard P. Plumer

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Charlotte and the American Revolution

Reverend Alexander Craighead, the Mecklenburg Declaration and the Foothills Fight for Independence

By: Richard P. Plumer

Charlotte was a hotbed of Revolutionary activity well before the fervency of revolt reached its boiling point in New England. Considered a wild frontier region at the time, Mecklenburg County welcomed the Reverend Alexander Craighead with ready hands for battle. Craighead's fiery rhetoric inspired the people of the region to action. What resulted was the creation of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence, the first such document in the nation, and although the county had less than 3 percent of the colony's population, its Patriots accounted for over one-quarter of North Carolina's Revolutionary troops. Join author Richard P. Plumer as he reveals how the Queen City played an integral role in the formation of a proud and free America.

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223

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Arcadia Publishing

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1625850743

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9781625850744

A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

By: Richard Kostelanetz,H. R. Brittain

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A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

By: Richard Kostelanetz,H. R. Brittain

Introduces the concept of avant-garde art to readers as it has been practiced over the last century. Covering figures and genres in all styles of art, this is an ideal introduction to often misunderstood art forms.

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Psychology Press

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0415937647

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9780415937641

Faith in Action

Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America

By: Richard L. Wood

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Faith in Action

Religion, Race, and Democratic Organizing in America

By: Richard L. Wood

Over the past fifteen years, associations throughout the U.S. have organized citizens around issues of equality and social justice, often through local churches. But in contrast to President Bush's vision of faith-based activism, in which groups deliver social services to the needy, these associations do something greater. Drawing on institutions of faith, they reshape public policies that neglect the disadvantaged. To find out how this faith-based form of community organizing succeeds, Richard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California—the faith-based Pacific Institute for Community Organization and the race-based Center for Third World Organizing. Comparing their activist techniques and achievements, Wood argues that the alternative cultures and strategies of these two groups give them radically different access to community ties and social capital. Creative and insightful, Faith in Action shows how community activism and religious organizations can help build a more just and democratic future for all Americans.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226905969

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9780226905969

A Southern Renaissance

The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955

By: Richard H. King

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A Southern Renaissance

The Cultural Awakening of the American South, 1930-1955

By: Richard H. King

Examining the interaction between literature and history, King shows how such writers as William Faulkner, James Agee, W. J. Cash, Allen Tate, and C. Vann Woodward confronted Southern traditions rooted in the plantation culture, the Civil War, Reconstruction and racial reaction and raised them to a historical awareness. In the process some of these figures rejected while others reaffirmed the essence of what King calls the "Southern family romance." Book jacket.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195030435

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9780195030433

A History of American Literature

By: Richard Gray

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A History of American Literature

By: Richard Gray

Updated throughout and with much new material, A History of American Literature, Second Edition, is the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey available of the myriad forms of American Literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The most comprehensive and up-to-date history of American literature available today Covers fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, as well as other forms of literature including folktale, spirituals, the detective story, the thriller, and science fiction Explores the plural character of American literature, including the contributions made by African American, Native American, Hispanic and Asian American writers Considers how our understanding of American literature has changed over the past?thirty years Situates American literature in the contexts of American history, politics and society Offers an invaluable introduction to American literature for students at all levels, academic and general readers

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444345680

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9781444345681

Enemies of All

The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy

By: Richard Blakemore

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Enemies of All

The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy

By: Richard Blakemore

A masterful narrative history of the dangerous lives of pirates during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, revealing their unique impact on colonialism and empire. The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called "golden age of piracy." A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of All combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise of piracy in the later seventeenth century, the debates about piracy in contemporary law and popular media, as well as the imperial efforts to suppress piracy in the early eighteenth century. The Caribbean and American colonies of Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands—where piracy surged across these decades—are the main theater for Enemies of All, but this is a global story. Evoking London, Paris, and Amsterdam, Curaçao, Port Royal, Tortuga, and Charleston, the narrative takes readers, too, from Ireland and the Mediterranean to Madagascar and India, from the Arabian Gulf to the Pacific Ocean. Familiar characters like Drake, Morgan, Blackbeard, Bonny and Read, Henry Every, and Captain Kidd all feature here, but so too will the less well-known figures from the history of piracy, their crew-members, shipmates, and their confederates ashore; the men and women whose transatlantic lives were bound up with the rise and fall of piracy. Transforming how readers understand the history of pirates, Enemies of All presents not only the historical evidence but, more importantly, explains the consequences of piracy's unique influence on colonialism and European imperial ambitions.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639366342

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Buccaneers and Privateers

The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725

By: Richard Frohock

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The Story of the English Sea Rover, 1675-1725

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Buccaneers and Privateers

Buccaneers and Privateers

Heroes of Empire

Heroes of Empire

The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

The South in the Revolution, 1763–1789

Protecting Your Collection

Protecting Your Collection

Inside/Outside

Inside/Outside

Confronting the Horror

Confronting the Horror

Violence in the Contemporary American Novel

Violence in the Contemporary American Novel

Alfred Kazin

Alfred Kazin

Charlotte and the American Revolution

Charlotte and the American Revolution

A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

A Dictionary of the Avant-gardes

Faith in Action

Faith in Action

A Southern Renaissance

A Southern Renaissance

A History of American Literature

A History of American Literature

Enemies of All

Enemies of All

Buccaneers and Privateers

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