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The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

1733-1764

By: Robert Dodsley

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The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

1733-1764

By: Robert Dodsley

This fully annotated edition sheds much light on eighteenth-century British literary and publishing history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522080

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9780521522083

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

A Short History with Documents

By: Robert J. Antony

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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

A Short History with Documents

By: Robert J. Antony

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources—some translated for the first time—to illustrate the complexity and variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An historical perspective provides an important vantage point to understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably connected with the past.

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181

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538161540

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9781538161548

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

By: Robert G. Parkinson

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Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

By: Robert G. Parkinson

“A scarifying, blood-soaked portrait of savagery on the early frontier—much of it committed by European settlers . . . superb.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred) An acclaimed historian captures the true nature of imperialism in early America, demonstrating how the frontier shaped the nation. We are divided over the history of the United States, and one of the central dividing lines is the frontier. Was it a site of heroism? Or was it where the full force of an all-powerful empire was brought to bear on Native peoples? In this startingly original work, historian Robert Parkinson presents a new account of ever-shifting encounters between white colonists and Native Americans. Drawing skillfully on Joseph Conrad’s famous novella, Heart of Darkness, he demonstrates that imperialism in North America was neither heroic nor a perfectly planned conquest. It was, rather, as bewildering, violent, and haphazard as the European colonization of Africa, which Conrad knew firsthand and fictionalized in his masterwork. At the center of Parkinson’s story are two families whose entwined histories ended in tragedy. The family of Shickellamy, one of the most renowned Indigenous leaders of the eighteenth century, were Iroquois diplomats laboring to create a world where settlers and Native people could coexist. The Cresaps were frontiersmen who became famous throughout the colonies for their bravado, scheming, and land greed. Together, the families helped determine the fate of the British and French empires, which were battling for control of the Ohio River Valley. From the Seven Years’ War to the protests over the Stamp Act to the start of the Revolutionary War, Parkinson recounts the major turning points of the era from a vantage that allows us to see them anew, and to perceive how bewildering they were to people at the time. For the Shickellamy family, it all came to an end on April 30, 1774, when most of the clan were brutally murdered by white settlers associated with the Cresaps at a place called Yellow Creek. That horrific event became news all over the continent, and it led to war in the interior, at the very moment the First Continental Congress convened in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Michael Cresap, at first blamed for the massacre at Yellow Creek, would be transformed by the Revolution into a hero alongside George Washington. In death, he helped cement the pioneer myth at the heart of the new republic. Parkinson argues that American history is, in fact, tied to the frontier, just not in the ways we are often told. Altering our understanding of the past, he also shows what this new understanding should mean for us today.

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461

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324091789

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9781324091783

Identity of England

By: Robert Colls

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Identity of England

By: Robert Colls

In this text, Robert Colls traces the constitutional, legal, racial, cultural and geographical dimensions of Englishness, from medieval times to the present day, with a particular emphasis on the last 100 years.

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422

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199245193

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9780199245192

Bannockburns

Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014

By: Robert Crawford

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Scottish Independence and Literary Imagination, 1314-2014

By: Robert Crawford

Poet and critic Robert Crawford explores in eloquent detail the literary-cultural background to Scottish nationalism in the lead-up to the referendum on independence for Scotland from the United Kingdom in September 2014. He begins with the totemic Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, in which the Scots routed the English and preserved their independence until the two nations' parliaments united in 1707. Paying particular attention to Robert Burns and continuing up to the present day, he examines how writers have set out in poetry, fiction, plays and on film the ideal of Scottish independence. Publication coincides with the 700-year anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748685855

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9780748685851

MISC WORKS W/MEMOIRS OF HIS LI

By: Tobias George 1721-1771 Smollett,Robert 1750-1830 Anderson

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MISC WORKS W/MEMOIRS OF HIS LI

By: Tobias George 1721-1771 Smollett,Robert 1750-1830 Anderson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1372870067

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9781372870064

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The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Correspondence of Robert Dodsley

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

Heart of American Darkness: Bewilderment and Horror on the Early Frontier

Identity of England

Identity of England

Bannockburns

Bannockburns

MISC WORKS W/MEMOIRS OF HIS LI

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