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At Day's Close
A History of Nighttime
Häftad, 2022
163 kr
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A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick Moore'A triumph of social history. Almost every page contains something to surprise the reader …
At Day's Close
Night in Times Past
Häftad, 2006
201 kr
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Bringing light to the shadows of history through a "rich weave of citation and archival evidence" (Publishers Weekly), scholar A. Roger Ekirch illuminates the aspects of life most often overlooked by other historians—those that unfold at night. In this "triumph of social history" (Mail on Sunday), …
Bound for America
The Transportation of British Convicts to the Colonies, 1718-1775
Häftad, 1990
844 kr
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During the eighteenth century, transportation to the colonies became Britain's foremost criminal punishment. From 1718 to 1775, British courts banished fifty thousand convicts. They formed the largest body of emigrants after African slaves ever compelled to go to America. The first comprehensive …
American Sanctuary
Häftad, 2018
139 kr
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In 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico. Jonathan Robbins, a reputed American sailor who had been impressed into service, made his way to American shores. President John Adams bowed to Britain’s request …
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
Häftad, 2011
589 kr
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A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback …
American Sanctuary
Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution
E-bok, 2017
171 kr
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From “one of America’s most imaginative historians” (Gordon S. Wood). The extraordinary story of the mutiny aboard the frigate HMS Hermione in 1797 (eight years after the mutiny on the Bounty )—the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy, that led to the extradition from America, and the …
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
E-bok, 2017
402 kr
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Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina''s political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony''s …
At Day's Close
A History of Nighttime
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. ''A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness'' SPECTATOR ''Fascinating'' SUNDAY TIMES ''A splendid book ... great entertainment'' Sir Patrick Moore ''A triumph of social history. Almost every page contains something to surprise …
'Poor Carolina'
Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1729-1776
E-bok, 2017
410 kr
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Ekrich examines the reasons for eighteenth-century North Carolina''s political factionalism, social violence, and governmental paralysis. Especially disruptive were the opening of new areas of settlement and the influx of migrant groups with high material hopes, particularly since the colony''s …
Birthright
The True Story that Inspired Kidnapped
Häftad, 2011
155 kr
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In 1728, in the wake of his father’s death, the twelve-year-old heir to five aristocratic titles and the scion of Ireland’s mighty house of Annesley was kidnapped by his uncle and shipped to America as an indentured servant. Only after twelve more years did “Jemmy” Annesley at last escape, …
