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Black Students in Imperial Britain

Autor: Robert Burroughs

Número de Páginas: 264

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website. This book caters for the demand in new black histories by rediscovering several little-known Black people’s experiences in late-Victorian Britain. It centres on The African Institute of Colwyn Bay, or ‘Congo House’, at which almost 90 children and young adults from Africa and its diaspora were enrolled to train as missionaries between 1889 and 1911. Burroughs finds that, though their encounters in Britain were shaped by the racism and paternalism of the late-nineteenth-century civilising mission, the students were not simply the objects of British charity. They were also agents in a culture of evangelical humanitarianism. Some were fully absorbed in the civilising mission, becoming leading missionaries. Others adapted their experiences to new ends, participating in networks of pan-Africanism that questioned race prejudice and colonialism. In their negotiations of the challenges and opportunities at the heart of the empire, the students of Congo House reveal how the global currents of black history shaped the localised cultures of Victorian philanthropy. From racism to pan-Africanism,...

Let the Stones Talk

Autor: Christopher Steed

Número de Páginas: 391

Who were the People of the Moor? Sixty generations have lived here since the Roman Second Legion descended from the skyline. What is the significance of the spirit-road....or a beautiful pavement in a villa buried by the soil of centuries? Who were the mysterious hill-fort people who established a high-status society on an ancient site? We encounter Norman lords and the lives of the miserable, a Mayor of Bristol who lost his wife when Black Death swept the people away, a senior Judge but also the common people, determined to build a magnificent structure as a sign of faith and hope for the future. What would it have been like to go to church in 1460? We read of the irrepressible way that the late medieval life of Merry England spills over into the church; of payments to minstrels and skilled craftsmen. The People of the Moor have to face up to religion-shock as a reform movement rocks their foundations. They contend with a tsunami, pirates and soldiers. As the generations roll by, we experience life in an 18th century village and witness a remarkable experiment by Hannah and her sisters. An in-depth look at the mid-Victorians holds up a mirror to social transformation on wheels...

African American Lives

Autor: Henry Louis Gates Jr. , Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Número de Páginas: 1055

African American Lives offers up-to-date, authoritative biographies of some 600 noteworthy African Americans. These 1,000-3,000 word biographies, selected from over five thousand entries in the forthcoming eight-volume African American National Biography, illuminate African-American history through the immediacy of individual experience. From Esteban, the earliest known African to set foot in North America in 1528, right up to the continuing careers of Venus and Serena Williams, these stories of the renowned and the near forgotten give us a new view of American history. Our past is revealed from personal perspectives that in turn inspire, move, entertain, and even infuriate the reader. Subjects include slaves and abolitionists, writers, politicians, and business people, musicians and dancers, artists and athletes, victims of injustice and the lawyers, journalists, and civil rights leaders who gave them a voice. Their experiences and accomplishments combine to expose the complexity of race as an overriding issue in America's past and present. African American Lives features frequent cross-references among related entries, over 300 illustrations, and a general index, supplemented by ...

The Law Journal Reports

Número de Páginas: 880

The Law Journal Reports

Autor: Henry D. Barton

Número de Páginas: 884

Handling Serpents

Autor: Jimmy Morrow , Ralph W. Hood (jr.)

Número de Páginas: 262

Jimmy Morrow, a pastor and serpent handler for over a quarter of a century explores the history of serpent handling from a variety of sources, including his extensive familiarity with families whose roots are deep in Appalachia. As a native Appalachian Jimmy has access to histories unavailable to outsiders. While not formally trained as a historian, Jimmy's own narrative of the Jesus Name tradition is a unique contribution to not only Appalachian studies, but to the history of what many have prematurely thought to be a tradition whose obituary is soon to be written. Jimmy's astounding photographs and his keen insight to the power of this tradition that he proudly upholds suggests that while unlikely ever to be a dominant form of religious expression, it will continue as perhaps Americas most unique form of religion that persists in Appalachia despite laws against the practice of handling serpents. This is an extraordinary personal account of a unique form of religious devotion and dedication. It will be of interest to anyone interested in Appalachian culture or religion in the South.

Through the Valley of the Shadow

Autor: Linda Banks , Robert Banks

Número de Páginas: 136

This compelling collection tells five stories of young Australian women who served in times of armed conflict in early twentieth-century China. These courageous missionaries lived in the midst of pre-Boxer uprisings, the Republican revolution, clashes between regional warlords, Japanese occupation during World War II, and civil war between Nationalists and Communists. Suffering deprivation and hardship with the Chinese people, they were shot at and bombed, endured capture and imprisonment, and risked their lives to save others. Some were even killed. Working in villages, hospitals, schools, universities, orphanages, and refugee centers, these women helped shape the emergence of modern China. In partnership with local people they helped raise the status of women and develop educational, medical, and welfare institutions that exist to this day. Based on thorough first-hand research, visits to various sites in China, and including a number of historic photos, this book is written for anyone interested in the lives of people who made a difference to the world around them.

The Law Journal

Número de Páginas: 888

English Reports in Law and Equity

Autor: Edmund Hatch Bennett , Chauncey Smith

Número de Páginas: 674

Reports of Cases ... By J. P. De Gex ... S. Macnaghten ... and A. Gordon. 1851(-57).

Autor: England. Court Of Chancery

Número de Páginas: 972

Historical Dictionary of Methodism

Autor: Jennifer Woodruff Tait , Christopher J. Anderson

Número de Páginas: 635

Methodism, originally founded in the eighteenth century, has grown into a large and influential Protestant denomination. As of 2016, it claimed around 50 million adherents in 80 churches in more than 150 countries. Its history illuminates our understanding of modern culture, ethics, literature, politics, Christian mission, women’s studies, and many related topics. Historical Dictionary of Methodism, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 700 cross-referenced entries on important institutions, events, doctrines, and people who have contributed to the movement and to broader society in the three centuries since it was founded. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Methodism as a global movement.

Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697

Número de Páginas: 72

Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Lord Chancellor, and the Court of Appeal in Chancery. [1851-1857]

Autor: Great Britain. Court Of Chancery

Número de Páginas: 976

Women and the Landscape of American Higher Education

Autor: Abraham Ruelas

Número de Páginas: 187

"Since Wesleyan Holiness and Pentecostalism are the foundations of my faith journey, I set out to put together the 'great cloud of [women] witnesses' (Heb 12:1) from these two faith traditions who founded Christian colleges. ... Even if manyof the Christian higher education that these women founded no longer exist, or have been merged into other institutions, it is of paramount importance to honor their life journeys in the service of God."--Author's preface.

A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: 1898, Boston marriages, 1700-1751

Autor: Boston (massachusetts). Record Commissioners

Número de Páginas: 484

Dorchester annexed to Boston, Jan. 3, 1870; Roxbury annexed to Boston, Jan. 5, 1868.

Gifts, Markets and Economies of Desire in Virginia Woolf

Autor: K. Simpson

Número de Páginas: 210

This book brings a new dimension to the critical debate about the complex relationship of Woolf to the marketplace and commodity culture through a focus on the gift economy at work in Woolf's writing, exploring the political subversiveness of the gift and its significance in her modernist aesthetics.

Old Pine Street Church

Autor: Philadelphia (pa.). Third Presbyterian Church

Número de Páginas: 66

Reports of Cases Decided in the High Court of Chancery by ... Sir John Leach and ... Sir Anthony Hart (Sir L. Shadwell ... and ... Sir R. T. Kindersley), Vice-Chancellors of England. By Nicholas Simons. 1826(-52). [Continued by C. S. Drewry.]

Autor: England. Court Of Chancery

Número de Páginas: 752

Senate documents

Número de Páginas: 1100

Reports of Committees

Autor: United States. Congress. Senate

Número de Páginas: 1098

Records of Some of the Descendants of Richard Hull, New Haven, 1639-1662

Autor: Samuel Clarke Clarke

Número de Páginas: 30

Shakespeare and Elizabeth

Autor: Helen Hackett

Número de Páginas: 312

This book explores the history of invented encounters between Shakespeare and the Queen Elizabeth I, and examines how and why the mythology of these two cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. It follows the history of meetings between the poet and the queen through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from works such as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the film Shakespeare in Love to lesser known examples. Raising questions about the boundaries separating scholarship and fiction, it looks at biographers and critics who continue to delve into links between these two. In the Shakespeare authorship controversy there have even been claims that Shakespeare was Elizabeth's secret son or lover, or that Elizabeth herself was the genius Shakespeare. The author examines the reasons behind the lasting appeal of their combined reputations, and locates this interest in their enigmatic sexual identities, as well as in the ways they represent political tensions and national aspirations.

Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Autor: Pennsylvania

Número de Páginas: 932

The Notebooks

Autor: Michelle Berry

Número de Páginas: 562

In the tradition of the Paris Review, The Notebooks is an exciting collection of original short fiction and in-depth interviews from Canada’s most celebrated and innovative young writers. A provocative examination of the writer’s life in the twenty-first century, The Notebooks charts a new direction in Canadian literature. It brings together a unique collection of accomplished fiction, ranging from the classic storytelling of Michael Redhill to the more experimental style of Lynn Crosbie. In his keenly observed story “Seratonin,” Russell Smith captures the sensuous pleasures and dizzying energy of the rave scene. “Big Trash Day,” a hybrid of fiction and poetry by Esta Spalding, is a devastating commentary on poverty and a striking portrait of the shorthand that develops within intimate relationships. In a sample from a novel-in-progress, Yann Martel shares the process through which rough sketches become realized characters, and disparate moments become fleshed-out scenes. The interviews, remarkable for their honesty and insight, bring us into the writer’s world, revealing the passion and inspiration that motivates these young writers, as well as the hardships they...

Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Passed at the Session

Autor: Pennsylvania

Número de Páginas: 924

Appropriation acts before 1911 published in the Laws of the General Assembly; 1911- in a separate volume.

Laws of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Autor: Pennsylvania

Número de Páginas: 948

Laws Enacted in the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ...

Autor: Pennsylvania. Laws, Statutes, Etc

Número de Páginas: 930

The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America

Autor: United States

Número de Páginas: 1270

Vols. for 1950-19 contained treaties and international agreements issued by the Secretary of State as United States treaties and other international agreements.

The Equity Reports, 1853-1855: Michaelmas term, 1854, to Michaelmas term, 1855, 18 & 19 Vict

Número de Páginas: 1148

Annual Report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Número de Páginas: 788

Catalogue of the Teachers and Pupils of Punahou School and Oahu College, for twenty-five years, ending 1866. With an account of the quarter century celebration, held ... June 15th, 1866

Autor: Oahu College (punahou)

Número de Páginas: 54

A Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress

Autor: Library Of Congress

Número de Páginas: 1148

"A complement to genealogies in the Library of Congress" -t.p. of fifth v.

A Contribution Toward a Genealogy of All Torreys in America

Autor: Dolphus Torrey

Número de Páginas: 236

The Pacific Reporter

Número de Páginas: 1174

Her Two Lives

Autor: Nilesha Chauvet

Número de Páginas: 369

'Such compulsive reading.' JENNIE GODFREY 'I devoured it.' CHRIS WHITAKER She'll get them in the end. She always does. 'Brilliant! . . . Rita is so complex and intriguing. I binged it!' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley review 'Powerful . . . a first class thriller.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley review 'I could not put this down.' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley review Rita Marsh has two lives. By day she cares for the elderly, and by night she hunts down men who prey on young girls. But now a suspect is dead, and the police are on her tail. When an old school friend shows up with her own dark story to tell, Rita can't help herself being drawn to danger - and her two worlds start to collide. How far will she go for justice? And how much further for revenge? Everyone is talking about Her Two Lives: 'Deeply impressive . . . an imaginative debut.' DAILY MAIL 'Got under my skin in a really terrifying way.' AJAY CHOWDHURY 'It's a long time since I've read a thriller that is quite so well written.' LIZ NUGENT 'Tautly plotted, with a striking female lead.' LISA BALLANTYNE 'Never quite goes where the reader expects it to.' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'Pacy and absorbing.' L. V. MATTHEWS 'Deliciously dark.' iNEWS 'Kept ...

Sisterhood of Faith

Autor: Shirley Brosius

Número de Páginas: 773

Woman to Woman...Sister to Sister…Friend to Friend…Bound by an Unstoppable Faith...Changing Their World Forever The forces that bind woman to woman, sister to sister, and friend to friend are among the most powerful in the world. Add to that the strength of faith, and you have a union that transcends all earthly holds. That unique bond is the sisterhood of faith. The women whose stories are told in this book are the kind of women who wave a hand of dismissal at the obstacles in their paths. The kind who are unstoppable in their mission, stubborn in their resilience. They are women just like you. Women whose lives make a difference because they trusted in their God as they lived their lives in service to Him—women who belong to the sisterhood of faith. Each daily devotion features an inspirational sister of faith. In addition to Her Story, you'll find Her Service, Her Message, and My Response. Meet women like • Mary Kay Ash • Lisa Beamer • Patsy Clairmont • Elizabeth H. Dole • Ruth Graham Bell • Liz Curtis Higgs • Florence Nightingale • Condoleezza Rice • Dale Evans Rogers • Joni Eareckson Tada • Mother Teresa • CeCe Winans Be inspired, be challenged,...

Captain "Hell Roaring" Mike Healy

Autor: Dennis L. Noble , Truman R. Strobridge

Número de Páginas: 358

One of the Coast Guard’s great heroes and the secret he kept hidden "This is a book of adventure that tells how one man shaped the Alaskan frontier at a crucial time in American history."--Vincent William Patton, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, retired "Diligent research and precise writing reveal the realities of race relations in nineteenth-century America, as well as the dangers, loneliness, and complex relationships of life at sea in that era."--Bernard C. Nalty, author of Strength for the Fight: A History of Black Americans in the Military In the late 1880s, many lives in northern and western maritime Alaska rested in the capable hands of Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), through his service to the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service. Healy arrested lawbreakers, put down mutinies aboard merchant ships, fought the smuggling of illegal liquor and firearms, rescued shipwrecked sailors from a harsh and unforgiving environment, brought medical aid to isolated villages, prevented the wholesale slaughter of marine wildlife, and explored unknown waters and lands. Captain Healy's dramatic feats in the far north were so widely reported that a New York newspaper once declared him...

The Papers of Henry Clay

Autor: Henry Clay

Número de Páginas: 1018

This fourth volume in the ten-volume series covers the career of Henry Clay during his first year as Secretary of State in the cabinet of President John Quincy Adams. Within a month after taking office, Henry Clay described the Department of State as "no bed of roses." Even though routine papers bearing his signature have been omitted by the editors, the 950 pages of documents included in this volume show that many duties filled Clay's days and nights. The evidence in autograph drafts and the meagerness of revision in the official documents indicate the need for major reconsideration of Clay's role in United States foreign relations during the presidency of John Quincy Adams. The range of issues emerging in these papers is broad, and the duties were obviously more than the limited staff of the Department of State could satisfactorily perform. But if, as a result, the United States suffered a major diplomatic defeat during the British revision of trade regulations, Clay's instructions to the Panama mission marked him as a statesman of world stature. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Early Modern Histories of Time

Autor: Kristen Poole , Owen Williams

Número de Páginas: 373

Early Modern Histories of Time examines how a range of chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and explores how these temporally indigenous models can productively influence our own working concepts of historical period. This innovative approach thus moves beyond debates about where we should divide linear time (and what to call the ensuing segments) to reconsider the very concept of "period." Bringing together an eminent cast of literary scholars and historians, the volume develops productive historical models by drawing on the very texts and cultural contexts that are their objects of study. What happens to the idea of "period" when English literature is properly placed within the dynamic currents of pan-European literary phenomena? How might we think of historical period through the palimpsested nature of buildings, through the religious concept of the secular, through the demographic model of the life cycle, even through the repetitive labor of laundering? From theology to material culture to the temporal constructions of Shakespeare, and from the politics of space to the poetics of...

Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths, 1630-1699

Autor: Anonymous

Número de Páginas: 298

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.