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By: Albert Cook Myers, Pub. 1955, reprinted 2023, 124 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-082-4. The region that these land surveys cover was called the West Side Delaware River. It ran from New Castle County, Delaware up to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This book should make a nice addition to anyone's collection researching in this are along the Delaware River.

"New York, 1804. America's beloved Alexander Hamilton lies dead after a duel with Aaron Burr. Meanwhile, Eliza Hamilton's eighteen-year-old son, Alexander Jr., was seen fighting with a man in a tavern the night before his father's duel and quickly comes under suspicion for murder when the man turns up dead. Eliza searches for ways to clear her son's name, even as she is grieving, but as she combs through her late husband's papers, she finds evidence of a plot to steal money from the government during his tenure as secretary of state. Hamilton was accused of stealing that money, and it was a scandal that almost broke the family--but is Eliza now holding proof of Alexander's innocence? Deep in debt and despair, with eight children to support, Eliza turns to selling her handmade lace--and is drawn into a mysterious network of widow lacemakers who are intimately connected to New York's high-society families. They know their dead husbands' secrets--and soon, Eliza begins to piece together the truth. There's a dark plot connected with the duel, as one by one, witnesses to thebout are being killed. Now, Eliza must not only clear her husband's and son's names but keep herself out of the killer's sights."--Publisher marketing.

"If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, sooner or later Mâedâeric Louis âElie Moreau de Saint-Mâery is bound to appear. As a lawyer, philosophe, and Enlightenment polymath, Moreau created and compiled an immense archive that remains a vital window into the fragile social, political, and intellectual fault lines of the Age of Revolutions. But the gilded spines and elegant designs that decorate his archive obscure the truth: Moreau's achievements were, at every turn, predicated upon the work of enslaved and free people of color. Their labor amassed the wealth that afforded him the leisure to research, think, and write. Their rich intellectual and linguistic cultures filled the pages of his most applauded works. They set the type, dried the paper, and folded the pages that created his legacy. Every beautiful book Moreau designed contains an embedded story of hidden violence. Sara Johnson's arresting investigation of race and knowledge in the revolutionary Atlantic surrounds Moreau with the African-descended people he worked so hard to erase, immersing him in a vibrant community of language innovators, forgers of kinship networks, and world travelers who strove to create their own social and political lives. Built from archival fragments, creative speculation, and audacious intellectual courage, Encyclopâedie noire is a communal biography of the women and men who made Moreau's world"--

Beware of doorways through time... and a fool's gold Amelia Spencer, reluctant time traveler, has two goals: settle down with Henry, and get a cat. Hunted by Casper, Amelia and Henry tumble back in time to late 1755. Surviving Braddock's March was easier than being hunted by former so-called friend. A drought has devastated crops throughout the colony. Attacks on frontier homesteads are on the rise. And Lord and Lady Spencer have a little problem with safekeeping their stash of Blackbeard's treasure.How will she keep her newfound family safe from enemies close-to-home and dangers on the frontier?The Time Writer and The Hunt is a Historical Time Travel Adventure exploring the struggles of the Colonial Virginia frontier and the hidden treasures of the past, through the wit and mindset of a 21st Century woman.¿The Time Writer Series:Prequel: The Time Writer and The Cloak ebook and audiobook available for free download to newsletter subscribers https://bit.ly/CloakB3 , paperbackSeason 1 - 1750s VirginiaBook 1: The Time Writer and The Notebook Book 2: The Time Writer and The March Book 3: The Time Writer and The Hunt Season 2 - 1690s - The Golden Age of PiracyBook 1: The Time Writer and The Escape Book 2: The Time Writer and The Chase (Release January 2024)Book 3: The Time Writer and The Surrender (Release May 2024)

WE CALL THEM the Pilgrims, faded by history into a faceless, irrelevant group of nameless religious radicals who came to America to worship God. Sometimes hailed as heros, other times denigrated as illiterate, who were these faded, faceless people who lived more than four hundred years ago? In Saints and Strangers - The Great American Story, Paulette Packard Johnson delves into the human-ness of the Pilgrims, and explores what it would have been like for the individuals who made the treacherous voyage into history.

What did people in Restoration England think the correct relationship between church and state should be? And how did this thinking evolve?

The first comprehensive study of Tirso de Molina and his work in English

In der frühen Neuzeit beschäftigen sich zahlreiche Texte mit Berufen, indem sie das jeweils erforderliche Wissen, einzelne Aufgabenfelder, Zweck, Ursprung und Prestige darstellen. Humanistisch ist der Argumentationsgang, insofern er meist vom Menschen ausgeht. Prägend ist dabei die antike Vorstellung vom Vorrang der Kopfarbeit vor der Handarbeit. Die Bedeutung Spaniens ergibt sich daraus, dass der spanische König Karl V. zugleich Kaiser und Herrscher über die Kolonien in Amerika war, also nach damaligen Verhältnissen ein Weltreich regierte. Nach der Erörterung einiger zentraler Kategorien werden Gesamtdarstellungen des Wissens, der Berufe und der herausragenden Berufsvertreter vorgestellt. Dabei ist die Hierarchisierung und deren Relativierung durch die Satire aufschlussreich. Anhand einzelner als charakteristische Beispiele ausgewählter Berufe mit jeweiligem spezifischen Wissen werden dann die mechanischen Künste und die artes liberales vorgeführt. Den Abschluss bilden die höheren Fakultäten Medizin, Theologie und Jurisprudenz mit ihren Vertretern.

Our passion for freedom runs deep.Two hundred years before the War for Independence, Settlers of the New World engaged in acts of defiance that ultimately led to the American Revolution. Revolutions tend to be brutal affairs, as you'll learn in Seeds of Liberty.International bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, brings you this non-fiction companion guide to his bestselling fictional series, The Boston Brahmin. "Truly inspiring and a must read for American patriots!" -Reader Review The Loyal Nine, the predecessors to the Sons of Liberty, are examined in detail within this book. When given the opportunity to fundamentally change the course of America, these nine brave Bostonians faced a choice - continue to live under tyranny or choose freedom. They chose freedom and the seeds of liberty were planted by freedom loving immigrants looking to create a new world that is now America.; THE BOSTON BRAHMIN, Akart's bestselling series where political suspense collides with post-apocalyptic fiction, is a story rich in history, modern politics and a timeless love of country featuring characters with the fortitude to protect America no matter the cost.The Boston Brahmin series begins with The Loyal Nine, a gripping novel of an America teetering on the edge of economic and societal collapse."A political masterpiece." -Reader ReviewWith over sixty novels published in 245 countries and territories worldwide, Bobby Akart delivers intense, up-all-night thrillers to millions of readers who find themselves whispering just one more chapter until the end.

A graphic exploration of action, resistance, and radicalism among eighteenth-century pirates

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from the context of their kin link to Cromwell and how their private worlds shaped their public roles, how kinship was part of the functioning of the Cromwellian state, how they were seen and presented, and how this impacted on their own lives, and their kin, before and after the Restoration.Cromwell's career can be explored further by considering figures in his kinship network to show how the public and private overlapped and influenced each other through their interaction before and after 1660. This study aims to consider the trajectory of elements of Cromwell's network and how its functioning and the interaction of its constituent parts over time shaped the politics of the years 1643 to 1660 but also how the survival of some networks after 1660 were continuing communities of those willing to own their memories of the civil wars, regicide, and Cromwell. A study of aspects of Cromwell's kin also provides examples of the continuities between those who resisted the Stuarts in the 1640s and 1650s and did so again in the 1680s.Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern British, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

There is a perception that the region of north-east India maintained its 'splendid isolation' and remained outside the reach of the Mughals and did not have a pre-colonial past. The present book is an attempt to decenter and demolish the said perceptions and asserts that north-east India had a 'medieval' past through linkage with the dominant central power in India - the Mughals. The eastern frontier of this Mughal Empire was constituted by a number of states like Bengal, Koch Bihar, Assam, Manipur, Dimasa, Jaintia, Cachar, Tripura, Khasi confederation, Chittagong, Lushai and the Nagas. Of these, some areas like Bengal were an integral part of the Mughal Empire, while others like Koch Bihar and Assam were in and out of the empire. Tripura, Manipur, Jaintia and Cachar were frequently overrun by the Mughals whenever the State was short of revenue and withdrew soon without incorporating them in the state.Despite not being a formal part of the Mughal Empire, the society, economy, polity and culture of the north-east India, however, had been majorly impacted by the Mughal presence. The brief, but effective advent of the Mughals had supplanted certain political and revenue institutions in various states. It generated trade and commerce, which linked it to the rest of India. A number of wondering Sufi saints, Islamic missionaries, imprisoned Mughal soldiers and officers were settled in various states, which resulted in a substantial Muslim population growth in the region. Besides the population, there are numerous Islamic and syncretic institutions, cultures, and shrines which dot the entire region.

First Published in 1978, The Baroque focuses on eight areas where it expressed itself most successfully. The cultural movement called baroque dominated most of the Western Europe from the late sixteenth century to the 1720s.

"Traces the history of three massive palaces built outside Naples in the eighteenth century - at Capodimonte, Portici, and Caserta - and examines how these buildings were designed to help reshape the economic and cultural fortunes of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies"--

The thrilling and unputdownable new novel from bestselling author of The Clockwork Girl, Anna Mazzola!'Vividly alive with menace, magic, and mystery' ESSIE FOX'A vivid and atmospheric historical adventure' DAILY MAIL'A writer of great variety and inventiveness. A haunting, complex work' THE TIMES Rome, 1659.Months after the plague has ravaged Rome, men are still dying in unnatural numbers, and rumour has it that their corpses do not decay as they should. The Papal authorities commission prosecutor Stefano Bracchi to investigate, telling him he will need considerable mettle to reach the truth.To the west of the Tiber, Girolama and her female friends are at work, helping other women with childbirths and foretelling their futures. Elsewhere in the city, a young wife, Anna, must find a way to escape her abusive husband. But in a city made by men for men, there are no easy paths out. Stefano's investigation at the Tor di Nona prison will introduce him to horror, magic and an astonishing cast of characters. He will be left wondering if certain deeds should remain forever unpunished...The Book of Secrets is inspired by real events that took place in 17th century Italy.Praise for The Book of Secrets:'Exceptional. Anna Mazzola's finest work yet' ELODIE HARPER'Dark, viscerally-atmospheric and richly-imagined' TAMMY COHEN'Utterly compelling, brilliant and rage-inducing' CAROLINE LEA'This gripping novel blends a colourful historical setting with the pace of a crime thriller' WOMAN'S WEEKLY'Deeply unsettling in all the best ways. Absolutely loved it!' JAMES OSWALD'Compelling and brilliantly atmospheric' ANDREW TAYLOR'Rich and satisfying... another superb historical thriller from Anna Mazzola' CAROLINE GREEN'A hugely entertaining read but also an important one in an era when women's rights are being called into question. Magnificent' LIZ NUGENT'A fascinating, evocative, darkly beautiful story. A compelling tale of female strength & ancient knowledge'HELEN FIELDS'A powerful, perceptive page turner. Feminist historical fiction that is chillingly timely. Bravo!'D V BISHOP'I couldn't put it down. A spectacular insight into life for women in 17th century Rome. I adored it' JULIE OWEN-MOYLAN'A tense and pacy historical thriller that fans of Robert Harris will love. I inhaled this book' TARIQ ASHKANANI'Elegant and compelling writing from an author at the peak of her powers' AJ WEST'A compulsive deep-thinking read, with a message for modern times' CATE QUINN'Passages so lyrical I read them twice. Compelling and poignant. Stunning' RACHEL WOLF'Captivating, haunting and so beautifully wrought' FREYA BERRY'Meticulously researched, beautifully constructed and jam-packed with tension!' REBECCA NETLEY

Linking histories of women, relationships to the natural environment, material culture and art, Andrea Pappas presents a new, multi-dimensional view of eighteenth-century American culture from a unique perspective. This book investigates how and why women pictured the landscape in their needlework. It explores the ways their embroidered landscapes address the tumultuous environmental history of the period; how their depictions of nature differ from those made by men; and what women's choices of motifs can tell us about their lives and their relationships to nature. Embroidering the Landscape situates these pastoral and georgic needleworks (c. 1740-1775) at the intersection of environmental and social histories, interpreting them through ecocritical and social lenses. Pappas' investigation draws out connections between women's depicted landscapes and environmental and cultural history at a time when nature itself was a charged arena for changes in agriculture, husbandry, gardening, and the emerging discourses of botany and natural history. Her insights change our understanding of the relationship between culture and the environment in this period and raise new questions about the unrecognized extent of women's engagement with nature and natural science.

A complete history of Bohemian architecture during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries forms one of the most important chapters in the cultural history of Bohemia. In this period, art attained a remarkably high level, with Bohemia emerging as a rival to the other cultural centers of Europe. This was especially true in terms of architecture, which not only transformed the appearance of towns and villages in Bohemia but also played a part in the creation of the phenomenon known as the Baroque, which to this day remains an essential part of Czech cultural identity. The monumental Baroque Architecture in Bohemia brings together multiple generations of art historians from Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences to offer the single most comprehensive examination and exploration of Bohemian architecture during this extraordinary period. The book begins with the Renaissance roots of Baroque Bohemia: it introduces readers to the influence of the cultured and eccentric Rudolf II, who moved the seat of the Holy Roman Empire back to Prague, inviting foreign artists, architects, and alchemists with him; it shows the importance of Albrecht von Wallenstein, whose military success in the Thirty Years' War heralded a massive building campaign that helped usher in the Baroque age. When the book moves to the period commonly understood as the Baroque, it discusses leading Czech architects, such as Jan Blažej Santini-Aichel and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer, but also focuses on lesser-known regional architects and the important Italian architects and artists that left their mark on Bohemia. The architectural and artistic developments are all set among the broader cultural and social context of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book contains extensive pictorial documentation-most impressively Vladimír Uher and Martin Micka's gorgeous architectural photographs.

The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia traces the hidden history of a Huguenot emigrant community established along the Rappahannock River of Virginia in 1687, with the arrival of an Anglican-ordained Huguenot minister from Cozes, France named John Bertrand.

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer, publisher, paper-maker, and bookseller, as well as several specific trade networks and numerous textual forms. The biographies draw on extensive new archival research, with details of key sources for further study on each figure. Chronologically organised, this Element offers a primer both on numerous individual figures, and on the tribulations and innovations of the print trade in the century of revolution.