Author: Martha W. McCartneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamestown (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Documentary History of Jamestown Island: Biographies of owners and residents
Author: Martha W. McCartneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamestown (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
When Clans Collide
Author: Wayne Rudolph DavidsonPublisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 1458212432
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
When Clans Collide: The Germination of Adams Family Tree through Surname, Life Experience, and DNA tells the story of author Wayne Rudolph Davidsons surname and its ancestral connection to individuals and events that have shaped the world in which we live. When Davidson set out to discover the ancestral history of his surname, he had no idea what he would encounter. On his journey, he discovered that people with the surname of Davidson have contributed to government and politics, business and economics, social sciences, religion, education, science and technology, music and entertainment, sports and recreation, and military history. The research included here illustrates events ranging from the evolution of the English Crown and the building of North America to the American Revolution and the American Civil War. He also discovered quite a few events linked to African American history, including the period of Reconstruction, Buffalo Soldiers and the Great Plains, and the Great Migration. Davidsons have also contributed to the popularity of sports and entertainment, the growth of the office of the president of the United States, both World Wars, and the sacrifice of heroes. Interesting and informative, When Clans Collide explores the history of one surname and provides a foundation and plan for making the connection to your own ancestral heritage through your surname.
Documentary History of Jamestown Island: Narrative history
Author: Martha W. McCartneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamestown (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia
Author: Anna S Agbe-DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315416670
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Tobacco, Pipes, and Race in Colonial Virginia investigates the economic and social power that surrounded the production and use of tobacco pipes in colonial Virginia and the difficulty of correlating objects with cultural identities. A common artifact in colonial period sites, previous publications on this subject have focused on the decorations on the pipes or which ethnic group produced and used the pipes, “European,” “African,” or “Indian.” This book weaves together new interpretations, analytical techniques, classification schemes, historical background, and archaeological methods and theory. Special attention is paid to the subfield of African diaspora research to display the complexities of understanding this class of material culture. This fascinating study is accessible to the undergraduate reader, as well as to graduate students and scholars.
The Cultural Roots of the 1622 Indian Attack
Author: Janie Mae Jones McKinleyPublisher: Book Hub Inc
ISBN: 0989216918
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Follow the story of Richard Pace who begins life in 16th century London, travels across the Atlantic to a New World, and makes his mark in the history of the United States of America.
Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Author: Audrey J. HorningPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610728
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
Smoking and Culture
Author: Sean Michael RaffertyPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572333505
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
« Because of the ceremonial and ritual aspects of the practice in Native American societies, smoking pipes are important cultural artifacts. The essays in Smoking and Culture constitute the first sustained inerpretive study of smoking pipes, focusing on the cultural significance of smoking both before and after European contact. »--Résumé de l'éditeur.
Social Archaeologies of Trade and Exchange
Author: Alexander A BauerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131542004X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This volume focuses on the anthropological concept of trade as a fundamentally social activity concerned not only with the movement of goods, but also on the social context and consequences of that exchange. The distinguished contributors discuss trade on a range of scales—from a solitary confinement cell to trans-oceanic networks—in settings around the world and over the past 3000 years. They address themes such as exchange as a communicative act, the ways in which exchange transforms the relationship between people and things, the significance of agency and power in contexts of trade, and how sites of consumption and discard speak to processes of exchange. The volume merges traditional archaeological concerns about trade and exchange with more contemporary issues of agency, identity and social meaning.
Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth
Author: Paul MusselwhitePublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022658528X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The English settlers who staked their claims in the Chesapeake Bay were drawn to it for a variety of reasons. Some sought wealth from the land, while others saw it as a place of trade, a political experiment, or a potential spiritual sanctuary. But like other European colonizers in the Americas, they all aspired to found, organize, and maintain functioning towns—an aspiration that met with varying degrees of success, but mostly failure. Yet this failure became critical to the economy and society that did arise there. As Urban Dreams, Rural Commonwealth reveals, the agrarian plantation society that eventually sprang up around the Chesapeake Bay was not preordained—rather, it was the necessary product of failed attempts to build cities. Paul Musselwhite details the unsuccessful urban development that defined the region from the seventeenth century through the Civil War, showing how places like Jamestown and Annapolis—despite their small size—were the products of ambitious and cutting-edge experiments in urbanization comparable to those in the largest port cities of the Atlantic world. These experiments, though, stoked ongoing debate about commerce, taxation, and self-government. Chesapeake planters responded to this debate by reinforcing the political, economic, and cultural authority of their private plantation estates, with profound consequences for the region’s laborers and the political ideology of the southern United States. As Musselwhite makes clear, the antebellum economy around this well-known waterway was built not in the absence of cities, but upon their aspirational wreckage.
Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635
Author: Martha W. McCartneyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806317748
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).
