Author: Frances Leigh Williams
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Thomas Pinckney (d.1705) immigrated from England to the island of Jamaica in 1688, and immigrated to South Carolina in 1692. He married twice. Descendants listed lived chiefly in South Carolina. The brothers, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney (1746-1825) and Thomas Pinckney (1750-1828), were particularly effective during the Revolutionary War and during the creation and ratification of the Constitution.
A Founding Family
America's First Families
Author: Carl Sferrazza Anthony
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"Carl Anthony opens the door to the world's most famous residence to reveal life as it was actually lived there. He takes readers into the heart of loyalties and estrangements, and the emotional pressures politics brings to bear upon the forty White House families, from their arrivals to their "notices to vacate." Readers will enjoy an unprecedented tour of the previously unseen private rooms as used and decorated by each family. Revealed too are the personal proclivities of the presidents and how their families both sustained them through public crises and were used to political advantage. They'll get a firsthand look at the preparations for White House weddings and other occasions; meet the parents and children of the presidents - as well as an assortment of eccentric relatives - and discover the patterns of working, resting, and relaxing that shaped family life."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"Carl Anthony opens the door to the world's most famous residence to reveal life as it was actually lived there. He takes readers into the heart of loyalties and estrangements, and the emotional pressures politics brings to bear upon the forty White House families, from their arrivals to their "notices to vacate." Readers will enjoy an unprecedented tour of the previously unseen private rooms as used and decorated by each family. Revealed too are the personal proclivities of the presidents and how their families both sustained them through public crises and were used to political advantage. They'll get a firsthand look at the preparations for White House weddings and other occasions; meet the parents and children of the presidents - as well as an assortment of eccentric relatives - and discover the patterns of working, resting, and relaxing that shaped family life."--BOOK JACKET.
Founding Families Of Pittsburgh
Author: Joseph F Rishel
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822972786
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
As Pittsburgh and its surrounding area grew into an important commercial and industrial center, a group of families emerged who were distinguished by their wealth and social position. Joseph Rishel studies twenty of these families to determine the degree to which they formed a coherent upper class and the extent to which they were able to maintain their status over time. His analysis shows that Pittsburgh's elite upper class succeeded in creating the institutions needed to sustain a local aristocracy and possessed the ability to adapt its accumulated advantages to social and economic changes.
Companions of Champlain
Author: Denise R. Larson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353678
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806353678
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The stories of the companions of Samuel de Champlain, the families who lives, worked, survived, and endured life at an isolated trading post in the strange New World-- these stories add flesh to the dry bones of the history of the seventeenth-century Age of Exploration.
American Dynasties
Author: Rachel Dickinson
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493066698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.
Publisher: Lyons Press
ISBN: 9781493066698
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.
The Mayflower
Author: Rebecca Fraser
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125010856X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"First published in the United Kingdom under the title The Mayflower generation by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, a Penguin Random House company"--Verso.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 125010856X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
"First published in the United Kingdom under the title The Mayflower generation by Chatto & Windus, an imprint of Vintage, a Penguin Random House company"--Verso.
First Families
Author: L. Frank
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state, they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of nearly fifteen hundred family photos. The documentary project, funded by the California State Library and LEF Foundation, paints an unprecedented portrait of California's indigenous people using their own words and photographs from their own family albums. In turns moody, beautiful, warm, and humorous, First Families is a one-of-a-kind book that combines extremely personal images with text that gives readers a broader, deeper view of Indian history and many complex living cultures.
Publisher: Heyday
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
When L. Frank and Marina Drummer went on the road in 2002, they set out to visit as many people from different California tribes as possible. Crisscrossing the state, they taped hundreds of hours of interviews and collected copies of nearly fifteen hundred family photos. The documentary project, funded by the California State Library and LEF Foundation, paints an unprecedented portrait of California's indigenous people using their own words and photographs from their own family albums. In turns moody, beautiful, warm, and humorous, First Families is a one-of-a-kind book that combines extremely personal images with text that gives readers a broader, deeper view of Indian history and many complex living cultures.
Braehead
Author: Sherrill MacLaren
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : McClelland and Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Traces the history of 3 families who came to Canada in the early 19th century. The period is seen from three distinct regional viewpoints - from upper Canada, lower Canada and the Red River settlement.
Publisher: Toronto, Ont. : McClelland and Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Traces the history of 3 families who came to Canada in the early 19th century. The period is seen from three distinct regional viewpoints - from upper Canada, lower Canada and the Red River settlement.
The Inman Family
Author: Tammy Galloway
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Their success in the economic arena made possible access to prominent cultural, social, and political positions through which they helped influence and shape Atlanta's growth."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547551
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Their success in the economic arena made possible access to prominent cultural, social, and political positions through which they helped influence and shape Atlanta's growth."--BOOK JACKET.
American Dynasties
Author: Rachel Dickinson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493048155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall. No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493048155
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall. No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social ladder and their resulting legacies. Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall, including the following families:Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Ford, Getty, Hearst, Morgan, Astor, Coors, Adams, Kennedy, Nampeyo, Wyeth, Carter, and Barrymore.