Author: John Macklin Delaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878110582
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Nova Caesarea
Author: John Macklin Delaney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878110582
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780878110582
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The Literature of American Local History, a Bibliographical Essay
Author: Herm. E. Ludewig
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Literature Of American Local History; A Bibliographical Essay
Author: Hermann Eduard Ludewig
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Secret History of the Jersey Devil
Author: Brian Regal
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421436353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day. Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby—or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which is one of the oldest monster legends in the United States. According to Regal and Esposito, everything you think you know about the Jersey Devil is wrong. The real story of the Jersey Devil's birth is far more interesting, complex, and important than most people—believers and skeptics alike—realize. Leaving the Pine Barrens, Regal and Esposito turn instead to the varied political and cultural roots of the Devil's creation. Fascinating and lively, this book finds the origins of New Jersey's favorite monster not in witchcraft or an unnatural liaison between woman and devil but in the bare-knuckled political fights and religious upheavals of colonial America. A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421436353
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A provocative look at the mystery surrounding the Jersey Devil, a beast born of colonial times that haunts the corners of the Pine Barrens—and the American imagination—to this day. Legend has it that in 1735, a witch named Mother Leeds gave birth to a horrifying monster—a deformed flying horse with glowing red eyes—that flew up the chimney of her New Jersey home and disappeared into the Pine Barrens. Ever since, this nightmarish beast has haunted those woods, presaging catastrophe and frightening innocent passersby—or so the story goes. In The Secret History of the Jersey Devil, Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito examine the genesis of this popular myth, which is one of the oldest monster legends in the United States. According to Regal and Esposito, everything you think you know about the Jersey Devil is wrong. The real story of the Jersey Devil's birth is far more interesting, complex, and important than most people—believers and skeptics alike—realize. Leaving the Pine Barrens, Regal and Esposito turn instead to the varied political and cultural roots of the Devil's creation. Fascinating and lively, this book finds the origins of New Jersey's favorite monster not in witchcraft or an unnatural liaison between woman and devil but in the bare-knuckled political fights and religious upheavals of colonial America. A product of innuendo and rumor, as well as scandal and media hype, the Jersey Devil enjoys a rich history involving land grabs, astrological predictions, mermaids and dinosaur bones, sideshows, Napoleon Bonaparte's brother, a cross-dressing royal governor, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin.
History of Nova Caesarea
Author: Samuel Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580570145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781580570145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Historic Elizabeth, 1664-1914
Author: Warren Rogers Dix
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elizabeth (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Publisher:
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Category : Elizabeth (N.J.)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author: Francis Edgar Sparks
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Mun-Oddfellows
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
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ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
"The last great work of the age of reason, the final instance when all human knowledge could be presented with a single point of view ... Unabashed optimism, and unabashed racism, pervades many entries in the 11th, and provide its defining characteristics ... Despite its occasional ugliness, the reputation of the 11th persists today because of the staggering depth of knowledge contained with its volumes. It is especially strong in its biographical entries. These delve deeply into the history of men and women prominent in their eras who have since been largely forgotten - except by the historians, scholars"-- The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2012/apr/10/encyclopedia-britannica-11th-edition.
Shapers of Our Age
Author: John Graham
Publisher:
ISBN: 1442124695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Marconi didn't invent radio, Westinghouse didn't invent alternating current, Talbot didn't invent photography and Edward Jenner didn't invent vaccination. Innovators and inventors are wonderful thinkers but they are often poor communicators and business people. Thus, even if the change that they brought about altered or enhanced society, oftentimes they were forgotten, they did not receive public recognition or some other person took their credit. Sometimes the true innovators are not recognized for hundreds of years and, perhaps never.This book tells the story of a number of these people in a way that illustrates their lives as well as their achievements. It is meant to be entertaining and somewhat illuminating about the times in which these people lived.These tales are not definitive reference biographies of the personalities involved. They are tales of people with the same name in whose lives most of the events were identical to those of the personality.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1442124695
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Marconi didn't invent radio, Westinghouse didn't invent alternating current, Talbot didn't invent photography and Edward Jenner didn't invent vaccination. Innovators and inventors are wonderful thinkers but they are often poor communicators and business people. Thus, even if the change that they brought about altered or enhanced society, oftentimes they were forgotten, they did not receive public recognition or some other person took their credit. Sometimes the true innovators are not recognized for hundreds of years and, perhaps never.This book tells the story of a number of these people in a way that illustrates their lives as well as their achievements. It is meant to be entertaining and somewhat illuminating about the times in which these people lived.These tales are not definitive reference biographies of the personalities involved. They are tales of people with the same name in whose lives most of the events were identical to those of the personality.