Author: Richard LathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers
Author: Richard LathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers
Author: Richard LathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgetown (S.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
REMINISCENCES OF RICHARD LATHE
Author: Richard 1820-1903 LathersPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781372592003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers
Author: Alvan F. SanbornPublisher:
ISBN: 9781331278511
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Excerpt from Reminiscences of Richard Lathers: Sixty Years of a Busy Life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York This book might well have been entitled "The Reminiscences of a Peacemaker." From first to last the governing purpose of Colonel Lather's long life was the establishment of peace. His activities in behalf of peace were of the most varied sort, being social as well as political. That he did not invariably succeed in his efforts at conciliation and reconciliation in no way discredits them or him. The wonder is, when all the circumstances are considered, that he succeeded so often. The editing of these reminiscences has been mainly a work of selection and of condensation. They have been left as nearly in their original form as the restricted compass of a single volume has permitted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Reminiscences of Richard Lathers; Sixty Years of a Busy Life in South Carolina, Massachusetts and New York;
Author: Richard LathersPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017704792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Melville in His Own Time
Author: Steven Olsen-SmithPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609383346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of America’s most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840 he signed aboard the whaleship Acushnet in the midst of a nationwide depression and sailed to the South Pacific. At the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and lived for a time among one of the group’s last unsubjugated tribes. Upon his return home, he achieved overnight success with a book based on his experiences, Typee (1846). Melville’s mastery of the English language and heterodox views made him a source of both controversy and fascination to western readers, until his increasing commitment to artistry and contempt for artificial conventions led him to write Moby-Dick (1851) and its successor Pierre (1852). Although the former is considered his masterwork today, the books offended mid-nineteenth-century cultural sensibilities and alienated Melville from the American literary marketplace. The resulting eclipse of his popular reputation was deepened by his voluntary withdrawal from society, so that obituaries written after his death in 1891 frequently expressed surprise that he hadn’t died long before. With most of his personal papers and letters lost or destroyed, his library of marked and annotated books dispersed, and first-hand accounts of him scattered, brief, and frequently conflicting, Melville’s place in American literary scholarship illustrates the importance of accurately edited documents and the value of new information to our understanding of his life and thought. As a chronologically organized collection of surviving testimonials about the author, Melville in His Own Time continues the tradition of documentary research well-exemplified over the past half-century by the work of Jay Leyda, Merton M. Sealts, and Hershel Parker. Combining recently discovered evidence with new transcriptions of long-known but rarely consulted testimony, this collection offers the most up-to-date and correct record of commentary on Melville by individuals who knew him.
Biographical Sketch 1841-1902 of Colonel Richard Lathers ...
Author: Richard LathersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Madness Rules the Hour
Author: Paul StarobinPublisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610396235
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War. "The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860 In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently attached to slavery, and no city was seen by the North as a greater threat to the bonds barely holding together the Union. And so, with Abraham Lincoln's election looming, Charleston's leaders faced a climactic decision: they could submit to abolition -- or they could drive South Carolina out of the Union and hope that the rest of the South would follow. In Madness Rules the Hour, Paul Starobin tells the story of how Charleston succumbed to a fever for war and charts the contagion's relentless progress and bizarre turns. In doing so, he examines the wily propagandists, the ambitious politicians, the gentlemen merchants and their wives and daughters, the compliant pastors, and the white workingmen who waged a violent and exuberant revolution in the name of slavery and Southern independence. They devoured the Mercury, the incendiary newspaper run by a fanatical father and son; made holy the deceased John C. Calhoun; and adopted "Le Marseillaise" as a rebellious anthem. Madness Rules the Hour is a portrait of a culture in crisis and an insightful investigation into the folly that fractured the Union and started the Civil War.
The Civil War World of Herman Melville
Author: Stanton GarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
A detailed account of Herman Melville's life during the Civil War, as well as study of his war epic, Battle-Pieces.
The Making of the Balkan States
Author: William Smith MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Balkan Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
