Author: John Fox
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557001668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
A Colliers Daughter
Author: John Fox
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557001668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557001668
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters American Revolution
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Joseph Habersham Chapter (Atlanta, Ga.)
Publisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author:
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine
Author: Lyon Gardiner Tyler
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 658
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The House of Mansur
Author: Mary Rebecca Ellis
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Historical Collections of the Joseph Habersham Chapter, Daughters American Revolution
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
The Bookman
Author:
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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Category : Book collecting
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Genealogies of Virginia Families
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309474
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 3680
Book Description
From Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine.
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806309474
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 3680
Book Description
From Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine.
The History of Northumberland
Author: Cadwallader John Bates
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Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Category : Northumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A Swindler's Progress
Author: Kirsten McKenzie
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674052789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence trickster and serial impostor. Was this really the heir to one of Britain's most spectacular fortunes? Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, A Swindler's Progress is an engrossing tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds—British aristocrats and Australian felons—bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. The first historian to unravel the mystery of John Dow and Edward Lascelles, Kirsten McKenzie illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty, when freedom could mean the freedom to lie both in the far-flung outposts of empire and within the established bastions of British power. The struggles of the Lascelles family for social and political power, and the tragedy of their disgraced heir, demonstrate that British elites were as fragile as their colonial counterparts. In ways both personal and profound, McKenzie recreates a world in which Britain and the empire were intertwined in the transformation of status and politics in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674052789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence trickster and serial impostor. Was this really the heir to one of Britain's most spectacular fortunes? Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, A Swindler's Progress is an engrossing tale of adventure and deceit across two worlds—British aristocrats and Australian felons—bound together in an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal worth was battling power based on birth alone. The first historian to unravel the mystery of John Dow and Edward Lascelles, Kirsten McKenzie illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty, when freedom could mean the freedom to lie both in the far-flung outposts of empire and within the established bastions of British power. The struggles of the Lascelles family for social and political power, and the tragedy of their disgraced heir, demonstrate that British elites were as fragile as their colonial counterparts. In ways both personal and profound, McKenzie recreates a world in which Britain and the empire were intertwined in the transformation of status and politics in the nineteenth century.