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
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...
Author: Francis Bazley Lee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The Literature of American Local History, a Bibliographical Essay
Author: Herm. E. Ludewig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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.
Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia, Under the Editorial Supervision of Bernard L. Butcher ...
Author: Bernard Lee Butcher
Publisher:
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Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Counties of Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and Tucker.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monongahela River Valley (W. Va. and Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Counties of Monongalia, Preston, Taylor, Marion, Harrison, Lewis, Barbour, Upshur, Randolph and Tucker.
The Literature Of American Local History; A Bibliographical Essay
Author: Hermann Eduard Ludewig
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science
Author:
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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
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
Bibliography of Economics, 1751-1775
Author: Henry Higgs
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description