Author: M. A. Brown
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Icelandic Discoverers of America; Or Honour to Whom Honour is Due
Author: M. A. Brown
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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The Icelandic Discoverers of America
Author: Marie Adelaide Shipley
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Icelandic Discoverers of America
Author: Mrs. Marie Adelaide (Brown) Shipley
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The Battle over America's Origin Story
Author: Brian Regal
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030995380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030995380
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical evidence and more on social, political, and cultural wish fulfillment. Influenced by a complex interplay of Nativist hatred of immigrants and Aboriginal people, as well as distrust of academic scholarship, these legends ebbed and flowed with changing conditions in wider American society. The book focuses on the actions of a collection of quirky, obsessed amateur investigators who spent their lives trying to prove their various theories by promoting Welsh princes, Vikings, Chinese admirals, Neo-lithic Europeans, African explorers, and others who they say arrived centuries before Columbus. These myths acted as mitigating agencies for those who embraced them. Along with recent scholarship, this book makes extensive use of archival materials—some of which have never been employed before. It covers the period from the sixteenth century to the present. It brings together separate historiographic ideas to create a unified history rather than focusing on one particular legend as most books on the subject do. It shows how questions of who discovered America helped create the field of historical scholarship in this country. This book does not attempt to prove who discovered America, rather it tells the story of those who think they did.
Icelandic Heritage in North America
Author: Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 1772840238
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 1772840238
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
A celebration of cultural inheritance and the evolution of language. Mapping the language, literature, and history of Icelandic immigrants and their descendants, this collection, translated and expanded for English-speaking audiences, delivers a comprehensive overview of Icelandic linguistic and cultural heritage in North America. Drawn from the findings of a three-year study involving over two hundred participants from Manitoba, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and the Pacific West Coast, Icelandic Heritage in North America reveals the durability and versatility of the Icelandic language. Editors Birna Arnbjörnsdóttir, Höskuldur Thráinsson, and Úlfar Bragason bring together a range of interdisciplinary scholarship to investigate the endurance of the “Western Icelander.” Chapters delve into the literary works of Icelandic immigrant writers and interpret archival letters, newspapers, and journal entries to provide both qualitative and quantitative linguistic analyses and to mark significant cultural shifts between early settlement and today. Icelandic Heritage in North America offers an in-depth examination of Icelandic immigrant identity, linguistic evolution, and legacy.
Supplement to the Catalogue (issued in 1884) of the Circulating and a Portion of the Intermediate Departments, Worcester, 1889
Author: Worcester Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The Icelandic Discoverers of America
Author: Marie Adelaide Shipley
Publisher: Boston : M.A. Brown
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Publisher: Boston : M.A. Brown
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The Philosophy of Words
Author: Federico Garlanda
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Category : Comparative linguistics
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
From 1891 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Annual Report of the Regents
Author: New York State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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