Encountering Early America

Encountering Early America
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ISBN-10 : 1526171740
ISBN-13 : 9781526171740
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Synopsis Encountering Early America by : Rachel Winchcombe

Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas in the sixteenth century. The book demonstrates that the first century of English engagement with America was dynamic, adaptive and had a lasting influence on exploration and settlement in the New World.

Encountering Revolution

Encountering Revolution
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780801894152
ISBN-13 : 0801894158
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis Encountering Revolution by : Ashli White

Encountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in American history. For postrevolutionary Americans, the Haitian uprising laid bare the contradiction between democratic principles and the practice of slavery. For thirteen years, between 1791 and 1804, slaves and free people of color in Saint-Domingue battled for equal rights in the manner of the French Revolution. As white and mixed-race refugees escaped to the safety of U.S. cities, Americans were forced to confront the paradox of being a slaveholding republic, recognizing their own possible destiny in the predicament of the Haitian slaveholders. Historian Ashli White examines the ways Americans—black and white, northern and southern, Federalist and Democratic Republican, pro- and antislavery—pondered the implications of the Haitian Revolution. Encountering Revolution convincingly situates the formation of the United States in a broader Atlantic context. It shows how the very presence of Saint-Dominguan refugees stirred in Americans as many questions about themselves as about the future of slaveholding, stimulating some of the earliest debates about nationalism in the early republic.

Encountering early America

Encountering early America
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 341
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ISBN-10 : 9781526145765
ISBN-13 : 1526145766
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Synopsis Encountering early America by : Rachel Winchcombe

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early English understandings of America and changing approaches to exploration and settlement. The book traces the dynamism of early English encounters with the Americas and the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the new lands across the Atlantic. It illustrates that rather than being a period of inconsequential colonial failure in the Americas, the sixteenth century was in fact an era of assessment, adaptation and application that culminated in the survival of the first Anglo-American colony at Jamestown. Encountering early America will appeal to students and scholars working on early English colonialism in North America and European cultural encounters with the New World.

American History: A Very Short Introduction

American History: A Very Short Introduction
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 182
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ISBN-10 : 9780199911653
ISBN-13 : 0199911657
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis American History: A Very Short Introduction by : Paul S. Boyer

This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.

Colonial Encounters

Colonial Encounters
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Total Pages : 380
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X002783968
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Synopsis Colonial Encounters by : Peter Hulme

Encountering Ellis Island

Encountering Ellis Island
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Publisher : JHU Press
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9781421413693
ISBN-13 : 1421413698
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Encountering Ellis Island by : Ronald H. Bayor

A look at the process of entering America a hundred years ago—from both an institutional and a human perspective. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice America is famously known as a nation of immigrants. Millions of Europeans journeyed to the United States in the peak years of 1892–1924, and Ellis Island, New York, is where the great majority landed. Ellis Island opened in 1892 with the goal of placing immigration under the control of the federal government and systematizing the entry process. Encountering Ellis Island introduces readers to the ways in which the principal nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American portal for Europeans worked in practice, with some comparison to Angel Island, the main entry point for Asian immigrants. What happened along the journey? How did the processing of so many people work? What were the reactions of the newly arrived to the process (and threats) of inspection, delays, hospitalization, detention, and deportation? How did immigration officials attempt to protect the country from diseased or “unfit” newcomers, and how did these definitions take shape and change? What happened to people who failed screening? And how, at the journey's end, did immigrants respond to admission to their new homeland? Ronald H. Bayor, a senior scholar in immigrant and urban studies, gives voice to both immigrants and Island workers to offer perspectives on the human experience and institutional imperatives associated with the arrival experience. Drawing on firsthand accounts from, and interviews with, immigrants, doctors, inspectors, aid workers, and interpreters, Bayor paints a vivid and sometimes troubling portrait of the immigration process. In reality, Ellis Island had many liabilities as well as assets. Corruption was rife. Immigrants with medical issues occasionally faced a hostile staff. Some families, on the other hand, reunited in great joy and found relief at their journey's end. Encountering Ellis Island lays bare the profound and sometimes-victorious story of people chasing the American Dream: leaving everything behind, facing a new language and a new culture, and starting a new American life.

Creatures of Empire

Creatures of Empire
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0195304462
ISBN-13 : 9780195304466
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis Creatures of Empire by : Virginia DeJohn Anderson

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Encountering Development

Encountering Development
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9780691150451
ISBN-13 : 0691150451
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Encountering Development by : Arturo Escobar

Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.

European Encounters with the New World

European Encounters with the New World
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 0300059507
ISBN-13 : 9780300059502
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis European Encounters with the New World by : Anthony Pagden

For review see: J.W. Schulte Nordholt, in Tijdschrift voor geschiedenis, jrg. 107, nr. 4 (1994); p. 591-592.