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English America And England
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Author : El Mouatamid Ben Rochd
language : en
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-01-05
English America And England written by El Mouatamid Ben Rochd and has been published by BoD - Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-05 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book is an attempt to cover the history, language and culture of two most famous superpowers of the 20th and 21st centuries and evaluate their impact, glory and tribulations. Like a man's life, it has its ups and downs which can balance his human value, shared between qualities and shortcomings. This is a rather optimistic goal to try and summarize the long Anglo-Saxon history from the Stonehenge era to Donald Trump's Proud Boys' storming of the Capitol; many centuries indeed. This is in what concerns the people of these great nations. As far as their language is concerned English, it is a great language with a long history (Old, Middle and Modern). It is the language of Shakespeare.
Speaking American A History Of English In The United States
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Author : Richard W. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011-12-26
Speaking American A History Of English In The United States written by Richard W. Bailey and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-26 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
When did English become American? What distinctive qualities made it American? What role have America's democratizing impulses, and its vibrantly heterogeneous speakers, played in shaping our language and separating it from the mother tongue? A wide-ranging account of American English, Richard Bailey's Speaking American investigates the history and continuing evolution of our language from the sixteenth century to the present. The book is organized in half-century segments around influential centers: Chesapeake Bay (1600-1650), Boston (1650-1700), Charleston (1700-1750), Philadelphia (1750-1800), New Orleans (1800-1850), New York (1850-1900), Chicago (1900-1950), Los Angeles (1950-2000), and Cyberspace (2000-present). Each of these places has added new words, new inflections, new ways of speaking to the elusive, boisterous, ever-changing linguistic experiment that is American English. Freed from British constraints of unity and propriety, swept up in rapid social change, restless movement, and a thirst for innovation, Americans have always been eager to invent new words, from earthy frontier expressions like "catawampously" (vigorously) and "bung-nipper" (pickpocket), to West African words introduced by slaves such as "goober" (peanut) and "gumbo" (okra), to urban slang such as "tagging" (spraying graffiti) and "crew" (gang). Throughout, Bailey focuses on how people speak and how speakers change the language. The book is filled with transcripts of arresting voices, precisely situated in time and space: two justices of the peace sitting in a pumpkin patch trying an Indian for theft; a crowd of Africans lounging on the waterfront in Philadelphia discussing the newly independent nation in their home languages; a Chicago gangster complaining that his pocket had been picked; Valley Girls chattering; Crips and Bloods negotiating their gang identities in LA; and more. Speaking American explores--and celebrates--the endless variety and remarkable inventiveness that have always been at the heart of American English.
Between Two Worlds
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Author : Malcolm Gaskill
language : en
Publisher: Basic Books
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Between Two Worlds written by Malcolm Gaskill and has been published by Basic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with History categories.
In the 1600s, over 350,000 intrepid English men, women, and children migrated to America, leaving behind their homeland for an uncertain future. Whether they settled in Jamestown, Salem, or Barbados, these migrants -- entrepreneurs, soldiers, and pilgrims alike -- faced one incontrovertible truth: England was a very, very long way away. In Between Two Worlds, celebrated historian Malcolm Gaskill tells the sweeping story of the English experience in America during the first century of colonization. Following a large and varied cast of visionaries and heretics, merchants and warriors, and slaves and rebels, Gaskill brilliantly illuminates the often traumatic challenges the settlers faced. The first waves sought to recreate the English way of life, even to recover a society that was vanishing at home. But they were thwarted at every turn by the perils of a strange continent, unaided by monarchs who first ignored then exploited them. As these colonists strove to leave their mark on the New World, they were forced -- by hardship and hunger, by illness and infighting, and by bloody and desperate battles with Indians -- to innovate and adapt or perish. As later generations acclimated to the wilderness, they recognized that they had evolved into something distinct: no longer just the English in America, they were perhaps not even English at all. These men and women were among the first white Americans, and certainly the most prolific. And as Gaskill shows, in learning to live in an unforgiving world, they had begun a long and fateful journey toward rebellion and, finally, independence
English America
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Author : Samuel Phillips Day
language : en
Publisher: London : T.C. Newby
Release Date : 1864
English America written by Samuel Phillips Day and has been published by London : T.C. Newby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1864 with Canada categories.
Impressions of Canadian social institutions, politics and industrial development in 1862.
Colonization Of English America
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Author : Trevor Burnard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-06
Colonization Of English America written by Trevor Burnard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06 with categories.
A volume of bibliographic information on the colonization of English America, including: general overviews, textbooks, surveys, bibliographies, journals and more.
The Founding Of English America
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Author : John May
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2024-05-24
The Founding Of English America written by John May and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-24 with History categories.
In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today's North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. This ended tragically and became known as The Lost Colony, its fate a mystery to this day. James I resumed the effort with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 on an island in the James River in today's Virginia. This book relates the histories of the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies to enable a full understanding of the founding of English America. Important events in America's beginnings, including the wreck of the Sea Venture (which inspired William Shakespeare's The Tempest), the Algonquin chief Powhatan's plans to make the newcomers useful to him, and the relationship between Pocahontas and English Captain John Smith are highlighted.
The English Literatures Of America
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Author : Myra Jehlen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-19
The English Literatures Of America written by Myra Jehlen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-19 with Literary Collections categories.
The English Literatures of America redefines colonial American literatures, sweeping from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia to the West Indies and Guiana. The book begins with the first colonization of the Americas and stretches beyond the Revolution to the early national period. Many texts are collected here for the first time; others are recognized masterpieces of the canon--both British and American--that can now be read in their Atlantic context. By emphasizing the culture of empire and by representing a transatlantic dialogue, The English Literatures of America allows a new way to understand colonial literature both in the United States and abroad.
The American Language
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Author : Henry Louis Mencken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The American Language written by Henry Louis Mencken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Americanisms categories.
"The plan of these volumes follow the order of The American language, fourth edition, and each section is hooked to that work by identical headings ... it is not necessary for the reader to have the fourth edition before him to make his way, nor even to have read it, for the new matter here presented is almost always self-contained ..."--Preface, p. vii.
The English Empire In America 1602 1658
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Author : L H Roper
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The English Empire In America 1602 1658 written by L H Roper and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with History categories.
This study situates the colonization of Virginia, the centrepiece of early English overseas settlement activity, in the social and political landscape of the early seventeenth century.
The American Language
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Author : Henry L. Mencken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The American Language written by Henry L. Mencken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with categories.