Legends Stories And Folklore Of Old Staten Island Part I The North Shore
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Legends Stories And Folklore Of Old Staten Island
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Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Legends Stories And Folklore Of Old Staten Island written by Charles Gilbert Hine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) categories.
Legends Stories And Folklore Of Old Staten Island The North Shore
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Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1925
Legends Stories And Folklore Of Old Staten Island The North Shore written by Charles Gilbert Hine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925 with Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) categories.
Staten Island In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Joseph Borelli
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-16
Staten Island In The Nineteenth Century written by Joseph Borelli and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-16 with History categories.
Emerging from the Revolutionary War and the formation of a new nation, Staten Island was poised to enter the nineteenth century ripe for growth and prosperity. Fueled by waves of immigration, Richmond County became a boomtown of industry and transportation. Piloting his first ferry with just two small masts and eighteen-cent fares, Cornelius Vanderbilt built a transit empire from his native shores of Staten Island. When the Civil War erupted, Richmond played a key role in housing and training Union troops as 125 naval guns protected New York Harbor at the Narrows. At the close of the century, Staten Island was swept up in the politics of consolidation, with 84 percent of locals voting to join Greater New York, yet the promised benefits of a new mega-city never materialized. Author Joe Borelli charts the trials and triumphs of Staten Island in the nineteenth century.
Port Richmond
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Author : Phillip Papas
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Port Richmond written by Phillip Papas and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Aaron Burr, Faber Pencils, the atomic bomb, Paul Zindel, and David Johansen all have one thing in common: Port Richmond. Many Staten Islanders flocked to Richmond Avenue, known as the Fifth Avenue of Staten Island, to shop at Garber Brothers or at Tirone's Shoes or enjoy an ice-cream soda at Stechman's. The Ritz, Palace, and Empire Theaters hosted vaudeville shows, films, rock concerts, and roller-skating. More than a dozen places of worship have been founded in Port Richmond since the late 1600s, mirroring the community's ethnic diversity. Port Richmond traces the unique contributions of each new wave of immigrants to the neighborhood.
Masked
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Author : Alfred Habegger
language : en
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Pres
Release Date : 2014-06-30
Masked written by Alfred Habegger and has been published by University of Wisconsin Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
The Staten Island Historian
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
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Staten Island And Its People
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Author : Charles William Leng
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
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Proceedings Of The Staten Island Institute Of Arts And Sciences
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Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, N.Y.
language : en
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Release Date : 1923
Proceedings Of The Staten Island Institute Of Arts And Sciences written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, N.Y. and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1923 with categories.
Proceedings Staten Island Institute Of Arts And Sciences
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Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Proceedings Staten Island Institute Of Arts And Sciences written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with Science categories.
Proceedings Of The Staten Island Institute Of Arts And Sciences
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language : en
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Release Date : 1923
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