Secret History Of The Dividing Line
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The Dividing Line Histories Of William Byrd Ii Of Westover
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Author : Kevin Joel Berland
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-11-01
The Dividing Line Histories Of William Byrd Ii Of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-01 with History categories.
After his 1728 Virginia–North Carolina boundary expedition, Virginia planter and politician William Byrd II composed two very different accounts of his adventures. The Secret History of the Line was written for private circulation, offering tales of scandalous behavior and political misconduct, peppered with rakish humor and personal satire. The History of the Dividing Line, continually revised by Byrd for decades after the expedition, was intended for the London literary market, though not published in his lifetime. Collating all extant manuscripts, Kevin Joel Berland’s landmark scholarly edition of these two histories provides wide-ranging historical and cultural contexts for both, helping to recreate the social and intellectual ethos of Byrd and his time. Byrd enriched his narratives with material appropriated from earlier authors, many of whose works were in his library — the most extensive in the American colonies. Berland identifies for the first time many of Byrd’s sources and raises the question: how reliable are histories that build silently upon antecedent texts and present borrowed material as firsthand testimony? In his analysis, Berland demonstrates the need for a new category to assess early modern history writing: the hybrid, accretional narrative.
Secret History Of The Dividing Line
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Author : Susan Howe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
Secret History Of The Dividing Line written by Susan Howe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Experimental poetry, American categories.
Byrd S Line
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Author : Stephen C. Ausband
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2002
Byrd S Line written by Stephen C. Ausband and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Byrd often mused about what would happen to the land in the future. While some of the dividing line still feels like wilderness, it is crisscrossed today by bridges and roads, its forests felled and paved over for parking lots and subdivisions, its waters diverted or drained. Ausband's story, therefore, is a natural history of a changed region."--BOOK JACKET.
William Byrd Ii And His Lost History
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Author : Margaret Beck Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
Release Date : 1993
William Byrd Ii And His Lost History written by Margaret Beck Pritchard and has been published by Colonial Williamsburg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An 18th century copperplate illustration, discovered in Oxford in 1929, was used to guide the restoration and reconstruction of several Williamsburg buildings. This information was appreciated but a discovery was made when more copperplates which came to light in 1986 were linked to the 1929 Oxford copperplate. This book pieces together the mystery of when, how, and why these copperplates were made. The authors link these illustrations to texts written (and to texts now lost) by one of the most prominent Virginians of this period, William Byrd II. Byrd (1674-1744) was a prominent plantation-owner, author, romantic scoundrel, and politician who is generally seen as the founder of the city of Richmond.
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 Twilight War
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Author : David Crist
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-07-19
The Twilight War written by David Crist and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-19 with History categories.
The dramatic secret history of our undeclared thirty-year conflict with Iran, revealing newsbreaking episodes of covert and deadly operations that brought the two nations to the brink of open war For three decades, the United States and Iran have engaged in a secret war. It is a conflict that has never been acknowledged and a story that has never been told. This surreptitious war began with the Iranian revolution and simmers today inside Iraq and in the Persian Gulf. Fights rage in the shadows, between the CIA and its network of spies and Iran's intelligence agency. Battles are fought at sea with Iranians in small speedboats attacking Western oil tankers. This conflict has frustrated five American presidents, divided administrations, and repeatedly threatened to bring the two nations into open warfare. It is a story of shocking miscalculations, bitter debates, hidden casualties, boldness, and betrayal. A senior historian for the federal government with unparalleled access to senior officials and key documents of several U.S. administrations, Crist has spent more than ten years researching and writing The Twilight War, and he breaks new ground on virtually every page. Crist describes the series of secret negotiations between Iran and the United States after 9/11, culminating in Iran's proposal for a grand bargain for peace-which the Bush administration turned down. He documents the clandestine counterattack Iran launched after America's 2003 invasion of Iraq, in which thousands of soldiers disguised as reporters, tourists, pilgrims, and aid workers toiled to change the government in Baghdad and undercut American attempts to pacify the Iraqi insurgency. And he reveals in vivid detail for the first time a number of important stories of military and intelligence operations by both sides, both successes and failures, and their typically unexpected consequences. Much has changed in the world since 1979, but Iran and America remain each other's biggest national security nightmares. "The Iran problem" is a razor-sharp briar patch that has claimed its sixth presidential victim in Barack Obama and his administration. The Twilight War adds vital new depth to our understanding of this acute dilemma it is also a thrillingly engrossing read, animated by a healthy irony about human failings in the fog of not-quite war.
The Secret History Of The Mongols
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Author : Urgunge Onon
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
The Secret History Of The Mongols written by Urgunge Onon and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This fresh translation of one of the only surviving Mongol sources about the Mongol empire, brings out the excitement of this epic with its wide-ranging commentaries on military and social conditions, religion and philosophy, while remaining faithful to the original text.
William Byrd S Histories Of The Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia And North Carolina
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Author : William Kenneth Boyd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
William Byrd S Histories Of The Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia And North Carolina written by William Kenneth Boyd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with North Carolina categories.
The Lay Of The Land
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Author : Annette Kolodny
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2017-11-01
The Lay Of The Land written by Annette Kolodny and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-01 with History categories.
An original and highly unusual psycholinguistic study of American literature and culture from 1584 to 1860, this volume focuses on the metaphor of 'land-as-woman.' It is the first systematic documentation of the recurrent responses to the American continent as a feminine entity (as Mother, as Virgin, as Temptress, as the Ravished), and it is also the first systematic inquiry into the metaphor's implications for the current ecological crisis.
The Commonplace Book Of William Byrd Ii Of Westover
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Author : Kevin Joel Berland
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2012-12-01
The Commonplace Book Of William Byrd Ii Of Westover written by Kevin Joel Berland and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-01 with History categories.
William Byrd II (1674-1744) was an important figure in the history of colonial Virginia: a founder of Richmond, an active participant in Virginia politics, and the proprietor of one of the colony's greatest plantations. But Byrd is best known today for his diaries. Considered essential documents of private life in colonial America, they offer readers an unparalleled glimpse into the world of a Virginia gentleman. This book joins Byrd's Diary, Secret Diary, and other writings in securing his reputation as one of the most interesting men in colonial America. Edited and presented here for the first time, Byrd's commonplace book is a collection of moral wit and wisdom gleaned from reading and conversation. The nearly six hundred entries range in tone from hope to despair, trust to dissimulation, and reflect on issues as varied as science, religion, women, Alexander the Great, and the perils of love. A ten-part introduction presents an overview of Byrd's life and addresses such topics as his education and habits of reading and his endeavors to understand himself sexually, temperamentally, and religiously, as well as the history and cultural function of commonplacing. Extensive annotations discuss the sources, background, and significance of the entries.