Albion's Dream
Author: Roger Norman
Publisher:
Published: 1990-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780571154258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Roger Norman
Publisher:
Published: 1990-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780571154258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andy Roberts
Publisher: Cyan Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13:
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Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1991-03-14
Total Pages: 972
ISBN-13: 9780199743698
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-10-06
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 1416593330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Traces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.
Author: Gordon Dahlquist
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2011-09-14
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0307755576
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here begins an extraordinary alliance—and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end all adventures. It starts with a simple note. Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith terminated. Determined to find out why, Miss Temple takes the first step in a journey that will propel her into a dizzyingly seductive, utterly shocking world beyond her imagining—and set her on a collision course with a killer and a spy—in a bodice-ripping, action-packed roller-coaster ride of suspense, betrayal, and richly fevered dreams.
Author: Roger Norman
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780385305334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edward's involvement with a mysterious adventure game leads to a confrontation with his boarding school's tyrannical headmaster and evil doctor.
Author: Kenneth Patchen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780811201445
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.
Author: Roger Norman
Publisher:
Published: 1990-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780571165070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Martin Green
Publisher: New York : Basic Books
Published: 1979-06-21
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Sugden
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 984
ISBN-13: 9780805079340
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Historian Sugden has penned one of the most authoritative and captivating accounts ever written of legendary British naval commander Horatio Nelson's early career and rise to prominence.