A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 2 of 6 (Classic Reprint)

A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 2 of 6 (Classic Reprint)
Author: John Davenport Rogers
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2017-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781527947702

Excerpt from A Historical Geography of the British Colonies, Vol. 2 of 6 Between the Santa Cruz and New Hebrides groups we turn a corner. The trend of islands is no longer south-east but south-south-east, for 500 miles. The supernumerary, volcanic rank changes over frnm left to right, and the transition is efi'ected in the northernmost islets. We pass too from the Solomons' Protectorate to the anglo-french region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Daedalus

Daedalus
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Total Pages: 814
Release: 1927
Genre: Humanities
ISBN:

Albion's Seed

Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 981
Release: 1991-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 019974369X

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.