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The Creative City of Saint John
This book presents a wide-ranging portrayal of the creative work done in Saint John in the hundred years following Confederation. Beautiful watercolour and oil paintings, early fossil discoveries, successful bestselling authors and other examples of the creative city are brought together in this volume. Among the many surprising and interesting accounts: the contribution to Maritime natural history made by a butterfly found in the city, the role of the city's Great Fire in generating a host of visual artists documenting the urban landscape, and the little-known Hollywood connection that made the city a hotbed of film production — in the early 1900s.
History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore
A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
Film Figures
Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides the framework of analysis. Situating films in the quantum field of spacetime relativity as a field of cosmic views, inquiry into film figures begins with disturbances in the experience of films themselves, posing questions of the relation between the dead past and the living future in film story-telling. By breaking the façade of the continuing present through self-questio...
Landholders of Northeastern New York, 1739-1802
"This directory consists of two parts. The first part...identifies approximately 600 original grantees whose land awards, 1739 through 1775, lay within northeastern New York. The second part...identifies approximately 9000 persons whose land transactions were completed between 1964 and 1802 within this same region. Northeastern New York as here defined includes all of the lands within the present counties of Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Warren, and Washington" --
The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee
This first volume in the set details the history of Hamilton County and Chattanooga through 1861, the beginning of the Civil War. The work begins with Hernando de Soto's contact with the area and then explores the Indian natives’ early beginnings and lifestyles as they are known through the archaeological study of the mounds they built in the area. Extensive discussion is given to the Cherokee and Chickamauga Indians, the rise of conflict between their people and the white settlers and government, and their eventual removal west. Included are many biographical sketches of Indians who were influential in the area, with an entire chapter devoted to Chief John Ross.
