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Florence's English Cemetery, 1827-1877
This book is a reflection of the author’s research and restoration of the formerly abandoned Victorian Swiss-owned so-called English Cemetery in Florence. It presents a control group of burials, documented in marble and on paper, of foreign non-Catholics (English, Swiss, American, Russian, Scandinavian, etc.), between 1827-1877 in one Florentine piazza, giving their stories. The book documents the burials of writers, artists, abolitionists, slaves, serfs, and servants who lie alongside industrialists, noblemen and royalty, death being a democracy. Some notable burials covered in the book include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Frances Trollope, Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Thomas ...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slaver...
The United States and the Luso-Brazilian Empires
This volume highlights factors that led to the onset of the U.S. presence within colonial Brazil’s mercantilist economy and then the independent Brazilian empire’s agricultural, scientific, religious and educational institutions. The book examines the interaction of U.S. businessmen, explorers, scientists, immigrants, missionaries, and educators with the dominant institutions of the Luso-Brazilian empires. Employing an institutionalist framework to describe the interplay between forces of change versus forces of inertia that conditioned the economic and sociocultural development of the two empires, the book explains how Portuguese and Brazilian technical innovators employed contacts with the United States for more than a century to attempt to alter Brazil’s economy and society. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of U.S.-Brazil relations and Latin American history more generally.
National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Gabriel Purdy, His Ancestors and Descendents [sic]
Gabriel Purdy (1754-1841) of the 5th generation was the son of Samuel of the 4th generation. He married five wives: (1) Charity Purdy, (2) Esther Angevine, (3) Elizabeth Richardson, (4) Esther Knight and (5) Ann Aitkins. He was the father of between fourteen and seventeen children. He joined the British at the time of the Battle of White Plains. He left for Nova Scotia, Canada in 1783. Several generations of ancestors and descendants are given.
The Stevens Families of Nova Scotia
A genealogical and biographical account of the various families surnamed Stevens, Stephens, and Stephen who settled in Nova Scotia prior to its confederation with Canada (1871), and their descendants in Nova Scotia, the United States, and Australia down to the present day.
