![]() Its charter included Swedish, Dutch, and German stockholders led by directors of the company, including Samuel Blommaert. The Swedish South Company (also known as the Company of New-Sweden) was founded in 1626 with a mandate to establish colonies between Florida and Newfoundland for the purposes of trade, particularly along the Delaware River. The Swedes sought to expand their influence by creating their own plantation ( tobacco) and fur-trading colony to circumvent French and English merchants. Other northern European nations were establishing colonies in the New World and building successful trading empires at this time. Sweden then included Finland and Estonia, along with parts of modern Russia, Poland, Germany, and Latvia under King Gustavus Adolphus and later Queen Christina. By the middle of the 17th century, the Realm of Sweden had reached its greatest territorial extent and was one of the great powers of Europe it was the stormaktstiden ("age of greatness" or "great power period"). ![]()
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When local authorities are called to a rural community in New Hampshire, they discover four bodies, carelessly slain. ![]() Hip-deep into the Scot Harvath series, Brad Thor continues to deliver poignant novels that pull the reader into the middle of the political and espionage-driven world of today. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sinclair happened yesterday, are happening today, and will happen tomorrow and the next day, until some Hercules comes to cleanse the filthy stable.” The action of the President … remove all doubt, and give the book very great importance … it is with nothing less than horror that we learn it to be true. The London Times’ 1906 literary review wrote about the novel’s real-world context: “Unhappily we have good reason for believing it to be all fact, not fiction. © Chaloner Woods breakingthewalls | adobe Stockįor most consumers, an initial exposure to the unseen dangers on their dinner plate came from Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel “The Jungle” - specifically, two chapters in which he drew from his own observations of the Chicago meat-packing industry to describe conditions in which meat was prepared. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why, when so many other scholarly books can barely provide their authors with fifteen minutes of fame, has Morgan’s withstood twenty-five years of new research and changing scholarly fashion? How can we account for the persisting appeal of his narrative for students born long after it was written? I continue to assign Morgan’s classic study of British North America’s first slave society to my students, and they continue to read it with enthusiasm. ![]() Although the pages of the oldest copy are no longer attached to the paperback binding, it still enjoys a prime spot on my bookshelf because of its extensive marginalia and sentimental value–this is the copy I read in graduate school, the copy that inspired my first book. I own three copies of Edmund Morgan’s American Slavery, American Freedom (New York, 1976), the legacy of a decade of teaching early American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() The picture included in the book on page 17 labeled as the Titanic's wireless room, is NOT the Titanic's wireless room. The other error is more cosmetic and slightly puzzling. The matter of Titanic's "unsinkability" could easily have been addressed using this magazine and then mentioning the over-confidence that people had in the safety of the Titanic. 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There was no personal information on any one person, but for a 30 page that's fine. ![]() "Remembering the Titanic" didn't start off too bad, mostly general and basic information. ![]() ![]() I know that this book is for grades 1 - 3, but since I am going to probably be teaching students who are several grades behind in history, I figured that having an idea of what children's books on the subject of the "Titanic" were out there and how knowledgeable they were. ![]() ![]() ![]() But can she seek Jack’s help without risking her heart? For in revealing the secrets of the past, Melanie also awakens the malevolent presence that has tried to keep the truth hidden for decades. 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When there are no planets to be seen, and no suns, the window is black and cold, the coffin shadowed. ![]() The coffin is gold, the only bright embellishment amid the hall of grays and silvers and coppers, and it bathes in the reflected light of the passing planets. There is one window before which the Empress’s coffin lies at rest. The tomb of the Empress lives, and we live inside her. I can feel her shiver and moan beneath my hands, and though my fingers tremble I know the vibrations are more than my own weakness they are a pulse that runs deep to the caverns of her far-off ventricles and atria. The tomb of the Empress has breath, and bone, and muscle.
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