The Gothic Literature and History of New England. Secrets of the Restless Dead, Paperback - Faye Ringel

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Faye RingelNumber of pages: 112Collection: Anthem ImpactPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 229 x 151 x 15Cover typ...

'Composed of over sixty per cent water itself, a human body isn't naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs, b...

Reducere. New England's history is marked with witch executions, curses and an untold number of cemeteries hiding mysteries beneath their stones. In this som...

Reducere. New England is renowned for its quaint towns, beautiful landscapes, and busy ports. But it is also infamous as the setting for unexplained deaths, ...

Reducere. New England is truly a Cabinet of Curiosities, and this indispensable guide directs you to its most bizarre, off the wall, and unsettling exhibits....

Reducere. DescriptionDuring the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions--mos...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gail FayClimb the arid slopes of Colorado to discover the cave dwellings of the ancestral Pueblo Indians. Why were the home...

John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 - April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. ...

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*Includes pictures *Profiles important figures like John Winthrop, Roger Williams, and others *Includes online resources and a bibliography for fur...

PIRATES AND THEIR TREASURE IN NEW ENGLAND AND ON CAPE COD. Who were they and why were they here? The Golden Age on Cape Cod in New England was betw...

Reducere. Powerful and evocative, this postmodern Book of the Dead is for mystics, witches, goths, and anyone attracted to the beauty and mystery of death--a...

The Belles of New England is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic impact on America of New England's te...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: William CrononForeword by: John DemosAfterword by: William CrononThe book that launched environmental history now updated. ...

Reducere. New Hampshire's historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invo...

Reducere. During the brutal and destructive King Philip's War, the New England Indians combined new European weaponry with their traditional use of stealth, ...

Reducere. DescriptionSydney G. Fisher describes the arrival and settlement of the Quaker denomination in colonial North America during the 17th and 18th cent...

The impact of global trade on early American visual and material culturePublisher: University Press of New EnglandIllustration(s): 136 illus. (27 c...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Dr Joanne PaulNumber of pages: 528Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 166 x 243 x 42Cover type: HardbackRedesc...

The history inscribed in New England's meetinghouses waits to be told. There, colonists gathered for required worship on the Sabbath, for town meet...

Reducere. Many of the leaders and heroes of the Revolutionary War are well known to most Americans. Lesser known are those unsung heroes or citizen soldiers ...

Reducere. Identify just about any seashell found on New England beaches, from southern Connecticut to northern Maine. Beautiful illustrations and straightfor...

Examines writings that supported benevolent societies in Atlantic seaports during an era of nascent capitalism

Reducere. DescriptionThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth centu...

Reducere. Forages through New England's most famous foods for the truth behind the region's culinary myths Meg Muckenhoupt begins with a simple question: Whe...

This text has been revised to take account of recent scholarship, particularly on the constitution, political parties, the church and the legacy of...

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Reducere. From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the launch of a brilliant new trilogy about what life was really like for master...

Dr David Hunter returns in a compelling new crime thriller that follows }The Calling Of The Grave{. 'Beckett is one of the country's best crime wri...

Reducere. 1965. Young Tito Scaffone loves vintage horror movies more than life itself. He is especially enamored of Lon Chaney's 1925 The Phantom of the Oper...

Reducere. DescriptionThe taverns of colonial New England were gathering places for Revolutionary Patriots, nerve centers for spreading vital news and sanctua...

Reducere. Reveals the origins and history of the New England witch hysteria, its continuing repercussions, and the multilayered practices of today's modern w...

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Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

Reducere. Maria Baldwin (1856--1922) held a special place in the racially divided society of her time, as a highly respected educator at a largely white New ...

In the first quarter of the thirteenth century, an anonymous Flemish writer set in writing, in Old French, a chronicle of Normandy, England, Flande...