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Inventing Virginia
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Michael G. Moran
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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In 1584 Walter Raleigh received a patent from Queen Elizabeth to settle an English colony on Roanoke Island, on the Outer Banks of present-day North Carolina, s
Inventing American Modernism
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Jill E. Pearlman
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: University of Virginia Press

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"In this book Jill Pearlman argues that Gropius did not effect changes alone and, further, that the Harvard Graduate School of Design was not merely an offshoot
Bound to the Fire
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Kelley Fanto Deetz
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-17 - Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

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For decades, smiling images of "Aunt Jemima" and other historical and fictional black cooks could be found on various food products and in advertising. Although
Inventing Disaster
Language: en
Pages: 302
Authors: Cynthia A. Kierner
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-06 - Publisher: UNC Press Books

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When hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other disasters strike, we count our losses, search for causes, commiserate with victims, and initiate relief effor
The Invention of the White Race
Language: en
Pages: 388
Authors: Theodore W. Allen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Verso

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Argues that before the 18th century, there was neither a white nor any other colour-determined race in North America. Allen traces the history of plantations an
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