A Quite Remarkable Man
Title | A Quite Remarkable Man PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Evans |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | 477 |
Release | 2014-07-15 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1445639025 |
The first biography of this remarkable figure
A Very Remarkable Sickness
Title | A Very Remarkable Sickness PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Hackett |
Publisher | Univ. of Manitoba Press |
Total Pages | 329 |
Release | 2002-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0887550665 |
The area between the Great Lakes and Lake Winnipeg, bounded on the north by the Hudson Bay lowlands, is sometimes known as the "Petit Nord." Providing a link between the cities of eastern Canada and the western interior, the Petit Nord was a critical communication and transportation hub for the North American fur trade for over 200 years.Although new diseases had first arrived in the New World in the 16th century, by the end of the 17th century shorter transoceanic travel time meant that a far greater number of diseases survived the journey from Europe and were still able to infect new communities. These acute, directly transmitted infectious diseases – including smallpox, influenza, and measles – would be responsible for a monumental loss of life and would forever transform North American Aboriginal communities.Historical geographer Paul Hackett meticulously traces the diffusion of these diseases from Europe through central Canada to the West. Significant trading gatherings at Sault Ste. Marie, the trade carried throughout the Petit Nord by Hudson Bay Company ships, and the travel nexus at the Red River Settlement, all provided prime breeding ground for the introduction, incubation and transmission of acute disease. Hackettís analysis of evidence in fur-trade journals and oral history, combined with his study of the diffusion behaviour and characteristics of specific diseases, yields a comprehensive picture of where, when, and how the staggering impact of these epidemics was felt.
La belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... The fifth edition. [Translated by Eliza Haywood?]
Title | La belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... The fifth edition. [Translated by Eliza Haywood?] PDF eBook |
Author | Madeleine Angélique POISSON DE GOMEZ |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 1743 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
La Belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... Adorn'd with copper-plates. The seventh edition
Title | La Belle assemblée: being a curious collection of some very remarkable incidents which happen'd to persons of the first quality in France ... Adorn'd with copper-plates. The seventh edition PDF eBook |
Author | Madeleine Angelique POISSON DE GOMEZ |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 1754 |
Genre | |
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Pharaoh's Broker: Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner
Title | Pharaoh's Broker: Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner PDF eBook |
Author | Ellsworth Douglass |
Publisher | Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2020-09-28 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1465559175 |
A Great Man's Friendship
Title | A Great Man's Friendship PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington |
Publisher | London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | 370 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | English letters |
ISBN |
Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II
Title | Dr Ambedkar and the Revival of Buddhism II PDF eBook |
Author | Sangharakshita |
Publisher | Windhorse Publications |
Total Pages | 737 |
Release | 2021-06-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1911407090 |
This companion to volume 9 continues the story of Dr B.R. Ambedkar and his role in the revival of Buddhism in India. It includes a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Dr Ambedkar’s conversion to Buddhism, a commentary on Dr Ambedkar’s article ‘Buddha and the Future of His Religion’, articles on the mass conversion in 1956, an account of Sangharakshita’s visit to Nagpur at the time of Dr Ambedkar’s death, and notes from some of the hundreds of talks Sangharakshita gave in India during the next few years, as well as later talks he gave both in India and in the West.