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Lieut. James Moody's Narrative of His Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government, Since the Year 1776
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 60

Lieut. James Moody's Narrative of His Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government, Since the Year 1776

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1782
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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So Obstinately Loyal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

So Obstinately Loyal

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-04-01
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  • Publisher: MQUP

Once called "that villain Moody" by George Washington himself, and "the best Partizan we had," by William Franklin, the Loyalist governor of New Jersey, Moody risked his life recruiting, gathering intelligence, and freeing prisoners behind American lines. Next came dispossession and exile in London, where he strove to obtain British recognition of his losses, and wrote the objective, exciting account of his fateful choice, and the exploits that inspired this book. So Obstinately Loyal culminates in Weymouth, Nova Scotia, where, along with almost 40,000 other Loyalists, Moody had to remake a life among the Acadians and earlier Yankee settlers. His complex career encompassed ship-building, eff...

So Obstinately Loyal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

So Obstinately Loyal

The biography of James Moody, a once-famous, even infamous, partisan of Britain during the American Revolutionary War.

Lieut. James Moody's Narrative of His Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government, Since the Year 1776
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Lieut. James Moody's Narrative of His Exertions and Sufferings in the Cause of Government, Since the Year 1776

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1783
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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This is New Jersey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

This is New Jersey

The extraordinary diversity of New Jersey is captured in this revised and up-to-date edition of This Is New Jersey, for forty years a classic and one of the most popular books ever written about the state. History, current problems, and opportunities for the future are skillfully blended in a book that makes it clear that there is a lot more to the state than can be imagined by those who speed through it on any of New Jersey's numerous interstates or railways. Ranking forty-sixth in size, but sixth in population, New Jersey is the most urban and densely populated of the fifty states. In spite of that, the state truly deserves its nickname, Garden State, and it has a large recreation industry...

The New Face of Jazz
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 354

The New Face of Jazz

Jazz is thriving in the twenty-first century, and The New Face of Jazz is an intimate, illustrated guide to the artists, venues, and festivals of today's jazz scene. This book celebrates the living legends, current stars, and faces of tomorrow as they continue to innovate and expand the boundaries of this great musical legacy. In their own words, artists such as McCoy Tyner, Arturo Sandoval, Diane Schuur, Terence Blanchard, Charlie Hunter, Nicholas Payton, George Benson, Maria Schneider, Christian McBride, Randy Brecker, Jean-Luc Ponty, Joe Lovano, Lee Ritenour, and more than 100 others share intimately about their beginnings, musical training, inspiration, and hard-earned lessons, creating ...

Spy Sites of Philadelphia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

Spy Sites of Philadelphia

Throughout its history, Philadelphia has been home to international intrigue and some of America’s most celebrated spies. This illustrated guidebook reveals the places and people of Philadelphia’s hidden history, inviting the reader to explore over 150 spy sites in Philadelphia and its neighboring towns and counties.

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes

This important book sheds light on more than 1,400 brief life histories of mostly enslaved Black people, with the goal of recovering their individual lives. Harvey Amani Whitfield unearths the stories of men, women, and children who would not otherwise have found their way into written history. The individuals mentioned come from various points of origin, including Africa, the West Indies, the Carolinas, the Chesapeake, and the northern states, showcasing the remarkable range of the Black experience in the Atlantic world. Whitfield makes it clear that these enslaved Black people had likes, dislikes, distinct personality traits, and different levels of physical, spiritual, and intellectual talent. Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes affirms the notion that they were all unique individuals, despite the efforts of their owners and the wider Atlantic world to dehumanize and erase them.

Quincy Jones
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Quincy Jones

Quincy Jones (b. 1933) is one of the most prolific composers, arrangers, bandleaders, producers, and humanitarians in American music history and the recording and film industries. Among pop music fans he is perhaps most famous for producing Michael Jackson's album, Thriller. Clarence Bernard Henry focuses on the life, music, career, and legacy of Jones within the social, cultural, historical, and artistic context of American, African American, popular, and world music traditions. Jones's career has spanned over sixty years, generating a substantial body of work with over five hundred compositions and arrangements. The author focuses on this material as well as many of Jones's accomplishments...