History of Long Island: containing an account of the discovery and settlement, with other important and interesting matters to the present time. - Couverture souple

Thompson, Benjamin F

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1275817653 ISBN 13 : 9781275817654

Editeur : Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012

Synopsis

Title: History of Long Island: containing an account of the discovery and settlement, with other important and interesting matters to the present time.

Author: Benjamin F Thompson

Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana

Description:

Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.

Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.

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The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library

DocumentID: SABCP03437000

CollectionID: CTRG00-B1691

PublicationDate: 18390101

SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America

Notes: Pages 142-481 devoted to histories of the counties and towns. Includes index.

Collation: 536 p., [2] leaves of plates: ill.; 24 cm

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In collecting materials for the History of Long I sland, the compiler has sought to avail himself of every source of authentic and valuable information applicable to his design of making the work both interesting and useful. How far these endeavors may have been successful, must be submitted to the deliberate consideration of the reader. In justice to himself he can truly say he has avoided no reasonable labor or expense to make the publication worthy the approbation of the public, although he has fallen far short of satisfying himself, or of accomplishing all that he had anticipated on his first setting out. Ornament of style and eloquence of description have not been among the primary objects of the compiler; his principal aim having been throughout to present a brief, yet correct account of such matters in relation to Long I sland, as he conceived best worth preserving, and most likely to prove a repository of valuable historical and statistical information. He is, however, constrained to acknowledge that had he, in the commencement, been able to realize in any considerable degree the labor and responsibility he was about to assume, and the obstacles to be encountered in his progress, he would have been most eflfectually deterred from the undertaking.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gale, Sabin Americana
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1275817653
• ISBN 13: 9781275817654
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 538
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible