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Chargement... The Hudson (1939)par Carl Carmer
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The Hudson by Carl Carmer was published in 1939. It was one of the earlier books in the Rivers of America series published by Farrar & Rinehart and edited by Constance Lindsay Skinner. The first of the series was published in 1937 and the last was not until the 1970s. Even though these books are quite dated now there is nothing else quite like them. The Hudson covers the history, geology and people of the Hudson River and it's valley. Before New York became a British colony the Dutch settled New York City, then called New Amsterdam, and Albany and much in between. The Dutch granted huge feudal land grants to a few wealthy families and the British continued to recognize these families rights to control land and collect rents and labor from the resident farmers. One reason the Hudson Valley farmers were so quick to join the American Revolution was that they hoped to secure their own farms from the feudal masters. This was not to happen and the history of the Hudson involved struggles for land rights for over 200 years. A bit out of date but still worthwhile to understand how part of our country developed. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and regional history, Carl Carmer first gained national attention with Stars Fell n Alabama, a book about Alabama folkways. But it is his writings about upstate New York, where he was born and lived for much of his life, that firmly established him as a folk historian and master storyteller. The Hudson, originally published in 1939, is the most popular of these writings. Best of the Rivers of America series, The Hudson is less a formal historical account of the discovery and development of the river that a personal, anecdotal view of it. Included are tales of white-sailed sloops and steamboats racing from Albany to New York; of old whalers and trader sea dogs of the Catskill shore; of showboats playing anti-rent meoldramas to incite farmers against their landlords; of great disasters and heroic deeds; of the efforts of the Hudson River School to capture "sublimity" on canvas; of the quarrelsome, rough-and-tumble life of the Dutch along the river's banks, and many more. This commemorative fiftieth anniversary edition features 16 new drawings by Hudson River artist Edward J. McLaughlin, a foreward by New York historian Louis C. Jones, and an afterword by Roger Panetta, professor of history at the College of New Rochelle. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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