American History

Gotthardt. The Swallow – Lake Winnipesaukee’s “Most Picturesque Steam Yacht”.

by Jack Gotthardt.

$ 22.00

Jack Gotthardt. The Swallow – Lake Winnipesaukee’s “Most Picturesque Steam Yacht”. Broadfoot Publishing Company. 2003. Softcover-like new. Quarto. 52pp.

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Doughton. Tales of the Atlantic Hotel 1880-1933.

by Virginia Pou Doughton.

$ 10.00

Virginia Pou Doughton. Tales of the Atlantic Hotel 1880-1933. Published by author 2004. Hardcover in DJ Unused. Quarto 80 pp

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Peyer. Native Americans of the Northeast: The Tutor’d Mind : Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America.

by Bernd Peyer.

$ 10.00

Bernd Peyer. Native Americans of the Northeast: The Tutor’d Mind : Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. University of Massachusetts Press 1997. Softcover. Very good cond. Octavo 420 pp

“Each of whom struggled to negotiate a secure place between the imperatives of colonial rule and the rights of native peoples. In the view of the English colonists and their descendants, Indian converts to Christianity were expected to repudiate native traditions and affirm the superiority of European civilization, to serve as role models, and to spread the gospel far into the wilderness. Yet as Bernd C. Peyer shows, Indian missionaries did not always fulfill the expectations of those who trained them. Once the Indians recognized that conversion alone did not guarantee protection from discrimination, they devised a variety of strategies, theological as well as practical, to resist assimilation into the dominant white culture. Making effective use of their literacy and education, they called attention to the discrepancy between the Protestant ideals they had been taught and the Anglo-American practices to which native people were subjected. By uncovering this subtext of dissent and resistance, Peyer at once alters and enriches our understanding of the evolution of the American Indian literary tradition.”

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Another Test Book

by Joe Smith

$ 5

Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in .

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