Chapter VIII

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Conan Doyle
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
At Home

‘The Outlying Pickets of the New World’ Our friends at home may well rejoice with us, for we are at our goal, and up to a point, at least, we have shown that the statement of Professor Challenger can be verified. We have not,...

Chapter VIII Firmness is discovered in a Gentle Heart

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hardy
Keyword(s):  
At Home

On that evening the interior of Blooms-End, though cosy and comfortable, had been rather silent. Clym Yeobright was not at home. Since the Christmas party he had gone on a few days’ visit to a friend about ten miles off. The shadowy form seen by...

Chapter VIII

Cecilia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Burney
Keyword(s):  
At Home

Mr. Briggs was at home, and Cecilia instantly and briefly informed him that it was inconvenient for her to live any longer at Mr. Harrel’s, and that if she could be accommodated at his house, she should be glad to...

Possession and Dispossession in Corporate New France, 1600–1663: Debunking a “Juridical History” and Revisiting Terra Nullius

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Cavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
New World ◽  
New France ◽  
Property Relations ◽  
Terra Nullius ◽  
St Lawrence River ◽  
At Home

Following Jacques Cartier's voyages up and down the St. Lawrence River in 1534, 1535–36 and 1541–42, French interest in the region surged. This interest was confined to the region's potential deposits of minerals, and then diverted realistically to the trade of furs, before ultimately, during the seventeenth century, it diversified to take into account the prospect of agricultural smallholding. So confined, this interest did not account for customary tenure and systems of property relations among indigenous inhabitants; generally these were matters avoided by merchants, traders, missionaries, and early settlers until the expediencies of settlement on the ground required otherwise. These were matters for which, in New France, the companies in charge devised no coherent policy. These were matters for which, at home, the French Crown was no beacon of advice either, meting out meager and inconsistent policies of empire before 1663, preferring instead to endorse trade monopolies while preparing for disputes with neighboring nations with competing designs to the New World.

Chapter VIII: In which an Innocent Elopement Occurs

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens
Keyword(s):  
At Home

The minion of fortune and the worm of the hour, or in less cutting language, Nicodemus Boffin, Esquire, the Golden Dustman, had become as much at home in his eminently aristocratic family mansion as he was likely ever to be. He could not but...

African Health at Home and Abroad

1986 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 369-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip D. Curtin
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
West African ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
The West ◽  
Disease Patterns ◽  
African Health ◽  
African Populations ◽  
Demographic Patterns ◽  
In Transit ◽  
At Home

In the nineteenth century, annual reports of European military medical authorities usually carried some such title as “The Health of the Army at Home and Abroad.” Though historians have recently studied the health of slaves in transit and the demographic patterns of slave populations in the New World, they have not paid much attention to these military data. For the West Indies they begin in 1803, for West Africa in 1810. After 1819, it is possible to trace the disease patterns of West Indian and West African populations in the last decades of the slave trade and on into the early twentieth century. These records help to show what happened epidemiologically to populations of African descent that crossed the Atlantic in both directions.

7. Brave new China?

2016 ◽  
pp. 131-134
Author(s):  
Rana Mitter
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
The State ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
The People ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
China Today ◽  
At Home

Since the ascension to power of Xi Jinping, China has become less liberal at home and more assertive overseas. It is likely it will change further. ‘Brave new China?’ questions whether China today really is a ‘brave new world’ even though a glance at the Shanghai night cityscape may make it appear to be so. China has constantly had to engage in a balancing act between the state, the party, and the people. What do the Chinese people think? Are they allowed to be unhappy? Are they allowed to openly discuss their views without being infantilized by an over-protective state and party? The Chinese journey continues.

The Merchant Adventurers of Bristol in the Fifteenth Century

1928 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 61-82
Author(s):  
E. M. Carus-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
New World ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
At Home

Ashrewd Italian visitor, writing of England more than four hundred years ago, remarked:—“There are scarcely any towns of importance in the kingdom excepting these two: Bristol, a seaport to the West, and Boraco, otherwise York, which is on the borders of Scotland; besides London to the South.” Now York was not a port, though it traded far afield through Hull; London was a port, but it was so much else that its story is confusingly complex; moreover it was not by the Thames but by the Severn that Englishmen first found a pathway to the New World at the end of the Middle Ages. Hence Bristol, then the second port in England, is of peculiar interest to the student of the still unwritten history of English commerce in the fifteenth century—a history unchronicled, but not unrecorded, and quite as significant as the wars abroad and the strifes at home which have too often earned for the century a character of futility.

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