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A cultural, military and imperial history of the Black soldiers of Britain's West India Regiments.
Since the advent of the American toy industry, children’s cultural products have attempted to teach and sell ideas of American identity. By examining cultural products geared towards teaching children American history, Playing With History highlights the changes and constancies in depictions of the American story and ideals of citizenship over the last one hundred years. This book examines political and ideological messages sold to children throughout the twentieth century, tracing the messages conveyed by racist toy banks, early governmental interventions meant to protect the toy industry, influences and pressures surrounding Cold War stories of the western frontier, the fractures visible in the American story at a mid-century history themed amusement park. The study culminates in a look at the successes and limitations of the American Girl Company empire.
"A short, punchy, prescriptive guide to academic style and writing well for scholars-from students to professors, and humanists to scientists-interested in or in need of becoming better writers"--
John Vinton was born in approximately 1620 perhaps in France and emigrated to the United States probably sometime before 1643. His descendents lived in Braintree, Massachusetts for many years. This volume gives the history of the Vinton and many other allied families into the 19th century.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.