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Did You Tell Them Who You Are?
In the early 1900s, Allen Lewis Hoskins and his siblings left Leslie County, Kentucky, and moved to Mingo County, West Virginia. After Al met and married Lucy Patterson from Franklin County, Virginia, he never could have known that more than a hundred years later, members of his extended family would quietly wonder, Where do we really come from? And how did we get to where we live today? Rebecca Hoskins Goodwin relies on DNA, extensive research, photographs, and other personal documents to share the fascinating story of her family in the context of Appalachian history, as they progressed from immigrant to settler to farmer and from mining to law enforcement to politics. As Goodwin sets her f...
Villainy in France (1463-1610)
Obscene poetry, servants' slanders against their masters, the diabolical acts of those who committed massacre and regicide. This is a book about the harmful, outward manifestation of inner malice—villainy—in French culture (1463-1610). In pre-modern France, villainous offences were countered, if never fully contained, by intersecting legal and literary responses. Combining the methods of legal anthropology with literary and historical analysis, this study examines villainy across juridical documents, criminal records, and literary texts. Whilst few people obtained justice through the law, many pursued out-of-court settlements of one kind or another. Literary texts commemorated villainies...
There's Always a Tomorrow
It will send shivers down the spines of all who fear what will happen if greed and power dominate society where the common people no longer have control over their destiny. It's thirty years into the future; the United Kingdom is controlled by a ruthless group of people pursuing total domination over everyone. They control the news; the citizens are constantly bombarded with government propaganda and those who dare oppose the ruling elite's policies are ruthlessly persecuted; killed or sent to a penal colony where they are fed poisoned flesh that causes cancer and ultimately death; thus controlling population growth. However, Nick Kaydon a medical doctor and some fellow conspirators lead growing opposition against the ruling elite and manage to foil a dastardly plot to wipe out two cities.
Born to Write
The first extensive study of the intersection between family and social hierarchy within early modern literary production.
A Genealogical History of the Rice Family
A genealogical history of the Rice family; descendants of Deacon Edmund Rice, who came from Berkhamstead, England, and settled at Sudbury, Massachusetts, in 1638 or 9.
Vox Lycei 1999-2000
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