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Genealogies in the Library of Congress
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
Irish and Scottish Mercantile Networks in Europe and Overseas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The contributions in this collection of essays make an important step in reconstructing the history of the Irish and Scottish mercantile diasporas in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Recovered Voices, Newfound Questions
O objectivo da obra é o de apresentar arquivos muito pouco conhecidos, ou mesmo desconhecidos, interrogá-los e analisá-los à luz de novas perspectivas históricas e arquivísticas, descobrir as “vozes” de quem os produziu - e formular, assim, novas questões de investigação. Divide-se em três partes: “Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives”; “From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives”; “Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives”.
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Marketing Library and Information Services II
With contributions from library and information professionals (practitioners, researchers, faculty members, consultants, and others), Marketing Library and Information Services: A Global Outlook highlights a variety of exemplary LIS marketing practices and efforts from around the globe. The following broad topics are explored: changing marketing concepts; marketing library and information services in different countries; marketing library and information services in different kind of libraries; web-based LIS marketing, etc.
The Beneficent Usurpers
Extensively researched from original English, German, and Portuguese sources, this volume recounts the nearly two-hundred-year history of the Anglicization of Madeira. It documents the many benefits and the wealth that the British and mercantile enterprise brought to the island outpost, and also the poverty that went unrelieved.
Memórias da Minha Vida e Inverno na Madeira
Este livro reúne pela primeira vez dois textos de carácter diarístico que oferecem duas imagens parcialmente concomitantes mas assimétricas da ilha da Madeira, ponto de passagem de um dos casais reais mais conhecidos e tristemente célebres do século XIX: Maximiliano de Habsburgo e Carlota da Bélgica.
The Baptista Megafamily
Domingos and Jose Baptist came to America from Madeira. They were brothers and married sisters, Josefa and Joana Spinola. Their ancestors came from Portugal and Genoa about 1500. They settled in Illinois with other immigrants from Madeira between 1850 and 1900. Information on the Madeiran as well as the American branches on the family are included in this material. Descendants now live in Illinois, California, Colorado, and elsewhere.
