Authors:Marion J. Kaminkow, Marian Kaminkow,
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company
Keywords: genealogies, congress, library, volumes, five, supplements, complement
Number of Pages: 4130
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0806316691
ISBN-13: 9780806316697

Researchers and libraries now have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to purchase a reprint of the greatest reference work in all of American genealogy, Marian Kaminkow’s Genealogies in the Library of Congress (2 vols.), with its two Supplements and the renowned Complement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress. Together these five massive volumes comprise the most comprehensive listing of family histories available. Answering the all-important question as to what family histories have already been written, they represent the first step in genealogical research. Indeed, since their firs

Author: Nathan Widder
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: difference, genealogies
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2002-02
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0252027078
ISBN-13: 9780252027079

Genealogies of Difference combines critical engagements with modern and postmodern theories of identity, difference, contingency, and time with strategic forays into ancient, early Christian, and medieval philosophy. Without losing sight of complex contributions from the past, Nathan Widder provides the philosophical underpinnings for a politics and ethics of difference crucial to our present day. Lucid and distinctive, this volume is an important, in-depth contribution to contemporary debates on pluralism, multiplicity, and community. This deft study establishes the failure of Hegelian dia

Author: R. Burnham Moffat
Publisher: BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)
Keywords: genealogies, pierrepont
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2009-05-28
List price: $23.75
ISBN-10: 1110813368
ISBN-13: 9781110813360

The Genealogy and Family History Collection is a unique set of materials that describes the histories and narratives of particular American families. The Collection brings to life pre-1923 books that contain information such as birth, death, marriage, pr

Author: David B. Edwards
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: jihad, afghan, genealogies, taliban
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2002-04-02
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0520228618
ISBN-13: 9780520228610

In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan’s history--Nur Muhammad Taraki, Samiullah Safi, and Qazi Amin Waqad--to explain how the promise of progress and prosperity that animated Afghanistan in the 1960s crumbled and became the present tragedy of discord, destruction, and despair. Before Taliban builds on the foundation that Edwards laid in his previous book, Heroes of the Age, in which he examines the lives of three significant figures of the late nineteenth century--a tribal khan, a Muslim saint, and a prince who became king

Author: Russ Castronovo
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: slavery, freedom, genealogies, american, nation, fathering
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0520089014
ISBN-13: 9780520089013

Russ Castronovo underscores the inherent contradictions between America’s founding principles of freedom and the reality of slavery in a book that probes mid-nineteenth-century representations of the founding fathers. He finds that rather than being coherent and consensual, narratives of nationhood are inconsistent, ambivalent, and ironic. He examines competing expressions of national memory in a wide range of mid-nineteenth-century artifacts: slave autobiography, classic American fiction, monumental architecture, myths of the Revolution, proslavery writing, a

Author: Wood Lovejoy
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: genealogies, family, vermont, royalton, history
Number of Pages: 720
Published: 2009-10-27
List price: $40.99
ISBN-10: 1115776649
ISBN-13: 9781115776646

Author: John Littell
Publisher: Heritage Books Inc.
Keywords: vicinity, chatham, new, jersey, valley, passaic, records, genealogies, first, settlers, family
Number of Pages: 510
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 1585490725
ISBN-13: 9781585490721

One of the early and classic New Jersey regional genealogies for Essex and Morris Counties. Genealogies or genealogical information (one to five pages) for family names: Allen, Alward, Badgley, Bailey, Baker, Baldwin, Ball, Beach, Bebout, Bedell, Bedford,