1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996387717303316

Titolo

By the Queenes commandement, forasmuch, as it is found by good proofe, that many persons which haue serued of late on the seas, in the iourney towards Spaine and Portingale in comming from Plimmouth, and other ports of the realme, haue fallen sicke by the way, and diuers dyed as infected with the plague .. [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : By the deputies of Christopher Barker ..., [ca. 1618]

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Elizabeth, Queen of England,  <1533-1603.>

Soggetti

Plague - History - 17th century

Soldiers - Health and hygiene - England

Medical laws and legislation - England

Proclamations - Great Britain

Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603

Great Britain Politics and government 1558-1603

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.).

"At Nonsuch 22 Iuly anno 31, Reginæ Elizabethæ, 1589."

Item at reel 565:50 identified as STC 8184.

Reproductions of originals in the Bodleian Library and Harvard University Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0062



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781735703321

Autore

Ornish Natalie

Titolo

Pioneer Jewish Texans [[electronic resource] /] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-299-05346-7

1-60344-433-5

Edizione

[1st Texas A&M University Press ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AlpernSara

Disciplina

976.4/004924

Soggetti

Jews - Texas

Texas Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.

Sommario/riassunto

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish's Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish's meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major enga