1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996392932703316

Autore

Markham Gervase <1568?-1637.>

Titolo

Markham's method, or epitome [[electronic resource] ] : Wherein is shewed his approved remedies for all diseases whatsoever incident to horses, and they almost 300. all cured with twelve medicines only, not of twelve pence cost, and to be got commonly every where. Also for curing of all oxen, kine, bulls, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, swine, dogs of all kinds, conies, all sorts of poultry, all water-fowl, as geese, ducks, swans, and the like; pigeons, all singing birds, hawks of all kinds; and other creatures serviceable for the use of man. Divided into twelve general points or heads. By Gervase Markham, gentleman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : printed for William Thackeray, and are to be sold at his shop in Duck-Lane, 1671

Edizione

[The tenth edition]

Descrizione fisica

[10], 67, 67-70, 70-85 p. : ill. (woodcuts)

Soggetti

Veterinary medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

With an added illustrated title page.

An abridgment of STC 17336: Cheape and good husbandry for the well-ordering of all beasts, and fowles, and for the generall cure of their diseases, published in 1614.

Signatures: A-F.

Text is continuous despite pagination.

Tightly bound, with some pages torn affecting page numbering and text.

With an index.

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911026009603321

Autore

Foote Lorien <1969->

Titolo

The Yankee Plague : Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy / / Lorien Foote

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , [2016]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017

©[2016]

ISBN

979-88-908507-6-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 pages)

Collana

Civil War America

Disciplina

973.7/71

Soggetti

Prisoners of war - United States - History - 19th century

Escaped prisoners of war - United States - History - 19th century

South Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865

North Carolina History Civil War, 1861-1865

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Prisoners and prisons

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the plague -- Escape -- The world in black and white: the collapse of slavery -- They cover the land like the locusts of Egypt: the collapse of the state -- Guardian angels: the collapse of the home front -- God's country: the collapse of borders -- A futile attempt at imprisonment: the collapse of military defense -- Epilogue: terrible times in the past.

Sommario/riassunto

"During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into upstate South Carolina and North Carolina, often with the aid of the local enslaved population, creating, in the words of contemporary observers, a "Yankee plague." In this fascinating look at Union soliders' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote reveals new connections between the collapse of the Confederate prison system, the large-scale escape of Union soldiers, and the full unraveling of the Confederate States of America"--