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A comprehensive and thoroughly readable history of New Hampshire's turbulent colonial years
New Hampshire --- History
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As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America.In this first biography of the colonial
Governors --- Kings and rulers --- Public officers --- Biography. --- Belcher, Jonathan, --- Belcher, J. --- New Hampshire --- Massachusetts --- History
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The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them “a gathering from the scum of the worst people.” Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers’ battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Dummer’s War, and King George’s War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors, he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war, as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial, French, and Native American approaches to war.
New Englanders --- Warfare. --- New Hampshire. --- Massachusetts. --- History. --- New England --- Soldiers --- History, Military. --- History
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Case studies from the University of New Hampshire explore all the dimensions of sustainability in campus life, combining frugality and creativity
College facilities --- Sustainable living --- Universities and colleges --- Environmental aspects --- University of New Hampshire.
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The early French Wars (1689-1748) in North America saw provincial soldiers, or British white settlers, in Massachusetts and New Hampshire fight against New France and her Native American allies with minimal involvement from England. Most British officers and government officials viewed the colonial soldiers as ill-disciplined, unprofessional, and incompetent: General John Forbes called them “a gathering from the scum of the worst people.” Taking issue with historians who have criticized provincial soldiers’ battlefield style, strategy, and conduct, Steven Eames demonstrates that what developed in early New England was in fact a unique way of war that selectively blended elements of European military strategy, frontier fighting, and native American warfare. This new form of warfare responded to and influenced the particular challenges, terrain, and demography of early New England. Drawing upon a wealth of primary materials on King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, Dummer’s War, and King George’s War, Eames offers a bottom-up view of how war was conducted and how war was experienced in this particular period and place. Throughout Rustic Warriors, he uses early New England culture as a staging ground from which to better understand the ways in which New Englanders waged war, as well as to provide a fuller picture of the differences between provincial, French, and Native American approaches to war.
New Englanders --- Warfare. --- New Hampshire. --- Massachusetts. --- History. --- New England --- Soldiers --- History, Military. --- History
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A guide to birding in the Granite State
Birds --- Bird watching --- Birding (Bird watching) --- Birdwatching --- Watching birds --- Wildlife watching --- Aves --- Avian fauna --- Avifauna --- Wild birds --- Amniotes --- Vertebrates --- Ornithology --- New Hampshire
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Lakes change constantly in response to their surrounding landscape, and their airshed. Mirror Lake, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, has been carefully researched since the 1960s. This book, edited by Thomas C. Winter and Gene E. Likens, summarizes and interprets the extensive data collected on this lake and its watershed from 1981 to 2000, a period during which the lake was affected by a variety of climate conditions as well as significant human activity. The findings documented also identify the panoply of chemicals influenced by limnological processes and include percentages of inflow sources, percentages of water loss from seepage, surface outflow, and evaporation, and the effect of water flow on the lake nutrients.
Freshwater ecology --- Freshwater biology --- Limnology --- Lake ecology --- Aquatic sciences --- Lakes --- Reservoir ecology --- Fresh water --- Fresh-water ecology --- Aquatic ecology --- Fresh-water biology --- Aquatic biology --- Ecology --- Mirror Lake (Grafton County, N.H.) --- Environmental conditions. --- Lacustrine ecology --- Lentic ecology --- Lake ecology -- New Hampshire -- Mirror Lake (Grafton County). --- Limnology -- New Hampshire -- Mirror Lake (Grafton County). --- Freshwater biology -- New Hampshire -- Mirror Lake (Grafton County). --- Freshwater ecology -- New Hampshire -- Mirror Lake (Grafton County). --- Mirror Lake (Grafton County, N.H.) -- Environmental conditions. --- 1980s. --- 1990s. --- air and water. --- airshed. --- aquatic ecology. --- changing landscapes. --- chemical effects. --- climate change. --- climate conditions. --- data analysis. --- earth sciences. --- ecology. --- extensive research. --- human activity. --- inflow sources. --- lake evaporation. --- lake landscapes. --- lake nutrients. --- lake science. --- lake seepage. --- land and water. --- limnological processes. --- mirror lake. --- new hampshire. --- nonfiction. --- surface outflow. --- textbooks. --- water flow. --- water loss. --- watershed. --- white mountains.
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From 1505 to 1689, Russia's tsars chose their wives through an elaborate ritual: the bride-show. The realm's most beautiful young maidens—provided they hailed from the aristocracy—gathered in Moscow, where the tsar's trusted boyars reviewed their medical histories, evaluated their spiritual qualities, noted their physical appearances, and confirmed their virtue. Those who passed muster were presented to the tsar, who inspected the candidates one by one—usually without speaking to any of them—and chose one to be immediately escorted to the Kremlin to prepare for her wedding and new life as the tsar's consort.Alongside accounts of sordid boyar plots against brides, the multiple marriages of Ivan the Terrible, and the fascinating spectacle of the bride-show ritual, A Bride for the Tsar offers an analysis of the show's role in the complex politics of royal marriage in early modern Russia. Russell E. Martin argues that the nature of the rituals surrounding the selection of a bride for the tsar tells us much about the extent of his power, revealing it to be limited and collaborative, not autocratic. Extracting the bride-show from relative obscurity, Martin persuasively establishes it as an essential element of the tsarist political system.
Marriages of royalty and nobility --- Morganatic marriages --- Royal marriages --- Kings and rulers --- Nobility --- History --- Political aspects --- Russian aristocracy, Tsar's consort, politics of royal marriage, tasrist political system. --- Justice, Administration of --- Courts --- Judiciary --- Dispute resolution (Law) --- Judicial districts --- Law --- Procedure (Law) --- Judicial power --- Jurisdiction --- Administration of justice --- Law and legislation --- New Hampshire --- Politics and government
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