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The South Seas: A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to ...

The South Seas: A Reception History from Daniel Defoe to ...

Sean Brawley

Building on the notion that the influences on the creation of a text, and the ways in which its audience receives the text, are essential for understanding the historical significance of particular productions, Sean Brawley and Chris Dixon ...
Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for ...

Hollywood’s South Seas and the Pacific War: Searching for ...

S. Brawley

Also by Sean Brawley Terrorism and the Lessons of History (2009), editor Competing Voices from the Pacific War: Fighting Words(2009), with Chris Dixon and Beatrice Trefalt The BondiLifesaver: A History ofan AustralianIcon (2007) Conflict ...
The Bondi Lifesaver: A History of an Australian Icon

The Bondi Lifesaver: A History of an Australian Icon

Sean Brawley

Impressively researched, engaging and well written, this is compelling book will appeal to beach lovers and history buffs, visitors and locals.
Out of Context: American Artists Abroad

Out of Context: American Artists Abroad

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For assistance in preparing this essay, I would especially like to thank my colleague Toru Arayashiki; May Brawley Hill, whose estimable work on Grez has been invaluable, and who allowed me to consult her ongoing research and files on the ...
At the Edge of the Universe

At the Edge of the Universe

Shaun David Hutchinson

From the author of We Are the Ants and The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes the heartbreaking story of a boy who believes the universe is slowly shrinking as things he remembers are being erased from others’ memories.
Grandmother's Garden

Grandmother's Garden

May Brawley Hill

The writers Emily Dickinson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Celia Thaxter, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Anna Bartlett Warner are part of the story, as are the photographers Frances and Mary Allen, and Wallace Nutting.
Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s

Australia's Asian Sporting Context, 1920s – 30s

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Sean Brawley, Nick Guoth. detailed knowledge of Australian tennis history '20 After the proposal travelled through various government departments, including Treasury, External Affairs and the Prime Ministers' department, it was agreed to ...
Silent No More

Silent No More

Kate Swift

Pete Burton...Elizabeth Brawley-Robert...Nikki Stone...Kaz MacFarlane...Christina Courtney...Clare Wilson and Kimberely Jeffrey Line Five...Veronica Westby... Michael Antony Kuryk...Kerry Westwood...Sandy...Sharon Spiers...Lizzie Mcglynn.
The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to ...

The White Peril: Foreign Relations and Asian Immigration to ...

Sean Brawley

The volume examines the foreign policy choices and relations of the four nations and how their desire to maintain policies of Asian exclusion shaped regional and inte
Furnishing the Old-fashioned Garden: Three Centuries of ...

Furnishing the Old-fashioned Garden: Three Centuries of ...

May Brawley Hill

A historical portrait of American garden architecture, from the practical 18th-century necessary house to 19th-century neo-classical dovecotes. The author also describes the evolution of characteristic American motifs and crafts.
Journal of the New England Garden History Society

Journal of the New England Garden History Society

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George Washington Cable and the Carnegie Gardening Competition in Northampton, Massachusetts MAY BRAWLEY HILL AUTHOR AND SOCIAL REFORMER GEORGE Washington Cable (1844-1925), a New Orleans native who achieved ...
Louisiana History

Louisiana History

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... Hampton University: A National Treasure: A Documentary History from 1978 to 1992 (Silver Spring, Md., 1994); Lelia Gaston Rhodes, Jackson State University: The First Hundred Years, 1877-1977 (Jackson, Miss., 1979); Benjamin Brawley, ...
Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979

Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979

Sean Brawley

Conflict in Indochina 1954-1979 thoroughly examines the origins, nature and legacies of the conflicts raging across Indochina during the post-World War II period.
When Owing a Shilling Costs a Dollar: The Saga of Lewis G. ...

When Owing a Shilling Costs a Dollar: The Saga of Lewis G. ...

Carver Clark Gayton

Daniel J. Sharfstein, The Invisible Line (New York: The Penguin Press, 2011) 197212. 197. Journalof Social Science (Boston, May 1880) Xl, 35. 198. Benjamin Brawley, 143. 199. New York Times (September 13, 1879). 200. DanielJ.
Luke-Acts and Empire: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Brawley

Luke-Acts and Empire: Essays in Honor of Robert L. Brawley

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The remaining three essays in this volume focus on Acts. In “Paul, Agrippa, and Antiochus: Two Persecutors in Acts in Light of 2 Macc 9,” Kazuhiko Yamazaki- Ransom proposes that Luke was drawing upon the description of Antiochus IV ...
Grez days: Robert Vonnoh in France

Grez days: Robert Vonnoh in France

May Brawley Hill

"Grez par Nemours", The Studio 2 (1883), p. 17. 13. Quoted in Charles Teaze Clark, Bruce Crane (1857-1937), American Tonalist, Lyme Historical Society, 1984, p. 7. 14. AS. Hartrick, A Painter's Progress through Fifty Years, Cambridge, 1939, ...
English Pre-Raphaelitism and its reception in America in the ...

English Pre-Raphaelitism and its reception in America in the ...

Susan P. Casteras

May Brawley Hill catalogue entry for this painting in Ferber and Gerdts, The New Path, 170. 24. John H. Hill, Sketches from Nature (New York: privately printed, 1867), n.p. 25. John H. Hill to Thomas Farrer, Gordon L. Ford Collection, New York ...
On foreign soil: American gardeners abroad

On foreign soil: American gardeners abroad

May Brawley Hill

A lavishly illustrated tour of the gardens cultivated by famous Americans abroad includes those of such figures as Benjamin Franklin, Edith Wharton, and Gore Vidal, in an exploration of how American gardens on foreign soil reveal the ...
The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley

Shaun David Hutchinson

Shaun David Hutchinson. This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any  ...
We Are the Ants

We Are the Ants

Shaun David Hutchinson

Shaun David Hutchinson. Also by SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The Deathday Letter fml The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley Violent Ends we are the ants shaun david hutchinson Simon Pulse NEW.
At the Edge of the Universe

At the Edge of the Universe

Shaun David Hutchinson

Shaun David Hutchinson. Also by SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The Deathday Letter fml The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley Violent Ends We Are the Ants AT THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Simon.

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