Historical Background: The West and the WorldIn American colonial and national literature, the importance of the unknownlands that almost always seemed to lay to the West manifested itself in a multitudeof discourses. Starting from Puritan visions of a wilderness with both heavenlyand demonic ...
The uprising took place against a background of severe drought, and the disruption caused by the growth of foreign spheres of influence. After several months of growing violence against the foreign and Christian presence in Shandong and the North China plain, in June 1900, Boxer fighters ...
Mufwene 2 Philippine English: Tensions and Transitions Guest Editors: Ma. Lourdes S. Baustista and Kingsley Bolton 2 International Corpus of English Guest Editor: Gerald Nelson www.blackwellpublishing.com/WENG ISSN: 0883-2919, VOLUME 24 (2005), QUARTERLY Pragmatic Development in a Second Language...
No historical plans or photographs exist for the camp, nor are there any written descriptions of the buildings beyond a casual comment in 1882 that it was “most respectable looking” (Brisbane Courier 1882:7). While the first NMP officer, Ernest Eglinton, had no military background, it is ...
The Historical Background March 1521 was a fundamental month to the islanders of Guam. It was then, within the framework of the Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation, that the first contact between Oceania and Europe transpired in their waters. However, the permanent colonization of Guam began only in...