Wright, Louis B. (Louis Booker) 1899-1984

Overview

Works:	406 works in 1,861 publications in 2 languages and 59,516 library holdings
Genres:	Drama History Tragedies (Drama) Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Juvenile works Fiction Pictorial works Diaries Literary criticism
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Author of introduction, Contributor, Speaker, Composer
Classifications:	PR2829.A2, 822.33

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Louis B Wright

Louis B. Wright; a bibliography and an appreciation by Frederick Hard( Book )
Barefoot in Arcadia : memories of a more innocent era by Louis B Wright( Book )
Life on the American frontier by Louis B Wright( Book )
Of books and men by Louis B Wright( Book )
The tenth Cosmos Club award: Louis Booker Wright by Louis B Wright( Book )

The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare( Book )
Life in a relatively innocent era by Louis B Wright( Book )
Louis B. Wright : a bibliography and appreciation by Folger Shakespeare Library( Book )
Book reviews of Malone's book Jefferson the President first term, 1801-1805. Volume IV, Jefferson & his time by Dumas Malone( )
Wright, Louis Booker. historian, library director( )
Papers by Maude Howlett Woodfin( )
The first gentlemen of Virginia; intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class by Louis B Wright( Book )
William Huse Dunham, Jr. papers by William Huse Dunham( )
by Henry Allen Moe( )
Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation lectures by Norman Wait Harris( )
Brenda Putnam Papers by Brenda Putnam( )
by Brenda Putnam( )
Norman Wait Harris lecture series by Norman Wait Harris( )

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Most widely held works by Louis B Wright

The cultural life of the American Colonies, 1607-1763. by Louis B Wright( Book )

68 editions published between 1954 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,078 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Summarizes the development of intellectual life in such areas as religion, literature, education, and social thought in the first 150 years of the American colonies

The American heritage history of the Thirteen Colonies by Louis B Wright( Book )

8 editions published in 1967 in English and held by 2,242 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Illustrated history of contemporary events and conditions in America, from 1492 to 1776

The colonial search for a southern Eden; three lectures on the Dancy Foundation, Alabama College, April 29, 30 and May 1, 1951 by Louis B Wright( )

18 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in English and held by 1,828 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World Louis Booker Wright was a graduate of Wofford College, and was at various times a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow and a Benjamin Franklin Medalist, and he held honorary degrees from, among others, Princeton, Tulane, and California State University-Fulerton. He was the author of a number of books, including The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization 1607-1763, Gold, Glory, and the Gospel: the Adventurous Lives of the Renaissance Explorers, Culture on the Mov

The Atlantic frontier : colonial American civilization, 1607-1763 by Louis B Wright( Book )

70 editions published between 1947 and 1983 in English and held by 1,725 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Arts in America : the colonial period by Louis B Wright( Book )

17 editions published between 1966 and 1975 in English and held by 1,702 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

From wilderness to Republic: 1607-1787, by L.B. Wright-Architecture, by G.B. Tatum-Painting, by J.W. McCoubrey-The decorative arts, by R.C. Smith-Bibliography (p. 353-357)

Middle-class culture in Elizabethan England by Louis B Wright( Book )

58 editions published between 1935 and 1980 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,603 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Enough of royalty and nobles! How did the average British person live during the reign of Elizabeth I? What did they read, how were they instructed; what did they know of science, the theatre?

Culture on the moving frontier by Louis B Wright( Book )

27 editions published between 1955 and 1970 in English and held by 1,402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Lectures delivered on the Pattern Foundation at Indiana University in the spring of 1953." Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 243-255)

The historie of travell into Virginia Britania (1612) by William Strachey( )

29 editions published between 1953 and 2017 in English and held by 1,243 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Transcript of the Princeton MS, with Strachey's vocabulary of an Algonkian dialect and an essay on the same by James A. Geary. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1953

The first gentlemen of Virginia; intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class by Louis B Wright( Book )

43 editions published between 1940 and 1997 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,221 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

South Carolina : a bicentennial history by Louis B Wright( Book )

5 editions published in 1976 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,097 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Traces the history and development of South Carolina and discusses the state and its people

The history and present state of Virginia by Robert Beverley( Book )

22 editions published between 1947 and 1994 in English and held by 1,091 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Overview: While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian"--He provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory

A voyage to Virginia in 1609; two narratives: Strachey's "True reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas by Louis B Wright( )

15 editions published between 1964 and 2013 in English and held by 1,086 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Gold, glory, and the gospel : the adventurous lives and times of the Renaissance explorers by Louis B Wright( Book )

7 editions published in 1970 in English and held by 1,063 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A lively, colorful account of the adventures of Spanish, Portuguese, and English explorers emphasizes their diverse and seemingly contradictory motives

The Elizabethans' America by Louis B Wright( Book )

35 editions published between 1965 and 1984 in English and held by 1,056 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Contains primary source material

Everyday life in colonial America, by Louis B Wright( Book )

19 editions published between 1965 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 977 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The book covers the living conditions during the Colonial period, and discusses the way of life on farms, religions, sports and pastimes, careers and the military events of the era. Illustrated with photos

Prose works; narratives of a colonial Virginian by William Byrd( Book )

18 editions published between 1966 and 2000 in English and German and held by 961 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Four descriptive narratives of Byrd's travels as a landowner and provincial official in Virginia and North Carolina from 1728 to 1733

The secret diary of William Byrd of Westover, 1709-1712 by William Byrd( Book )

12 editions published between 1941 and 1972 in English and held by 913 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Life and letters in Tudor and Stuart England by Louis B Wright( Book )

13 editions published in 1962 in English and held by 897 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Essays on various aspects of the culture of Shakespeare's England

The dream of prosperity in Colonial America by Louis B Wright( Book )

11 editions published between 1965 and 1989 in English and Undetermined and held by 826 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Religion and empire; the alliance between piety and commerce in English expansion, 1558-1625 by Louis B Wright( Book )

26 editions published between 1943 and 2017 in English and held by 824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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