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

Overview

Works:	399 works in 1,751 publications in 2 languages and 59,750 library holdings
Genres:	Drama History Tragedies (Drama) Biography Criticism, interpretation, etc Juvenile works Concordances Diaries Illustrated works Study guides
Roles:	Author, Editor, Other, Contributor, Author of introduction, 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 )
Book reviews of Malone's book Jefferson the President first term, 1801-1805. Volume IV, Jefferson & his time by Dumas Malone( )
Louis B. Wright : a bibliography and appreciation by Folger Shakespeare Library( Book )
William Huse Dunham, Jr. papers by William Huse Dunham( )
Norman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation lectures by Norman Wait Harris( )
Brenda Putnam Papers by Brenda Putnam( )
Wright, Louis Booker. historian, library director( )
The first gentlemen of Virginia; intellectual qualities of the early colonial ruling class by Louis B Wright( Book )
by Henry Allen Moe( )
Papers by Maude Howlett Woodfin( )
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 )

63 editions published between 1954 and 2012 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,068 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 2,274 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

69 editions published between 1947 and 1983 in English and held by 1,723 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

16 editions published between 1966 and 1975 in English and held by 1,707 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)

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

26 editions published between 1955 and 1970 in English and held by 1,408 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

42 editions published between 1940 and 1997 in English and held by 1,222 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 1,111 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 )

21 editions published between 1947 and 1994 in English and held by 1,076 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

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 1,062 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the late fifteenth century Europe was astir with dreams of discovery that would shortly transform the world. It was an age of intense intellectual curiosity, of questioning, testing, and the balancing of conflicting motivations. The author, a distinguished Renaissance historian, has sorted out the contradictory motives and behavior of the European explorers and exploiters in this Golden Age, looking at the lands they discovered, sometimes conquered, and often bloodied- Africa, India, Mexico, Central and South America. He describes in dramatic detail the extraordinary feats and strange attitudes of the Renaissance conquerers and explorers as he traces the course of Europe's expansion overseas from the era of Columbus to the early seventeenth century. -- from Book Jacket

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

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

19 editions published between 1966 and 2000 in English and German and held by 927 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 900 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 898 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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

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

17 editions published between 1965 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 860 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

A discussion of the average living conditions of the period, including sections on religion, sports, pastimes, and careers. Grades 7-9

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

9 editions published between 1965 and 1989 in English and held by 830 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare( Book )

22 editions published between 1957 and 1993 in English and held by 805 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian Senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness

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

30 editions published between 1953 and 2017 in English and held by 475 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

Of books and men by Louis B Wright( Book )

8 editions published in 1976 in English and held by 359 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

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( Book )

19 editions published between 1953 and 2009 in English and held by 297 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

Life on the American frontier by Louis B Wright( Book )

5 editions published between 1968 and 1980 in English and held by 37 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Discusses the unique and difficult life in America's frontier towns as the frontier expanded westward from colonial Virginia to California and back to Nebraska

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