Remembering Mama/Souvenirs de 'Man
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Description
Sometimes, personal experience intersects poignantly with thelarger, impersonal forces that drive history forward. The resultlends a human dimension to those larger events in a way thattables of statistics, abstract generalizations or sweeping historicalnarratives cannot. Such is the case with the followingexcerpt from a memoir written by a sister of Alfred Riggs, oneof two Islanders killed in the Boer War.
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- Title
- Remembering Mama/Souvenirs de 'Man
- Creator
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Subject
- Island Magazine, Prince Edward Island Museum
- Description
- Sometimes, personal experience intersects poignantly with thelarger, impersonal forces that drive history forward. The resultlends a human dimension to those larger events in a way thattables of statistics, abstract generalizations or sweeping historicalnarratives cannot. Such is the case with the followingexcerpt from a memoir written by a sister of Alfred Riggs, oneof two Islanders killed in the Boer War.
- Publisher
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Contributor
- Date
- 1997
- Type
- Document
- Format
- application/pdf
- Identifier
- vre:islemag-batch2-545
- Source
- 41
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
- Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.