- Look up
Courlander in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Courlander may
refer to:
Someone from
Courland Something related to the
historic Duchy of Courland...
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Harold Courlander (September 18, 1908 –
March 15, 1996) was an
American novelist, folklorist, and
anthropologist and an
expert in the
study of Haitian...
- Roy
Nicolas Courlander, (6
December 1914 – 1 June 1979),
nicknamed 'Reg', was a British-born New
Zealand soldier who
became an Unterscharführer in the...
- The
African is a 1967
novel by
Harold Courlander. By 1978 14,000 hard-cover and 130,000
paperback copies of the book were sold. A twelve-year-old African...
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David Courlander (September 10, 1866 – June 12, 1961) was a self-taught ("primitive")
artist who
painted scenes of
everyday American life. He
began painting...
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charged with
plagiarism in
separate lawsuits by
Harold Courlander and
Margaret Walker Alexander.
Courlander, an
anthropologist and novelist,
charged that Roots...
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Courland resolved to
launch a full
expedition to the Gambia. As few
Courlanders had
experience of Africa, he was
forced to rely on foreigners. On 6 September...
- famous,
American author Harold Courlander noted that the
section describing Kinte's life was
apparently taken from
Courlander's own 1967
novel The African...
- colonists.
Tobago changed hands between the British, French, Dutch, and
Courlanders, but
eventually ended up in
British hands following the
second Treaty...
- The
Courlanders remained dominant until 1659 when
their possessions were
handed over to the
Dutch West
India Company. In 1660, the
Courlanders resumed...
