British Valour Displayed ; Or, The Battle of the Kegs
Author : Francis Hopkinson
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1778
Category : United States
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Author : Francis Hopkinson
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,46 MB
Release : 1778
Category : United States
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Author : Jody C. Baumgartner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
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This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider world of American politics—entertaining and sometimes insightful, but ultimately only of modest interest to students and others surveying the trajectory of American politics and culture. This set documents just how mistaken that assumption is. By examining political humor and satire throughout US history, these volumes not only illustrate how expressions of political satire and humor reflect changes in American attitudes about presidents, parties, and issues but also how satirists, comedians, cartoonists, and filmmakers have helped to shape popular attitudes about landmark historical events, major American institutions and movements, and the nation's political leaders and cultural giants. Finally, this work examines how today's brand of political humor may be more influential than ever before in shaping American attitudes about the nation in which we live.
Author : Colin Wells
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 31,31 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0812249658
The pen was as mighty as the musket during the American Revolution, as poets waged literary war against politicians, journalists, and each other. Drawing on hundreds of poems, Poetry Wars reconstructs the important public role of poetry in the early republic and examines the reciprocal relationship between political conflict and verse.
Author : Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin
Publisher :
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1903
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Author : Michael J. Crawford
Publisher :
Page : 1410 pages
File Size : 22,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : United States
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Author : United States. Naval History Division
Publisher :
Page : 1408 pages
File Size : 25,23 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Government publications
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In the tradition of the preceding volumes - the first of which was published in 1964 - this work synthesizes edited documents, including correspondence, ship logs, muster rolls, orders, and newspaper accounts, that provide a comprehensive understanding of the war at sea in the spring of 1778. The editors organize this wide array of texts chronologically by theater and incorporate French, Italian, and Spanish transcriptions with English translations throughout.
Author : Arthur Lefkowitz
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,6 MB
Release : 2011-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781455616312
An effort of genius. -George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 1785 The world's first submarine was used during the American Revolution. While other men his age supported the country with muskets, Yale graduate David Bushnell sought the answer to one important question: how to defend America against the British Royal Navy. His answer was the American Turtle. Focusing on the vessel's most important mission, sinking Britain's flagship in New York harbor, this concise history follows the development of the invention from drawing table to open water and onwards.
Author : Steven R. Serafin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1340 pages
File Size : 18,24 MB
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826417770
More than ten years in the making, this comprehensive single-volume literary survey is for the student, scholar, and general reader. The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature represents a collaborative effort, involving 300 contributors from across the US and Canada. Composed of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. A special feature is the topical article, of which there are 70.
Author : Kenneth Howard Goldman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2020-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1476640742
Before there was a U.S. Navy, several Colonial navies were all-volunteer--both the crews and the vessels. From its beginnings through World War II, the Navy has relied on civilian sailors and their fast vessels to fill out its ranks of small combatants. Beginning with the birth of the yacht in the Netherlands in the 17th century , this illustrated history traces the development of yacht racing, the advent of combustion-engine power and the contribution privately owned vessels have made to national defense. Vessels conscripted during the Civil War served both the Union and Confederacy--sometimes changing sides after capture. The first USS Wanderer saw the slave trade from both sides of the law. Aboard the USS Sylph, Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine fought the Third Reich's U-boats under sail. USS Sea Cloud made history as the first racially integrated ship in the Navy, three years before President Truman desegregated the military.
Author : Pennsylvania
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Legislative journals
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