Magnificent Voyagers
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Publisher : Charlottesville, Va. : Thomasson-Grant
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
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Publisher : Charlottesville, Va. : Thomasson-Grant
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Nature
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Page : 303 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : VIOLA HERMAN J
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 32,35 MB
Release : 1985-11-17
Category : History
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Account of the activities, chronology, mapping and botanical and zoological collections of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-1842, which mapped 1500 miles of the Antarctic coast and proved that the continent exists. Published in connection with the exhibition 'Magnificent Voyagers' organized by the National Museum of Natural History and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Author : Herman J. Viola
Publisher : Smithsonian
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1985-11-17
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 9780874749458
History of the expedition that surveyed 280 islands, mapped 800 miles of the Oregon coast, explored the Antarctic coast, and collected specimens from all parts of the globe
Author : National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 22,65 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Geographical discoveries in art
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Author : NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.
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Page : pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Indiana State Museum
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Page : 10 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Traveling exhibitions
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Author : Bobbi Schildt
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Page : 50 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1986
Category : United States Exploring Expedition
ISBN : 9780865280335
Author : Washington State Historical Society
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Exhibitions
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Author : Thomas D. Schoonover
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0813143365
The roots of American globalization can be found in the War of 1898. Then, as today, the United States actively engaged in globalizing its economic order, itspolitical institutions, and its values. Thomas Schoonover argues that this drive to expand political and cultural reach -- the quest for wealth, missionary fulfillment, security, power, and prestige -- was inherited by the United States from Europe, especially Spain and Great Britain. Uncle Sam's War of 1898 and the Origins of Globalization is a pathbreaking work of history that examines U.S. growth from its early nationhood to its first major military conflict on the world stage, also known as the Spanish-American War. As the new nation's military, industrial, and economic strength developed, the United States created policies designed to protect itself from challenges beyond its borders. According to Schoonover, a surge in U.S. activity in the Gulf-Caribbean and in Central America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was catalyzed by the same avarice and competitiveness that motivated the European adventurers to seek a route to Asia centuries earlier. Addressing the basic chronology and themes of the first century of the nation's expansion, Schoonover locates the origins of the U.S. goal of globalization. U.S. involvement in the War of 1898 reflects many of the fundamental patterns in our national history -- exploration and discovery, labor exploitation, violence, racism, class conflict, and concern for security -- that many believe shaped America's course in the twentieth and twenty-first century.