The Rathbones in America
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Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : England
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 2004
Category : England
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Author : Janice Clark
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 39,85 MB
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345803612
Mercy, fifteen years old, is the last of the Rathbone whaling clan. Her father has been lost at sea for nearly ten years—ever since the last sperm whale was seen off the coast of Connecticut. As Mercy’s memories of her father grow dimmer with each passing day, she spends more of her time in the attic hideaway of her reclusive cousin Mordecai. But when a strange and threatening visitor turns up one night, Mercy and Mordecai are forced to flee and set sail on a journey that will bring them deep into the haunted history of the Rathbone family. From the depths of the sea to the lonely heights of the widow’s walk; from the wisdom of the worn Rathbone wives to the mysterious origins of a sinking island, Mercy and Mordecai’s enchanting journey will bring them to places they never imagined possible.
Author : Christopher G. Bates
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1453 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317457404
First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Author : Elihu Root
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Page : 538 pages
File Size : 31,3 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Philippines
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Author : Miriam Alman
Publisher : [London] : Published for the British Association for American Studies by the Oxford University Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
The Guide is a product of two years' work by the Survey of Sources for American Studies in the United Kingdom, a sub-committee of the British Association for American Studies.
Author : Jehanne Wake
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198282990
This is the history of two business dynasties, the Kleinworts and the Bensons, whose partnership established one of the leading merchant banks of the twentieth century. Jehanne Wake tells the fascinating story of the building of a great business empire and reveals the personalities who played a part in the bank's often dramatic past.
Author : Seija-Riitta Laakso
Publisher : Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 38,54 MB
Release : 2007-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9522228087
In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph.
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2006-04-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 037571393X
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1831
Category : Birds
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Author : Stephen Tuffnell
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520344707
The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed transfers of goods, culture, and capital that were integral to US nation-building. In British social clubs, emigrants forged relationships with elite Britons that were essential not only to tranquil transatlantic connections, but also to fighting southern slavery. As the United States descended into Civil War, emigrant Americans decisively shaped the Atlantic-wide battle for public opinion. Equally revered as informal ambassadors and feared as anti-republican contagions, these emigrants raised troubling questions about the relationship between nationhood, nationality, and foreign connection. Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States’ struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world’s most powerful empire of the time. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on nineteenth-century trans-Atlantic relations.