The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860
Author : Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons [1970
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Harbors
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Author : Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons [1970
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 28,18 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Harbors
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Author : Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0300213891
Calvin Schermerhorn’s provocative study views the development of modern American capitalism through the window of the nineteenth-century interstate slave trade. This eye-opening history follows money and ships as well as enslaved human beings to demonstrate how slavery was a national business supported by far-flung monetary and credit systems reaching across the Atlantic Ocean. The author details the anatomy of slave supply chains and the chains of credit and commodities that intersected with them in virtually every corner of the pre–Civil War United States, and explores how an institution that destroyed lives and families contributed greatly to the growth of the expanding republic’s capitalist economy.
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Publisher : Going Coastal, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780972980319
Originally compiled in 1941, this republication retains its cast of colorful characters--ranging from pirates and smugglers to merchants and public officials--and includes new historical information and updated material.
Author : Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher :
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780930350598
Author : Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher :
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Harbors
ISBN :
Author : Mark Rosenstein
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Containerization
ISBN : 9780970465900
Author : Robert Greenhalgh Albion
Publisher :
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Michael Paul Rogin
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 30,51 MB
Release : 2013-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307830942
In this major reconsideration of Herman Melville’s life and work, Michael Paul Rogin shows that Melville’s novels are connected both to the important issues of his time and to the exploits of his patrician and politically prominent family—which, three generations after its Revolutionary War heroes, produced an alcoholic, a bankrupt, and a suicide. Rogin argues that a history of Melville’s fiction, and of the society represented in it, is also a history of the writer’s family. He describes how that family first engaged Melville in and then isolated him from American political and social life. Melville’s brother and father-in-law are shown to link Moby-Dick to the crisis over expansion and slavery. White-Jacket and Billy Budd, which concern shipboard conflicts between masters and seamen, are related to an execution at sea in which Melville’s cousin played a decisive part. The figure of Melville’s father haunts The Confidence Man, whose subject is the triumph of the marketplace and the absence of authority. A provocative study of one of our supreme literary artists.
Author : John Wood Sweet
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1250761972
New York Times Editors’ Choice Winner of the Bancroft Prize Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize Winner of the Gotham Book Prize Winner of the New York Society Library's New York City Book Award Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Legal History A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries—and how much has not On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel—the kind of crime that even victims usually kept secret. Instead, seventeen-year-old seamstress Lanah Sawyer did what virtually no one in US history had done before: she charged a gentleman with rape. Her accusation sparked a raw courtroom drama and a relentless struggle for vindication that threatened both Lanah’s and her assailant’s lives. The trial exposed a predatory sexual underworld, sparked riots in the streets, and ignited a vigorous debate about class privilege and sexual double standards. The ongoing conflict attracted the nation’s top lawyers, including Alexander Hamilton, and shaped the development of American law. The crime and its consequences became a kind of parable about the power of seduction and the limits of justice. Eventually, Lanah Sawyer did succeed in holding her assailant accountable—but at a terrible cost to herself. Based on rigorous historical detective work, this book takes us from a chance encounter in the street into the sanctuaries of the city’s elite, the shadows of its brothels, and the despair of its debtors’ prison. The Sewing Girl's Tale shows that if our laws and our culture were changed by a persistent young woman and the power of words two hundred years ago, they can be changed again. Includes photographs
Author : Ian Inkster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1350085618
Despite having undergone major advances in recent years, the history of technology in Latin America is still an understudied topic. This is the first English-language volume to bring together a variety of critical perspectives on the history of technology in Latin America from the early-19th century through to the present day. This special issue, assembled by guest editor David Pretel, brings together a range of experts to explore a plethora of topics in Latin America's technological history. Papers include a study of rural telephony in in 20th-century Latin America; the rise of the 'Techno-class' in modern Brazil; an analysis of the rise and fall of three Caribbean commodities; the history of educational technology in Latin America, and science and technology in Cold War Chile. Special Issue: Technology in Latin American History Edited by David Pretel (Colegio de Mexico, Mexico) and Helge Wendt (Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Germany)