Five Years Before the Mast
Author : Jacob A. Hazen
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Seafaring life
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Author : Jacob A. Hazen
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 34,59 MB
Release : 1856
Category : Seafaring life
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Author : Jacob A. Hazen
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Page : 470 pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Sailors
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Author : Peter Longley
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1635683238
In this fascinating study encompassing a period of rapid growth and change, a cruise director looks back over a career that spanned twenty-five years on some of the best-known luxury ships of the second half of the twentieth century, including ten years aboard Cunard’s famous ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. Peter Longley fell into the industry by accident in 1978, at a time when it could be said that cruising was exclusively for the rich and famous. Longley traces this form
Author : Myra C. Glenn
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780873958127
Campaigns against Corporal Punishment explores the theory and practice of punishment in Antebellum America from a broad, comparative perspective. It probes the concerns underlying the naval, prison, domestic, and educational reform campaigns which occurred in New England and New York from the late 1820s to the late 1850s. Focusing on the common forms of physical punishment inflicted on seamen, prisoners, women, and children, the book reveals the effect of these campaigns on actual disciplinary practices. Myra C. Glenn also places the crusade against corporal punishment in the context of various other contemporary reform movements such as the crusade against intemperance and that against slavery. She shows how regional and political differences affected discussions of punishment and discipline.
Author : Stephen G. Hyslop
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 12,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0806166134
California’s early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was conquered and colonized by successive waves of adventurers and settlers. In Contest for California, award-winning author Stephen G. Hyslop draws on a wide array of primary sources to weave an elegant narrative of this epic struggle for control of the territory that many saw as a beautiful, sprawling land of promise. In vivid detail, Hyslop traces the story of early California from its founding in 1769 by Spanish colonists to its annexation in 1848 by the United States. He describes the motivations and activities of colonizers and colonized alike. Using eyewitness accounts, he allows all participants—Native American, Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American—to have their say. Soldiers, settlers, missionaries, and merchants testify to the heroic and commonplace, the colorful and tragic, in California’s pre-American history. Even as he acknowledges the dark side of this story, Hyslop avoids a simplistic perspective. Moving beyond the polarities that have marked late-twentieth-century California historiography, he offers nuanced portraits of such controversial figures as Junípero Serra and treats the Californios and their distinctive Hispanic culture with a respect lacking in earlier histories. Attentive to tensions within the invading groups—priests and the military during the Spanish era, merchants and settlers during the American era—he also never loses sight of their impact on the original inhabitants of the region: California’s Native peoples. He also recounts the journeys of colonists from Russia, England, and other countries who influenced the development of California as it passed from the hands of Spaniards and Mexicans to Americans. Exhaustively researched yet concise, this book offers a much-needed alternative history of early California and its evolution from Spanish colony to American territory.
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Page : 972 pages
File Size : 43,84 MB
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
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Page : 994 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1880
Category : American literature
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American national trade bibliography.
Author : John Ryan Fischer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 146962513X
In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformations influenced by an unlikely factor: cows. The creation of native cattle cultures, represented by the Indian vaquero and the Hawaiian paniolo, demonstrates that California Indians and native Hawaiians adapted in ways that allowed them to harvest the opportunities for wealth that these unfamiliar biological resources presented. But the imposition of new property laws limited these indigenous responses, and Pacific cattle frontiers ultimately became the driving force behind Euro-American political and commercial domination, under which native residents lost land and sovereignty and faced demographic collapse. Environmental historians have too often overlooked California and Hawai'i, despite the roles the regions played in the colonial ranching frontiers of the Pacific World. In Cattle Colonialism, John Ryan Fischer significantly enlarges the scope of the American West by examining the trans-Pacific transformations these animals wrought on local landscapes and native economies.
Author : Salem Public Library
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
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Author : Salem Public Library
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1903
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