Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1854 1856 Vol 5 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 5 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1854-1856. This volume describes a voyage on the HURKARU (1853) from Melbourne to Hong Kong, then home to London. During a typhoon in the South China Sea, the ship was thrown on her beam ends and dismasted. Later Crowe supervised the completion of the EARL OF WINDSOR (1855) by the Willmett shipbuilding yard at Newport, Monmouthshire, and was master on her maiden voyage to Calcutta.
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1856 1858 Vol 6 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1856-1858. In this period Crowe completed his last engagement as a master mariner, another voyage on the EARL OF WINDSOR (1855), including a visit to Hong Kong at the time of the Second Opium War. This volume also describes how he took his family to Australia as passengers on the EARL OF WINDSOR and started a new life at Mount Torrens in the Adelaide Hills.
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1850 1854 Vol 4 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1850-1854. For part of this period Crowe was master of the barque AUGUSTA (1841), employed in the guano trade. One of his daughters died following an earthquake at Coquimbo in Chile and another was born while the ship was anchored in the Downs. The volume then describes voyages on the WILLIAM GIBSON (1844) and HURKARU (1853), both owned by Thomas Hamlin & Co, Greenock. Crowe supervised the completion of the HURKARU on the River Tyne and was master on her maiden voyage to Port Phillip.
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1847 1850 Vol 3 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 3 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1847-1850. It explains how his employment as master of the brig LEVEN LASS (1839) of Glasgow ended because of the commercial failure of the shipowners. It then describes several voyages of the barque AUGUSTA (1841), owned by Sim & Co, mainly between Glasgow and New York. This volume also mentions the births of two daughters, one of them at sea off Chile. Sketches showing Valparaiso Bay and the method of loading guano in the Chincha Islands are included.
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1844 1847 Vol 2 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1844-1847. During most of this period Crowe was master of the brig LEVEN LASS (1839), owned by Denny & Co, Glasgow. The volume describes voyages to the West Indies, Canada, South America and the Mediterranean. It also has references to his marriage to Margaret Gourlay Farquharson and the birth of his first daughter.
Download or read book Memoir of James Henry Crowe Master Mariner 1821 1844 Vol 1 written by James Henry Crowe and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 of the memoir written by Crowe, covering the years 1821-1844. It describes his apprenticeship with Francis Spaight shipowners during which he sailed on the BORNEO, JANE BLACK and GOVERNOR in the emigrant trade between Limerick and Quebec. The volume ends with his recovery from yellow fever at a boarding house in Kingston, Jamaica, while he was first mate on the brig LEVEN LASS (1839) of Glasgow. A single typescript sheet providing biographical details is included.
Download or read book The Crimean War written by Winfried Baumgart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winfried Baumgart's masterful history of the Crimean War has been expanded and fully updated to reflect advances made in the field since the book's first publication. It convincingly argues that if the war had continued after 1856, the First World War would have taken place 60 years earlier, but that fighting ultimately ceased because diplomacy never lost its control over the use of war as an instrument in power politics. With 19 images, 13 maps and additional tables as well as a brand new chapters on 'the medical services', this expanded and fully-updated 2nd edition explores * The origins and diplomacy of the Crimean War * The war aims and general attitudes of the belligerent powers (Russia, France, and Britain), non-belligerent German powers (Austria and Prussia) and a selected number of neutral powers, including the United States * The characteristics and capabilities of the armies involved * The nature of the fighting itself The Crimean War: 1853-1856 examines the conflict in both its Europe-wide and global contexts, moving beyond the five great European powers to consider the role and importance of smaller states and theatres of war that have otherwise been under-served. To this end, it looks at fighting on the Danube front, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the Caucasian battlefield, as well as the White Sea and the Pacific, with final chapters devoted to the Paris peace congress of 1856, the end of the war and its legacy. This book remains the definitive study of one of the most important wars in modern history.
Download or read book The Crimean War in Imperial Context 1854 1856 written by Andrew Rath and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War was fought far from its namesake peninsula in Ukraine. Until now, accounts of Britain's and France's naval campaigns against Czarist Russia in the Baltic, White Sea, and Pacific have remained fragmented, minimized, or thinly-referenced. This book considers each campaign from an imperial perspective extending from South America to Finland. Ultimately, this regionally-focused approach reveals that even the smallest Anglo-French naval campaigns in the remote White Sea had significant consequences in fields ranging from medical advances to international maritime law. Considering the perspectives of neutral powers including China, Japan, and Sweden-Norway, allows Rath to examine the Crimean conflict's impact on major historical events ranging from the 'opening' of Tokugawa Japan to Russia's annexation of large swaths of Chinese territory. Complete with customized maps and an extensive reference section, this will become essential reading for a varied audience.
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Download or read book The American Yawp written by Joseph L. Locke and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I too am not a bit tamed—I too am untranslatable / I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world."—Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself," Leaves of Grass The American Yawp is a free, online, collaboratively built American history textbook. Over 300 historians joined together to create the book they wanted for their own students—an accessible, synthetic narrative that reflects the best of recent historical scholarship and provides a jumping-off point for discussions in the U.S. history classroom and beyond. Long before Whitman and long after, Americans have sung something collectively amid the deafening roar of their many individual voices. The Yawp highlights the dynamism and conflict inherent in the history of the United States, while also looking for the common threads that help us make sense of the past. Without losing sight of politics and power, The American Yawp incorporates transnational perspectives, integrates diverse voices, recovers narratives of resistance, and explores the complex process of cultural creation. It looks for America in crowded slave cabins, bustling markets, congested tenements, and marbled halls. It navigates between maternity wards, prisons, streets, bars, and boardrooms. The fully peer-reviewed edition of The American Yawp will be available in two print volumes designed for the U.S. history survey. Volume I begins with the indigenous people who called the Americas home before chronicling the collision of Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans.The American Yawp traces the development of colonial society in the context of the larger Atlantic World and investigates the origins and ruptures of slavery, the American Revolution, and the new nation's development and rebirth through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Rather than asserting a fixed narrative of American progress, The American Yawp gives students a starting point for asking their own questions about how the past informs the problems and opportunities that we confront today.
Download or read book From Puritanism to Postmodernism written by Richard Ruland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely acknowledged as a contemporary classic that has introduced thousands of readers to American literature, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature brilliantly charts the fascinating story of American literature from the Puritan legacy to the advent of postmodernism. From realism and romanticism to modernism and postmodernism it examines and reflects on the work of a rich panoply of writers, including Poe, Melville, Fitzgerald, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Gwendolyn Brooks and Thomas Pynchon. Characterised throughout by a vibrant and engaging style it is a superb introduction to American literature, placing it thoughtfully in its rich social, ideological and historical context. A tour de force of both literary and historical writing, this Routledge Classics edition includes a new preface by co-author Richard Ruland, a new foreword by Linda Wagner-Martin and a fascinating interview with Richard Ruland, in which he reflects on the nature of American fiction and his collaboration with Malclolm Bradbury. It is published here for the first time.
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Download or read book A History of Literary Criticism written by Harry Blamires and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-08-16 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author traces the course of literary criticism from its foundations in classical and medieval precepts to the theorising of the present day. He explores the texts which have been milestones in the history of critical thought, placing them firmly in the context of their time.
Download or read book At Home with the Patagonians written by George Chaworth Musters and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-01 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book Fifty Years in the Northwest written by William Henry Carman Folsom and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapters start with historical information about a county or places within the county followed by biographies of people from those localities.
Download or read book The White Pacific written by Gerald Horne and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-05-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The increase in production required an increase in labor; in the rush to fill the vacuum, freebooters and other unsavory characters began a slave trade in Melanesians and Polynesians that continued into the twentieth century. The White Pacific ranges over the broad expanse of Oceania to reconstruct the history of "blackbirding" (slave trading) in the region. It examines the role of U.S. citizens (many of them ex-slaveholders and ex-confederates) in the trade and its roots in Civil War dislocations. What unfolds is a dramatic tale of unfree labor, conflicts between formal and informal empire, white supremacy, threats to sovereignty in Hawaii, the origins of a White Australian policy, and the rise of Japan as a Pacific power and putative protector. It also pieces together a wonderfully suggestive history of the African American presence in the Pacific. Based on deft archival research in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, the United States, and Great Britain, The White Pacific uncovers a heretofore hidden story of race, labor, war, and intrigue that contributes significantly to the emerging intersectional histories of race and ethnicity.
