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America's Early Whalemen

Author : John A Strong
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816538816
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book America's Early Whalemen written by John A Strong and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indians of coastal Long Island were closely attuned to their maritime environment. They hunted sea mammals, fished in coastal waters, and harvested shellfish. To celebrate the deep-water spirits, they sacrificed the tail and fins of the most powerful and awesome denizen of their maritime world—the whale. These Native Americans were whalemen, integral to the origin and development of the first American whaling enterprise in the years 1650 to 1750. America’s Early Whalemen examines this early chapter of an iconic American historical experience. John A. Strong’s research draws on exhaustive sources, domestic and international, including little-known documents such as the whaling contracts of 340 Native American whalers, personal accounting books of whaling company owners, London customs records, estate inventories, and court records. Strong addresses labor relations, the role of alcohol and debt, the patterns of cultural accommodations by Native Americans, and the emergence of corporate capitalism in colonial America. When Strong began teaching at Long Island University in 1964, he found little mention of the local Indigenous people in history books. The Shinnecocks and the neighboring tribes of Unkechaugs and Montauketts were treated as background figures for the celebratory narrative of the “heroic” English settlers. America’s Early Whalemen highlights the important contributions of Native peoples to colonial America.

Native American Whalemen and the World

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622580
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Native American Whalemen and the World written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was "Indian" and how "Indians" behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.

Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America

Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066665
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.

The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island

Author : John A. Strong
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618650X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Unkechaug Indians of Eastern Long Island written by John A. Strong and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region’s original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the United States—the Poospatuck Reservation—is located in Suffolk County, the densely populated eastern extreme of the greater New York area. The Unkechaug Indians, known also by the name of their reservation, are recognized by the State of New York but not by the federal government. This narrative account—written by a noted authority on the Algonquin peoples of Long Island—is the first comprehensive history of the Unkechaug Indians. Drawing on archaeological and documentary sources, John A. Strong traces the story of the Unkechaugs from their ancestral past, predating the arrival of Europeans, to the present day. He describes their first encounters with British settlers, who introduced to New England’s indigenous peoples guns, blankets, cloth, metal tools, kettles, as well as disease and alcohol. Although granted a large reservation in perpetuity, the Unkechaugs were, like many Indian tribes, the victims of broken promises, and their landholdings diminished from several thousand acres to fifty-five. Despite their losses, the Unkechaugs have persisted in maintaining their cultural traditions and autonomy by taking measures to boost their economy, preserve their language, strengthen their communal bonds, and defend themselves against legal challenges. In early histories of Long Island, the Unkechaugs figured only as a colorful backdrop to celebratory stories of British settlement. Strong’s account, which includes extensive testimony from tribal members themselves, brings the Unkechaugs out of the shadows of history and establishes a permanent record of their struggle to survive as a distinct community.

Cape Cod Shore Whaling

Author : John Braginton-Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962506857
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Cape Cod Shore Whaling written by John Braginton-Smith and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on original historically important documents, Cape Cod Shore Whaling describes the people, technology, impact on society and government regulations that pertain to this important American colonial industry. Never before discussed in depth, shore whaling was the precursor to the more commonly described deep sea whaling. As such and as a source of raw materials, shore whaling played an important part in the development of New England, and especially Cape Cod.

A Bold and Hardy Race of Men

Author : Jennifer Schell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625340191
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book A Bold and Hardy Race of Men written by Jennifer Schell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why whaling narratives have had such a significant place in the American imagination

Whaling Will Never Do For Me

Author : Briton Cooper Busch
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813150612
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Whaling Will Never Do For Me written by Briton Cooper Busch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I just begin to find out that whaling will never do for me and have determined to leave the ship here if possible." That sentiment, expressed by a foremast hand aboard the ship Caroline in 1843, is one shared by many of the whalemen in this fascinating book. Interest in Herman Melville's Moby Dick has contributed to a substantial literature on the history and lore of the industry. But not until now has the vast body of surviving whaleship logs and journals been used to paint an encompassing picture of the difficult but colorful life aboard nineteenth-century American whaling vessels. Briton Cooper Busch, author of a definitive history of the American sealing industry, in this book only incidentally discusses the actual chase for whales. His focus instead is the life of whalemen at sea, and particularly the harsh discipline that kept men aboard through long and often dispiriting years. Busch depicts the complex social world aboard ship, defining and detailing such issues as crime and punishment, competing racial elements, the social distance between officers and men, sexual behavior, and the role of women aboard ships. For oppressed, discouraged, or simply bored whalemen, several escapes existed, from the rarest of all mutiny through labor protests of various types, to individual desertion or appeal to an American consul abroad. To each of these topics Busch devotes a chapter. He also provides glimpses of those occasional moments of relief such as a Fourth of July celebration and such somber moments as a death at sea. Fascinating details and original quotations from individual whalemen make this book more than a study of general trends. For anyone with even a casual interest in whaling, it is indispensable.

The Whalemen

Author : Edouard A. Stackpole
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309445
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book The Whalemen written by Edouard A. Stackpole and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other enterprise in America's history ever approached whaling for adventure. Here, award-winning historian Edouard A. Stackpole describes the early Colonial days when boat crews attacked whales near shore through the development of deep-sea whaling by the hardy Quaker whalemen of Nantucket and on into the adventure-packed century when Yankee whalemen made the world their domain.

The American Whaleman

Author : Elmo Paul Hohman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Whaleman written by Elmo Paul Hohman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Poison Plot

Author : Elaine Forman Crane
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501721321
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Poison Plot written by Elaine Forman Crane and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accusation of attempted murder rudely interrupted Mary Arnold’s dalliances with working men and her extensive shopping sprees. When her husband Benedict fell deathly ill and then asserted she had tried to kill him with poison, the result was a dramatic petition for divorce. The case before the Rhode Island General Assembly and its tumultuous aftermath, during which Benedict died, made Mary a cause célèbre in Newport through the winter of 1738 and 1739. Elaine Forman Crane invites readers into the salacious domestic life of Mary and Benedict Arnold and reveals the seamy side of colonial Newport. The surprise of The Poison Plot, however, is not the outrageous acts of Mary or the peculiar fact that attempted murder was not a convictable offense in Rhode Island. As Crane shows with style, Mary’s case was remarkable precisely because adultery, criminality and theft, and even spousal homicide were well known in the New England colonies. Assumptions of Puritan propriety are overturned by the facts of rough and tumble life in a port city: money was to be made, pleasure was to be had, and if marriage became an obstacle to those pursuits a woman had means to set things right. The Poison Plot is an intimate drama constructed from historical documents and informed by Crane’s deep knowledge of elite and common life in Newport. Her keen eye for telling details and her sense of story bring Mary, Benedict, and a host of other characters—including her partner in adultery, Walter Motley, and John Tweedy the apothecary who sold Mary toxic drugs—to life in the homes, streets, and shops of the port city. The result is a vivid tale that will change minds about life in supposedly prim and proper New England.

The Story of Yankee Whaling

Author : Irwin Shapiro
Publisher : New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Yankee Whaling written by Irwin Shapiro and published by New York : American Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Golden Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives a history of whaling in New England.

A Most Glorious Ride

Author : Edward P. Kohn
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438455135
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book A Most Glorious Ride written by Edward P. Kohn and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2014-12-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encompasses key years and important events in Theodore Roosevelts early life and career. A Most Glorious Ride presents the complete diaries of Theodore Roosevelt from 1877 to 1886. Covering the formative years of his life, Roosevelts entries show the transformation of a sickly and solitary Harvard freshman into a confident and increasingly robust young adult. He writes about his grief over the premature death of his father, his courtship and marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee, and later the death of Alice and his mother on the same day. The diaries chronicle his burgeoning political career in New York City and his election to the New York State Assembly. With his descriptions of balls, dinner parties, and nights at the opera, they offer a glimpse into life among the Gilded Age elite in Boston and New York. They also recount Roosevelts first birding and hunting trips to the Adirondacks, the Maine woods, and the American West. Ending with Roosevelts secret engagement to his second wife, Edith Kermit Carow, A Most Glorious Ride provides an intimate look into the life of the man who would become Americas twenty-sixth president. Brought together for the first time in a single volume, the diaries have been meticulously transcribed, annotated, and introduced by Edward P. Kohn. Twenty-four black-and-white photographs are also included. Edward P. Kohn has done scholars a great public service by editing the diaries of Theodore Roosevelt, 18771886. This volume is essential reading for anybody interested in the rise of the great Rough Rider. Highly recommended. Douglas Brinkley, author of The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America I thought there was nothing new under the sun to be done on Theodore Roosevelt, given the thousands of books already published, but Edward P. Kohn has discovered, and admirably filled, a major gap in books on the life and times of TR. By bringing these diaries together in one place for the first time and providing expert annotation and footnotes, Kohn makes an extremely valuable contribution to understanding Roosevelt. Paul Grondahl, author of I Rose Like a Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt A Most Glorious Ride is an outstanding addition not only to the scholarship on Roosevelt but also to the study of the Gilded Age, capturing the social norms of the times and offering insights into a long-gone era of family life. Michael Patrick Cullinane, author of Liberty and American Anti-Imperialism: 18981909

Living with Whales

Author : Nancy Shoemaker
Publisher : Native Americans of the Northe
ISBN 13 : 9781625340818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Living with Whales written by Nancy Shoemaker and published by Native Americans of the Northe. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Living with Whales, Nancy Shoemaker reconstructs the history of Native whaling in New England through a diversity of primary documents: explorers' descriptions of their "first encounters," indentures, deeds, merchants' accounts. Indian overseer reports, crew lists, memoirs, obituaries, and excerpts from journals kept by Native whalemen on their voyages. These materials span the centuries-long rise and fall of the American whalefishery and give insight into the far-reaching impact of whaling on Native North American communities. Whaling has left behind a legacy of ambivalent emotion s. In oral histories included in this volume, descendants of Wampanoag and Shinnecock whalemen-Ramona Peters, Elizabeth James Perry, Jonathan Perry, Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile, Holly Haile Davis, and David Bunn Martine-reflect on how whales, whaling, and the ocean were vital to the survival of coastal Native communities in the Northeast, but at great cost to human life, family life, whales, and the ocean environment. Book jacket.

The American Whaleman

Author : Elmo Paul Hohman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The American Whaleman written by Elmo Paul Hohman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forgotten Patriots

Author : Edwin G. Burrows
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786727047
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Patriots written by Edwin G. Burrows and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1775 and 1783, some 200,000 Americans took up arms against the British Crown. Just over 6,800 of those men died in battle. About 25,000 became prisoners of war, most of them confined in New York City under conditions so atrocious that they perished by the thousands. Evidence suggests that at least 17,500 Americans may have died in these prisons—more than twice the number to die on the battlefield. It was in New York, not Boston or Philadelphia, where most Americans gave their lives for the cause of independence. New York City became the jailhouse of the American Revolution because it was the principal base of the Crown's military operations. Beginning with the bumper crop of American captives taken during the 1776 invasion of New York, captured Americans were stuffed into a hastily assembled collection of public buildings, sugar houses, and prison ships. The prisoners were shockingly overcrowded and chronically underfed—those who escaped alive told of comrades so hungry they ate their own clothes and shoes. Despite the extraordinary number of lives lost, Forgotten Patriots is the first-ever account of what took place in these hell-holes. The result is a unique perspective on the Revolutionary War as well as a sobering commentary on how Americans have remembered our struggle for independence—and how much we have forgotten.

Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders

Author : Norm Flayderman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Scrimshaw and Scrimshanders written by Norm Flayderman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Treasure-trove of facts and lore about whaling and scrimshaw"--Dust jacket.

History Of The American Whale Fishery From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876

Author : Alexander Starbuck
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789354414626
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book History Of The American Whale Fishery From Its Earliest Inception To The Year 1876 written by Alexander Starbuck and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.