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Author : New-York Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report and List of Members of the New-York Historical Society written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Annual Report written by United States. National Historical Publications and Records Commission and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 994 pages
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Author : Stephen Budney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313043329
Total Pages : 180 pages
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Author : Craig Steven Wilder
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081479534X
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
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Author : Peter R. Mills
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824842332
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure written by Peter R. Mills and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s thousands of American and European traders arrived in Hawai‘i to lay in supplies for the long trip east or to take on Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high price in China. In response to this developing global economy in the Pacific, Russia expanded its trading outposts as far as western Kaua‘i and together with Kaua‘i chiefs began planning the construction of Fort Elisabeth in Waimea in 1816. A year later, the structure was abandoned by the Russians, but, as Peter Mills argues convincingly, a long and significant history of the fort remains to be told, even after its Russian one had ended. Seeking to redress the imbalance that exists between the colonized and the colonizers in Pacific historiography, Mills examines the fort and its place in the history of Kaua‘i under paramount chief Kaumuali‘i and in relation to the expanding kingdom of Kamehameha and his successors. His work exposes how Hawaiians have been ignored in their own history and challenges commonly held assumptions such as Kamehameha’s unification of the Islands in 1810 and the victimization of Kaumuali‘i by representatives of the Russian-American Company. Using hundreds of firsthand accounts in combination with field archaeology, Mills shows that the fort was originally built and used by Hawaiians as a heiau (ritual temple). After the Russians’ departure, Hawaiians continued to use the fort but in ways that reflected an ongoing transformation of cultural values provoked by contact with outsiders and the development of multiethnic communities in Waimea and other port settlements throughout the Hawaiian chain. Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure is an original look at a significant chapter in the history of Hawai‘i. It overturns many popular myths and perceptions about the fort at Waimea and about European and Hawaiian interaction in the first half of the nineteenth century while delving into some of the central issues in historical anthropology, colonialism, and the development of global networks.
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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Author : American Historical Association
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Total Pages : 264 pages
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Author : University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus)
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University written by University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 816 pages
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Author : Susan J. Matt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707448
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
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Author : Ralph E. Weber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351316184
Total Pages : 835 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers, 1775-1938 written by Ralph E. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 835 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States Diplomatic Codes and Ciphers, 1775-1938 is the first basic reference work on American diplomatic cryptography. Weber's research in national and private archives in the Americas and Europe has uncovered more than one hundred codes and ciphers. Beginning with the American Revolution, these secret systems masked confidential diplomatic correspondence and reports.During the period between 1775 and 1938, both codes and ciphers were employed. Ciphers were frequently used for American diplomatic and military correspondence during the American Revolution. At that time, a system was popular among American statesmen whereby a common book, such as a specific dictionary,was used by two correspondents who encoded each word in a message with three numbers. In this system, the first number indicated the page of the book, the second the line in the book, and the third the position of the plain text word on that line counting from the left. Codes provided the most common secret language basis for the entire nineteenth century.Ralph Weber describes in eight chapters the development of American cryptographic practice. The codes and ciphers published in the text and appendix will enable historians and others to read secret State Department dispatches before 1876, and explain code designs after that year.
Author : Daniel M. Bluestone
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300057508
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Constructing Chicago written by Daniel M. Bluestone and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the architectural history of nineteenth century Chicago, looks at Chicago's parks, churches, offices, and civic buildings, and looks at the image of Chicago they created
Author : Railway & Locomotive Historical Society
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Total Pages : 894 pages
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Download or read book Bulletin written by Railway & Locomotive Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fannie Taylor
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461327318
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book The Arts at a New Frontier written by Fannie Taylor and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profound changes were taking place in American society during the period of the 1960s and 1970s when legislation for the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities was enacted and the agencies went into operation. It was a period of soul-searching by the American public when the cherished prejudices and civil inequities of the past decades were wiped out and old wounds began to heal; at the same time, however, the Vietnam War was creating new fissures and antagonisms. Into this newly healing, newly questioning society, congressional action thrust the National Council on the Arts in 1964, and the National Endowment for the Arts in 1965. Their mission was to encourage and support the arts, and the men and women charged with this responsibility went about their work with the zeal and enthusiasm of religious converts. The idea of even a minute amount of federal financial assistance to the country's chronically beleaguered and often impoverished artists and arts organi zations seemed strange to a segment of the population that had existed in forgot ten independence from government intervention. Many of the nation's artists and arts leaders were wary, partly because of the uncertainties and constraints of previous patterns of governmental support.
Author : Antonio M. Gotto Jr.
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703676
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078645816X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
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