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Author : Old Quarter Master
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Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-six Years of a Seafaring Life written by Old Quarter Master and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John BECHERVAISE
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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Thirty-six Years of a Seafaring Life: by an Old Quarter Master [J. Beckervaise.] written by John BECHERVAISE and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Bechervaise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108083420
Total Pages : 453 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life by an Old Quarter Master written by John Bechervaise and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two fascinating works by John Bechervaise, from 1839 and 1847, describing his thirty-six years of seafaring life from 1803.
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385144779
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)
Download or read book Thirty-Six Years of a Seafaring Life written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Author : David W. Forbes
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824823795
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900 written by David W. Forbes and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second volume of the Hawaiian National Bibliography records the transformation of Hawai'i from a feudal system of government to a constitutional monarchy whose autonomy was recognized by the United States and the great powers of Europe. Here are referenced the formation of laws, a constitution, a bill of rights, and government reports. Political entanglements with Great Britain and France, the Provisional Cession of Hawai'i to Great Britain, and the restoration of sovereignty in 1843 are documented. Publications resulting from the United States Exploring Expedition under Captain Charles Wilkes are included. Also listed and described are theater bills, broadsides, and other ephemera, which illuminate the everyday life of the period.
Author : David Chapman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498516645
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Bonin Islanders, 1830 to the Present written by David Chapman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-02-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of interwoven historical narratives that present an intriguing and little known account of the Ogasawara (Bonin) archipelago and its inhabitants. The narratives begin in the seventeenth century and weave their way through various events connected to the ambitions, hopes, and machinations of individuals, communities, and nations. At the center of these narratives are the Bonin Islanders, originally an eclectic mix of Pacific Islanders, Americans, British, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, and African settlers that first landed on the islands in 1830. The islands were British sovereign territory from 1827 to 1876, when the Japanese asserted possession of the islands based on a seventeenth century expedition and a myth of a samurai discoverer. As part of gaining sovereign control, the Japanese government made all island inhabitants register as Japanese subjects of the national family register. The islanders were not literate in Japanese and had little experience of Japanese culture and limited knowledge of Japanese society, but by 1881 all were forced or coerced into becoming Japanese subjects. By the 1930s the islands were embroiled in the Pacific War. All inhabitants were evacuated to the Japanese mainland until 1946 when only the descendants of the original settlers were allowed to return. In the postwar period the islands fell under U.S. Navy administration until they were reverted to full Japanese sovereignty in 1968. Many descendants of these original settlers still live on the islands with family names such as Washington, Gonzales, Gilley, Savory, and Webb. This book explores the social and cultural history of these islands and its inhabitants and provides a critical approach to understanding the many complex narratives that make up the Bonin story.
Author : Roland Pietsch
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320361
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The Real Jim Hawkins written by Roland Pietsch and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of readers have enjoyed the adventures of Jim Hawkins, the young protagonist and narrator in Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island, but little is known of the real Jim Hawkins and the thousands of poor boys who went to sea in the eighteenth century to man the ships of the Royal Navy. This groundbreaking new work is a study of the origins, life and culture of the boys of the Georgian navy, not of the upper-class children training to become officers, but of the orphaned, delinquent or just plain adventurous youths whose prospects on land were bleak and miserable. Many had no adult at all taking care of them; others were failed apprentices; many were troublesome youths for whom communities could not provide so that the Navy represented a form of floating workhouse. Some, with restless and roving minds, like Defoes Robinson Crusoe, saw deep sea life as one of adventure, interspersed with raucous periods ashore drinking, singing and womanizing. The author explains how they were recruited; describes the distinctive subculture of the young sailor the dress, hair, tattoos and language and their life and training as servants of captains and officers. More than 5,000 boys were recruited during the Seven Years War alone and without them the Royal Navy could not have fought its wars. This is a fascinating tribute to a forgotten band of sailors.
Author : Richard Blake
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833598
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 written by Richard Blake and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious activity flourished in the eighteenth-century navy; this book examines the reasons why and its manifestations. The Evangelical Admiral Gambier, notorious for distributing tracts to his fleet in a theatre of war, is commonly seen as a misfit in a fighting service that had scant time for fervent piety. In fact, the navy of the Revolutionaryand Napoleonic Wars showed a level of religious observance not seen since the days of Queen Anne. Evangelical laymen provided one dynamic for this change: concentrating first on public worship, they moved to active proselytism insearch of converts amongst sailors, and in a third phase developed a loose network of prayer groups in scores of ships, uniting officers and seamen in voluntary gatherings that transcended rank. This book explores the effect this new piety had on discipline and human governance, on literacy, on the development of chaplains' ministry and on the mindset of the officer corps. It also looks at the larger question of how its values were absorbed into the ethos of the navy as a whole. It draws on sources both familiar and unusual - logs, letters, minutes, memoirs, tracts and sermons, Regulations - to explain how evangelical influence affected officer corps, lower deck andAdmiralty, showing how a movement that began by promoting public worship at sea became an agency for mass evangelism through literature, preaching and off-duty gatherings, where officers and men met for shared Bible reading and prayer a mere decade after the great Mutinies.
Author : George Robert Carter
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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book Preliminary Catalogue of Hawaiiana in the Library of George R. Carter, ... written by George Robert Carter and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Public Library of New South Wales
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Free Public Library, Sydney, for the Years 1869-87 written by Public Library of New South Wales and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : I. Land
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230101062
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)
Download or read book War, Nationalism, and the British Sailor, 1750-1850 written by I. Land and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to systematically integrate 'Jack Tar,' the common seaman, into the cultural history of modern Britain, treating him not as an occasional visitor from the ocean, but as an important part of national life.
Author : Judith Owens
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773536515
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book City Limits written by Judith Owens and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of new approaches are used to look at the early modern European city.
Author : Ada B. Nisbet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520098110
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)
Download or read book British Comment on the United States written by Ada B. Nisbet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography of more than three thousand entries, often extensively annotated, lists books and pamphlets that illuminate evolving British views on the United States during a period of great change on both sides of the Atlantic. Subjects addressed in various decades include slavery and abolitionism, women's rights, the Civil War, organized labor, economic, cultural, and social behavior, political and religious movements, and the "American" character in general.
Author : New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney
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Total Pages : 846 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue written by New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Blake
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843838850
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Religion in the British Navy 1815-1879 written by Richard Blake and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the rise of evangelical religion in the navy helped create a new kind of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of values. This book examines how, as the nineteenth century progressed, religious piety, especially evangelical piety, was seen in the British navy less as eccentric and marginal and more as an essential ingredient of the character looked for in professional seamen. The book traces the complex interplay between formal religious observance, such as Sunday worship, and pockets of zealous piety, showing how evangelicalism gradually earned less grudging regard, until inthe 1860s and 1870s it became a dominant source of values and a force for moral reform. Religion in the British Navy explains this shift, outlining how Arctic expeditions showed the need for dependability and character, how Health Returns revealed the full extent of sexual licence and demonstrated the urgency of moral reform, and how manning difficulties in the Russian War of 1854-1856 showed that a modern fleet required a new type of sailor, technologically trained and steeped in a higher set of values. The book also discusses how the navy, with its newly awakened religious sensibilities, played a major role in the expansion of Protestant missions globally, in exploration, convict transportation, the expansion of imperial frontiers, and worldwide maritime policing operations. Fervent piety had an effect in all these areas - religion had helped develop a new kind of manliness where piety as well asdaring had a place. RICHARD BLAKE is the author of Evangelicals in the Royal Navy, 1775-1815 (Boydell 2008).
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.
