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Yankee Ships In China Adventure Of Pioneer Americans In The Troubled Far East
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Book Synopsis Yankee Ships in China: Adventure of Pioneer Americans in the Troubled Far East by : Daniel Henderson
Download or read book Yankee Ships in China: Adventure of Pioneer Americans in the Troubled Far East written by Daniel Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yankee Ships in China Seas by : Daniel Henderson
Download or read book Yankee Ships in China Seas written by Daniel Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835 by : Jean McClure Mudge
Download or read book Chinese Export Porcelain for the American Trade, 1785-1835 written by Jean McClure Mudge and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of a book first published in 1962 is still the only work that goes to fresh, primary shipping sources to tell the story of America's trade in export Chinese porcelain. There are over one hundred photographs in the book covering all the major types of export porcelain both common and uncommon, made for America. Illustrated.
Book Synopsis Yankee Ships in China Seas by : Daniel Henderson
Download or read book Yankee Ships in China Seas written by Daniel Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail by : Eric Jay Dolin
Download or read book When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of the relationship between America and China back to its earliest days, when the United States traded with China for furs, opium, and rare sea cucumbers, but left an ecological and human rights disaster that still reverberates today.
Book Synopsis Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry by : Kenneth J. Blume
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry written by Kenneth J. Blume and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Historical Dictionary of the U.S. Maritime Industry, author Kenneth J. Blume provides a convenient survey of this important industry from the colonial period to the present day: from sail to steam to nuclear power. This concise new reference work captures the key features of overseas, coastal, lake, and river shipping and industry. An introduction provides an overview of the industry while the dictionary itself contains more than four hundred cross-referenced entries on ships, shipping companies, famous personalities, and major ports. A number of appendixes, including statistics on foreign trade, maritime disasters, famous ships, and major ports, supplement the dictionary, and a comprehensive bibliography leads the researcher to further sources.
Book Synopsis From Loyalists to Loyal Citizens by : Valerie H. McKito
Download or read book From Loyalists to Loyal Citizens written by Valerie H. McKito and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DePeyster family of New York was one of the first families of New Amsterdam, ranking among the wealthiest of New York during the early days of the American Republic. The DePeysters were also unapologetic Loyalists, serving in the King's forces during the American Revolution. After the war, the four sons left the United States for Canada and Great Britain. Ten years later, one son, Frederick DePeyster, returned to New York, embraced his Loyalist past, and utilized his British connections to become a prominent and successful merchant. The DePeysters went on to become true Patriots, zealously supporting US interests in the War of 1812. This book examines the forces at work in the lives of the DePeyster family and the decisions they made to navigate their way from loyal subjects of the British crown to loyal citizens of the United States. How this transformation occurred challenges many of the preconceived ideas we hold both about the Revolution and the formation of the American identity in the years following the war.
Download or read book Helicography written by Craig Dworkin and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2021-07-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson's iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to imagine the stone helix of his structure at various orders of magnitude, from microscopic molecules to entire galaxies. Taking up this invitation with an unrelenting and literal enthusiasm, Helicography pursues the implications of such transformations all the way to the limits of logic. If other spirals, from the natural to the man-made, were expanded or condensed to the size of Spiral Jetty, what are the consequences of their physical metamorphoses? What other equivalences follow in turn, and where do their surprising historical, cultural, and mechanical connections lead? This book considers a number of forms in order to find out: the fluid vortices of whirlpools, hurricanes, and galaxies; the delicate shells of snails and the threatening pose of rattlesnakes; prehistoric ferns and the turns of the inner ear; the monstrous jaws of ancient sharks; a baroque finial scroll on a bass viol; a 19th-century watch spring; phonograph discs and spooled film; the largest open-pit mine on the planet. The result is a narrative laboratory for the "science of imaginary solutions" proposed by Alfred Jarry (whose King Ubu also plays a central role in the story told here), a work of fictocriticism blurring form and content, and the story of a single instant in time lost in the deserts of the intermountain west. Craig Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs - Reading the Illegible (Northwestern University Press), No Medium (MIT Press), Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham University Press), and Radium of the Word: a Poetics of Materiality (Chicago University Press) - as well as a half-dozen edited collections and a dozen books of experimental writing, including, most recently, The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions). He teaches literary history and theory at the University of Utah.
Book Synopsis The Poker Bride by : Christopher Corbett
Download or read book The Poker Bride written by Christopher Corbett and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This true story of a concubine and the Gold Rush years “delves deep into the soul of the real old west” (Erik Larson). “Once the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill launched our ‘national madness,’ the population of California exploded. Tens of thousands of Chinese, lured by tales of a ‘golden mountain,’ took passage across the Pacific. Among this massive influx were many young concubines who were expected to serve in the brothels sprouting up near the goldfields. One of them adopted the name of Polly Bemis, after an Idaho saloonkeeper, Charlie Bemis, won her in a poker game and married her. For decades the couple lived on an isolated, self-sufficient farm near the Salmon River in central Idaho. After her husband’s death, Polly came down to a nearby town and gradually spoke of her experiences. Journalist Christopher Corbett movingly recounts Polly’s story, integrating Polly’s personal history into the broader picture of the history of the mass immigration of Chinese. As both a personal and social history, this is an admirable book.” —Booklist “A gorgeously written and brilliantly researched saga of America during the mad flush of its biggest Gold Rush. Christopher Corbett’s genius is to anchor his larger story of Chinese immigration around a poor concubine named Polly. A tremendous achievement.” —Douglas Brinkley “Uses Bemis’s story as a platform for a larger discussion about the hardships of the Chinese experience in the American West.” —The Washington Post
Download or read book Selling Empire written by Jonathan Eacott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Book Synopsis Cape Horn to the Pacific by : Raymond A. Rydell
Download or read book Cape Horn to the Pacific written by Raymond A. Rydell and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations, 1644-1820: Documentation and reference by : Lo-shu Fu
Download or read book A Documentary Chronicle of Sino-Western Relations, 1644-1820: Documentation and reference written by Lo-shu Fu and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents translated from Chinese offer a more balanced history of East Asian international relations.
Book Synopsis Cape Horn to the Pacific; the Rise and Decline of an Ocean Highway by : Raymond A. Rydell
Download or read book Cape Horn to the Pacific; the Rise and Decline of an Ocean Highway written by Raymond A. Rydell and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Library of Congress Catalogs by : Library of Congress
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Response to China, 1784-1844 by : James Benjamin Wood
Download or read book The American Response to China, 1784-1844 written by James Benjamin Wood and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United States Consul and the Yankee Raja by : H. G. Keith
Download or read book The United States Consul and the Yankee Raja written by H. G. Keith and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The United States Quarterly Book List by :
Download or read book The United States Quarterly Book List written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: