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Author : Daniel Henderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
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:
Author : Daniel Henderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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:
Author : John Pomfret
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429944129
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom written by John Pomfret and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present day From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns—rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment—were set in motion hundreds of years earlier. Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the most important—and often the most perplexing—relationship between any two countries in the world.
Author : Lee McGiffin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Yankee of the Yalu written by Lee McGiffin and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of a Congressional cutback in appropriations in 1894 commissions were not available for several Annapolis graduates. This is the biography of one graduate who offered his services to China and performed several missions for them prior to the Boxer Rebellion.
Author : Dane A. Morrison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421415437
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book True Yankees written by Dane A. Morrison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] fascinating perspective on how America’s early voyages of commerce and discovery to the exotic South Seas helped the new nation forge its identity.” —Eric Jay Dolan, bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters Drawing on private journals, letters, ships’ logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, True Yankees traces America’s earliest encounters on a global stage through the exhilarating experiences of five Yankee seafarers. Merchant Samuel Shaw spent a decade scouring the marts of China and India for goods that would captivate the imaginations of his countrymen. Mariner Amasa Delano toured much of the Pacific hunting seals. Explorer Edmund Fanning circumnavigated the globe, touching at various Pacific and Indian Ocean ports of call. In 1829, twenty-year-old Harriett Low reluctantly accompanied her merchant uncle and ailing aunt to Macao, where she recorded trenchant observations of expatriate life. And sea captain Robert Bennet Forbes’s last sojourn in Canton coincided with the eruption of the First Opium War. How did these bold voyagers approach and do business with the people in the region, whose physical appearance, practices, and culture seemed so strange? And how did native men and women—not to mention the European traders who were in direct competition with the Americans—regard these upstarts who had fought off British rule? The accounts of these adventurous travelers reveal how they and hundreds of other mariners and expatriates influenced the ways in which Americans defined themselves, thereby creating a genuinely brash national character—the “true Yankee.” Readers who love history and stories of exploration on the high seas will devour this gripping tale. “The book is informative and entertaining, a rare combination. Highly recommended.” —Choice
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1951-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Calbraith Perry
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States written by Matthew Calbraith Perry and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Armstrong Fairburn
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Merchant Sail written by William Armstrong Fairburn and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean McClure Mudge
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874131666
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (316 download)
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.
Author : Kenneth J. Blume
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810856344
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
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.
Author : Anna Marie Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520030350
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Pacific Historical Review written by Anna Marie Hager and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 404 pages
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Download or read book Sea Breezes written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kris Millegan
Publisher : Trine Day
ISBN 13 : 1937584046
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Fleshing Out Skull & Bones written by Kris Millegan and published by Trine Day. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This chronicle of espionage, drug smuggling, and elitism in Yale University's Skull & Bones society offers rare glimpses into this secret world with previously unpublished documents, photographs, and articles that delve into issues such as racism, financial ties to the Nazi party, and illegal corporate dealings. Contributors include Anthony Sutton, author of America's Secret Establishment; Dr. Ralph Bunch, professor emeritus of political science at Portland State University; Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin, authors and historians. A complete list of members, including George Bush, George W. Bush, and John F. Kerry, and reprints of rare magazine articles are included.
Author : William Henry Bunting
Publisher : Tilbury House Distr
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Live Yankees written by William Henry Bunting and published by Tilbury House Distr. This book was released on 2009 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century members of the Sewall family of Bath, Maine, built and managed a fleet of stout deepwater square-riggers--a fascinating story. Correspondence from their captains offers adventure of another kind--mutinies, shipwrecks, and "cannibal isles."
Author : Derek Lundy
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369889
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Way of a Ship written by Derek Lundy and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Godforsaken Sea -- a #1 bestseller in Canada and “one of the best books ever written about sailing” (Time magazine) -- comes a magnificent re-creation of a square-rigger voyage round Cape Horn at the end of the 19th century. In The Way of a Ship, Derek Lundy places his seafaring great-great uncle, Benjamin Lundy, on board the Beara Head and brings to life the ship’s community as it performs the exhausting and dangerous work of sailing a square-rigger across the sea. The “beautiful, widow-making, deep-sea” sailing ships could sail fast in almost all weather and carry substantial cargo. Handling square-riggers demanded detailed and specialized skills, and life at sea, although romanticized by sea-voyage chroniclers, was often brutal. Seamen were sleep deprived and malnourished, at times half-starved, and scurvy was still a possibility. Derek Lundy reminds readers what Melville and Conrad expressed so well: that the sea voyage is an overarching metaphor for life itself. As Benjamin Lundy nears the Horn and its attendant terrors, the traditional qualities of the sailor -- fatalism, stoicism, courage, obedience to a strict hierarchy, even sentimentality -- are revealed in their dying days, as sail gave way to steam. Derek Lundy tells his gripping tale with the kind of storytelling skill and writerly breadth that is usually the ken of our finest novelists, and in so doing, imagines a harrowing and wholly credible history for his seafaring Irish-Canadian ancestor.
Author : John Kuo Wei Tchen
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801867941
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (679 download)
Download or read book New York Before Chinatown written by John Kuo Wei Tchen and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2001-09-21 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Piecing together various historical fragments and anecdotes from the years before Chinatown emerged in the late 1870s, historian John Kuo Wei Tchen redraws Manhattan's historical landscape and broadens our understanding of the role of port cultures in the making of American identities."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Craig Dworkin
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 1953035647
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
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.
