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Peter Strickland

Author : Stephen H. Grant
Publisher : New Acdemia+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1955835152
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Peter Strickland written by Stephen H. Grant and published by New Acdemia+ORM. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of this nineteenth-century sea captain, adventurer, and State Department official: “A vivid picture of [a] unique career.” —The Day (New London, CT) This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic one hundred times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West Africa for over twenty years. We know about Peter Strickland’s long life because he wrote a daily journal from the age of nineteen until the year he died. He broke away from a long line of farmers to adopt a seafaring life at age fifteen, and his merchant marine career led him from the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa. He introduced American tobacco and wood products into French and Portuguese colonies, and on the return trips carried animal hides and peanuts in his 100-ton schooners. Eventually, the U.S. State Department asked him to become the first consul in French West Africa, with residence in Senegal. The captain accepted the terms: He would receive no salary, but he could keep the port fees he collected and continue to practice his import-export business. This book tells his life story, from his accomplishments and adventures to coping with the epidemics of the day and a tragic personal loss—in the process capturing a unique era in American diplomatic history. “Grant’s careful blending of historical hindsight with Strickland’s own words brings enormous value to our understanding of U.S. diplomacy.” —Foreign Service Journal

Peter Strickland

Author : Stephen H. Grant
Publisher : New Academia Publishing/ The Spring
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Strickland written by Stephen H. Grant and published by New Academia Publishing/ The Spring. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic 100 times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West Africa for over 20 years. We know about Peter Strickland's long life (1837-1921) because he wrote a daily journal from the age of 19 until the year he died. He broke away from a long line of Connecticut farmers to adopt a seafaring life at the age of 15. Capt. Strickland's merchant marine career led him from the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa. He introduced American tobacco and wood products into French and Portuguese colonies and on the return trips carried animal hides and peanuts in his 100-ton schooners. He wrote and published a book on behalf of sailors. The most knowledgeable American in the African trade for 40 years, Strickland struggled to maintain an American competitive edge among the dominant commercial presence of French trading houses from Bordeaux and Marseilles. The U.S. State Department asked him to become the first consul in French West Africa, with residence in Senegal. The captain accepted the terms: he would receive no salary, but he could keep the port fees he collected and continue to practice his import-export business. Living on the former slave island of Gorée, Strickland battled epidemics of cholera and yellow fever. He suffered from malaria and catarrh. His 23-year-old son George accidentally drowned off the coast of Dakar, Senegal. Demoralized and ill, Strickland retired to Boston in 1905 and became a gentleman farmer. At age 77, he recopied his entire journal into bound volumes.

Collecting Shakespeare

Author : Stephen H. Grant
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411873
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Collecting Shakespeare written by Stephen H. Grant and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday, April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 275,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, D.C., for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. The library provided Grant with unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault. He draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.

A Hard Local War

Author : William Sheehan
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750987480
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A Hard Local War written by William Sheehan and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following years of discontent over Home Rule and the Easter Rising, the deaths of two Royal Irish Constabulary policemen in Soloheadbeg at the hands of the IRA in 1919 signalled the outbreak of war in Ireland. The Irish War of Independence raged until a truce between the British Army and the IRA in 1921, historical consensus being that the conflict ended in military stalemate. In A Hard Local War, William Sheeham sets out to prove that no such stalemate existed, and that both sides were continually innovative and adaptive. Using new research and previously unpublished archive material, he traces the experience of the British rank and file, their opinion of their opponents, the special forces created to fight in the Irish countryside, RAF involvement and the evolution of IRA reliance on IEDs and terrorism.

Eerie Archives Volume 24

Author : Victor de la Fuente
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 1506709532
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Eerie Archives Volume 24 written by Victor de la Fuente and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eerie Archives delivers nearly 300 pulse-pounding pages of adventure, horror, and wonder in a deluxe hardcover collector's edition. With stories unavailable for over 35 years, Eerie Archives Volume 24 is comics excitement for the ages! Clashing swords, alien menace, and harrowing adventure abound in the latest edition of Eerie Archives! Featuring stories by Victor de la Fuente, Carlos Jimenez, E.R. Cruz, Budd Lewis, Rudy Nebres, Jim Stenstrum, and others.

Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War

Author : Eamonn T. Gardiner
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144381573X
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish War written by Eamonn T. Gardiner and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Irish War of Independence is still regarded as a conflict that is both enigmatic and emotive in content; it transformed the British imperial dream into a nightmare and was to shape the foreign and domestic agendas of two countries for nearly a century. This book seeks to examine the reasons and ask the hard questions to determine why the British state was unable to pour oil on troubled Irish waters and put Home Rule to bed and how that inability was left to fester. It examines in detail the relationships which existed between the arms of the British administration in Ireland and how the complexity of those bonds led sometimes to an animosity of sorts being fostered until it began to affect operational aspects of the British security apparatus in Ireland.' The operations and actions of British Army, the Royal Irish Constabulary, their mercenary Auxiliary security forces and the Bristish Government of the day are all probed and examined in this book. Why were the British, with massive imperial holdings and a modern and well equipped armed forces, unable to suppress an infant insurgency, numerically inferior and ill equipped less than four hundred miles from Whitehall? Why was the shining light of British colonial policing, the Royal Irish Constabulary subjected to stagnation and rot from within for over fifty years? Why instead of reforming the existing police in place in Ireland mercenary forces, with little official oversight, were introduced into Ireland in an effort to quell the rising trouble?

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 ...

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 ... written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Engaged in Learning

Author : Kathleen Strickland
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Engaged in Learning written by Kathleen Strickland and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors draw on their backgrounds in composition, linguistics, and literary theory to ground their teaching in a philosophy that is student centered and inquiry based.

Evil in Paradise

Author : Renée Relf
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595365337
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Evil in Paradise written by Renée Relf and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter and I stared at each other, digesting the shocking news. What was this misguided loose cannon of a prosecutor doing? Would he really take the risk of ruining our lives without any evidence of a crime? The answer was obviously yes. The thought of being arrested! The very idea pierced my heart. My mind raced at hyper speed. I had never committed a single criminal act. I was a wife, a mother, and a hard-working professional in the field of real estate development. After many years of faithful service, my bosses, Peter Durkee and Jack Wood, made me an equity partner in Durkee Development Group, a developer of golf course communities in Naples. Now I was being accused of being a partner in crime, a corrupt individual, an influence peddler, who had sought to bring illegal pressure on government authorities with respect to a golf course development called Colisseum Golf. My life had just spun totally out of control.

New British Cinema from 'Submarine' to '12 Years a Slave'

Author : Jason Wood
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571315178
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book New British Cinema from 'Submarine' to '12 Years a Slave' written by Jason Wood and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past year the success of British films at international film festivals - as well as the numerous awards bestowed on 12 Years a Slave - have demonstrated that British cinema has undergone a genuine renaissance that has caused new voices to emerge. At the same time, directors whose work has enthralled over the past five years have also continued to develop and expand their visions. The boundaries of British film-making are being redefined. Beginning with a preface exploring some of the factors that have led to this fertile environment, New British Cinema features in-depth interviews with the film-making voices at the vanguard of this new wave. Figures such as Clio Barnard, Richard Ayoade, Steve McQueen, Jonathan Glazer, Carol Morley, Yann Demange, Peter Strickland and Ben Wheatley provide a valuable insight into their work and working methods.

We Have Some Notes...

Author : Venetia Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839025514
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book We Have Some Notes... written by Venetia Hawkes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early stages of script writing to the final cut, We Have Some Notes... provides a detailed overview of the script editing and development process, emphasising the impact of critical feedback, or 'notes', in the creation of successful films and television shows. Through interviews with leading industry practitioners, including Lynne Ramsay, Russell T Davies, Sally Wainwright, Edgar Wright, Lone Scherfig, Ben Wheatley and Simon Beaufoy, Venetia Hawkes explores the writer, director and note-giver relationship. The interviewees discuss the most productive and harmonious ways to give and receive feedback, and the role notes play in a fruitful creative process. Respected 'note-givers', such as Tessa Ross, Eva Yates and Pippa Harris, provide advice on nurturing successful development relationships. Inter-chapter sections pose key questions, such as "What's one thing never to do if you're giving notes?" and "How do you deal with rejection or critical notes?" Providing illuminating, practical guidance on ways of working successfully with notes, for both writers and directors. With its wealth of first-hand reflections, expert advice, and historical context, We Have Some Notes... is a vital read for students, industry professionals, and anyone interested in the making of acclaimed films and television series.

Windows in Time

Author : Roxanne Anton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 149901595X
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Windows in Time written by Roxanne Anton and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was the youngest child of ten raised during the years of The Great Depression and World War Two. My book, Windows In Time is an overview of life growing up in the, as some call them, The Good Old Days. I invite the reader to step back in time and enjoy the good, bad, sad, happy and funny experience of yesterday. What follows is some personal background. I am married to a special man for many years. We were blessed with a son and daughter. They are grown now and we have three wonderful grandchildren. By now you probably know my major interest in life is my family. Next to them, my extended family, friends and our community. My writing background includes publication in Outdoor Life Magazine, Outdoor Life Deer Hunter's Yearbook 1987, a magazine Michigan Woman and varied freelance business and technical writing. I retired from Xerox Corporation where I was a Senior Customer Representative; a liaison between customers and the Company, among other duties. I retired early from Xerox to care for my aged mother and in laws. My life has been full. I enjoyed being a stay at home mom while my children were young. I went back to pursue my educational interests the same year my eldest child began her college career and enjoyed a fulfilling career. I seem to find writing about my self the most difficult of all.

The State Records of North Carolina: Census, 1790, names of heads of families

Author : North Carolina
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The State Records of North Carolina: Census, 1790, names of heads of families written by North Carolina and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The State Records of North Carolina (v. 11-26)

Author : Walter Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1338 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The State Records of North Carolina (v. 11-26) written by Walter Clark and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage

Author : Bernard Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 2938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Name Index of Persons Mentioned in the Historical Collections of Georgia, by George White, 1855

Author : George White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Name Index of Persons Mentioned in the Historical Collections of Georgia, by George White, 1855 written by George White and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 ...: New York

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 ...: New York written by United States. Bureau of the Census and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: