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Author : William Sturgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Journal of William Sturgis written by William Sturgis and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of an early Pacific Northwest fur trader.
Author : Charles Greely Loring
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Memoir of the Hon. William Sturgis written by Charles Greely Loring and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484292X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book The Northwest Coast written by Barry M. Gough and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Northwest Coast documents Britain's rise to pre-eminence in this far-flung corner of the empire. It shows how the relentless activities of its commercial interests, the adroit use of its naval power, and the steely resolve of its diplomats secured British claims to dominion and rights to trade along the Northwest Coast. Written by a leading maritime scholar and based on fresh research into known manuscripts and printed works on Pacific trade and exploration, this book incorporates new interpretations on exploration and commercial activity in this area.
Author : Daniel Clayton
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841575
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Islands of Truth written by Daniel Clayton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islands of Truth, Daniel Clayton examines a series of encounters with the Native peoples and territory of Vancouver Island in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Although he focuses on a particular region and period, Clayton also meditates on how representations of land and people, and studies of the past, serve and shape specific interests, and how the dawn of Native-Western contact in this part of the world might be studied 200 years later, in the light of ongoing struggles between Natives and non-Natives over land and cultural status. Between the 1770s and 1850s, the Native people of Vancouver Island were engaged by three sets of forces that were of general importance in the history of Western overseas expansion: the West's scientific exploration of the world in the Age of Enlightenment; capitalist practices of exchange; and the geopolitics of nation-state rivalry. Islands of Truth discusses these developments, the geographies they worked through, and the stories about land, identity, and empire stemming from this period that have shaped understanding of British Columbia's past and present. Clayton questions premises underlying much of present B.C. historical writing, arguing that international literature offers more fruitful ways of framing local historical experiences. Islands of Truth is a timely, provocative, and vital contribution to post-colonial studies.
Author : Raymond D. Irwin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313072892
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980 written by Raymond D. Irwin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-11-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early America, the book surveys nearly 1,200 monographs, essay collections, exhibition catalogues, and reference works published between 1971 and 1980. In addition to bibliographic information each entry includes brief annotations, which describe the scope and approach to each item and the book's main thesis. Also included are lists of journals where each work has been reviewed and the number of times the book has been cited in professional literature, and the number of OCLC member libraries holding the work. In 31 thematic sections, the book covers such topics as: exploration and colonialization, Native Americans, the American Revolutionary War, the Constitution, race and slavery, gender, religion.
Author : Robin Inglis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810864061
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America written by Robin Inglis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Coast of America tells of the heroic endeavors and remarkable achievements, the endless speculation about a northwest passage, and the fighting and manipulation for commercial advantage that surrounded this terrain. This is done through an introductory essay, a detailed chronology, an extensive bibliography, modern maps and selected historical maps and drawings, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries.
Author : James R. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520288
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Otter Skins, Boston Ships and China Goods written by James R. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.
Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774801751
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Gunboat Frontier written by Barry M. Gough and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gunboat Frontier presents a different interpretation ofIndian-white relations in nineteenth-century British Columbia, focusingon the interaction of West Coast Indians with British law andauthority. This authority was exercised by officers, seamen, marines,and ships of the Royal Navy on behalf of the colonial governments ofVancouver Island and British Columbia and, after 1871, of Canada.
Author : Barry Gough
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 077484423X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Distant Dominion written by Barry Gough and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The voyages of Cook and Vancouver heralded a vast influx of irrepressible white men.... They brought with them their morals, ideologies, knowledge, technology, plants and animals. They also brought diseases, rum and guns....powers to build and powers to destroy." Until the 1700's, the Northwest Coast of North America stood largely apart from the civilized world. Formidable mountain barriers and remoteness from Atlantic sea lanes kept the territory outside the orbit of emerging European empires. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, Britain, Spain, France, Russsia, and the United States vied for control of this promising new frontier. Three of history's greatest mariners -- Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, and Captain George Vancouver -- spearheaded British expeditions of discovery and trade to the Northwest coast. Despite competition from her European and American rivals, Britains ability to use and control the sea enabled her to establish by the late 1700's a "beachhead of empire" in the area now known as British Columbia.Gough shows how, by outmanoevring her Spanish rivals in a "skilful game of diplomatic chess," Britain concluded the Nootka Agreement. Thus she was able to exploit her trading partnership with the coast Indians and cement a lucrative sea-borne commerce with the Far East. The arrival overland of the Nor'westers and other fur-trading groups further strengthened Britain's financial and political interests in the area -- ending forever the isolation of Northwest America, and 'changing beyond measure the culture of its Indian peoples.' Distant Dominion is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this most distant frontier of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of Pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China. This entertaining book offers fresh insight into an exciting chapter of North American history.
Author : J. R. Miller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802068189
Total Pages : 489 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Sweet Promises written by J. R. Miller and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companion volume to earlier work: Skyscrapers hide the heavens. Previously published articles are concerned with developments in the various regions of Canada from the days of New France to the present. They deal with the early military alliances, relations at the time of the fur trade, civil Indian policy, treaties and reserves, the Northwest Rebellion, the impact of religion and agricultural and educational policies, the emergence of native political organization, differing attitudes towards the environment, and the struggle for aboriginal rights and contemporary land claims disputes. Introduction provides an overview of the history of Indian-white relations over five centuries.
Author : Andrew David
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1134767579
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798 written by Andrew David and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
Author : Tom Jaine
Publisher : Oxford Symposium
ISBN 13 : 0907325424
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, 1988 written by Tom Jaine and published by Oxford Symposium. This book was released on 1989 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history, evolution and use of cooking pots from diverse places, such as Syria, Papua New Guinea, China and Spain are discussed.
Author : Michigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1010 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House of Representatives written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Reed
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542763
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Bachelor Japanists written by Christopher Reed and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in the tumultuous century between the 1860s and the 1960s. Reed combines extensive archival research; analysis of art, architecture, and literature; the insights of queer theory; and an appreciation of irony to explore the East-West encounter through three revealing artistic milieus: the Goncourt brothers and other japonistes of late-nineteenth-century Paris; collectors and curators in turn-of-the-century Boston; and the mid-twentieth-century circles of artists associated with Seattle's Mark Tobey. The result is a groundbreaking integration of well-known and forgotten episodes and personalities that illuminates how Japanese aesthetics were used to challenge Western gender conventions. These disruptive effects are sustained in Reed's analysis, which undermines conventional scholarly investments in the heroism of avant-garde accomplishment and ideals of cultural authenticity.
Author : Natalie Dykstra
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547607903
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Clover Adams written by Natalie Dykstra and published by HMH. This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the Gilded Age’s most fascinating and mysterious society women that “reads as well as any page-turning novel” (Library Journal). At twenty-eight, Clover Adams, a fiercely intelligent Boston Brahmin, married the soon-to-be-eminent American historian Henry Adams. She thrived in her role as an intimate of power brokers in Gilded Age Washington, where she was admired for her wit and taste by such luminaries as Henry James, H. H. Richardson, and General William Tecumseh Sherman. Clover so clearly possessed, as one friend wrote, “all she wanted, all this world could give.” Yet at the center of her story is a haunting mystery. Why did Clover, having begun in the spring of 1883 to capture her world vividly through photography, end her life less than three years later by drinking a chemical developer she used in the darkroom? The key to the mystery lies, as Natalie Dykstra’s searching account makes clear, in Clover’s photographs themselves. The aftermath of Clover’s death is equally compelling. Dykstra probes Clover’s enduring reputation as a woman betrayed, and, most movingly, she untangles the complex, poignant—and universal—truths of her shining and impossible marriage.
Author : Mary Malloy
Publisher : Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "Boston Men" on the Northwest Coast written by Mary Malloy and published by Kingston, Ont. : Limestone Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the mechanics of trade and the mercantile relationship between Yankee sailors and their Northwest Coast Indian counterparts, offers a history of 155 American vessels involved in the trade, and presents a guide to surviving shipboard manuscripts, focusing on identification and use of manuscript logs and journals that have come to light in the last several decades. Includes a separate Northwest Coast map adapted from a chart used in the 19th century. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Owen Matthews
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402416
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Glorious Misadventures written by Owen Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries ago, shortly after the U.S. was formed, a Russian expedition set its sights on the Pacific Northwest. It could have changed history. At the dawn of the nineteenth century two empires met on the far side of North America. Spain was the tired and hidebound colonial master of much of the Americas. Russia was the upstart, hungry for America's Pacific Northwest coast, a prize left unclaimed after the golden age of exploration. The dream of a Russian America became the goal of the Russian America Company, championed and led by Nikolai Rezanov, aristocratic adventurer and diplomat and courtier to Tsar Alexander I. At a time when John Jacob Astor was amassing his own fortune in the fur trade, Rezanov envisioned transforming fur-hunting stations on the Alaskan coast into the hub of a Pacific empire stretching from Siberia to California. The distances were vast-thousands of miles overland across the endless Russian steppes, thousands more by sea to Alaska and down to San Francisco bay. His men were unreliable-disorderly, dissolute, disease-ridden-and the dangers ever-present. Yet Rezanov persisted, and in 1806-just as Lewis and Clark were discovering the Columbia River to the north-he came close to realizing his dream. Had he done so, the history of the United States might have been very different. Owen Matthews brilliantly chronicles a hitherto untold story of adventure and colonial ambition, brought to life by vivid first-hand accounts and his own travels across Russia, recalling a time when dreams of glory pushed men to the limits of human endurance.
