Author: Sidney PerleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The History of Salem, Massachusetts: 1638-1670
Author: Sidney PerleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of America
Author: Marie-Pierre Le HirPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476684421
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Americans have long had a rich if complicated relationship with France. They adore all things French, especially food and fashion. They visit the country and learn the language. Historically, Americans have also been quick to blame France at certain times of international crisis, and find fault with their handling of domestic issues. Despite ups and downs, the friendship between the countries remains very strong. The author explains the strength of Franco-American relations lies in the diplomatic ties that extend back to the founding of the United States, but more importantly, in the French DNA that is imprinted on American culture. The French were the first Europeans to settle the regions now known as Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas and Arkansas--and Frenchman remained in Louisiana after the land was purchased by the United States. This book explores the effects that France has had on American culture, and why modern Americans of French descent are so fascinated by their ancestry.
Employment and Earnings
Author: Gold Coins of the World
Author: Arthur L. FriedbergPublisher: Coin & Currency Institute
ISBN: 0871843080
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
overs the entire history of world gold coinage form the 5th century B.C. through the modern coin issues of today. Part I, the section on ancient coins covers, in order, Ancient Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire and the Byzantine Empire. Part II lists the coins of the world in alphabetical order by country from approximately AD 600 to date. With current market valuations usually in the two most commonly encountered states of preservation. Tables of weight and precious metal content included with coins of each country.
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Author: Tonio AndradePublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 082485277X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the velocity and scale of commerce increased dramatically. Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese smugglers and pirates forged autonomous networks and maritime polities; they competed and cooperated with one another and with powerful political and economic units, such as the Manchu Qing, Tokugawa Japan, the Portuguese and Spanish crowns, and the Dutch East India Company. Maritime East Asia was a contested and contradictory place, subject to multiple legal, political, and religious jurisdictions, and a dizzying diversity of cultures and ethnicities, with dozens of major languages and countless dialects. Informal networks based on kinship ties or patron-client relations coexisted uneasily with formal governmental structures and bureaucratized merchant organizations. Subsistence-based trade and plunder by destitute fishermen complemented the grand dreams of sea-lords, profit-maximizing entrepreneurs, and imperial contenders. Despite their shifting identities, East Asia’s mariners sought to anchor their activities to stable legitimacies and diplomatic traditions found outside the system, but outsiders, even those armed with the latest military technology, could never fully impose their values or plans on these often mercurial agents. With its multilateral perspective of a world in flux, this volume offers fresh, wide-ranging narratives of the “rise of the West” or “the Great Divergence.” European mariners, who have often been considered catalysts of globalization, were certainly not the most important actors in East and Southeast Asia. China’s maritime traders carried more in volume and value than any other nation, and the China Seas were key to forging the connections of early globalization—as significant as the Atlantic World and the Indian Ocean basin. Today, as a resurgent China begins to assert its status as a maritime power, it is important to understand the deep history of maritime East Asia.
United States Statutes at Large
Author: United StatesTables of European History, Literature, and Art, from A.D. 200 to 1888
Author: John NicholPublisher: Glasgow, Maclehose
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Contributions for the Genealogies of the First Settlers of the Ancient County of Albany, from 1630 to 1800
Author: Jonathan PearsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Albany County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Geophysics and Space Data Bulletin
Author: Special Reports - Air Force Geophysics Laboratory
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geophysics
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Vols. for 1976- include Its Geophysics and space data bulletin.