Author: Norman BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
1776-1976 Australia and America Through Two Hundred Years
Author: Norman BartlettAustralia and America Through 200 Years, 1776-1976
Author: Norman BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
1776-1976
Author: Ernest F. BaileyThe Diplomacy of Involvement
Author: David M. PletcherPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826263534
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Annotation Like its predecessor, this important new work is focused on the connection between trade and investment on the one hand and U.S. foreign policy on the other. David Pletcher describes the trade of the United States with the Far East, the islands of the Pacific, and the northwest coast of North America from 1784 (the year of the first American trading expedition to China) to 1844 (the year of the first trade treaty with China, followed immediately by the U.S. acquisition of Oregon and California). He then traces the growth of trade and investment in Alaska, Hawaii, and the South Pacific from 1844 to 1890 and proceeds to do the same for China, Japan, and Korea. In the ensuing chapters, Pletcher covers the 1890s, including the annexation of Hawaii, the Sino-Japanese War, the acquisition of the Philippines, and the Open Door policy in China. He concludes that the American expansion across the Pacific and into the Far East was not a deliberate, consistent drive for economic hegemony but a halting, experimental, improvised movement, carried out against determined opposition and indifference and dotted with setbacks and failures. Providing his own judgments about the wisdom and effectiveness of America's new endeavors, Pletcher summarizes the problems and handicaps involved, demonstrating that errors of the twentieth century were at least partly the result of poor preparation in the 1880s and 1890s. Touching on every place where Americans undertook significant economic activity, The Diplomacy of Involvementwill be an important aid for seasoned scholars, as well as an excellent introduction for the novice
Sir William Rooke Creswell and the Foundation of the Australian Navy
Author: Sheila DwyerPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 144385882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The six Australian colonies united on 1st January 1901 to become the Commonwealth of Australia. One of the reasons given for this federation was that the Commonwealth could provide a common defence. William Rooke Creswell argued that, as an island continent, Australia could not defend itself without a navy. He saw no point in having a 70,000 strong army if only one enemy battleship could destroy port cities and disrupt maritime trade and sea communications. Creswell was not alone in his campaign to establish a navy for Australia but he was the one constant advocate throughout the years from his first proposals on a navy for Australia in 1886 to when the first ships of the Australian Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour in October 1913.
A Confederate Biography
Author: Dwight Sturtevant HughesPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612518427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict of the Civil War around the globe through extreme weather, alien surroundings, and the people they encountered. Her officers were the descendants of Deep South plantation aristocracy and Old Dominion first families: a nephew of Robert E. Lee, a grandnephew of founder George Mason, and descendants of one of George Washington's generals and of an aid to Washington. One was even an uncle of a young Theodore Roosevelt and another was son-in-law to Raphael Semmes. Shenandoah's mission-commerce raiding (guerre de course)-was a central component of U.S. naval and maritime heritage, a profitable business, and a watery form of guerrilla warfare. These Americans stood in defense of their country as they understood it, pursuing a difficult and dangerous mission in which they succeeded spectacularly after it no longer mattered. This is a biography of a ship and a cruise, and a microcosm of the Confederate-American experience.
1776 to 1976 ...more Than Just Two Hundred Years
Author: Birch BayhPublisher:
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Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
Languages : en
Pages : 14
Book Description
Bibliography of the History of Medicine
Author: The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
Author: William Henry WildePublisher: Melbourne ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
Unique in its field, exhaustive in scope, the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature offers a comprehensive account of Australian writing from European settlement in 1788 to the 1990s. It presents the most important achievements in the fields of fiction, poetry, and drama, and also covers non-fictional prose in journals, diaries, biographies, and autobiographies, and the impact of key historical events on Australian literature. Fully revised and updated, the second edition contains 500 new entries, bringing the total to 3050, reflects the greater influence and volume of women's and multicultural writing, and includes major new articles on crime fiction and the immigrant experience. Written in clear and accessible language, this major reference belongs on the shelf of every library and every lover of world literature.
200 Years of America 1776-1976
Author: Camden Bicentennial CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Camden (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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