Author: Richard SimsPublisher: London : J.R. Smith
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Handbook to the Library of the British Museum
Author: Richard SimsPublisher: London : J.R. Smith
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Handbook to the Library of the British Museum
Author: British MuseumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biblioteques
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
John Tyler
Author: Gary MayPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429939214
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
The first "accidental president," whose secret maneuverings brought Texas into the Union and set secession in motion When William Henry Harrison died in April 1841, just one month after his inauguration, Vice President John Tyler assumed the presidency. It was a controversial move by this Southern gentleman, who had been placed on the fractious Whig ticket with the hero of Tippecanoe in order to sweep Andrew Jackson's Democrats, and their imperial tendencies, out of the White House. Soon Tyler was beset by the Whigs' competing factions. He vetoed the charter for a new Bank of the United States, which he deemed unconstitutional, and was expelled from his own party. In foreign policy, as well, Tyler marched to his own drummer. He engaged secret agents to help resolve a border dispute with Britain and negotiated the annexation of Texas without the Senate's approval. The resulting sectional divisions roiled the country. Gary May, a historian known for his dramatic accounts of secret government, sheds new light on Tyler's controversial presidency, which saw him set aside his dedication to the Constitution to gain his two great ambitions: Texas and a place in history.
Handbook to the Library of the British Museum: Containing a Brief History of Its Formation, and of the Various Collections of which it is Composed (etc.)
Author: Richard SimsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Museum. Dept. Of Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Luther H. Holton
Author: Henry Cornelius KlassenPublisher: University of Calgary Press
ISBN: 1552380270
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
From the success of his various business ventures, he moved easily into the world of politics. Luther Holton was finance minister of the United Province of Canada from 1863 to 1864, leading the battle to reform the finance department and to enhance the province's credit in London, England.".
The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year
Author: The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, For The Year 1840.
Author: Accounts and Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
Herman Melville's Whaling Years
Author: Wilson Lumpkin HeflinPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 9780826513823
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Based on more than a half-century of research, Herman Melville's Whaling Years is an essential work for Melville scholars. In meticulous and thoroughly documented detail, it examines one of the most stimulating periods in the great author's life--the four years he spent aboard whaling vessels in the Pacific during the early 1840s. Melville would later draw repeatedly on these experiences in his writing, from his first successful novel, Typee, through his masterpiece Moby-Dick, to the poetry he wrote late in life. During his time in the Pacific, Melville served on three whaling ships, as well as on a U.S. Navy man-of-war. As a deserter from one whaleship, he spent four weeks among the cannibals of Nukahiva in the Marquesas, seeing those islands in a relatively untouched state before they were irrevocably changed by French annexation in 1842. Rebelling against duty on another ship, he was held as a prisoner in a native calaboose in Tahiti. He prowled South American ports while on liberty, hunted giant tortoises in the Galapagos Islands, and explored the islands of Eimeo (Moorea) and Maui. He also saw the Society and Sandwich (Hawaiian) Islands when the Western missionary presence was at its height. Heflin combed the logbooks of any ship at sea at the time of Melville's voyages and examined nineteenth-century newspaper items, especially the marine intelligence columns, for mention of Melville's vessels. He also studied British consular records pertaining to the mutiny aboard the Australian whaler Lucy Ann, an insurrection in which Melville participated and which inspired his second novel, Omoo. Distilling the life's work of a leading Melville expert into book form for the first time, this scrupulously edited volume is the most in-depth account ever published of Melville's years on whaleships and how those singular experiences influenced his writing.
The American Text-Book for the Million
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368198173
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.