Author: William Warland ClappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A record of the Boston stage. (Orig. publ. in the Boston evening gazette).
Author: William Warland ClappPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
History of Essex County, Massachusetts
Author: Duane Hamilton HurdPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : Essex County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1416
Book Description
Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-room Companion
Author: Maturia Murray BallouPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 575
Book Description
The Saturday Evening Post
Author: The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register
Author: Bankers' Magazine and State Financial Register
Author: With Sails Whitening Every Sea
Author: Brian RouleauPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801455073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Many Americans in the Early Republic era saw the seas as another field for national aggrandizement. With a merchant marine that competed against Britain for commercial supremacy and a whaling fleet that circled the globe, the United States sought a maritime empire to complement its territorial ambitions in North America. In With Sails Whitening Every Sea, Brian Rouleau argues that because of their ubiquity in foreign ports, American sailors were the principal agents of overseas foreign relations in the early republic. Their everyday encounters and more problematic interactions—barroom brawling, sexual escapades in port-city bordellos, and the performance of blackface minstrel shows—shaped how the United States was perceived overseas.Rouleau details both the mariners' "working-class diplomacy" and the anxieties such interactions inspired among federal authorities and missionary communities, who saw the behavior of American sailors as mere debauchery. Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas. As Rouleau chronicles, the world's oceans and seaport spaces soon became a battleground over the terms by which American citizens would introduce themselves to the world. But by the end of the Civil War, seamen were no longer the nation's principal ambassadors. Hordes of wealthy tourists had replaced seafarers, and those privileged travelers moved through a world characterized by consolidated state and corporate authority. Expanding nineteenth-century America's master narrative beyond the water's edge, With Sails Whitening Every Sea reveals the maritime networks that bound the Early Republic to the wider world.
Narrative and Critical History of America: The United States of North America. 1888
Author: Justin WinsorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Germs at Bay
Author: Charles VidichPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Examines America's experience with a wide range of quarantine practices over the past 400 years and the political, economic, immigration, and public health considerations that have prompted success or failure within the evolving role of public health. The novel strain of coronavirus that emerged in late 2019 and became a worldwide pandemic in 2020 is only one of more than 87 new or emerging pathogens discovered since 1980 that have posed a risk to public health. While many may consider quarantine an antiquated practice, it is often one of the only defenses against new and dangerous communicable diseases. Tracing the United States' quarantine practices through the colonial, postcolonial, and modern eras, Germs at Bay provides an eye-opening look at how quarantine has worked despite routine dismissal of its value. This book is for anyone seeking to understand the challenges of controlling the spread of COVID-19 and helps readers internalize the lessons learned from the pandemic. Few titles provide this level of primary source data on the United States' long reliance on quarantine practices and the political, social, and economic factors that have influenced them.
Author: William Jerdan