Author: Fitch Waterman TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate Columbia
Author: Fitch Waterman TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
A Voyage Round the World, and Visits to Various Foreign Countries, in the United States Frigate Columbia
Author: Fitch Waterman TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
A Voyage Round the World and Visits to Various Foreign Countries ... Ninth Edition
Author: Fitch Waterman TAYLORPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Voyage Round the World
Author: Fitch Waterman TaylorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Voyages around the world
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
Protestant America and the Pagan World
Author: Clifton Jackson PhillipsPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A history of the early decades of the American foreign missions movement, including the relationship between missionaries and commercial activities.
Small Boats and Daring Men
Author: Benjamin ArmstrongPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080616316X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience as a starting point, Benjamin Armstrong sets out to take irregular naval warfare out of the shadow of the blue-water battles that dominate naval history. This book, the first historical study of its kind, makes a compelling case for raiding and irregular naval warfare as key elements in the story of American sea power. Beginning with the Continental Navy, Small Boats and Daring Men traces maritime missions through the wars of the early republic, from the coast of modern-day Libya to the rivers and inlets of the Chesapeake Bay. At the same time, Armstrong examines the era’s conflicts with nonstate enemies and threats to American peacetime interests along Pacific and Caribbean shores. Armstrong brings a uniquely informed perspective to his subject; and his work—with reference to original naval operational reports, sailors’ memoirs and diaries, and officers’ correspondence—is at once an exciting narrative of danger and combat at sea and a thoroughgoing analysis of how these events fit into concepts of American sea power. Offering a critical new look at the naval history of the Early American era, this book also raises fundamental questions for naval strategy in the twenty-first century.
A Contribution to the Bibliography of the History of the United States Navy
Author: Agnes C. DoylePublisher: Cambridge : Priv. print. at the Riverside Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
The Canton Trade
Author: Paul A. Van DykePublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622097499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom-up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the trade by focusing on the practices and procedures rather than on the official policies and protocols. The narrative, however, reads like a story as the author unravels the daily lives of all the players from sampan operators, pilots, compradors and linguists, to country traders, supercargoes, Hong merchants and customs officials. New areas to studies of this kind are covered as well, such as Armenians, junk traders and rice traders, all of whom played intricate roles in moving the commerce forward. The Canton Trade shows that contrary to popular belief, the trade was stable, predictable and secure, with many incentives built into the policies to encourage it to grow. The huge expansion of trade was, in fact, one of the factors that contributed to its collapse as the increase in revenues blinded government officials to the long-term deterioration of the lower administrative echelons. In the end, the system was toppled, but that happened mainly because it had already defeated itself. General readers and academicians interested in world and Asian history, trading companies, country trade, Hong merchants, and articles of trade will find much new and relevant information here.
Library Journal
Author: Library Journal
Author: Melvil DeweyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.