Author: Publisher:
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Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
American Seaport
Author: Cut and Assemble an Early American Seaport
Author: A. G. SmithPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486247546
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Lighthouse, ship chandlery, tavern, cooper's shop, 7 other buildings. Full-color, H-O scale buildings with how-to instructions and diagrams.
World Ports/American Seaport
Author: Frontier Seaport
Author: Catherine CanganyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226096704
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Detroit’s industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today’s troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the center of the thriving fur trade. Its proximity to the West as well as its access to the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River positioned this new metropolis at the intersection of the fur-rich frontier and the Atlantic trade routes. In Frontier Seaport, Catherine Cangany details this seldom-discussed chapter of Detroit’s history. She argues that by the time of the American Revolution, Detroit functioned much like a coastal town as a result of the prosperous fur trade, serving as a critical link in a commercial chain that stretched all the way to Russia and China—thus opening Detroit’s shores for eastern merchants and other transplants. This influx of newcomers brought its own transatlantic networks and fed residents’ desires for popular culture and manufactured merchandise. Detroit began to be both a frontier town and seaport city—a mixed identity, Cangany argues, that hindered it from becoming a thoroughly “American” metropolis.
Implementation of the Maritime Transportation Security Act, H.R. 3712, the U.S. Seaport Multiyear Security Enhancement Act, and H.R. 2193, the Port Security Improvements Act of 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
World Ports/American Seaport
Author: America and the Sea
Author: Benjamin Woods LabareePublisher: Mystic Seaport Museum
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Spanning the centuries from maritime activities before Columbus to the nation's maritime involvement today, this rich, complex archive provides a new history of the United States from the fundamental perspective of the sea that surrounds it, and the rivers and lakes that link its vast interior to the seacoast. 350 photos, 55 in color. 10 maps.
U.S. Seaport Security
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationPublisher:
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Category : Cargo theft
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
The Americas
Author: The Urban Crucible
Author: Gary B. NashPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674041325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Urban Crucible boldly reinterprets colonial life and the origins of the American Revolution. Through a century-long history of three seaport towns--Boston, New York, and Philadelphia--Gary Nash discovers subtle changes in social and political awareness and describes the coming of the revolution through popular collective action and challenges to rule by custom, law and divine will. A reordering of political power required a new consciousness to challenge the model of social relations inherited from the past and defended by higher classes. While retaining all the main points of analysis and interpretation, the author has reduced the full complement of statistics, sources, and technical data contained in the original edition to serve the needs of general readers and undergraduates.