Author: Joyce E. ChaplinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416596208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
Round About the Earth
Author: Joyce E. ChaplinPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416596208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Originally published in hardcover in 2012.
America's Naval Heritage
Author: Thomas Truxtun MoebsPublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
From the Preface--Established in 1800 with a small collection of books that served the Secretary of the Navy, the [Navy Department Library] holds the most comprehensive collection of U.S. navy literature. For the past two hundred years, it has collected the books, documents, journals, and manuscripts the record the Navy's achievement in combat, international diplomacy, exploration, technological development, medicine, education, and social reform. This literature described in the catalog chronicles the more significant events, customs and traditions, organizations, and personalities in navel history, providing insight into the origins and development of Navy doctrine.
Pepper
Author: Marjorie ShafferPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250021006
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Filled with anecdotes and fascinating information, "a spicy read indeed." (Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed the World) The perfect companion to Mark Kurlansky's Salt: A World History, Pepper illuminates the rich history of pepper for a popular audience. Vivid and entertaining, it describes the part pepper played in bringing the Europeans, and later the Americans, to Asia and details the fascinating encounters they had there. As Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds, said, "After reading Marjorie Shaffer's Pepper, you'll reconsider the significance of that grinder or shaker on your dining room table. The pursuit of this wizened berry with the bite changed history in ways you've never dreamed, involving extraordinary voyages, international trade, exotic locales, exploitation, brutality, disease, extinctions, and rebellions, and featuring a set of remarkable characters." From the abundance of wildlife on the islands of the Indian Ocean, which the Europeans used as stepping stones to India and the East Indies, to colorful accounts of the sultan of Banda Aceh entertaining his European visitors with great banquets and elephant fights, this fascinating book reveals the often surprising story behind one of mankind's most common spices.
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago
Author: Young Men's Association of the City of Chicago. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The Warriner Family of New England Origin
Author: Edwin WarrinerDarwin in Galápagos
Author: K. Thalia GrantPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691142106
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Recreates the scientist's historic visit to the Galapagos Islands using his original notebooks and logs, the latest findings by scholars and researchers, and the authors' first-hand knowledge of the archipelago.
THE LONG SHADOW OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Author: Farish A. NoorPublisher: Matahari Books
ISBN: 9672328621
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Stamford Raffles, James Brooke, John Crawfurd and Anna Leonowens were some of those who came from Europe or the United States to Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century — and then wrote about what they saw. Their writings deserve to be read now for what they truly were: Not objective accounts of a Southeast Asia frozen in imperial time but rather as culturally myopic and perspectivist works that betray the subject-positions of the authors themselves. Reading them would allow us to write the history of the East-West encounter through critical lenses that demonstrate the workings of power-knowledge in the elaborate war-economy of racialised colonial-capitalism. Many of the tropes used by these colonial-era scholars and travellers, such as the indolence or savagery of the native population, are still very much in use today — which means we still live in the long shadow of the 19th century. (Matahari Books)
Diplomatic and Constitutional History
Author: Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland).Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins Press
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Author: