Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Historical Collections
Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Historical Collections
Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Massachusetts Historical Collections
Author: John Warner BarberPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Native American Whalemen and the World
Author: Nancy ShoemakerPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469622580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, nearly all Native American men living along the southern New England coast made their living traveling the world's oceans on whaleships. Many were career whalemen, spending twenty years or more at sea. Their labor invigorated economically depressed reservations with vital income and led to complex and surprising connections with other Indigenous peoples, from the islands of the Pacific to the Arctic Ocean. At home, aboard ship, or around the world, Native American seafarers found themselves in a variety of situations, each with distinct racial expectations about who was "Indian" and how "Indians" behaved. Treated by their white neighbors as degraded dependents incapable of taking care of themselves, Native New Englanders nevertheless rose to positions of command at sea. They thereby complicated myths of exploration and expansion that depicted cultural encounters as the meeting of two peoples, whites and Indians. Highlighting the shifting racial ideologies that shaped the lives of these whalemen, Nancy Shoemaker shows how the category of "Indian" was as fluid as the whalemen were mobile.
The Christian Review
Author: Thoreau's Reading
Author: Robert SattelmeyerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400859638
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Thoreau's Reading charts Henry Thoreau's intellectual growth and its relation to his literary career from 1833, when he entered Harvard College, to his death in 1862. It also furnishes a catalogue of nearly fifteen hundred entries of his reading, compiled from references and allusions in his published writings, journal, correspondence, library charging records, the catalogue of his personal library, and his many unpublished notebooks and commonplace books. This record suggests his literary and intellectual development as a youth primarily interested in classical and early English literature, who matured as a writer investigating contemporary and classical natural science, the history of the European discovery and exploration of North America, and the history of native Americans. The catalogue provides bibliographical data for, and lists all Thoreau's references to, the books and articles that he read. The introductory essay traces the shifts in his literary career marked in the chronology of his reading. The book reveals a Thoreau who was deeply interested in and conversant with the major intellectual questions of his times and whose stance of withdrawal from his age masked a lively involvement with many of its most perplexing questions. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: Robert Clarke & CoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: The North American Review
Author: The North American Review
Author: Jared SparksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.