Author: Edward ChappellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Narrative of a voyage to Hudson's bay in his majesty's ship Rosamond
Author: Edward ChappellThe British Critic
Author: The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
Author: British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology
Author: “The” Quarterly Review
Author: Proof-sheets of a Bibliography of the Languages of the North American Indians
Author: James Constantine PillingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description
The Naval Chronicle
Author: Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108018785
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The Naval Chronicle, published in 40 volumes between 1799 and 1818, is a key source for British maritime and military history. This reissue is the first complete printed reproduction of what was the most influential maritime publication of its day. The subjects covered range from accounts of battles and lists of ships to notices of promotions and marriages, courts martial and deaths, and biographies, poetry and letters. Each volume also contains engravings and charts relating to naval engagements and important harbours around the world. Volume 39 (1818) includes an 'autobiographical' memoir, allegedly written on St Helena by Napoleon. The financial concerns of a post-war navy are obvious. William Wilberforce was involved with a committee set up for the relief of the thousands of destitute former sailors in London. Concerns were expressed about the building up of the American navy, and appeals made for the ending of impressment.
The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
Author: Listening to the Fur Trade
Author: Daniel Robert LaxerPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228009820
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
As fur traders were driven across northern North America by economic motivations, the landscape over which they plied their trade was punctuated by sound: shouting, singing, dancing, gunpowder, rattles, jingles, drums, fiddles, and – very occasionally – bagpipes. Fur trade interactions were, in a word, noisy. Daniel Laxer unearths traces of music, performance, and other intangible cultural phenomena long since silenced, allowing us to hear the fur trade for the first time. Listening to the Fur Trade uses the written record, oral history, and material culture to reveal histories of sound and music in an era before sound recording. The trading post was a noisy nexus, populated by a polyglot crowd of highly mobile people from different national, linguistic, religious, cultural, and class backgrounds. They found ways to interact every time they met, and facilitating material interests and survival went beyond the simple exchange of goods. Trust and good relations often entailed gift-giving: reciprocity was performed with dances, songs, and firearm salutes. Indigenous protocols of ceremony and treaty-making were widely adopted by fur traders, who supplied materials and technologies that sometimes changed how these ceremonies sounded. Within trading companies, masters and servants were on opposite ends of the social ladder but shared songs in the canoes and lively dances during the long winters at the trading posts. While the fur trade was propelled by economic and political interests, Listening to the Fur Trade uncovers the songs and ceremonies of First Nations people, the paddling songs of the voyageurs, and the fiddle music and step-dancing at the trading posts that provided its pulse.