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Author: Marie Leona Hobbs Nichols Publisher: ISBN: Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 194
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MacDonald was the son of a Scotsman and a Chinook woman. While still young, he met shipwrecked Japanese sailors and developed a fascination for Japan. In 1845 he was a sailor on the Plymouth, a whaling ship. As it neared Japan, he convinced the captain to set him off in a small boat to land as a shipwrecked sailor in Japan. He was made a prisoner and used by the Japanese to teach English. In 1849, the American warship USS Preble under Captain James Glynn rescued MacDonald and other stranded sailors. Some of his students were involved the negotiations with Commodore Matthew Perry to open Japan to foreigners. MacDonald wrote of his experiences and favorable evaluation of the Japanese to the U.S. Congress. MacDonald traveled to Australia and Europe before returning to Washington state.
Author: Marie Leona Hobbs Nichols Publisher: ISBN: Category : Adventure and adventurers Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
MacDonald was the son of a Scotsman and a Chinook woman. While still young, he met shipwrecked Japanese sailors and developed a fascination for Japan. In 1845 he was a sailor on the Plymouth, a whaling ship. As it neared Japan, he convinced the captain to set him off in a small boat to land as a shipwrecked sailor in Japan. He was made a prisoner and used by the Japanese to teach English. In 1849, the American warship USS Preble under Captain James Glynn rescued MacDonald and other stranded sailors. Some of his students were involved the negotiations with Commodore Matthew Perry to open Japan to foreigners. MacDonald wrote of his experiences and favorable evaluation of the Japanese to the U.S. Congress. MacDonald traveled to Australia and Europe before returning to Washington state.
Author: Ranald MacDonald Publisher: Spokane, Wash. : Pub. for the Eastern Washington state historical society by the Inland-American printing Company ISBN: Category : Americans Languages : en Pages : 374
Author: JoAnn Roe Publisher: ISBN: 9780874221466 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British Columbia gold rush.
Author: Frederik L. Schodt Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc. ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 440
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"MacDonald helped "crack the seal" on Japan. He gave American officials hints on how to impress the Japanese, and equipped Japanese officials with tools for understanding the intruders. His life was, and is, a bridge between wildly different cultures, races, and eras."
Author: JoAnn Roe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 284
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In 1848, Ranald MacDonald--son of a Hudson's Bay Company official and Chinook Indian princess--convinced the captain of an American whaling ship to cast him adrift in a rowboat off the northern Japanese coast. Held captive for nearly a year, MacDonald taught English to Japanese interpreters, some of whom interpreted for Commodore Perry when the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open its doors to outsiders in the 1850s. After his release, MacDonald traveled the world before returning to the Pacific Northwest to join the British Columbia gold rush.
Author: Frederik L. Schodt Publisher: Stone Bridge Press, Inc. ISBN: 1611725410 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 436
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How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-Scot, half-Chinook adventurer from the Pacific Northwest landed on an island off Hokkaido. Although promptly arrested and imprisoned for seven months in Nagasaki, the intelligent, well-educated MacDonald fascinated the Japanese and became one of their first teachers of English and Western ways. Based on primary research in Japan and North America, this book chronicles the events leading to MacDonald’s journey and his later struggle to obtain recognition at home. Frederik L. Schodt has written extensively on Japan, including America and the Four Japans and Inside the Robot Kingdom. Fluent in spoken and written Japanese, he lives in San Francisco. In 2009 he was received the The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contribution to the introduction and promotion of Japanese contemporary popular culture. "Schodt's account of MacDonald's life and his eventual journey to Japan is depicted with the accuracy of a trained academic and the excitement of a skillful novelist." --Kyoto Journal
Author: Ranald MacDonald Publisher: Portland : Oregon Historical Society Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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In 1848, MacDonald became the first native speaker of English to teach his language in Japan, which had been closed to the outside world for nearly two and a half centuries. Originally published posthumously in 1923, this is a reprint of the original book--Ranald's own report of his voyage, as well as his earlier and later life.
Author: Richard H. Engeman Publisher: Timber Press ISBN: 1604691476 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 433
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What's the connection between Ken Kesey and Nancy's Yogurt? How about the difference between a hoedad and a webfoot? What became of the Pixie Kitchen and the vanished Lambert Gardens? The Oregon Companion is an A–Z handbook of over 1000 people, places, and things. From Abernethy and beaver money to houseboats, railroads, and the Zigzag River, an intrepid public historian separates fact from fiction — with his sense of humor intact. Entries include towns and cities, counties, rivers, lakes, and mountains; people who have left a mark on Oregon; industries, products, crops, and natural resources. Includes more than 160 historical black and white photos. This entertaining and delightfully meticulous compendium is an essential reference for anyone curious about Oregon.
Author: Heidi Morrison Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135764875 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 489
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The Global History of Childhood Reader provides an essential collection of chapters and articles on the global history of childhood. The Reader is structured thematically so as to provide both a representative sampling of the historiography as well as an overview of the key issues of the field, such as childhood as a social construct, commonalities and differences globally, and why the twentieth century was not the "century of the child" for most of the world’s children. The Reader is divided into four parts: Theories and methodologies of the history of childhood Constructions of childhood in different times and places Children’s experiences in different times and places Usage of the past to articulate solutions to problems facing children today. Topics covered include theories and methodologies in the global history of childhood, sources for writing a global history of childhood, education, gender, disability, race, class and religion, the individual in history and emotions, violence, labour and illiteracy. With introductions that contextualize each of the four parts and the articles, further reading sections and questions; this is the perfect guide for all students of the history of childhood.
Author: Allan K. McDougall Publisher: UBC Press ISBN: 0774836709 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 331
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The evolution of the Canada–US borderland in the Pacific Northwest included the wholesale transformation of social organization and individual identities together with the redefinition and application of public power. Before and After the State examines the impact of those changes across a region that already harboured a vibrant, highly complex mélange of societies with dynamic local, regional, and global trade and kin networks. Allan McDougall, Lisa Philips, and Daniel Boxberger explore fundamental questions of state formation, social transformation, and the (re)construction of identity to expose the narratives and other devices of nation building, their impact on generations caught in the transition, and the reverberations of those national myths that continue to the present.
Author: Marie Leona Hobbs Nichols
Author: Marie Leona Hobbs Nichols
Author: Ranald MacDonald
Author: JoAnn Roe
Author: Frederik L. Schodt
Author: JoAnn Roe
Author: Frederik L. Schodt
Author: Ranald MacDonald
Author: Richard H. Engeman
Author: Heidi Morrison
Author: Allan K. McDougall