Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Cadmus Book Shop
Publisher:
Total Pages: 892
Release: 1919
Genre: Catalogs, Booksellers
ISBN:

Forty-niners 'round the Horn

Forty-niners 'round the Horn
Author: Charles R. Schultz
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781570033292

Drawing upon more than one hundred unpublished diaries, Schultz profiles the individuals who embarked on these journeys and demonstrates how markedly the gold rush voyages differed from general commercial trading and whaling ventures."--BOOK JACKET.

The Republic Afloat

The Republic Afloat
Author: Matthew Taylor Raffety
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226924009

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at sea had a tendency to come ashore and force the national government to address questions about personal honor, dignity, the rights of labor, and the meaning and privileges of citizenship, often for the first time. By examining how and why merchant seamen and their officers came into contact with the law, Matthew Taylor Raffety exposes the complex relationship between brutal crimes committed at sea and the development of a legal consciousness within both the judiciary and among seafarers in this period. The Republic Afloat tracks how seamen conceived of themselves as individuals and how they defined their place within the United States. Of interest to historians of labor, law, maritime culture, and national identity in the early republic, Raffety’s work reveals much about the ways that merchant seamen sought to articulate the ideals of freedom and citizenship before the courts of the land—and how they helped to shape the laws of the young republic.

Bulletin ...

Bulletin ...
Author: Ohio State Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1911
Genre: Libraries
ISBN:

Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record

Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 580
Release: 1884
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.

Sale Catalogues

Sale Catalogues
Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 906
Release: 1921
Genre:
ISBN: