The Journal Of Richard Henry Dana Jr A Voyage Round The World 1859 1860
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Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
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Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard Henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 950 |
Release | : 2005-10-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"This volume collects three sea-going travel narratives by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., that span 25 years of maritime history, from the age of sail to the age of steam." "Suffering from persistent weakness in his eyes, Dana left Harvard at age 19 and sailed from Boston in 1834 as a common seaman. Two Years Before the Mast (1840) is the account of his voyages around Cape Horn and time ashore in California in the decade before the Gold Rush. Dana's narrative vividly portrays the daily routines and hardships of life at sea, the capriciousness and brutality of merchant ship captains and officers, and the beauty and danger of the southern oceans in winter. Included in an appendix is "Twenty-Four Years After" (1869), in which Dana describes his return to California in 1859-1860 and the immense changes brought about by American annexation, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, and the growing commerce of "a new world, the awakened Pacific."" "Dana first visited Cuba in the winter of 1859 while the possible annexation of the island was being debated in the U.S. Senate. To Cuba and Back (1859) is his account of his trip, during which he toured Havana and a sugar plantation; attended a bullfight; visited churches, hospitals, schools, and prisons; and investigated the impact on Cuban society of slavery and autocratic Spanish rule." "Journal of a Voyage Round the World, 1859-1860 records the 14-month circumnavigation that took Dana to California, Hawaii, China, Japan, Malaya, Ceylon, India, Egypt, and Europe. The journal provides vignettes of frontier life in California, missionary influence in Hawaii, the impact of the Taiping Rebellion and the Second Opium War on China, and the opening of Japan to the West, while capturing the transition from the age of sail to the faster, smaller world created by the steamship and the telegraph."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1201 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Covers the social, professional, political and literary worlds of which Richard Henry Dana was a prominent participant, along with extensive observations from his voyage around the world in 1859 and other travels.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana, Jr. |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2014-05-23 |
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ISBN | : 9780674598515 |
Author | : Richard Dana Dana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert F. Lucid |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2014-05-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674289994 |
Author | : Jason E. Pierce |
Publisher | : University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1607323966 |
The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he examines why and how Anglo-Americans dominated the region for a 120-year period. In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a “dumping ground” for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated from the white communities east of the Mississippi River. But as immigrant populations and industrialization took hold in the East, white Americans began to view the West as a “refuge for real whites.” The West had the most diverse population in the nation with substantial numbers of American Indians, Hispanics, and Asians, but Anglo-Americans could control these mostly disenfranchised peoples and enjoy the privileges of power while celebrating their presence as providing a unique regional character. From this came the belief in a White Man’s West, a place ideally suited for “real” Americans in the face of changing world. The first comprehensive study to examine the construction of white racial identity in the West, Making the White Man’s West shows how these two visions of the West—as a racially diverse holding cell and a white refuge—shaped the history of the region and influenced a variety of contemporary social issues in the West today.
Author | : Richard Henry Dana (Jr.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Fugitive slaves |
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