Author: Leonard Bolles EllisPublisher:
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Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1620-1892
Author: Leonard Bolles EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602-1892
Author: Leonard Bolles EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bristol County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
New Bedford's Civil War
Author: Earl F. MulderinkPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823243346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.
The Lost Fleet
Author: Marc SonginiPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466858338
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Arctic disasters, rogue whales, ambush by Confederate ships--the true saga of one captain's struggle to survive the demise of the Yankee whaling fleet It's the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with icebergs, storms, rogue whales, sharks, hostile natives, and disease. Many whalers give up the life—but some carry on the vocation. One such man is a captain from Connecticut, Thomas William Williams. Not only does he go out on voyage after voyage, he even takes on board with him his tiny wife, Eliza, and his infant son and daughter. The Lost Fleet's thrilling narrative recounts Williams' remarkable career, including a daring escape from the Confederate cruiser Alabama and a daring rescue and salvage of lost ships off Alaska's coast. Songini has crafted a historical masterpiece in recording a family saga, a true narrative of adventure and death on the high seas, and a detailed and well-researched look at the demise of Yankee whaling.
Saints and Scholars
Author: Hugh MagennisPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 184384303X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Wide-ranging survey of current research in Anglo-Saxon studies - from literature and material culture to religion and politics. Anglo-Saxon literature and culture, and their subsequent appropriations, unite the essays collected here. They offer fresh and exciting perspectives on a variety of issues, from gender to religion and the afterlives of Old Englishtexts, from reconsiderations of neglected works to reflections on the place of Anglo-Saxon in the classroom. As is appropriate, they draw especially on Hugh Magennis' own interests in hagiography and issues of community and reception. Taken together, they provide a "state of the discipline" account of the present, and future, of Anglo-Saxon studies. The volume also includes contributions from the leading Irish poets Ciaran Carson and Medbh McGuckian. Dr Stuart McWilliams is a Newby Trust Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Contributors: Ciaran Carson, Marilina Cesario, Mary Clayton, Ivan Herbison, Joyce Hill, Malcolm Godden, Chris Jones, Christina Lee, Medbh McGuckian, Stuart McWilliams, Juliet Mullins, Elisabeth Okasha, Jane Roberts, Donald Scragg, Mary Swan, John Thompson, Elaine Treharne, Robert Upchurch, Gordon Whatley, Jonathan Wilcox
Finding List of the ... Library, 1893
Author: The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts
Author: Daniel RicketsonPublisher:
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Category : Antislavery movements
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
A History of the General Property Tax in Illinois
Author: Kendric Charles BabcockPublisher:
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Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
A History of the General Property Tax in Illinois
Author: Robert Murray HaigPublisher:
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Category : Taxation
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
Author: Eric Jay DolinPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393331571
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." --Nathaniel Philbrick