Author: J. D. Davies
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
ISBN: 1848320140
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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This new reference book describes every aspect the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era which witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of the Royal Navy. Every aspect of the navy is covered - naval administration, ship types and shipbuilding, naval recruitment and crews, seamanship and gunnery, shipboard life, dockyards and bases, the foreign navies of the period, and the three major wars which were fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy which was, by 1690, ready for the 100 years of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This book is destined to become a major work for historians, naval enthusiasts and, indeed, anyone with an interest in this colourful era of the seventeenth century.
Author: Alexis De Veaux
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393019544
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The long-awaited first biography of the author of "The Cancer Journals," an American icon of womanhood, poetry, African American arts, and survival.
Author: Thom Aubrey
Publisher: Thomas Handsome Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110
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Set in Boofer County, Missouri, his mental stability was put into question after he was arrested. The presiding judge asked that a full psychiatric evaluation be performed on Mr. Aubrey. His sentence suspended pending this evaluation, his psychiatrist asked Thom to keep a daily journal of the happenings in his daily life. The results are what you will find in the pages of this book. Join Thom as he tells about his adventures as a traveling staple salesman, his time with his Lady, handles the business side of a local celebrity (his feline companion), offers fatherly advice to his friend Suelo and her one-legged-talent-pageant-hopeful daughter Erma, his multiple visits to see his cannibalistic incarcerated father, on-going feuding with his arch-nemesis (local gynecologist Oedipus Prime)and a slew of other characters and tales.
Author: Graham Pascoe
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803816902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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The Falklands Saga presents abundant evidence from hundreds of pages of documents in archives and libraries in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Montevideo, London, Cambridge, Stanley, Paris, Munich and Washington DC, some never printed before, many printed here for the first time, in English and, where different, in their original languages, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Latin or Dutch. It provides the facts to correct the fallacies and distortions in accounts by earlier authors. It reveals persuasive evidence that the Falklands were discovered by a Portuguese expedition at the latest around 1518-19, and not by Vespucci or Magellan. It demonstrates conclusively that the Anglo-Spanish agreement of 1771 did not contain a reservation of Spanish rights, that Britain did not make a secret promise to abandon the islands, and that the Nootka Sound Convention of 1790 did not restrict Britain's rights in the Falklands, but greatly extended them at the expense of Spain. For the first time ever, the despairing letters from the Falklands written in German in 1824 to Louis Vernet by his brother Emilio are printed here in full, in both the original German and in English translation, revealing the total chaos of the abortive 1824 Argentine expedition to the islands. This book reveals how tiny the Argentine settlement in the islands was in 1826-33. In April 1829 there were only 52 people, and there was a constant turnover of population; many people stayed only a few months, and the population reached its maximum of 128 only for a few weeks in mid-1831 before declining to 37 people at the beginning of 1833. This work also refutes the falsehood that Britain expelled an Argentine population from the Falklands in 1833. That myth has been Argentina's principal propaganda weapon since the 1960s in its attempts to undermine Falkland Islanders' right to self-determination. In fact Britain encouraged the residents to stay, and only a handful left the islands. A crucial document printed here is the 1850 Convention of Peace between Argentina and Britain. At Argentina's insistence, this was a comprehensive peace treaty which restored "perfect friendship" between the two countries. Critical exchanges between the Argentine and British negotiators are printed here in detail, which show that Argentina dropped its claim to the Falklands and accepted that the islands are British. That, and the many later acts by Argentina described here, definitively ended any Argentine title to the islands. The islands' history is placed in its world context, with detailed accounts of the First Falklands Crisis of 1764-71, the Second Falklands Crisis of 1831-3, the Years of Confusion (1811-1850), and the Third Falklands Crisis of 1982 (the Falklands War), as well as a Falklands perspective on the First and Second World Wars, including the Battle of the Falklands (1914) and the Battle of the River Plate (1939), with extensive details and texts from German sources. The legal status of the Falklands is analysed by reference to legal works, to United Nations resolutions on decolonisation, and to rulings by the International Court of Justice, which together demonstrate conclusively that the islands are British territory in international law and that the Falkland Islanders, who have now (2024) lived in their country for over 180 years and for nine generations, are a unique people who are holders of territorial sovereignty with the full right of external self-determination.
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
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Author: William Scoresby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317044592
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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William Scoresby (1789-1857) made his first voyage in the whaler Resolution from Whitby to the Greenland Sea, west of Spitsbergen, in 1800. Three years later he was formally apprenticed to his father and another three years saw him promoted to chief officer. On 5 October 1810, his twenty-first birthday, ’the earliest at which, by reason of age, I could legally hold a command’, his father moved to Greenock and another ship, relinquishing the Resolution to his son. Another ten years would see the publication of what has been described as ’one of the most remarkable books in the English language’, his two-volume An Account of the Arctic Regions, with a History and Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery (1820). Even before he took command of the Resolution, two developments had occurred that, when combined with his seamanship and whaling skill, were to make that book ’the foundation stone of Arctic science’ and cause the journals of his annual voyages to be remarkable accounts in their own right. First, Scoresby had studied, during two brief winters at the University of Edinburgh. Teachers such as John Playfair and Robert Jameson had made him aware of the scientific importance of his arctic experience. Together with Sir Joseph Banks, the president of the Royal Society, they encouraged him to observe, experiment and record, and provided opportunities for his data to be published. Secondly, this encouragement, and the study habits he developed at Edinburgh, led Scoresby to expand the logs of his arctic voyages into lengthy journals that contained scientific records and social and religious comment as well as detailed descriptions of navigation and whaling.
Author: Marco Da Rin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199744750
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 657
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Entrepreneurial finance brings together the fast-moving world of entrepreneurship with the disciplined world of finance. Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Finance provides an accessible, yet rigorous, framework for understanding how ambitious, high-growth start-ups can successfully obtain funding and interact with investors.
Author: Daniel Stahl
Publisher: Wallstein Verlag
ISBN: 3835345303
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Eine Quellen- und Kommentarsammlung, die den Aufstieg der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert veranschaulicht und erklärt. Menschenrechte wurden im Verlauf des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem wichtigen Bezugspunkt nationaler und internationaler Politik. Die vorliegende Quellensammlung versteht sich als Angebot, diese Entwicklung nachvollziehbar zu machen. Sie beinhaltet und kommentiert Dokumente, die einen Schlüssel zum Verständnis der Menschenrechtsgeschichte im 20. Jahrhundert bieten. Neben wirkungsmächtigen völkerrechtlichen Verträgen oder vielbeachteten Reden finden sich auch weniger bekannte Quellen wie Briefe, Zeitungsartikel oder Erklärungen marginalisierter Gruppen in dieser Sammlung wieder, insofern sie einen neuen Blick auf bestimmte Aspekte der Menschenrechtsgeschichte ermöglichen. Autorinnen und Autoren aus verschiedenen Disziplinen ordnen diese Quellen historisch ein, indem sie diese vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Entstehungs- und Wirkungsgeschichte analysieren. Auf diese Weise werden eine Vielzahl von Themen, die für die Geschichte der Menschenrechte von Bedeutung waren, in den national- und globalgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts verortet: der Umgang mit Gewaltverbrechen und Repression, faire Arbeitsbedingungen oder eine gerechte Weltwirtschaftsordnung.
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Category : Pharmacy
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Author: William Scoresby
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 135181429X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This is the third and final volume in the set of William Scoresby's journals. It contains the unpublished accounts of his three voyages 1817, 1818 and 1820. During the years of the voyages in this volume Scoresby's life changed profoundly. An unsuccessful hunt for whales in 1817 led to a break with the Whitby shipowners, and command of the Fame in 1818 in partnership with his father. The partnership was a brief one, and at the end of 1818 Scoresby broke with his father and moved to Liverpool, finding new partners, completing the writing of An Account of the Arctic Regions and watching the construction of his new ship, the Baffin. Meanwhile he suffered a severe financial loss and made a profound religious commitment. After his first summer ashore for many years in 1819, he brought back to Liverpool in 1820 a 'full ship' of seventeen whales, despite being faced by mutineers in the crew who earlier had been involved in piracy in the Caribbean and, apparently, hoped to seize the Baffin 'and convey her and her valuable cargo to a foreign country'. In each of the journals, Scoresby wrote detailed descriptions of his landings: on Jan Mayen in 1817, western Spitsbergen in 1818, and the Langanes peninsula in northeast Iceland in 1820. The 1817 voyage, when Scoresby and others found the Greenland Sea relatively free of ice, involved him in the renewed British interest in arctic maritime exploration after the Napoleonic Wars. The Introduction to this volume contains a major reappraisal of Scoresby's role, especially in regard to his alleged mistreatment by John Barrow, Second Secretary of the Admiralty. The volume also contains an appendix by Fred M. Walker on the building of wooden whaleships such as the Baffin that were capable of routine ice navigation under sail as far north as 80°N, based on Scoresby's account, as Owners' Representative, at the beginning of the 1820 journal.
