Author: William Harwar ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Remarks on the Navigation of the Coasts Between San Francisco and Panama
Author: William Harwar ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Remarks on the Navigation of the Coasts Between San Francisco and Panama
Author: Wm. H. ParkerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368122908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Remarks on the Navigation of the Coasts Between San Francisco and Panama
Author: William Harwar ParkerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coast pilots
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Maritime Landscape of the Isthmus of Panamá
Author: James P. DelgadoPublisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 081305253X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In its 11,000 year human history, the Isthmus of Panamá has been dominated by its relationship to the sea and the rivers that feed it. A unique marine environment, the land bridge shaped its inhabitants’ activities, and those inhabitants shaped the Isthmus—from harvesting resources to physically transforming the land to link two oceans. This seminal work explores this intersection between people and the environment, mining the archaeological and ethnological record created during the formation and development of Panamá's maritime cultural landscape. Assessing sites both submerged and on land, the authors explore the maritime history of the isthmus through its many stages: from its prehistoric period through Spanish colonialism to the building of the canal and its function as a route for modern-day maritime traffic. Combining archaeology, history, geography, and economic history, this volume situates Panamá's canal and isthmus in the global economy and world maritime culture, while providing a more complex understanding of human adaptation and the persistence of culture.
The American and Mexican Pacific Railway, Or Transcontinental Short Line
Author: Alexander Dwight AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Far West and Gateway Literature, Rare California Broadsides, Western Laws and History, Rare Books on Mormonism, California Acquisition, Overland Railroad and Travel, Western Bandits, Pioneers and Adventures, Etc. Etc. to be Sold by Auction Monday, Tuesday Afternoons, February Fifth, Sixth at Two-thirty
Author: Anderson Galleries, IncPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
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Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1246
Book Description
American Travellers Abroad
Author: Harold Frederick SmithPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810835542
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Demonstrates that US travelers abroad were not limited to the rich and privileged even in previous centuries, by presenting over 2,000 titles with full bibliographic citations and brief evaluative descriptions. Arranged alphabetically by author and indexed by place and author's occupation. Updated from the 1969 edition with titles subsequently discovered. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Treasure and Empire in the Civil War
Author: Neil P. ChatelainPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476651523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Across North America's periphery, unknown and overlooked Civil War campaigns were waged over whether the United States or Confederacy would dominate lands, mines, and seaborne transportation networks of North America's mineral wealth. The U.S. needed this wealth to stabilize their wartime economy while the Confederacy sought to expand their own treasury. Confederate armies advanced to seize the West and its gold and silver reserves, while warships steamed to intercept Panama route ships transporting bullion from California to Panama to New York. United States forces responded by expelling Confederate incursions and solidified territorial control by combating Indigenous populations and enacting laws encouraging frontier settlement. The U.S. Navy patrolled key ports, convoyed treasure ships, and integrated continent-wide intelligence networks in the ultimate game of cat and mouse. This book examines the campaigns to control North America's mineral wealth, linking the Civil War's military, naval, political, diplomatic and economic elements. Included are the hemispheric land and sea adventures involving tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, admiral and explorer Charles Wilkes, renowned sea captain Raphael Semmes, General Henry Sibley, cowboy and mountain man Kit Carson, Indigenous leaders Mangas Coloradas and Geronimo, writer and miner Mark Twain, and Mormon leader Brigham Young.
University of California Publications in History
Author: University of California, BerkeleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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