Author: George Kao
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622014237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Originally published as newspaper columns, the thirty-odd pieces collected in this volume bring to life San Francisco's Chinatown at mid-century.
Cathay by the Bay
Author: George Kao
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622014237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Originally published as newspaper columns, the thirty-odd pieces collected in this volume bring to life San Francisco's Chinatown at mid-century.
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789622014237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Originally published as newspaper columns, the thirty-odd pieces collected in this volume bring to life San Francisco's Chinatown at mid-century.
Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Languages : en
Pages : 1136
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Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes
Author: Mark L. Thompson
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814338356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakestraces the evolution of the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries. The Great Lakes shipping industry can trace its lineage to 1679 with the launching on Lake Erie of the Griffon, a sixty-foot galley weighing nearly fifty tons. Built by LaSalle, a French explorer who had been commissioned to search for a passage through North America to China, it was the first sailing ship to operate on the upper lakes, signaling the dawn of the Great Lakes shipping industry as we know it today. Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes is the most thorough and factual study of the Great Lakes shipping industry written this century. Author Mark L. Thompson tells the fascinating story of the world's most efficient bulk transportation system, describing the Great Lakes freighters, the cargoes of the great ships ,and the men and women who have served as crew. He documents the dramatic changes that have taken places in the industry and looks at the critical role that Great Lakes shipping plays in the economic well-being of the U.S. and Canada, despite the fact tat the size of the fleet and the amount of cargo carried have declined dramatically in recent years. Spanning more than three centuries, from LaSalle's voyage in 1679, through 1975 with the mysterious sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, to life aboard today's thousand-foot behemoths, this important volume documents the evolution of the industry through its "Golden Age" at the end of the nineteenth century to the present, with a downsized U.S. fleet that numbers fewer than seventy vessels.
Atlas of Exploration
Author: Shona Grimbly
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135970068
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135970068
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Bay State Monthly
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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A Soliloquy of Life
Author: Edwin Leibfreed
Publisher:
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Bay View Magazine
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Category : Group reading
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Category : Group reading
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Making an American Festival
Author: Chiou-ling Yeh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520942434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520942434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This provocative history of the largest annual Chinese celebration in the United States—the Chinese New Year parade and beauty pageant in San Francisco—opens a new window onto the evolution of one Chinese American community over the second half of the twentieth century. In a vividly detailed account that incorporates many different voices and perspectives, Chiou-ling Yeh explores the origins of these public events and charts how, from their beginning in 1953, they developed as a result of Chinese business community ties with American culture, business, and politics. What emerges is a fascinating picture of how an ethnic community shaped and was shaped by transnational and national politics, economics, ethnic movements, feminism, and queer activism.
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The Northern Coasts of America, and the Hudson's Bay Territories
Author: Patrick Fraser Tytler
Publisher: London : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category : America Discovery and exploration
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: London : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category : America Discovery and exploration
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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