Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914
Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914

Author: Barry Gough

Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 1772031097

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"[Gough's] research...has been thorough, his presentation is scholarly, and his case fully sustained."--The Times Literary Supplement The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough examines the contest for the Columbia country during the War of 1812, the 1844 British response to President Polk's manifest destiny and cries of "Fifty-four forty or fight," the gold-rush invasion of 30, 000 outsiders, and the jurisdictional dispute in the San Juan Islands that spawned the Pig War. The author looks at the Esquimalt-based fleet in the decade before British Columbia joined Canada and the Navy's relationship with coastal First Nation over the five decades that preceded the Great War.

American Geographics
American Geographics

Author: Bruce A. Harvey

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780804740463

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This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

Shipwrecked in Paradise
Shipwrecked in Paradise

Author: Paul F. Johnston

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2015-09-14

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1623492831

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Winner, 2016 Secretary's Research Award, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution - awarded for author's contributions to research The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra’s Barge, endured many incarnations over her eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure cruiser to a Hawaiian king’s personal yacht. The famed ship, at times also a Christian missionary transport, pirate ship, getaway vehicle, instrument of diplomacy, and racing yacht, wrecked on a reef in Hanalei Bay on April 6, 1824. Obtaining the first underwater archaeological permits ever issued by the state of Hawai‘i, a team of divers from the Smithsonian Institution located, surveyed, and excavated the wrecked ship from 1995 to 2000. The 1,250 lots of artifacts from the shipwreck represent the only known material culture from the reign of King Kamehameha II (Liholiho), shedding light on the little-documented transitional period from Old Hawai‘i to foreign influence and culture. Although Liholiho ruled Hawai‘i for only a few short years, his abolition of taboos and admission of the Boston Christian missionaries into his kingdom planted the seeds for profound changes in Hawaiian culture. Richly illustrated, Shipwrecked in Paradise tells the story of the ship’s life in Hawai‘i, from her 1820 sale to Liholiho to her discovery and excavation.

Hawaii in American Consciousness, 1785-1854
Hawaii in American Consciousness, 1785-1854

Author: Wallace Patrick Strauss

Publisher:

Published: 1949

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13:

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Master's thesis on the origin and growth of American consciousness and attitudes about the Hawaiian Islands based on newspapers and periodicals of the day.