Warship under sail : the USS Decatur in the Pacific West /
A social history of the nineteenth-century sloop of war "Decatur," that illuminates American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific Northwest
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest : In association with University of Washington Press,
c2009.
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Colección: | Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in western history and biography ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Young America on the Pacific : "The sailor of manifest destiny views"
- The Decatur in the old Navy : "To command our own seas and coasts"
- Boston : getting under way
- Episode 1: Through the Strait of Magellan : "Off to Californio!"
- Episode 2: Seattle : "Down came the Indians, like so many demons"
- San Francisco : "This reckless life"
- Episode 3: Nicaragua : "Seeing the elephant"
- Episode 4: Panama : "All the subtle demonisms of life and thought"
- The Civil War and beyond.