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Author : Amanda Lyons
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-09-02
Strange Dominion written by Amanda Lyons and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-02 with categories.
Listen to the wind blow, feel the cold of the night after the heat of the day, gather round the fire and sit close to keep out the things that lurk in the shadows. Do you feel it? The weight of a thousand tales waiting in the dark to be uncovered, wild stories about how the west was not always won, may never be. There are ghosts here, demons, monsters, broken hearts and rendered souls thick with dust and blood- nothing is ever certain. Have you seen the way the shadows quake and shiver outside the fire? Do you sense them waiting for you in the night? Do you dare to know their strange dominion, to hear their siren call?
Distant Dominion
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Author : Barry Gough
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2011-11-01
Distant Dominion written by Barry Gough and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with History categories.
"The voyages of Cook and Vancouver heralded a vast influx of irrepressible white men.... They brought with them their morals, ideologies, knowledge, technology, plants and animals. They also brought diseases, rum and guns....powers to build and powers to destroy." Until the 1700's, the Northwest Coast of North America stood largely apart from the civilized world. Formidable mountain barriers and remoteness from Atlantic sea lanes kept the territory outside the orbit of emerging European empires. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, Britain, Spain, France, Russsia, and the United States vied for control of this promising new frontier. Three of history's greatest mariners -- Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, and Captain George Vancouver -- spearheaded British expeditions of discovery and trade to the Northwest coast. Despite competition from her European and American rivals, Britains ability to use and control the sea enabled her to establish by the late 1700's a "beachhead of empire" in the area now known as British Columbia.Gough shows how, by outmanoevring her Spanish rivals in a "skilful game of diplomatic chess," Britain concluded the Nootka Agreement. Thus she was able to exploit her trading partnership with the coast Indians and cement a lucrative sea-borne commerce with the Far East. The arrival overland of the Nor'westers and other fur-trading groups further strengthened Britain's financial and political interests in the area -- ending forever the isolation of Northwest America, and 'changing beyond measure the culture of its Indian peoples.' Distant Dominion is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this most distant frontier of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of Pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China. This entertaining book offers fresh insight into an exciting chapter of North American history.
Transactions
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Author : Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Transactions written by Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Canada categories.
Haunted Virginia
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Author : L. B. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 2009-01-21
Haunted Virginia written by L. B. Taylor and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-21 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The center stage for both the American Revolution and the Civil War, Virginia is one of the most haunted states.
Britain Canada And The North Pacific Maritime Enterprise And Dominion 1778 1914
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Author : Barry M. Gough
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-31
Britain Canada And The North Pacific Maritime Enterprise And Dominion 1778 1914 written by Barry M. Gough and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-31 with History categories.
From the time of Cook, the British and their Canadian successors were drawn to the Northwest coast of North America by possibilities of trade in sea otter and the wish to find a 'northwest passage'. The studies collected here trace how, under the influences of the Royal Navy and British statecraft, the British came to dominate the area, with expeditions sent from London, Bombay and Macau, and the Canadian quest from overland. The North West Company came to control the trade of the Columbia River, despite American opposition, and British sloop diplomacy helped overcome Russian and Spanish resistance to British aspirations. Elsewhere in the Americas, the British promoted trans-Pacific trade with China, harvested British Columbia forests, conveyed specie from western Mexico, and established the South America naval station. The flag followed trade and vice versa; empire was both formal (at Vancouver Island) and informal (as in California or Mexico). This book features individuals such as James Cook, William Bolts, Peter Pond, and Sir Alexander Mackenzie. It is also an account of the pressure that corporations placed on the British state in shaping the emerging world of trade and colonization in that distant ocean and its shores, and of the importance of sea-power in the creation of modern Canada.
Transactions Of The Literary And Historical Society Of Quebec
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Author : Literary and Historical Society of Quebec
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
Transactions Of The Literary And Historical Society Of Quebec written by Literary and Historical Society of Quebec and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Québec (Province) categories.
Harper S New Monthly Magazine
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
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Harper S New Monthly Magazine
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Author : Henry Mills Alden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1872
Harper S New Monthly Magazine written by Henry Mills Alden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1872 with American literature categories.
Harper's informs a diverse body of readers of cultural, business, political, literary and scientific affairs.
The Odes Of Horace
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Author : Horace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
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The Collected Biographies Of Eminent Victorians
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Author : Lytton Strachey
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-12-17
The Collected Biographies Of Eminent Victorians written by Lytton Strachey and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had until then been regarded as heroes: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Gordon (although Nightingale is actually praised and her reputation was enhanced). The book shows its other subjects in a less than flattering light; for instance, the intrigues of Cardinal Manning against Cardinal Newman.