A Privateer S Promise

Author : Marcia E. Barss
Publisher : FriesenPress
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781039128668

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A Privateer's Promise by Marcia E. Barss Pdf

Liza is the nine-year-old daughter of Joseph Barss Jr., captain of the privateer schooner Liverpool Packet. Her father promised she could sail with him sometime, but he won’t take her when he’s privateering, chasing and capturing American merchant ships during the War of 1812. Boys her age go to sea on sailing ships, but everyone says it’s not for girls. Liza’s determination to find a way to sail on a merchant ship may get her into a lot of trouble. Will she risk the danger for the thrill of sailing? During the War of 1812, privateer ships sailing out of Liverpool were licensed by the governor of Nova Scotia to capture American merchant ships along the North Atlantic coast. The privateers helped defend the coast, provided information for the Royal Navy, and disrupted the Americans’ supply line by capturing their merchant ships. The captured ships were brought to Halifax, where the ship and its cargo were auctioned off. In A Privateer's Promise, family life in the early nineteenth century is described through the eyes of a privateer’s young daughter. When privateers were on voyages for months at a time, their families managed the challenges of daily living, while always thinking of the men at sea and hoping for their safe return.

Author : Adam Phillips
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780786748624

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Promises, Promises by Adam Phillips Pdf

As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: a mastery of psychotherapy as both practitioner and theorist, and a reputation as one of the best literary writers around. In this collection of essays, he brings these two gifts to bear upon each other, speculating on the relative merits of psychoanalysis and literature and on the connections between them. In his quirky, epigrammatic style, Phillips shows us how psychoanalysis and literature at their best share the goal of shedding light on human character, the most fascinating of disorders. Promises, Promises reveals Phillips as a virtuoso performer able to reach far beyond the borders of psychoanalytic discourse, into art, novels, poetry, and history. This collection gives us insights into Martin Amis's Night Train, Nijinsky's diary, Tom Stoppard and A. E. Housman, Amy Clampitt, the effect of the Blitz on Londoners, and a case history of clutter. It confirms Phillips as a writer whose work, in the words of the Guardian, "hovers in a strange and haunting borderland between rigour and delight."

Author : Gomer Williams
Publisher : London, Heinemann
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015012346550

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History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque by Gomer Williams Pdf

Author : Gomer Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 739 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136906060

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History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letter of Marque by Gomer Williams Pdf

First Published in 1967. Using a number of original sources of newspapers, rare documents, magazines and records this book offers the history of Liverpool privateering and the delicate subject of the Liverpool slave trading.

Author : Alex Ritsema
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409201717

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Pirates and Privateers from the Low Countries, C.1500-C.1810 by Alex Ritsema Pdf

In novels, cartoons and films, "the" pirate had a wooden leg, a parrot on one of his shoulders, a patch before one of his eyes and buried his treasures on remote shores or islands... This book is not about fictional pirates but about real ones but their stories are equally spectacular. Some of them were not "pirates" but "privateers" equipped with a "letter of marque", an official license to attack enemies in times of war. Among other Dutch, Frisian and Flemish freebooters, this book includes: Grutte Pier, a folk hero defending the Frisian freedom against the Hollanders around 1520; the "Sea-Beggars" and their decisive role in the War of Dutch Independence (1568-1648); the Dunkirk raiders harassing merchant vessels from Amsterdam; adventurers joining the legendary pirates of Barbary or the Caribbean. This book not only deals with the freebooters themselves but also with their victims and foes, as well as corrupt shipowners and corrupt judges of Prize Courts.

Author : Michael Meade
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780981474427

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Empty Contract Promises Will Be Without Guarantee In Heaven by Michael Meade Pdf

Author : Dmitrīĭ Ivanovich Kachenovskīĭ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Prize law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103239943

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Prize-law by Dmitrīĭ Ivanovich Kachenovskīĭ Pdf

Author : Anna Brinkman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009425575

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Balancing Strategy by Anna Brinkman Pdf

What is the relationship between seapower, law, and strategy? Anna Brinkman uses in-depth analysis of cases brought before the Court of Prize Appeal during the Seven Years' War to explore how Britain worked to shape maritime international law to its strategic advantage. Within the court, government officials and naval and legal minds came together to shape legal decisions from the perspectives of both legal philosophy and maritime strategic aims. As a result, neutrality and the negotiation of rights became critical to maritime warfare. Balancing Strategy unpicks a complex web of competing priorities: deals struck with the Dutch Republic and Spain; imperial rivalry; mercantilism; colonial trade; and the relationships between metropoles and colonies, trade, and the navy. Ultimately, influencing and shaping international law of the sea allows a nation to create the norms and rules that constrain or enable the use of seapower during war.

Author : Kenneth B. Moss
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780700627752

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Marque and Reprisal by Kenneth B. Moss Pdf

“Letters of marque” might suggest privateers of the Elizabethan era or the American Revolution. But such conventions are duly covered in the US Constitution, and the private military instruments they sanction are very much at work today in the form of mercenaries and military contractors. A history of such practices up to the present day, Marque and Reprisal by Kenneth B. Moss offers unique insight into the role of private actors in military conflicts and the reason they are increasingly deployed in our day. Along with an overview of mercenaries and privateers, Marque and Reprisal provides a comprehensive history of the “marque and reprisal” clause in the US Constitution, reminding us that it is not as arcane as it seems and arguing that it is not a license for all forms of undeclared war. Within this historical context Moss explains why governments and states have sought control over warfare and actors—and why private actors have reappeared in force in recent conflicts. He also looks ahead to the likelihood that cyberwar will become an important venue for “private warfare.” Moss wonders if international law will be up to the challenges of private military actors in the digital realm. Is international law, in fact, equipped to meet the challenges increasingly presented in our day by such extramilitary activity? A government makes no more serious decision than whether to resort to military force and war; and when doing so, Moss suggests, it should ensure that such actions are accountable, not on the sly, and not decided in the marketplace. Marque and Reprisal should inform future deliberations and decisions on that count.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCSD:31822009619313

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Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : E. P. Statham
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752426458

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Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Privateers and Privateering by E. P. Statham

Author : Deborah Dash Moore,Howard B. Rock,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 1154 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814717318

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City of promises : a history of the jews of New York by Deborah Dash Moore,Howard B. Rock,Jeffrey S. Gurock,Annie Polland,Daniel Soyer Pdf

New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world.

Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11122456

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House Documents by USA House of Representatives Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : United States
ISBN : OXFORD:555037350

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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents by United States. Congress. House Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN : UCAL:B3330080

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Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States by Anonim Pdf