Download Full eBooks in PDF
Our Conquests In The Pacific Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Our Conquests In The Pacific book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Oscar King Davis
Publisher : New York : F.A. Stokes Company
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Philippines
ISBN : YALE:39002015270235
Author : Oscar King 1866 Davis
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1374340871
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Oscar King Davis
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1330108795
Excerpt from Our Conquests in the Pacific U. S. Troopship Australia, May 25, 1898. - Fading away in the blue mist far astern the green-clad cliffs of the Golden Gate die out of sight in the closing day. Ahead, just off the starboard bow, the Farallones rise dim and blue in the dying light. Already their wheeling flashlight throws its friendly beam out to welcome and to warn us. Beyond them the sky line and the broad Pacific, on whose long-backed swells the trooper is already heaving and rolling in a fashion that makes the land-trained passengers take warning of the fate that is before them. The Australia is in the lead. Behind lumbers the big City of Peking, with the First California and the naval detachment aboard. Still further behind the slow-going City of Sydney rolls along. Aboard her are three companies of the Oregon regiment, for whom there was not room on the Australia, and three companies of the Fourteenth Regular Infantry, just down from Alaska, where they were part of the command of Colonel Thomas M. Anderson, now Brigadier-General of volunteers, and in command of this expedition. Army headquarters are on the Australia, with General Anderson, but the navy is in charge of the expedition, aud so the Peking, where Commander Gibson is in command, is the flagship of the little squadron. We are to proceed with the three ships in echelon, the Peking leading, the Australia off her port quarter, and the Sydney on the Australia's port quarter. So now as we pass the barallones the Australia slows down for her comrades to take position. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Agnes Christina Laut
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547113386
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Conquest of Our Western Empire" by Agnes Christina Laut. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Robert Borofsky
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 607 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824888015
How does one describe the Pacific's pasts? The easy confidence historians once had in writing about the region has disappeared in the turmoil surrounding today's politics of representation. Earlier narratives that focused on what happened when are now accused of encouraging myths of progress. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts takes a different course. It acknowledges history's multiplicity and selectivity, its inability to represent the past in its entirety "as it really was" and instead offers points of reference for thinking with and about the region's pasts. It encourages readers to participate in the historical process by constructing alternative histories that draw on the volume's chapters. The book's thirty-four contributions, written by a range of authors spanning a variety of styles and disciplines, are organized into four sections. The first presents frames of reference for analyzing the problems, poetics, and politics involved in addressing the region's pasts today. The second considers early Islander-Western contact focusing on how each side sought to physically and symbolically control the other. The third deals with the colonial dynamics of the region: the "tensions of empire" that permeated imperial rule in the Pacific. The fourth explores the region's postcolonial politics through a discussion of the varied ways independence and dependence overlap today. Remembrance of Pacific Pasts includes many of the region's most distinguished authors such as Albert Wendt, Greg Dening, Epeli Hau'ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Patricia Grace, and Nicholas Thomas. In addition, it features chapters by well-known writers from outside Pacific Studies -- Edward Said, James Clifford, Richard White,and Gyan Prakash -- which help place the region's dynamics in comparative perspective. By moving Pacific history beyond traditional, empirical narratives to new ways for conversing about history, by drawing on current debates surrounding the politics of representation to offer different ways for thinking about the region's pasts, this work has relevance for students and scholars of history, anthropology, and cultural studies both within and beyond the region.
Author : Gustavo Verdesio
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1566398347
Borrowing from the old adage, we might say that to the victor belongs the history. One of the privileges gained in colonizing the New World was the power to tell the definitive stories of the struggle. The heroic texts depicting the discovery of territories, early encounters with indigenous peoples, and the ultimate subjection of land and cultures to European nation-states all but erase the vanquished. In Forgotten Conquests, Gustavo Verdesio argues that these master narratives represent only one of many possible histories and suggests a way of reading them in order to discover the colonial subjects who did not produce documents. Verdesio read the key texts relating to the struggles for possession of River Plate's northern shore -- present-day Uruguay. He probes them for traces of conflicts in meaning and the agency of Amerindians, gauchos, Africans, and women -- the subjected peoples that the texts try to silence. The narrators, speaking for their culture, assume the role of knowing subject, repressing all other voices, epistemologies, and acts of resistance. Verdesio's tasks are to listen for those that the Europeans represented as an unintelligible Other, to draw them into the foreground, and to decolonize their histories. By unpacking these texts, Verdesio shows that from the European point of view, the colonial encounter draws the New World into historical time and ushers in a new concept of knowledge. For the first time, the historian's role is to discover, to interpret eyewitness testimonies and first-hand experience, to write 'a new history of admirable things.' Even in this reconstruction of historical truth, Old World ideology drives the narratives, whose chief purpose is to justify conquest. Forgotten Conquests lays bare the discursive strategies that generated the founding texts of Latin American history and engulfed its subjected peoples in silence for 500 years.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN46R9
Author : Eliakim Littell,Robert S. Littell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:32000000693996
Author : O. C. Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 072227890X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Education
ISBN : UCAL:B2931115
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368636371
Reprint of the original, first published in 1886.
Author : Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : British Columbia
ISBN : UCAL:B3609065
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UVA:X030216390
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1478 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Law
ISBN : UCR:31210026414787
Author : Brian McAllister Linn
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863015
In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. Most accounts focus on the months preceding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. By examining the years prior to the outbreak of war, Linn provides a new perspective on the complex evolution of events in the Pacific. Exhaustively researched, Guardians of Empire traces the development of U.S. defense policy in the region, concentrating on strategy, tactics, internal security, relations with local communities, and military technology. Linn challenges earlier studies which argue that army officers either ignored or denigrated the Japanese threat and remained unprepared for war. He demonstrates instead that from 1907 onward military commanders in both Washington and the Pacific were vividly aware of the danger, that they developed a series of plans to avert it, and that they in fact identified--even if they could not solve--many of the problems that would become tragically apparent on 7 December 1941.