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Author : William Root Bliss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044013694468
Author : Jamie L. Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469674834
Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum boom of the 1860s brought cheap and plentiful petroleum into the market, decimating whale oil's popularity. Here, from our modern age of fossil fuels, Jamie L. Jones uses literary and cultural history to show how the whaling industry held firm in US popular culture even as it slid into obsolescence. Jones shows just how instrumental whaling was to the very idea of "energy" in American culture and how it came to mean a fusion of labor, production, and the circulation of power. She argues that dying industries exert real force on environmental perceptions and cultural imaginations. Analyzing a vast archive that includes novels, periodicals, artifacts from whaling ships, tourist attractions, and even whale carcasses, Jones explores the histories of race, labor, and energy consumption in the nineteenth-century United States through the lens of the whaling industry's legacy. In terms of how they view power, Americans are, she argues, still living in the shadow of the whale.
Author : Theresa Mitchell Barbo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614233060
An ancient fishing ground, vital shipping passage and final resting place for those unable to navigate its rocky shoals, Nantucket Sound--bordered by Martha's Vineyard, Cape Cod and, of course, Nantucket--remains one of New England's most historic waterways. Here, the first rays of morning sunlight touch the United States before sweeping westward. In fact, the area's early inhabitants were called Wampanoag: "People of the Dawn." From whaling culture and infamous shipwrecks to legends of Vikings, sea gods and John Smith, local author Theresa Mitchell Barbo unearths the stories hidden beneath these rough waves. At once unforgiving and generous, Nantucket Sound has seduced countless seafarers with its siren song but still overflows with diverse marine life.
Author : Charles Martindale,Elizabeth Prettejohn,Lene Østermark-Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108875691
This first collected discussion of Pater's significance for English literary criticism reveals his importance in shaping the principles of Modernist criticism and comprehensively contextualises his work. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : William Root Bliss
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1021244619
This book provides a charming portrait of the island of Nantucket, including its history, culture, and natural beauty. It covers topics such as whaling, architecture, and local folklore. Readers interested in travel, history, or New England culture will find this book delightful. 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 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. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1090 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B4171023
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1720 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : PSU:000060069658
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Society of Friends
ISBN : WISC:89076989771
Author : William Root Bliss
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0332684776
Excerpt from Quaint Nantucket If the tradition is to be believed, these rustic mariners made themselves exiles from home, to be outcasts upon an island which was thirty miles distant from the mainland; where none of the comforts of life existed, where wintry gales blew with a roar like the roar Of iron-mills, and sea fowl sometimes perished in a struggle for life. Midsummer - July I6, 166i - is the earliest authentic date of the settlement of Englishmen On Nantucket. Then they were drawing lots for their homesteads. They had come from the frontier of the Massachusetts colony, where wolves, bears, and a stony soil made a farming life nu profitable. They looked upon their island estate as a vast farm securely fenced from wild beasts by the ocean. Its forests of oak, walnut, beech, pine, and cedar trees were ready to give timber for their houses. 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 : Frederick Leypoldt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015071098191
Author : Dona Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560987994
Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life. Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. She also examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications.
Author : William Root 1825-1906 Bliss
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1371307784
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : WISC:89069283844
Author : Eric Jay Dolin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393331578
A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." --Nathaniel Philbrick
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : American literature
ISBN : UIUC:30112047397341