The Material Culture Of Steamboat Passengers

Author : Annalies Corbin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780306471711

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The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers by Annalies Corbin Pdf

For many years, one of my favorite classroom devices in historical archaeology was to ask the students to imagine that they had to make the choice between saving—from some unnamed calamity—all master’s theses or all doctoral disser tations in anthropology, but not both. Like good students, they usually looked to their Ph.D. holding professor and chose the dissertations. Much to their surprise, Iwouldrespondthatthetheseswould win withouteventakingtime to ponderthe issue. The issue is clearly one of often naïve and rarely eloquent theses full of good primary data versus sometimes more sophisticated and better written works full of irrelevant theory and meaningless statistics. Perhaps this is an overstate ment of the situation, but it is not too far offthe mark. The University Microfilms International efforts to make the titles of disser tations in North America and the English speaking portions of Europe available through Dissertation Abstracts is commendable. With only one minor exception, dissertations in historical and underwater archaeology in the United States are to be found listed in Dissertation Abstracts and thus are available for purchase.

Author : Annalies Corbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1475773471

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The Material Culture of Steamboat Passengers by Annalies Corbin Pdf

Author : Ronald R. Switzer
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780806151281

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The Steamboat Bertrand and Missouri River Commerce by Ronald R. Switzer Pdf

On April 1, 1865, the steamboat Bertrand, a sternwheeler bound from St. Louis to Fort Benton in Montana Territory, hit a snag in the Missouri River and sank twenty miles north of Omaha. The crew removed only a few items before the boat was silted over. For more than a century thereafter, the Bertrand remained buried until it was discovered by treasure hunters, its cargo largely intact. This book categorizes some 300,000 artifacts recovered from the Bertrand in 1968, and also describes the invention, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of these products and traces their route to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory. The ship and its contents are a time capsule of mid-nineteenth-century America, rich with information about the history of industry, technology, and commerce in the Trans-Missouri West. In addition to enumerating the items the boat was transporting to Montana, and offering a photographic sample of the merchandise, Switzer places the Bertrand itself in historical context, examining its intended use and the technology of light-draft steam-driven river craft. His account of steamboat commerce provides multiple insights into the industrial revolution in the East, the nature and importance of Missouri River commerce in the mid-1800s, and the decline in this trade after the Civil War. Switzer also introduces the people associated with the Bertrand. He has unearthed biographical details illuminating the private and social lives of the officers, crew members, and passengers, as well as the consignees to whom the cargo was being shipped. He offers insight into not only the passengers’ reasons for traveling to the frontier mining camps of Montana Territory, but also the careers of some of the entrepreneurs and political movers and shakers of the Upper Missouri in the 1860s. This unique reference for historians of commerce in the American West will also fascinate anyone interested in the technology and history of riverine transport.

Author : Marleen Reichgelt e.a.
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789464550399

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Gender at Sea by Marleen Reichgelt e.a. Pdf

For centuries seafaring people thought that the presence of women on board would mean bad luck: rough weather, shipwreck, and other disasters were sure to follow. Because of these beliefs and prejudices women were supposedly excluded from the maritime domain. In the field of maritime history too, the ship and the sea have predominantly been perceived as a space for men. This volume of the Yearbook of Women’s History challenges these notions. It asks: to what extent were the sea and the ship ever male-dominated and masculine spaces? How have women been part of seafaring communities, maritime undertakings, and maritime culture? How did gender notions impact life on board and vice versa? From a multidisciplinary perspective, this volume moves from Indonesia to the Faroe Islands, from the Mediterranean to Newfoundland; bringing to light the presence of women and the workings of gender on sailing, whaling, steam, cruise, passenger, pirate, and navy ships. As a whole it demonstrates the diversity and the agency of women at sea from ancient times to the present day.

Author : Doug Blandy,Paul E. Bolin
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780807759196

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Learning Things by Doug Blandy,Paul E. Bolin Pdf

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Author : Constantin Ardeleanu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633867549

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Steamboat Modernity by Constantin Ardeleanu Pdf

Through a skillful combination of economic and cultural history, this book describes the impact on Moldavia and Wallachia of steam navigation on the Danube. The Danube route integrated the two principalities into a dense network of European roads and waterways. From the 1830s to the 1860s, steamboat transport transformed time and space for the areas that benefited from regular services. River traffic accelerated urban development along the Lower Danube and contributed directly to institutional modernization in one of Europe’s peripheries. Beyond technological advances and the transportation of goods on a trans-imperial waterway, steamboat travel revolutionized human interactions, too. The book offers a fascinating insight into the social and cultural milieu of the nineteenth century, drawing on first-hand accounts of Danube cruising. Describing the story of travelers who interacted, met, and visited the places they stopped, Constantin Ardeleanu creates a transnational history of travel up and down the Danube from Vienna to Constantinople. The pleasures and sometimes the travails of the travelers unfold against a backdrop of technical and economic transformation in the crucial period of modernization.

Author : Christine Finn
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0262561549

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Artifacts by Christine Finn Pdf

An archaeologist explores the material culture of Silicon Valley.

Author : Mark Staniforth,Michael Nash
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387769854

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Maritime Archaeology by Mark Staniforth,Michael Nash Pdf

Subject areas discussed in this book include shipwrecks and abandoned vessels, underwater site formation processes, maritime infrastructure and industries such as whaling, submerged aircraft and Australian Indigenous sites underwater. The application of National and State legislation and management regimes to these underwater cultural heritage sites is also highlighted. The contributors of this piece have set the standard for the practice in Australia from which others can learn.

Author : James D. Spirek,Della A. Scott-Ireton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0306477793

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Submerged Cultural Resource Management by James D. Spirek,Della A. Scott-Ireton Pdf

This vital book is a collection on the various ways archaeologists and resource managers have devised to make available and interpret submerged cultural resources for the public, such as underwater archaeological preserves, shipwreck trails, and land-based interpretive media and literature. This volume is an invaluable resource to underwater archaeologists, cultural and heritage resource managers, museum and heritage educators and those studying these professions.

Author : George R Schwarz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351133852

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The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America by George R Schwarz Pdf

The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America offers an in-depth exploration of the archaeological and cultural aspects of early American steamboat development. It also tells the story of Phoenix, the second steamer to operate on Lake Champlain and the world’s earliest archaeologically studied steamboat wreck. In doing so, this book provides a unique insight into early perceptions of steam navigation, including both the wonder and fear elicited by the comfort and efficiency they promised and the hazards with which they came to be associated. The advent of steam navigation contributed significantly to the economic transformation of early America, facilitating trade through the transportation of goods along the country’s lakes, rivers, and canals. Despite their significant role, however, few details on the construction and operation of early steamboats have survived in historical documents. This book helps address this gap by examining the archaeological record. Using Phoenix as a case study and comparing it with the archaeological remains of other contemporary steamers, this book offers a detailed and extensive insight into the development of early steam propulsion and of steamboat culture in America, as well as a look at what life was like on board through the analysis of recovered artifacts and contemporary accounts. With over 90 illustrations, including a reconstruction of the steamboat, The Steamboat Phoenix and the Archaeology of Early Steam Navigation in North America is ideal for archaeologists and maritime historians, but also for those with a general interest in American maritime history.

Author : Annalies Corbin
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1585445169

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The Life And Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud by Annalies Corbin Pdf

In July 1882, the steamboat Red Cloud hit a snag near Fort Peck, Montana, and settled into the bed of the Missouri River with a full cargo. The flagship of I. G. Baker & Company, which controlled much of the trade that flowed to Fort Benton and the upper reaches of the Missouri River, the Red Cloud had served as an agent of change in the West through which it traveled. Through the story of the boat and its owner, Annalies Corbin casts new light on the role of entrepreneurs and steamboats in the development of the West. The Red Cloud was a symbol--and a source--of the trading company's success. Bought for $25,000 in 1877, it was one of three boats that I. G. Baker employed on the Missouri. A stern-wheeled, wooden-hulled packet boat, the Red Cloud carried both cargo and passengers on a "floating palace." But for all its success, when the ship sank only five years later, the transcontinental railroad was already displacing the steamboat as the preferred way to transport both people and cargo. The era of transformation symbolized by the Red Cloud was drawing to a close. The first book to view the development of the Canadian Rockies from a maritime perspective, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud ties the Missouri River's commercial development with the opening of the Canadian west and its most important communities, with the formation of the Canadian North-West Mounted Police and with the river by which they were supplied. Readers interested in western history, maritime history, and nautical archaeology will find this well-researched and engagingly written book an invaluable addition to their libraries.

Author : Thijs J. Maarleveld,Ulrike Guérin,Barbara Egger
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage
ISBN : 9789230011222

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Manual for Activities Directed at Underwater Cultural Heritage by Thijs J. Maarleveld,Ulrike Guérin,Barbara Egger Pdf

Author : Mary Carolyn Beaudry
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0300134800

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Findings by Mary Carolyn Beaudry Pdf

Mary C. Beaudry mines archaeological findings of sewing and needlework to discover what these small traces of female experience reveal about the societies and cultures in which they were used. Beaudry's geographical and chronological scope is broad: she examines sites in the United States and Great Britain, as well as Australia and Canada, and she ranges from the Middle Ages through the Industrial Revolution.The author describes the social and cultural significance of "findings": pins, needles, thimbles, scissors, and other sewing accessories and tools. Through the fascinating stories that grow out of these findings, Beaudry shows the extent to which such "small things" were deeply entrenched in the construction of gender, personal identity, and social class.

Author : Adam I. Kane
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1585443433

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The Western River Steamboat by Adam I. Kane Pdf

Given in honor of Royce Hickman by the Aggieland Rotary Club of Bryan-College Station.

Author : Alexis Catsambis,Ben Ford,Donny L. Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199705153

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The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology by Alexis Catsambis,Ben Ford,Donny L. Hamilton Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of the field as seen through the eyes of nearly fifty scholars at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology. This volume draws on many of the distinct and universal aspects of maritime archaeology, bringing them together under four main themes: the research process, ships and shipwrecks, maritime and nautical culture, and issues of preservation and management. The first section of the book deals with the best practices for locating, documenting, excavating, and analyzing submerged sites. This methodological foundation is followed by a sample of shipwreck studies from around the world as scholars trace the regional development of ships and seafaring. Chosen to balance the traditional core regions of maritime archaeology with important but lesser-studied areas, it aims at offering an international account of the study of submerged sites. Reflecting the growing number of scholars who study past maritime cultures, but not shipwrecks, the third section of the book addresses various aspects of the maritime landscape and ethnography above and below the water. The final chapters then approach maritime archaeology in a broader context, moving beyond archaeological sites to discuss the archaeological record in general within legal, preservation, and management frameworks. Taken together, these individual and original articles provide a valuable resource that summarizes the current state of the field of maritime archaeology and offers insight into the future of this established and growing discipline.