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Author : Cecil Percival Stone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000678603
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library,Samuel Halkett,Jon Andresson Hjaltalin,Thomas Hill Jamieson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Law
ISBN : ONB:+Z277619700
Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1038 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Jurisprudence
ISBN : WISC:89126885326
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Books
ISBN : UVA:X002654629
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000153384841
Author : David Atkinson,Steve Roud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317049210
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
Author : Joseph Gibbs
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570036934
Dead men tell no tales, or so the pirate maxim goes. But when facing execution in 1831 for mutiny and murder, the previously enigmatic pirate Charles Gibbs recounted the infamous crimes of his harrowing life at sea in a self-aggrandizing series of confessions. Wildly popular reading among nineteenth-century audiences, such criminal confessions were peppered with the romanticized mythology that informs pirate lore to this day. Joseph Gibbs takes up the task of separating fact from fiction to explicate the true story of Charles Gibbs - an alias for James Jeffers (1798-1831) of Newport, Rhode Island - in an investigation that reveals a life as riveting as the legend it replaces.Jeffers was the child of a Revolutionary War privateer captain with his own history in the rough work. After a heroic career in the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, Jeffers eschewed military life and took to the privateer trade himself. As Charles Gibbs, pirate, he sailed from the ports of Charleston and New Orleans to wreak havoc in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Stripping away 170 years of embellishment, Joseph Gibbs maps the still-shockingly violent career of Charles Gibbs across the seas and, in the process, challenges and discredits much of his self-made mythology.Gibbs recounts Jeffers' well-documented role in the infamous mutiny and murders in 1830 aboard the brig Vineyard while the vessel was carrying a load of Mexican silver. The pirate was captured the following year and brought to New York. The case against Jeffers and accomplice Thomas Wansley culminated in a sensational trial, which led to their subsequent executions by hanging on Ellis Island.In addition to recounting the exploits of a ruthless cutthroat, The Confessions of Charles Gibbs tells the larger story of American piracy and privateering in the early nineteenth century and illustrates the role of American and European adventurers in the Latin American wars of liberation. Carefully researched, engagingly written, and enhanced by twenty illustrations, this is pirate history at its most credible and readable.
Author : Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632931634
These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.
Author : John Randolph Spears
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547248255
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of the American Merchant Marine" by John Randolph Spears. 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Frederick Whymper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148100009610U
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590607431
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : English literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080265044
Author : Sarah Craze
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Piracy
ISBN : 9781783276707
Skilfully uses this notorious episode to illuminate the nature and extent of piracy in the period.The pirate attack on the British brig Morning Star, en route from Ceylon to London, near Ascension Island in 1828 was one of the most shocking episodes of piracy in the nineteenth century. Although the captain and many members of the crew were murdered by the pirates led by the notorious Benito de Soto, some survived, escaped and sailed the ship back to Britain. This book, based on extensive original research in Britain, Spain and Brazil, retells the story of the Morning Star, provides much new detail and corrects errors present in the many contemporary accounts of the attack. It sets the attack in the wider context of piracy in the period, and discusses many issues which the episode highlights: how pirates' careers began and developed; how they were pursued and tried, often with difficulty; what became of their treasure; how stories of the attack and of the survivors were sensationalised; how the women passengers on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.s on the ship endured their ordeal at the hands of the pirates and then, back in Britain, had to endure potential loss of their reputations.
Author : Monica F. Cohen
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813940700
Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation. The golden age of piracy captured the nineteenth-century imagination, animating such best-selling novels as Treasure Island and inspiring theatrical hits from The Pirates of Penzance to Peter Pan. But the prevalence of unauthorized reprinting and dramatic adaptation meant that authors lost immense profits from the most lucrative markets. Infuriated, novelists and playwrights denounced such literary piracy in essays, speeches, and testimonies. Their fiction, however, tells a different story. Using landmarks in copyright history as a backdrop, Pirating Fictions argues that popular nineteenth-century pirate fiction mischievously resists the creation of intellectual property in copyright legislation and law. Drawing on classic pirate stories by such writers as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie, this wide-ranging account demonstrates, in raucous tales and telling asides, how literary appropriation was celebrated at the very moment when the forces of possessive individualism began to enshrine the language of personal ownership in Anglo-American views of creative work.
