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Their romance with the Yankee dollar,
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
George Melville would serve as the Jeannette’s engineer. Said to be distantly related to the great author, Melville was an improvisational genius with machines—a greasy-fingered savant who seemed most at home among thumping boilers and sharp blasts of steam. The engineer, thirty-eight years old, had a booming voice, a stout physique, and an
... See moreHampton Sides • In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
military officers in the 1830s and 1840s were treated to feasts and entertainment by ali‘i (chiefs).
Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Harris warned that if war broke out with England, Japan would lose. Finally, he promised that if Japan signed a treaty with the United States, the latter would include a guarantee to prohibit the sale of opium, in this way distinguishing America from England.
Donald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Two days after Harris’s arrival in Shimoda, Jan Hendrik Donker Curtius (1813–1879), formerly the chief merchant of the Dutch trading station on Deshima but now the Netherlands government commissioner, sent (by way of the Nagasaki magistrate) a letter to the shogunate in which he urged that the policy of the closed country be abandoned.
Donald Keene • Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
Black Jacks returned from sea not only with these documents, but with good news and good hope. Black seamen, slaves and free,
Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir
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