Lorraine McConaghy

Warship Under Sail

The USS Decatur in the Pacific West

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Produktbeschreibung

Warship under Sail shows life on a battleship on the eve of the Civil War from the bottom up. It traces the Decatur's five-year tour in the mid-1850s, which included stops in Honolulu, San Francisco, and Central America as well as in Puget Sound.Lorraine McConaghy is a historian at the Museum of History and Industry, Seattle

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 265mm x 224mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1266g
• ISBN-13: 9780295989556
• ISBN-10: 0295989556
• Artikelnr.: 26524207

Autorenporträt

Dr. Lorraine McConaghy is the public historian at the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI), in Seattle, and a lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Washington. She has received the Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching History, the DAR National Heritage Medal for Oral History, the AKCHO Charles Payton Award, and the Annual History Award from the Pacific Northwest Historians Guild. In 2009, MOHAI received three national awards - from the American Association for State and Local History, the National Council on Public History and the Oral History Association - based on Lorraine McConaghy's work. In 2010, she was awarded the Robert Gray Medal, the most distinguished award in Washington State for a historian.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
1. Young America on the Pacific: "The Sailor of Manifest Destiny Views"
2. The Decatur in the Old Navy: "To Command Our Own Seas and Coasts"
3. Boston: Getting Under Way
4. Episode 1. Through the Strait of Magellan: "Off to Californio!"
5. Episode 2. Seattle: "Down Came the Indians, Like so Many Demons"
6. San Francisco: "This Reckless Life"
7. Episode 3. Nicaragua: "Seeing the Elephant"
8. Episode 4. Panama: "All the Subtle Demonisms of Life and Thought"
9. The Civil War and Beyond
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index