1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991001869899707536

Titolo

Disegni inediti del Pontormo e della cerchia del Rosso nella Biblioteca reale di Torino / Aldo Bertini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Roma : Libreria dello Stato, 1952

Descrizione fisica

1 v. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Bertini, Aldoauthor

Disciplina

741

Soggetti

Torino Biblioteca reale Disegni

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Estr. da: Bollettino d'arte / del Ministero della pubblica istruzione, n. 4(ott.-dic. 1952)

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991002687809707536

Titolo

Meanjin [1947] / University of Melbourne. - 1947-1960

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Melbourne, 1947-1960

ISSN

1324-1745

Altri autori (Enti)

University of Melbourneauthor

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910973664803321

Autore

Gough Barry M

Titolo

Distant dominion : Britain and the northwest coast of North America, 1579-1809 / / Barry M. Gough

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, 1980

ISBN

9786613225474

9781283225472

1283225476

9780774854016

0774854014

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Collana

University of British Columbia Press Pacific maritime studies ; ; 2

Disciplina

971.1/01

Soggetti

History - North America

Northwest Coast of North America History

British Columbia History

Great Britain History, Naval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Companion volume to: The Royal Navy and northwest coast of North America, 1810-1914 / Barry M. Gough, Vancouver [B.C.] : University of British Columbia Press, c1971.

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Photographic Credits -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Tyranny of Distance -- 2 Pacific Probes -- 3 Cook's Reconnaissance -- 4 Spanning the Pacific -- 5 The Fortune Seekers -- 6 Beachhead of Empire -- 7 Imperial Dreams and False Starts -- 8 Conflicts of Ambition -- 9 Dealing with the Dons -- 10 The Surveyor-Diplomats -- 11 The Overlanders -- Epilogue -- Abbreviations -- h -- Note on Sources -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

";The voyages of Cook and Vancouver heralded a vast influx of irrepressible white men. They brought with them their morals, ideologies, knowledge, technology, plants and animals. They also brought diseases, rum and guns.powers to build and powers to destroy."; Until the 1700's, the Northwest Coast of North America stood largely apart from the civilized world. Formidable mountain barriers



and remoteness from Atlantic sea lanes kept the territory outside the orbit of emerging European empires. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, Britain, Spain, France, Russsia, and the United States vied for control of this promising new frontier. Three of history's greatest mariners -- Sir Francis Drake, Captain James Cook, and Captain George Vancouver -- spearheaded British expeditions of discovery and trade to the Northwest coast. Despite competition from her European and American rivals, Britains ability to use and control the sea enabled her to establish by the late 1700's a ";beachhead of empire"; in the area now known as British Columbia.Gough shows how, by outmanoevring her Spanish rivals in a ";skilful game of diplomatic chess,"; Britain concluded the Nootka Agreement. Thus she was able to exploit her trading partnership with the coast Indians and cement a lucrative sea-borne commerce with the Far East. The arrival overland of the Nor'westers and other fur-trading groups further strengthened Britain's financial and political interests in the area -- ending forever the isolation of Northwest America, and 'changing beyond measure the culture of its Indian peoples.' Distant Dominion is the first comprehensive survey to examine Britain's motives for expeditions to this most distant frontier of British maritime development. It is also the first to draw the history of the coast into the general realm of Pacific history, relating its development to events in Europe, the American eastern seaboard, Australia, the Falkland Islands, and China. This entertaining book offers fresh insight into an exciting chapter of North American history.