Saluting an era of adventure and knowledge seeking, fifteen original essays consider the motivations of European explorers of the Pacific, the science and techn
A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American histo
Transoceanic America offers a new approach to American literature by emphasizing the material and conceptual interconnectedness of the Atlantic and Pacific worl
Maritime historian and researcher James K. Barnett transcribed two extraordinary, little-known journals from Captain James Cook’s third exploratory voyage. Th
The special relationship between the United Kingdom, an established and secure power, and the United States, a rising one, began after the War of 1812, as the f