Patrick Chura
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034935
- eISBN:
- 9780813038278
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034935.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss-born mathematician Ferdinand Hassler, who directed the project from its inception in 1816 until his death in 1843. Hassler was one of the most ...
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The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss-born mathematician Ferdinand Hassler, who directed the project from its inception in 1816 until his death in 1843. Hassler was one of the most skillful measurers in history and the ingenious method he conceived for implementing the vast survey was his greatest achievement. He devised a plan to measure the Atlantic seaboard by laying out a network of enormous consecutive triangles, the sides of which ranged from ten to sixty miles in length. Admiring descriptions of the Coast Survey appeared frequently in scientific journals and popular literature during the period immediately prior to Henry Thoreau's 1846 survey of Walden Pond.Less
The first superintendent of the Coast Survey was Swiss-born mathematician Ferdinand Hassler, who directed the project from its inception in 1816 until his death in 1843. Hassler was one of the most skillful measurers in history and the ingenious method he conceived for implementing the vast survey was his greatest achievement. He devised a plan to measure the Atlantic seaboard by laying out a network of enormous consecutive triangles, the sides of which ranged from ten to sixty miles in length. Admiring descriptions of the Coast Survey appeared frequently in scientific journals and popular literature during the period immediately prior to Henry Thoreau's 1846 survey of Walden Pond.
Joel Porte
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300104462
- eISBN:
- 9780300130577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300104462.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 19th Century Literature
This chapter examines Henry Thoreau's anxieties about fathoming things, focusing on his Cape Cod. It discusses Thoreau's elementary interest in and attraction to water. It explains what Thoreau ...
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This chapter examines Henry Thoreau's anxieties about fathoming things, focusing on his Cape Cod. It discusses Thoreau's elementary interest in and attraction to water. It explains what Thoreau learned from the sea and what was the doctrine preached by the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa. This chapter also considers Thoreau's view that a man who has gotten the Wild into his soul may stand anywhere and put every place and thing behind him.Less
This chapter examines Henry Thoreau's anxieties about fathoming things, focusing on his Cape Cod. It discusses Thoreau's elementary interest in and attraction to water. It explains what Thoreau learned from the sea and what was the doctrine preached by the Reverend Poluphloisboios Thalassa. This chapter also considers Thoreau's view that a man who has gotten the Wild into his soul may stand anywhere and put every place and thing behind him.
Andrew Lipman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780300207668
- eISBN:
- 9780300216691
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300207668.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast ...
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This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, the text uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, it reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores.Less
This book presents the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region's Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, the text uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans' arbitrary land boundaries, it reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores.
Nick Dawson
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813125381
- eISBN:
- 9780813135267
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813125381.003.0008
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the success of Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby's collaboration in the film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The film was based on Nathaniel Benchley's book The ...
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This chapter examines the success of Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby's collaboration in the film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The film was based on Nathaniel Benchley's book The Off-Islanders about a Russian submarine that gets beached off the New England coast. Jewison and Ashby saw an opportunity to make an antiwar film that stressed the similarities between the opposing sides in the Cold War and would humanize the Russian sailors whom the Cape Cod residents mistakenly believed were invading their little island. The film took nearly $8 million in the U.S. and became the fifth biggest grosser of the year for 1966.Less
This chapter examines the success of Norman Jewison and Hal Ashby's collaboration in the film The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming. The film was based on Nathaniel Benchley's book The Off-Islanders about a Russian submarine that gets beached off the New England coast. Jewison and Ashby saw an opportunity to make an antiwar film that stressed the similarities between the opposing sides in the Cold War and would humanize the Russian sailors whom the Cape Cod residents mistakenly believed were invading their little island. The film took nearly $8 million in the U.S. and became the fifth biggest grosser of the year for 1966.
Kenneth J. Kinkor
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061580
- eISBN:
- 9780813051246
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061580.003.0010
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
In recent decades, the historiography of piracy has focussed on how pirates have acted as sub-cultures within larger social units. This is reflected, in part, by their use of symbols, such as the ...
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In recent decades, the historiography of piracy has focussed on how pirates have acted as sub-cultures within larger social units. This is reflected, in part, by their use of symbols, such as the infamous "Jolly Roger", as a means of distinguishing themselves. For Europeans pirates of the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy" this aspect of iconography is confirmed in terms of material culture by graffiti on artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the pirate ship Whydah off Cape Cod, as well as artifacts adapted by pirates to their own purposes.These historical and archaeological findings therefore have a potential role in the process of determining the identify of shipwreck sites dating to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.Less
In recent decades, the historiography of piracy has focussed on how pirates have acted as sub-cultures within larger social units. This is reflected, in part, by their use of symbols, such as the infamous "Jolly Roger", as a means of distinguishing themselves. For Europeans pirates of the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy" this aspect of iconography is confirmed in terms of material culture by graffiti on artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the pirate ship Whydah off Cape Cod, as well as artifacts adapted by pirates to their own purposes.These historical and archaeological findings therefore have a potential role in the process of determining the identify of shipwreck sites dating to the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
