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Samuel Morison
Chronicles the difficult early months of the campaign in the Pacific, detailing the navy’s reverses at Wake Island, in the Philippines, and along the Malay Barrier.
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The tenth volume in Samuel Eliot Morison’s classic History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II focuses on the war on enemy submarines, a war fought up…
The naval historian Eliot Morison sailed on Columbus’ route to the New World before beginning to write about his life. The result of this expedition is this biography of Christopher…
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Includes all essential documents of official nature and selected sources, such as debates and letters, which reflect the central issues of the Revolution and the formation of a federal government.
Samuel Eliot Morison
Parkman (1823-1893), was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. This superbly edited reader comprises approximately one-seventh of Parkman’s original work. Presented here in whole chapters or groups…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
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This Pulitzer Prizewinning biography of Christopher Columbus is written with the insight and authority that only someone who had himself sailed in Columbus’ path to the New World could muster.
""A History Of The Constitution Of Massachusetts"" is a book written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published in 1917. The book provides a comprehensive historical account of the development of…
The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis: Federalist 1765-1848 V2 is a comprehensive biography of Harrison Gray Otis, written by Samuel Eliot Morison. Otis was a prominent figure in…
The Life And Letters Of Harrison Gray Otis V1: Federalist 1765-1848 is a biography written by Samuel Eliot Morison about the life and achievements of Harrison Gray Otis, a prominent…
Otis was a prominent lawyer, politician, and Federalist in the early years of the United States, playing a key role in shaping the country's government and institutions. Morison's biography draws…
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe…
Here is no catalogue of ships, reader, nor naval chronicle, but a story of maritime enterprise; of the shipping, seaborne commerce, whaling, and fishing belonging to one American commonwealth. I…
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1913 Edition.
This is a new release of the original 1936 edition.
The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis V1: Federalist 1765-1848 is a biographical book written by Samuel Eliot Morison. The book provides a detailed account of the life and…
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Traces the growth of port cities, commerce with the Indies and China, and shipping, whaling, fishing, and shipbuilding enterprises in the eastern seaboard state.
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Captures the high points of Mount Desert island’s glorious history and touches many of the author’s own passions - from the early Abnaki tribes, to the great European explorers, to…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
""Introduction to Whaler Out of New Bedford"" is a book written by Samuel Eliot Morison that serves as an introduction to the film of the same name. The film is…
Transactions Of The American Philosophical Society, V31, Part 4. Maps By Bertram Greene.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
Harrison Gray Otis was one of the most prominent Federalists of his era, a leading advocate for ratification of the Constitution and a critic of the excesses of the early…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
The Life And Letters Of Harrison Gray Otis: Federalist 1765-1848 V2 is a biography written by Samuel Eliot Morison. The book tells the story of Harrison Gray Otis, a prominent…
An abridgement of the two-volume work, The European Discovery of America , which describes the early voyages that led to the discovery of the New World.
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
Completing Morison’s monumental study of the explorers who discovered and journeyed through the coasts of the Americas, ths volume covers not only all of Latin America, including theCaribbean area and…
This book comprises four manuals compiled from official sources during World War II Manuals such as those in this book, were distributed widely through the fleet and used constantly as…
