DOCSLIB.ORG

Lt. James Melville Gilliss

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Lt. James Melville Gilliss LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Lt. James Melville Gillis HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1811 September 6, Friday: James Melville Gilliss was born at Georgetown. Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 6th day 6 of 9 Mo// This evening we called on our old neighbors Sam Gibbs & Mary Billings with whom we lived together in one house about 4 & an half years in pretty good friendship. They looked old fashioned, & my mind was turn’d to reflect on the days that we spent under their roof with much feeling — We had some trials, but we had also as much pleasure & enjoyed ourselves, with as much innocency as falls to the lot of common people —There we commenced house keepers, there we were blessed with as fine a little son as need be, & while living there we were deprived of him. The rememberance of his sweet & innocent engaging little ways, still affects me with Sensations which are trying to human nature, altho it is more than a year ago since he left us for a better parent, & is now no doubt a little Angel in heven, & what if I say, singing praises to the most high before his throne. — ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Lt. James Melville Gilliss “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1827 At the age of 15, James Melville Gilliss joined the US Navy as a midshipman. He would serve on the Delaware, the Java and the Concord. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Lt. James Melville Gillis HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1830 December 6, Monday: By the order of Secretary of the Navy John Branch, what eventually would become the US Naval Observatory began as a straightforward Depot of Charts and Instruments with an annual budget of $330, under the direction of Lieutenant Louis M. Goldsborough. Its function was merely the restoration, repair, and rating of navigational instruments. Charles Wilkes, put to work at the new Depot, would begin to build a rudimentary astronomical observatory which would become, in 1842 with an appropriation of $25,000, the National Observatory, forerunner of the US Naval Observatory. During the early 1800s American sealing and whaling ships had been harvesting huge rewards. Demand was insatiable for furs, whale bone, lamp oil, and ambergris as a base for perfumes. Unfortunately, the hunting grounds off Chile and Peru were quickly diminishing and by the 1820s the New England sailors had been forced farther and farther to the south in search of their reward. Penetration into the icy seas had created diverse problems for the sailors as the captains were reluctant to share information as to the location of their new hunting grounds. Ships would suddenly find themselves in danger of running against unreported and uncharged islets and submerged reefs. A number of vessels foundered or were wrecked. Demands came that the US Government sponsor exploring expeditions to the Antarctic to make all this information public knowledge for the good of commerce. There was a private expedition led by Benjamin Pendleton and Nathaniel Palmer from 1829 to 1831 — but the reports of this expedition had not met the need. Lt. James Melville Gilliss would take charge of the project at the National Observatory, which would be completed in 1844. The US federal Congress convened for its 2d session. A package containing an expensive score of Olimpie arrived at the Paris home of Hector Berlioz. The score was signed “your affectionate Spontini” by the composer. An interim administration was set up in Poland under Adam Jerzy, Prince Czartoryski. The 1st astronomical observatory in the United States was set up by the Navy in Washington. Documentation of the international slave trade, per W.E. Burghardt Du Bois: “Report of the Secretary of the Navy.” –HOUSE DOCUMENT, 21st Congress 2d session I. Number 2, pages 42-3; AMERICAN STATE PAPERS, HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS NAVAL AFFAIRS, III. No. 429 E. “Documents communicated to Congress by the President at the opening of the Second Session of the Twenty-first Congress, accompanying the Report of the Secretary of the Navy: Paper E. Statement of expenditures, etc., for the removal of Africans to Liberia.” –HOUSE DOCUMENT, 21st Congress 2d session I. Number 2, pages 211-8. The 2nd session of the 21st US Congress convened. John Randolph wrote from London, ill, on his way back from Russia: “... Congress and the Virginia Assembly both meet this day, and I pray God to send us, the people, a safe deliverance. It will be very unlucky in case of a general war in Europe, which some look forward to, that we shall have eaten all our wheat, for I learn that there is a total destruction of Indian corn.... A great discovery has been made on the Continent, far surpassing any of Archimedes or Newton. The people have discovered the secret of their strength; and the military have found out that they are the people. Commend me earnestly to all my old friends... I shall be among them (dead or alive) next Summer. I have provided for a leaden coffin, HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS feeling as I do an inexpressible desire to lie by the side of my dear mother and honored father at old Matoax.” President Andrew Jackson’s Message to 2d session, 21st Congress, arguing the right to use the veto at will: The tribes which occupied the countries now constituting the Eastern states were annihilated or have melted away to make room for the whites. The waves of population and civilization are rolling to the westward, and we now propose to acquire the countries occupied by the red men of the South and West by a fair exchange, and, at the expense of the United States, to send them to a land where their existence may be prolonged and perhaps made perpetual. We may note that Jackson was proposing that the American folk do more for Cherokees than Adolf Hitler was willing to do for Jews. –Because the Nazi Party’s uniformed Schutzstaffel confiscated Jewish assets and used the resulting funds to purchase excursion-rate railroad tickets for them to Auschwitz, Poland (true fact). Whereas we generous Americans sent the Cherokees off to a concentration camp called Oklahoma, paying their tickets with federal tax money at no charge whatever to them for their excursion-rate tickets –even at a point in history before there were any railroad boxcars into which we could shut them without food or water– with a gratis escort service of US Cavalry to protect them and care for them on their journey. HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1831 Midshipman James Melville Gilliss started his studies at the University of Virginia. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Lt. James Melville Gillis HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1832 Midshipman James Melville Gilliss went to Paris to study. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Lt. James Melville Gillis HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1836 Midshipman James Melville Gilliss obtained a position as an assistant at the Depot of Charts and Instruments in Washington DC (he would be made responsible for astronomical observations). DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Lt. James Melville Gilliss “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS 1837 Midshipman James Melville Gilliss went under Captain Charles Wilkes with the United States South-Sea Exploring Expedition, to cruise the South Pacific and Antarctic region for five years while making observations on differences of longitude by means of moon-culminations (he would make metrological observations and work on new instruments). Franklin Pierce and other friends of Nathaniel Hawthorne attempted to obtain an appointment for him as historian of this expedition, known informally as the “Ex. Ex.” It would only be a political accident, that the expedition, which would be derogated by Thoreau in WALDEN as “that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense,” would not avail itself of the services of Hawthorne. WALDEN : What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring PEOPLE OF Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact, that there are continents and seas in WALDEN the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.– “Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos. Plus habet hic vitæ, plus habet ille viæ.” Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians. I have more of God, they more of the road. CHARLES WILKES HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS LT. JAMES MELVILLE GILLISS WHAT I’M WRITING IS TRUE BUT NEVER MIND YOU CAN ALWAYS LIE TO YOURSELF Lt.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Headquarters, Department of the Army
    Headquarters, Department of the Army Department of the Army Pamphlet 27-50-386 July 2005 International and Operational Law Foreword Lieutenant Colonel Paul E. Kantwill Stick to the High Ground Colonel Richard B. Jackson “Improving the Fighting Position” A Practitioners Guide to Operational Law Support to the Interrogation Process Lieutenant Colonel Paul E. Kantwill, Captain Jon D. Holdaway, & Geoffrey S. Corn “Snipers in the Minaret―What is the Rule?” The Law of War and the Protection of Cultural Property: A Complex Equation Geoffrey S. Corn Bringing International Agreements Out of the Shadows: Confronting the Challenges of a Changing Force Geoffrey S. Corn & Colonel James A. Schoettler, Jr. Book Review CLE News Current Materials of Interest Editor, Captain Anita J. Fitch Assistant Editor, Captain Colette E. Kitchel Technical Editor, Charles J. Strong The Army Lawyer (ISSN 0364-1287, USPS 490-330) is published monthly submitted via electronic mail to [email protected] or on 3 1/2” by The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, diskettes to: Editor, The Army Lawyer, The Judge Advocate General’s Virginia, for the official use of Army lawyers in the performance of their Legal Center and School, U.S. Army, 600 Massie Road, ATTN: ALCS- legal responsibilities. Individual paid subscriptions to The Army Lawyer are ADA-P, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903-1781. Articles should follow The available for $45.00 each ($63.00 foreign) per year, periodical postage paid at Bluebook, A Uniform System of Citation (17th ed. 2000) and Military Charlottesville, Virginia, and additional mailing offices (see subscription form Citation (TJAGLCS, 9th ed.
    [Show full text]
  • “Because That's What His Consul Had Ordered” : The
    Historia Crítica ISSN: 0121-1617 ISSN: 1900-6152 Departamento de Historia, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes Harvey, Kyle E. “Because That’s What His Consul Had Ordered”: The Chilean Consulate as a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859-1869)* Historia Crítica, no. 80, 2021, April-June, pp. 81-102 Departamento de Historia, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes DOI: https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit80.2021.05 Available in: https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=81167109005 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System Redalyc More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America and the Caribbean, Spain and Journal's webpage in redalyc.org Portugal Project academic non-profit, developed under the open access initiative 81 “Because That’s What His Consul Had Ordered” : The Chilean Consulate as a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859-1869)❧ Kyle E. Harvey Western Carolina University, United States https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit80.2021.05 Received: September 30, 2020 / Accepted: January 12, 2021 / Modified: February 18, 2021 How to cite: Harvey, Kyle E. “‘Because That’s What His Consul Had Ordered’: The Chilean Consulate as a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859–1869).” Historia Crítica, n.° 80 (2021): 81-102, doi: https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit80.2021.05 Abstract. Objective/Context: This article examines the place of the Chilean consulate in conflicts related to control over labor in western Argentina during the 1860s, a decade of national consolidation and economic expansion. It explores how changes in the laboring classes’ experiences and interests in the mid-nineteenth century expressed themselves through the Chilean consulate and the meaning of being Chilean.
    [Show full text]
  • William Lewis Herndon
    CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Lewis Herndon HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON 1813 October 25, Monday: William Lewis Herndon was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia. On the Chateaugay River, British troops and their native allies defeated a United States force that actually outnumbered them 7 to 1. This forced the United States to abandon its invasion of Québec. October 26, Tuesday: Austrian forces defeated the French at Valsarno, thus returning Austrian arms to Italy. At Chateauguay, Charles de Salaberry defeated an American invasion. NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT William Lewis Herndon “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON 1828 November 1, Saturday: William Lewis Herndon enlisted in the US Navy, as a midshipman. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Lewis Herndon HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON 1834 Midshipman William Lewis Herndon was promoted to Passed Midshipman. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Lewis Herndon HDT WHAT? INDEX CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON 1841 William Lewis Herndon received a US Navy commission as a Lieutenant. THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project William Lewis Herndon HDT WHAT? INDEX WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON CAPTAIN WILLIAM LEWIS HERNDON 1842 The new naval Lieutenant William Lewis Herndon was assigned to work with his relative Matthew Fontaine Maury in preparation of ocean charts at the Depot of Charts and Instruments.
    [Show full text]
  • Americana, US Navy, Em Direção À América Latina (1838-1901)
    Ciência, técnica e as expedições da marinha de guerra norte- americana, U.S. Navy, em direção à América Latina (1838-1901)* Science, techniques, and U.S. naval expeditions toward Latin America (1838-1901)** MARY A. JUNQUEIRA Professora de História da América Independente nos Departamentos de História e Relações Internacionais da USP - Universidade de São Paulo Doutora em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo [email protected] RESUMO Este artigo tem por objetivo mapear as expedições realizadas pela U. S. Navy − a marinha de guerra dos Estados Unidos − em direção à América Latina, no século XIX. Foram realizadas doze viagens no período, mostrando o interesse norte-americano pela região desde a década de 1830. * Artigo recebido em 03/07/2007. Autora convidada. ** Esta pesquisa é parte integrante do Projeto Temático Cultura e Política nas Américas: Circulação de Idéias e Confi- guração de Identidades (séculos XIX e XX), o qual recebe atualmente apoio financeiro da FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo. Investigação realizada nos arquivos da capital dos Estados Unidos, Washington D.C.: Naval Historical Center, National Archives e The Library of Congress. 334 VARIA HISTORIA, Belo Horizonte, vol. 23, nº 38: p.334-349, Jul/Dez 2007 RRevistaevista VVariaaria HHistoriaistoria 338.indd8.indd 9900 118/12/20078/12/2007 008:36:478:36:47 Ciência, técnica e as expedições da marinha de guerra norte-americana Palavras-chave Estados Unidos, América Latina, U. S. Navy, expedições ABSTRACT This article focuses on U.S. Navy expeditions set a course from United States to Latin America in nineteenth century.
    [Show full text]
  • Matthew Fontaine Maury
    LT. MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY Matthew Fontaine Maury “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY LT. MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY 1806 January 14, Tuesday: Matthew Fontaine Maury was born in Spotsylvania County, Virginia. His mother’s ancestors, of the “Minor” family, had come to Virginia from Holland, and his father Richard Maury’s ancestors had been Huguenots (his granddaddy the Reverend James Maury had taught Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe). NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT Matthew Fontaine Maury “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX LT. MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY 1811 While Matthew Fontaine Maury was five years of age his family relocated from Virginia to Franklin, Tennessee. He would think to emulate the career of an older brother, Flag Lieutenant John Minor Maury, a pirate fighter, until, after Lt. Maury had died of yellow fever, Matthew’s father Richard Maury would refuse to consider allowing his younger son to enlist. Matthew would contemplate a career beginning at the West Point Military Academy, until his family would be able to use its connections and the influence of Senator Sam Houston to secure for him at the age of 19 a direct Naval appointment. LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. Matthew Fontaine Maury “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX MATTHEW FONTAINE MAURY LT.
    [Show full text]
  • Viewing This Catalog On-Line, the Easiest Way for You to Complete a Purchase Is to Click on the Item # Or First Image Associated with a Listing
    (To place an online order or see enlarged or additional images, click on the inventory number or first image in any listing.) Kurt A. Sanftleben, ABAA, NSDA Read’Em Again Books Catalog 19-2b – Late June, 2019 2. [ABOLITION] [AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [SLAVERY] [TAR & FEATHERS] [UNDERGROUND RAILROAD] An unpublished, 6-page, raging manifesto against slavery and slave holders by a Conductor for the Underground Railroad who had been tarred, feathered, and exiled from Maryland’s Eastern Shore. James L. Bowers, East Camden, New Jersey: 1859. (To place an online order or see enlarged or additional images, click on the inventory number or first image in any listing.) Our focus is on providing unusual ephemera and original personal narratives including Diaries, Journals, Correspondence, Photograph Albums, & Scrapbooks. We specialize in unique items that provide insight into American history, society, and culture while telling stories within themselves. Although we love large archives, usually our offerings are much smaller in scope; one of our regular institutional customers calls them “microhistories.” These original source materials enliven collections and provide students, faculty, and other researchers with details to invigorate otherwise dry theses, dissertations, and publications. Terms of Sale Prices are in U.S dollars. When applicable, we must charge sales tax. Unless otherwise stated, standard domestic shipping is at no charge. International shipping charges vary. All shipments are insured. If you are viewing this catalog on-line, the easiest way for you to complete a purchase is to click on the Item # or first image associated with a listing. This will open a link where you can complete your purchase using PayPal.
    [Show full text]
  • Panama Canal Bibliography – American Period 1904-1999
    Panama Canal Bibliography – American Period 1904-1999 Elizabeth H. Bemis, Ph.D. March 2019 The goal of this bibliography is to work towards a comprehensive list of books published on the American period of the Panama Canal, 1904-1999. It is impossible to completely isolate the American period from the history and impact of what came before and its influence on what has come after, so some key sources that focus on other peripheral topics are also included to provide a more comprehensive picture of the material available to scholars and the interested reader. The most prominent of these closely related subjects are the Panama Canal Railroad, U.S. interest in a canal before 1904, the French canal, political situations surrounding the canal, and important figures in the Canal’s history. The core of the bibliography was built from the Panama Canal Museum Collection of the University of Florida Libraries which has afforded the inclusion of many rare and unique items. A list of critical archival and library holdings and serial publications that don’t technically fall under the parameters set above, but are important resources, are included after the end of the formal bibliography. A small list of websites that provide teaching resources can also be found after the formal bibliography. Some book chapters are included, but only those encountered during the process of looking through other sources for books; they were not sought out. The same applies to published government documents. This bibliography does not include any journal articles. 10 Year Report, the Panama Canal Commission: FY 1980 to FY 1989: A Decade of Progress in Canal Operations and Treaty Implementation.
    [Show full text]
  • Una Bibliografía 333 a Wounaan
    A Bibliografía Wounaan A Acevedo Latorre, E. (1950) “El Canal Interoceánico Atrato- Truando”, Naturaleza y Técnico , 1 (9): 88. Acosta, J. (1848) Compendio histórico del descubrimiento y colonización de la Nueva Granada , Imprenta de Beau, Paris. Adam, M. (1888) Bibliographie des récentes conquetes de la linguistique Sud-Américaine, Congrés International des Américanistes, Berlin. Adelung, J. C. y Vater, J. S. (1817) “Mithridates oder Allgemeine Srachenkunde mit dem Vater Usner als Sprachproben in Beynahe fünf hundert Sprachen und Mundarten”, Voissischen Buchhandlung, Berlin: 705-707. Aguirre Licht, D. (1995) “Estudios fonológicos del grupo Chocó”, R. Llerena Villalobos (ed.) Lenguas aborígenes de Colombia : 323, Universidad de losAndes, Santafé de Bogotá. Aguirre Licht, D. (2006) “Choco languages”, K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics : 367-381, Second Edition, Elsevier, Oxford. Aguirre, M. (2001) “Indigenous people demand reparations from Panama”, World Rivers Review, 16 (1): 7. Alvarado, A.; García, B.; Alvarado, E.; Sierra, T. Y.; Vásquez, A. (2002) Informe técnico: conflictos socio-ambientales del Congreso de Tierras Colectivas Emberá y Wounaan , Funda­ ción DobboYala. Alvarado Q., R.; Rodrígues R., E.; Samaniego, R.; Guerrero, C. (1996) Situación actual de los bosques de cativo (Prioria copaifera) en la Provincia de Darién, Panamá , Informe a INRENARE, Panamá. Álvarez Lleras, J. (1923) El Chocó, relaciones de viajes referentes a esta región de Colombia, Editorial Minerva, Bogotá. PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS EN PANAMÁ:UNA BIBLIOGRAFÍA 333 A WOUNAAN Álvarez Lleras, J. (1936) “El Chocó, relaciones de viajes referentes a esta región de Colombia”, Boletín de la Sociedad Geográfi­ ca de Colombia , I, II, III. Anaya, J. (2005) “Indigenous peoples' participatory rights in relation to decisions about natural resource extraction: The more fundamental issue of what rights indigenous peoples have in lands and resources”, Arizona Journal of Internatio­ nal and Comparative Law , 22: 7.
    [Show full text]
  • “Because That's What His Consul Had Ordered” : the Chilean Consulate As a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859-18
    81 “Because That’s What His Consul Had Ordered” : The Chilean Consulate as a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859-1869)❧ Kyle E. Harvey Western Carolina University, United States https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit80.2021.05 Received: September 30, 2020 / Accepted: January 12, 2021 / Modified: February 18, 2021 How to cite: Harvey, Kyle E. “‘Because That’s What His Consul Had Ordered’: The Chilean Consulate as a Labor Institution in Mendoza, Argentina (1859–1869).” Historia Crítica, n.° 80 (2021): 81-102, doi: https://doi.org/10.7440/histcrit80.2021.05 Abstract. Objective/Context: This article examines the place of the Chilean consulate in conflicts related to control over labor in western Argentina during the 1860s, a decade of national consolidation and economic expansion. It explores how changes in the laboring classes’ experiences and interests in the mid-nineteenth century expressed themselves through the Chilean consulate and the meaning of being Chilean. Methodology: Using consular records, foreign relations records, and criminal records, it analyzes how Chilean laborers—and Argentines claiming to be Chilean—petitioned the consulate to protect them from military conscription and labor abuses. Originality: While transnational labor migrations feature more prominently in histories of the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries than in those on the post-independence period, this article adds to understandings of the end of the post-independence period through such migrations and the institutions that supported them. Conclusions: By focusing on the interaction of laborers and the Chilean consulate, this article makes the case for a correlation between non-European transnational labor migrations and the development of a sense of political belonging distinct from republicanism, patriotism, or civic participation, and one that sought exclusion from the obligations of society and one decidedly more oriented towards notions of class and nationality.
    [Show full text]
  • The Darkest Jungle: the True Story of the Darien Expedition And
    The Darkest Jungle: The True Story Of The Darien Expedition And America's Ill-Fated Race To Connect The Seas PDF “Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Dariénâ€â€and in God’s is the way out.â€ÂThe Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rival warships and explorers from England and France days behind, the 27-member U.S. Darién Exploring Expedition landed on the Atlantic shore at Caledonia Bay in eastern Panama to begin their mad dash up the coast-hugging mountains of the Darién wilderness. The whole world watched as this party attempted to be the first to traverse the 40-mile isthmus, the narrowest spot between the Atlantic and Pacific in all the Americas. Later, government investigators would say they were doomed before they started. Amid the speculative fever for an Atlantic and Pacific ship canal, the terrain to be crossed had been grossly misrepresented and fictitiously mapped. By January 27, 1854, the Americans had served out their last provisions and were severely footsore but believed the river they had arrived at was an artery to the Pacific, their destination. Leading them was the charismatic commander Isaac Strain, an adventuring 33-year-old U.S.
    [Show full text]
  • Competition Federation Academic
    A ACADEMIC C COMPETITION F FEDERATION 2015 ACF Nationals Packet by Minnesota and Washington Tossups 1. This explorer was put on trial after he drunkenly attempted to hang two of his own crew members from a tree because they strayed too far from camp - as a result, this man briefly lost his seat on the Council of Justice and had to issue a public apology. During one expedition, he was sent to search for a “golden kingdom” of Lavo, but a mistranslation of Marco Polo in German led him to sail in a different direction. His companions included the merchant Isaac Gilsemans, whose drawings depict their travels, and the carpenter Frans Visscher, who planted flags for him in the name of Prince Frederick Hendrick. This man named the Three Kings Islands after founding Storm Bay and the Forestier Peninsula, and then nearly wrecked while founding the Fiji Islands. For 10 points, name this explorer who sailed from Batavia to discover Van Diemen’s Land, which is now named in his honor. ANSWER: Abel Janszoon Tasman 2. Toward the end of this piece’s fourth movement, violas, cellos, and basses dither between D-sharp and E quarter notes for 21 measures while the violins assert the main theme in A major. The two D-major trio sections in this piece’s third movement are based on an Austrian pilgrims’ hymn. During the coda of this piece’s first movement, woodwinds and horns hold a four- octave E pedal point for 22 bars as strings repeat a four-bar motif. That movement has a long 4/4 poco sostenuto introduction in which sections exchange ascending 16th-note scales before switching to a 6/8 Vivace.
    [Show full text]
  • Redalyc.Ciência, Técnica E As Expedições Da Marinha De Guerra
    Varia Historia ISSN: 0104-8775 [email protected] Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Brasil Junqueira, Mary A. Ciência, técnica e as expedições da marinha de guerra norteamericana, U.S. Navy, em direção à América Latina (1838-1901) Varia Historia, vol. 23, núm. 38, julio-diciembre, 2007, pp. 334-349 Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte, Brasil Disponível em: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=384434821006 Como citar este artigo Número completo Sistema de Informação Científica Mais artigos Rede de Revistas Científicas da América Latina, Caribe , Espanha e Portugal Home da revista no Redalyc Projeto acadêmico sem fins lucrativos desenvolvido no âmbito da iniciativa Acesso Aberto Ciência, técnica e as expedições da marinha de guerra norte- americana, U.S. Navy, em direção à América Latina (1838-1901)* Science, techniques, and U.S. naval expeditions toward Latin America (1838-1901)** MARY A. JUNQUEIRA Professora de História da América Independente nos Departamentos de História e Relações Internacionais da USP - Universidade de São Paulo Doutora em História Social pela Universidade de São Paulo [email protected] RESUMO Este artigo tem por objetivo mapear as expedições realizadas pela U. S. Navy − a marinha de guerra dos Estados Unidos − em direção à América Latina, no século XIX. Foram realizadas doze viagens no período, mostrando o interesse norte-americano pela região desde a década de 1830. * Artigo recebido em 03/07/2007. Autora convidada. ** Esta pesquisa é parte integrante do Projeto Temático Cultura e Política nas Américas: Circulação de Idéias e Confi- guração de Identidades (séculos XIX e XX), o qual recebe atualmente apoio financeiro da FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo.
    [Show full text]