Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914

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Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914

Name: Britannia's Navy on the West Coast of North America, 1812-1914
Brand: Barry Gough
SKU: 9781772031096
Price: 32.95 CAD
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SKU: 9781772031096

Barry Gough

$32.95

Hardback With printed dust jacket

“[Gough’s] research…has been thorough, his presentation is scholarly, and his case fully sustained.”—The Times Literary Supplement

The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough examines the contest for the Columbia country during the War of 1812, the 1844 British response to President Polk’s manifest destiny and cries of “Fifty-four forty or fight,” the gold-rush invasion of 30, 000 outsiders, and the jurisdictional dispute in the San Juan Islands that spawned the Pig War. The author looks at the Esquimalt-based fleet in the decade before British Columbia joined Canada and the Navy’s relationship with coastal First Nation over the five decades that preceded the Great War.

“Barry Gough is one of the world's predominate scholars of the Royal Navy and the leading scholar on the Navy's role on the Pacific frontier. This classic is an absolute must for the library of anyone interested in the maritime and naval history of the Northwest Coast and the wider Pacific." —James Delgado, PhD, past Director, Vancouver Maritime Museum

“I strongly recommend this book to your attention: it fills large gaps in the literature, and it brings together the wide range of scholarship that has a bearing on nineteenth century naval activities in the Pacific.”

- W.A.B Douglas

“an approachable, engaging, and informative text, well deserving of a first or second appraisal.”

- Alexander Howlett