Warship under sail
Subtitle: the USS Decatur in the Pacific West
By: Lorraine McConaghy.
Contributors: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest.
Series: The Emil and Kathleen Sick lecture-book series in Western history and biography
Publisher: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest in association with University of Washington
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780295989556
Subjects: Decatur (Sloop of war); United States. -- Navy -- History -- 19th century; Seafaring life -- Northwest, Pacific -- History -- 19th century; Seafaring life -- Pacific Area -- History -- 19th century; Seafaring life -- Pacific Coast (Latin America) -- History -- 19th century; Northwest, Pacific -- History, Naval -- 19th century; Pacific Area -- History, Naval -- 19th century; Pacific Coast (Latin America) -- History, Naval -- 19th century; United States -- Territorial expansion
Description: A social history of the nineteenth-century sloop of war "Decatur," that illuminates American expansionism in the antebellum Pacific Northwest.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Young America on the Pacific : "The sailor of manifest destiny views"; title: The Decatur in the old Navy : "To command our own seas and coasts"; title: Boston : getting under way; title: Episode 1: Through the Strait of Magellan : "Off to Californio!"; title: Episode 2: Seattle : "Down came the Indians, like so many demons"; title: San Francisco : "This reckless life"; title: Episode 3: Nicaragua : "Seeing the elephant"; title: Episode 4: Panama : "All the subtle demonisms of life and thought"; title: The Civil War and beyond.