Barry Gough: 10 books
by Barry Gough
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
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...
The War Against the Pirates
British and American Suppression of Caribbean Piracy in the Early Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
Based on hitherto unused sources in English and Spanish in British and American archives, in this book naval historian Barry Gough and legal authority Charles Borras investigate a secret Anglo-American coercive war against Spain, 1815-1835. Described as a war against piracy at the time, the authors...
by Barry Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both extensive and effective. 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...
That Hamilton Woman
Emma and Nelson
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Emma Hamilton, much maligned by her contemporaries and later by historians and commentators, rose from the most humble beginnings to play a startling role in Britain’s naval victory over France and Spain in 1805. In this new book Barry Gough, employing the letters between the protagonists, and the...
Juan de Fuca's Strait
Voyages in the Waterway of Forgotten Dreams
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The tale begins in sixteenth-century Venice, when explorer Juan de Fuca encountered English merchant Michael Lok and relayed a fantastic story of a marine passageway that connected the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. This tale would be the catalyst for centuries of dreaming, and exacerbate English and...
In Search of the Visible Past
History Lectures at Wilfrid Laurier University 1973-1974
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
This book is a combination of five public lectures offered to the university and community during the academic year 1973–1974, given by the History Department of Wilfrid Laurier University. These were given by leading scholars in their individual fields and are published here.
The essays...
Through Water, Ice & Fire
Schooner Nancy of the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2006
The schooner Nancy, legendary vessel of Great Lakes and Canadian history, lived a thousand lives in a noted career that began in Detroit and ended in a fiery explosion in Nottawasaga River in the last year of the War of 1812.
This dramatic, soundly researched narrative depicts the reality of...
Historical Dreadnoughts
Marder and Roskill: Writing and Fighting Naval History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
This is the story of the remarkable, intersecting careers of the two greatest writers on British naval history in the twentieth century – the American professor Arthur Marder, son of immigrant Russian Jews, and Captain Stephen Roskill, who knew the Royal Navy from the inside. Between them, these...
From Classroom to Battlefield
Victoria High School and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
In August 1914, Canada found itself jolted from its splendid isolation by the onrush of a European catastrophe. In Victoria, British Columbia, five hundred youth who had been educated at Victoria High School went to war and were forever changed by the experience.
From Classroom to Battlefield...
by Barry M. Gough
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Once on the margins of European empires, notably those of France, England and Spain, then a focus of international rivalries and wars during the 18th century, Canada is now a nation that is front and center in the world's affairs. Canada's emergence as a modern industrial nation and a key player in...