... to English voyage narratives from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century in order to show how sailors were conceived as making “noise.” Such descriptions worked anxiously toward silencing sailors by delineating what they had the ability to articulate on the basis of their social position. Hence...

... Michael A. Bellesiles Bernard Bailyn, The Peopling of British North America: An lnfroduction (New York: Knopf, 1986). 177 pp. $16.95 (cloth). Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the €ve of the Revolution (New York Knopf, 1986). 668 pp. $30 (cloth...

..., the work is geared toward a general audience. The study employs the brutal transatlan- tic voyage of over 12 million Africans from the continent to slavery in the Americas as its framing device and traces the legacy of this forced migration through the numerous return voyages taken by Africans...

... an expansive exhibition area in which carved meeting houses and waka (canoe) command visitors’ attention. Around these are arrayed smaller displays on Pacific voyaging, the people and places significant to partic- ular iwi (tribes), and the arts of weaving and taniko (decorative wall painting). Te...

..., or returned safely to port, the Anglo-American sailor lived at the forefront of eighteenth-century capitalism. Danger, as much as authority and accumulation, dominated the mariner‘s life. Driven together by the threat of the ”crimp” who sought to kidnap him for an involuntary voyage...

... America? From the Centennial Exposition of 2876 to the Great War of 2924. Interactive CD-ROM. New York: The Voyager Company, 1993. $99.95. Available from 1 Bridge St., Irvington, NY 10533. 246 ...

... director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. Most recently, he was visual editor of the CD-ROM Who Built America? (Voyager, 1993), and co-director of the documentary Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs and Empire (1995...

... by aboriginal Australians when they met the earliest British ships to land in Australia. As Pacific people, they could not imagine taking a long voyage on a ship that did not have both men and women and made the British sailors take down their pants to prove that they actually were all men. Apparently...

.../Center for Media and Learning at Hunter College. He produced the documen- tary, “Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl” (1993) and is the visual editor of the CD ROM, Who Built America (Voyager, 1993). George Chauncey teaches American history at the University of Chicago. His book, Gay New Ymk...

... in which a history textbook drives the plot), Bob Stein, a founder of the multimedia publishing company Voyager, picked up a copy of the WBA? book in an airport bookstore.5 Intrigued, he contacted ASHP and proposed that it transform it into an interactive laser disc, the digital technology du jour...

..., Nmsweek’s special issue on the Columbus Quincentenary, developed in tandem with the Sinithsonian Institute, eschewed the phrase the “discovery of Amer- ica” in its titlc in favor of ”When Worlds Collide: How Columbus’s Voyages Transformed Both East and West.” The issue included articles like...

... the decade, their sense of its importance grew. In 1990, invited by the Voyager Company (whose pres- ident had run across Who Built America? in an airport bookstand), they undertook the first history text in the form of a CD-ROM. Along with Josh Brown (a key figure in all ASHP projects and currently...

... will undoubtedly remember as the Pilgrim who fell off the Mayflower in mid-voyage but was rescued so that he could arrive in America, sign the Compact, and found a genealogical society. No, Nixon was the descendant of john Howland’s brother, Henry, who came to the colonies several years after...

... liter- ature than with Mao’s “little red book” and is transfixed by Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano and Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Voyage to the End of the Night (which he lends to a worker—who migrates to the extreme right). He reads Wilhelm Reich...

... Southeast Asia via Makassar to China dates back at least to the early eighteenth century, and Sama people almost certainly served as initial extractors even then.33 Trepang-collecting voyages from Sulawesi regularly extended to the outer arc of the Lesser Sundas in the mid-eighteenth cen- tury.34...

... December 1999. Among the more farsighted of these planners are the thou- sand or so well-heeled members of the Millennium Society who have decided to reserve the Queen Elizabeth I1 for a slow voyage to the Great Pyramid of Cheops, where on New Millennium's Eve they hope to celebrate the next one...

... confirm that the fair was 98 /RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW nothing less than dazzling, and that those who saw it would retain detailed, if not always profound, recollections. According to the film, visiting the fair was like taking ”a voyage to a far-off universe,” which afforded, in the words...

... Canary Islands as in the Portuguese Madeiras, the Genoese again played a large part in initiating sugar production Columbus had come from the Canary Islands on his second voyage of 1493 when he introduced sugar cane into Haiti, which was called at that time Espanola...

... Spears, subtitled The Aztec Account of the Conquest ofMexiw, trans. Lysander Kemp (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962). In Spanish, the subtitle is Visidn de 10s Vencidos. 3. Jourmls and Other Documents on the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, trans. and ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York...

... the dehumanization of native peoples. For example, in The Voyage of the Narwhal, an indigenous Esquimaux woman and her son are brought to the United States and displayed until the mother dies and the son is returned to his homeland. In the story “Ship Fever,” a powerful...