California under Spain and Mexico, 1535–1847: a Contribution toward the History of the Pacific Coast of the United States, based on Original Sources (chiefly Manuscript) in the Spanish and Mexican Archives and other Repositories. By Irving Ber-Dine Richman (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1911. Pp. xvi, 541.)

1911 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

The Chinese Art “Arms Race”

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-256
Author(s):  
K. Ian Shin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
American Exceptionalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
Mainland Chinese ◽  
Metropolitan Museum Of Art ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

Interest in Chinese art has swelled in the United States in recent years. In 2015, the collection of the late dealer-collector Robert Hatfield Ellsworth fetched no less than $134 million at auction (much of it from Mainland Chinese buyers), while the Metropolitan Museum of Art drew over 800,000 visitors to its galleries for the blockbuster show “China: Through the Looking Glass”—the fifth most-visited exhibition in the museum’s 130-year history. The roots of this interest in Chinese art reach back to the first two decades of the 20th Century and are grounded in the geopolitical questions of those years. Drawing from records of major collectors and museums in New York and Washington, D.C., this article argues that the United States became a major international center for collecting and studying Chinese art through cosmopolitan collaboration with European partners and, paradoxically, out of a nationalist sentiment justifying hegemony over a foreign culture derived from an ideology of American exceptionalism in the Pacific. This article frames the development of Chinese art as a contested process of knowledge production between the United States, Europe, and China that places the history of collecting in productive conversation with the history of Sino-American relations and imperialism.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF COLUMBIA RIVER JETTIES

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Hickson ◽  
F. W. Rodolf
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Columbia River ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Juan De Fuca ◽  
History Of ◽  
International Boundary ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

Columbia River is the largest river on the Pacific Coast of the United States. It heads at Columbia Lake in British Columbia, about 80 miles north of the international boundary, and flows northward parallel to the summit of the Rocky Mountains for about 185 miles, thence turns back and flows generally southward through Upper and Lower Arrow Lakes and enters the United States about 25 miles west of the northeast corner of the State of Washington. Thence the river flows by a sinuous course southward, westward, and southeastward to the Oregon-Washington boundary, thence generally westward between the two states, discharging into the Pacific Ocean 583 statute miles north of San Francisco Bay and 154 miles south of the Straits of Juan de Fuca (distances computed from differences in latitude). The river has a total length of 1,210 miles, of which 750 miles are in the United States.

scholarly journals THE MEDITERRANEAN FLOUR MOTH, EPHESTIA KUEHNIELLA, Zeller, STILL IN CANADA.

1896 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-13
Author(s):  
W. G. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
New York State ◽  
The United States ◽  
Ephestia Kuehniella ◽  
York State ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Short Time

The determined and energetic fight carried on by the miller, the entomologist, and the Local Government in 1889, to stamp out this destructive mill pest in Ontario, is too fresh in the memory of those who witnessed that outbreak to warrant a repetition of the particulars. Suffice it to say that the flour moth is still very abundant in certain Canadian mills. I have received it recently in flour sent me direct from a milling firm in Valleyfield, Quebec, with an urgent appeal for help. The mill has been obliged to shut down several times during the present year to clean out the enormous accumulations of matted flour and webs in the spouts and elevator legs. The mill is a new one and has been running a very short time. It is said the pest came from a neighboring firm. My experience with this moth in California and other places convinces me that it is the worst pest millers have to combat, and this note should be a signal warning to all those interested in the milling business. I have also recently discovered the same pest in Southwestern New York State, where it has done considerable mischief this year, and is still spreading. It has occasioned much loss on the Pacific Coast also the present season. If something is not done to arrest and destroy thisadvancing enemy in the United States and Canada, I predict very serious results to the milling industries of both countries.

Biology and Management of Dogfish Sharks

2009 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Muscle Tissue ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Spiny Dogfish ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Vitamin Content ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of

Abstract.—There is a long history of exploitation of spiny dogfish along the Pacific coast of the United States. In modern times there have been three distinct phases of exploitation: a fishery for oil (1917–39), followed by a fishery for livers for their vitamin content (1937–1950), and then one for muscle tissue for human consumption (1975–1995). By the end of the liver fishery, the resource showed clear signals of decline and similar signals of decline were noted at the end of the food fishery.

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