Texas Must Take Her Chances

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Cutrer
Keyword(s):  
Port City ◽  
Texas Coast ◽  
Naval Blockade

Examines the growing Federal naval blockade of the Texas coast and the sporadic attempts of the Union navy to occupy various point along the Gulf. A dramatic Confederate counteroffensive resulted in the recapture of the major port city of Galveston and the capture or destruction of several Federal blockaders.

Investigation of March 1980 blowout and fire, lease OCS-G 2433, High Island Block A-368, Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.J. Bourgeois ◽  
M.V. Adams ◽  
R.J. Melancon ◽  
G.D. Rhodes ◽  
W.P. Penney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Texas Coast

The Naval Blockade, 1914-1918. Louis Guichard , Christopher R. Turner

1932 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-323
Author(s):  
Richard W. Van Alstyne
Keyword(s):  
Naval Blockade

scholarly journals Metonyms of destruction: Death, ruination, and the bombing of Rotterdam in the Second World War

2021 ◽  
pp. 135918352110164
Author(s):  
Antonius CGM Robben
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Joint Destruction ◽  
Second World War ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Port City ◽  
World War ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Second World ◽  
Insight Into

The German and Allied bombing of Rotterdam in the Second World War caused thousands of dead and hundreds of missing, and severely damaged the Dutch port city. The joint destruction of people and their built environment made the ruins and rubble stand metonymically for the dead when they could not be mentioned in the censored press. The contiguity of ruins, rubble, corpses and human remains was not only semantic but also material because of the intermingling and even amalgamation of organic and inorganic remains into anthropomineral debris. The hybrid matter was dumped in rivers and canals to create broad avenues and a modern city centre. This article argues that Rotterdam’s semantic and material metonyms of destruction were generated by the contiguity, entanglement, and post-mortem and post-ruination agencies of the dead and the destroyed city centre. This analysis provides insight into the interaction and co-constitution of human and material remains in war.

scholarly journals “The Hoist of the Yellow Flag”: Vulnerable Port Cities and Public Health

2021 ◽  
pp. 153851322199871
Author(s):  
Dirk Schubert ◽  
Cor Wagenaar ◽  
Carola Hein
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Social Darwinism ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Port City ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
Yellow Flag ◽  
Dutch City

Port cities have long played a key role in the development, discovery, and fight against diseases. They have been laboratories for policies to address public health issues. Diseases reached port cities through maritime exchanges, and the bubonic plague is a key example. Port city residents’ close contact with water further increased the chance for diseases such as cholera. Analyzing three European port cities, this article first explores the relevance of water quality for public health through the lens of the Dutch city of Rotterdam. It then examines plans and projects for London that were shaped by social Darwinism and stressed the moral failings of slum dwellers as a major cause for their misery. It finally explores the case of Hamburg as the perfect example of a city that cultivated ideals of purity and cleanliness by addressing all issues at stake in public health. This article on urban hygiene in three port cities shows how remarkably rich this field of study is; it also demonstrates that the multifaceted aspects of public health in port cities require further attention.

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