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Balancing Acts : Public Access And Archaeology In The Cape Fear Civil War Shipwreck District
(East Carolina University, 2015)
During the American Civil War, Wilmington, North Carolina, served as an important blockade running center for the Confederacy. The Cape Fear region's high traffic and dangerous shoals resulted in the largest concentration ...
The Bay Of Storms And Tavern Of The Seas : Risk In The Maritime Cultural Landscape Of The Harbor At Cape Town, South Africa
(East Carolina University, 2015)
South Africa's connection with the sea is most prevalent in its founding harbor at Cape Town. Until the opening of the Suez Canal, the passage around the Cape of Good Hope via Table Bay represented the most important oceanic ...
Hadrian's Religious Policy : An Architectural Perspective
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis argues that the emperor Hadrian used vast building projects as a means to display and project his distinctive religious policy in the service of his overarching attempt to cement his power and rule. The ...
Unloading History : Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Self-Unloading Schooner-Barge, Adriatic
(East Carolina University, 2015)
Throughout the late 19th and early 20th century, the Great Lakes were at the center of rapid technological advancements in shipping and shipbuilding. The diverse demands for trade and unique geographic characteristics of ...
Slops for the Tarpaulin Rabble : The Clothing of Anglo-American Sailors 1680-1740
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis defines and examines the clothes common rank Anglo-American sailors wore in the 1680 to 1740 period and concentrates on insights their attire can provide into their behaviors to provide a deeper understanding ...
CATASTROPHIC DISASTER IN THE MARITIME ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD : CHASING THE GREAT STORM OF 1913
(East Carolina University, 2015)
The Great Lakes host thousands of shipwrecks. The Lakes are positioned to receive the blunt force of two polar fronts during the winter season, this can result in cataclysmic storm activity. In 1913, the two fronts combined ...
The migration of the sharpie : economic, environmental, and archaeological aspects
(East Carolina University, 2015)
In the late nineteenth century, the United States saw the development of a crucial working vessel type, the sharpie. This thesis will demonstrate that as the sharpie migrated south down the east coast of the United States, ...
Tar River Blounts and a Transitional Maritime Cultural Landscape, 1778-1802
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis analyzes John Gray Blount and his associates' roles in the post Revolutionary War development of North Carolina's Tar-Pamlico maritime cultural landscape. After discussing the business interests and political ...
The Other Underground Railroad : Hidden Histories Of Slavery And Freedom Across The Porous Frontiers Of Nineteenth-Century United States, Mexico, And The Caribbean
(East Carolina University, 2015)
This thesis unveils a hidden part of nineteenth-century Atlantic World History: the transnational exchanges in African slaves that occurred along the Mexico-US border, and across the territorial and coastal boundaries of ...