SAINT EUSTATIUS

sānt yoostāˈshəs, island (1989 pop. 1,861), 8 sq mi (20.7 sq km), Netherlands Antilles, one of the Leeward Islands. The mountainous island is not very prosperous, although there is a developing tourist industry; it also possesses facilities for petroleum transshipment. Oranjestad, the chief port, has a colorful history. Settled by the Dutch in 1632, it became a center of contraband trade with the American colonies before and during the American Revolution. According to tradition, it was the first foreign port to salute (1776) the American flag. The island has changed hands frequently. During the 18th cent. pirates and smugglers made it one of the leading trade centers of the West Indies. The island is called Statia by its inhabitants.

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books on: Saint Eustatius  - 231 results

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The Tutu Archaeological Village Site: A Case Study in Human Adaptation
Book by Elizabeth Righter; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Human Remains (Archaeology)--Virgin Islands Of The United States--Saint Thomas, Paleo-Indians--Virgin Islands Of The United States--Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas (V.I.)--Antiquities, Salvage Archaeology--Virgin Islands Of The United States--Saint Thomas
...Oliver and his colleagues; the Hope Estate complex on St Martin investigated by Hofman and his colleagues; Golden Rock on St Eustatius investigated by Versteeg and his team; and the Tanki Flip site in Aruba, also investigated by Versteeg and his colleagues...
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Doctrine and Poetry: Augustine's Influence on Old English Poetry
Book by Bernard F. Huppé; State University of New York, 1959
Subjects: Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--De Doctrina Christiana, Augustine--Saint, Bishop Of Hippo--Influence, Christian Poetry, English (Old)--History And Criticism, Christianity In Literature, English Poetry--Old English, Ca. 450-1100--History And Criticism, Poetry
...dedicated to my sisters -iv- Preface Saint Augustine formulates a Christian theory...Ibid ., Prologue . See H.-I. Marrou, Saint Augustin et la fin de la culture antique...aesthetic see K. Svoboda, LEsthetique de Saint Augustin et ses sources Brno, 1933...
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Political Parties of the Americas, 1980s to 1990s: Canada, Latin America, and the West Indies
Book by Charles D. Ameringer; Greenwood Press, 1992
Subjects: Political Parties--Canada, Political Parties--Latin America, Political Parties--West Indies
...Puerto Rico 525 Saint Kitts-Nevis 537 Saint Lucia 545 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 551 Saint...
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The Atlantic
Book by Paul Butel; Routledge, 1999
Subjects: International Trade--History
...into the Atlantic: the Mississippi, the Saint Lawrence, the Amazon, the Orinoco and the...service to the adjoining continents. The Saint Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes of...Breton monks from the abbey of Pointe de Saint-Mathieu: in his picture of the Adventurers...
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Diasporas within a Diaspora: Jews, Crypto-Jews, and the World of Maritime Empires (1540-1740)
Book by Jonathan I. Israel; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Jews--History--70-1789, Marranos--History--16th Century, Marranos--History--17th Century, Sephardim--History--16th Century, Sephardim--History--17th Century
...France. Ever since the first decade of the seventeenth century Saint Jean de Luz, a town just over the border from Spain had become...eradicated from Martinique, Guadaloupe or from Cayenne or Saint-Domingue at that time, or later. The exodus from Brazil accelerated...
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Saint Martin/Sint Maarten: A Case Study of the Effects of Culture on Economic Development
Journal article by Leo Paul Dana; Journal of Small Business Management, Vol. 28, 1990
Subjects: Comparative economics--St. Martin, Economic development--St. Martin, Social economics--St. Martin, St. Martin--Economic aspects
...also used by the islands of Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, and Sint Eustatius, facilitating trade. The use of the U.S. dollar further facilitates...in many international transactions, an advantage lacking in Saint Martin. An enquiry into Sint Maartens trade patterns reveals...
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The Canada-France Maritime Boundary Case: Drawing a Line around St. Pierre and Miquelon
Journal article by Ted L. McDorman; American Journal of International Law, Vol. 84, 1990
Subjects: International Relations--Periodicals
...of these three dependencies and St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius, 116 which lie to the northeast, entered into a maritime...is only a few miles from Anguilla. Another example is St. Eustatius, part of the Netherlands Antilles, which has an area of 8...
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Transnational Trade in the Wartime North Atlantic: the Voyage of the Snow Recovery
Journal article by Thomas M. Truxes; Business History Review, Vol. 79, 2005
Subjects: Economic history, International trade, North Atlantic region, Sailing ships, War
...snow Recovery.155 On Tuesday, December 22,1760, Judge Edward Long convened the vice-admiralty court of Jamaica at the town of Saint Iago de la Vega to hear the case against the snow Recovery, "her Guns, Tackle, furniture, Ammunition and Apparel, and the Goods...
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African-Americans and Minority Language Maintenance in the United States
Journal article by Mark L. Louden; The Journal of Negro History, Vol. 85, 2000
Subjects: African Americans--Languages, Black English--Social aspects, Languages, Mixed--Social aspects, Pidgin languages--Social aspects, Slaves--Languages, Sociolinguistics--Research
...negro man, was born in the Island of Saint Jago, and speaks his native (the Portuguese...and Negro Dutch, being a Creole of St. Eustatius. Baltimore, MD, 1783 31 Ran away, from...and Negro Dutch, being a Creole of St. Eustatius. St. Thomas, W.I., l783 33 Of course...
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Still Life: Sephardi, Ashkenazi, and West African Art and Form in Suriname's Jewish Cemeteries
Journal article by Aviva Ben-Ur; American Jewish History, Vol. 92, 2004
Subjects: American Jews--History, American Jews--Social aspects, Art, Jewish--Research, Cemeteries--Research, Jewish art--Research, Jews, American--History, Jews, American--Social aspects, Surinamese history
...Barnett and P. Wright, The Jews of Jamaica: Tombstone Inscriptions, 1663-1880 (Jerusalem, 1997), Johan Hartog, The Jews and St. Eustatius (St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, 1976), and the illustrious tombstones on their covers. Egon Wolff and Frieda Wolff pay...
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magazine articles on: Saint Eustatius  - 4 results

 
 
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Worth Noting
Magazine article by Karen Ann Gajewski; The Humanist, Vol. 66, May-June 2006
Subjects: Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska--Environmental aspects, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska--Natural resources, Automobiles--Forecasts and trends, Automobiles--Fuel and fuel systems, Automotive fuels--Forecasts and trends, Ethanol fuels--Usage, Marine animals--Discovery and exploration, Marine fauna--Discovery and exploration, Pipe lines--Accidents, Pipe lines--Environmental aspects, Pipelines--Accidents, Pipelines--Environmental aspects, Saint Eustatius--Natural history
...species). This cache of biodiversity, however, is threatened by the petroleum transshipment depot on the nearby island of St. Eustatius. * Even as George W. Bush continues to press for drilling in the Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 267,000 gallons...
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Island ALLIES of a REVOLUTION
Magazine article by Saul Ricklin; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 51, November 1999
Subjects: Caribbean Area--Strategic aspects, Fortification--Caribbean Area, Navies--Political aspects, Sugar--Political aspects, United States history--Revolution, 1775-1783
...including the eight-acre island of Saint Eustatius, less than ten miles away. It...through the Dutch island of Saint Eustatius. Almost all of the gunpowder...three thousand vessels left Saint Eustatius for the colonies in the years...
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Death and Language
Magazine article by Gordon Lish; The Antioch Review, Vol. 61, Spring 2003
Subjects: Language and languages--Personal narratives, Postmodernism--Personal narratives
...writer to do? Dear Members of the Congregation of Saint Eustatius, You will have doubtless heard of Mrs. Lishs passing...sisters in Christ, most pertinently the parishioners at Saint Firmus. Bless you all--and thank you one and all for...
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Small Islands: Awash in a Sea of Troubles
Magazine article by Anjali Acharya; World Watch, Vol. 8, November 1995
Subjects: Archipelagoes--Environmental aspects, Caribbean Area--Environmental aspects, Environmental protection--Evaluation, Pacific States--Environmental aspects
...Islands 51 181 (*) Saint Kitts and Nevis 42 261...three remnants of the Dutch monarchy (St. Maarten, Saba, St. Eustatius), another French commune (St. Barthelemy), the independent...


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encyclopedia articles on: Saint Eustatius  - 4 results

 
 
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Saint Eustatius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SAINT EUSTATIUS sant yoosta sh s, island (1989 pop. 1,861), 8 sq mi (20.7 sq km), Netherlands Antilles , one of the Leeward Islands. The mountainous...
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Eustatius Island
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
EUSTATIUS ISLAND see Saint Eustatius . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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West Indies
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Islands . The Dutch possessions are Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles ( Curacao , Bonaire , Saint Eustatius , Saba , and part of Saint Martin ). The French overseas departments and administrative regions are Guadeloupe and its dependencies...
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Netherlands Antilles
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Venezuela are Bonaire and Curacao ; in the Leeward Islands, east of Puerto Rico, are Saba , St. Eustatius , and the southern half of Saint Martin . Willemstad , on Curacao, is the capital of the Netherlands Antilles. The land is mainly...


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