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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Melville Prison and Deadman's Island
    sub title: American and French prisoners of war in Halifax, 1784-1816
  name:
    name part: Cuthbertson, Brian
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nsc
    date issued: 2009
    copyright date: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: In this book, the author has concentrated on Melville Island as a war prison from the perspective of the prisoners and their relations with Lieutenant William Miller, the British naval officer in charge of the prison and John Mitchell, the resident American agent for his country's prisoners of war from October 1813 to December 1814.
  table of contents: Establishing Melville Island Prison -- Privateers, prisoner exchanges, and prison life -- "This day we embark'd for Hell" -- From brutal retaliations to peace -- The paradox of Melville Island Prison -- From 1815 to the present day.
  note: Brian Cuthbertson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-ns
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Melville Island Prison (N.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of war
    geographic: Nova Scotia
    geographic: Halifax
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Prisoners of war
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    geographic: Melville Island (Halifax, N.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Deadman's Island (Halifax, N.S.)
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Nova Scotia
    topic: History
    temporal: 1763-1867
  classification: 365/.971622
  identifier: 9780887808371
  identifier: 0887808379
  identifier: 2010398569
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 090508
    record change date: 20231109202407.8
    record identifier: in00004746233
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng