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Authors, Publishers and Politicians

Author : James J. Barnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003835678
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Authors, Publishers and Politicians written by James J. Barnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1974, Authors, Publishers and Politicians describes the efforts to secure an Anglo-American copyright agreement. It explores the underlying causes of the failure of this quest, a failure which enabled literary pirates on both sides of the Atlantic to continue operations for another forty years. It traces the effects this had on the writers and producers of books as well as their reading public. Few aspects of Anglo-American relations were untouched by the drama presented in this study. Its broader implications range from straightforward business transactions, official diplomatic manoeuvres, endless legal complexities, and clandestine political intrigue to the peculiarities involved in book smuggling, newspaper rivalries and industrial espionage. The book will be of interest to students of legal history, publishing and literature.

Ethnographies and Exchanges

Author : Anthony Gregg Roeber
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271047402
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Ethnographies and Exchanges written by Anthony Gregg Roeber and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the interactions of two seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European settlement peoples with Native Americans: German-speaking Moravian Protestants, and French-speaking Roman Catholics. It is among these two European groups that we have some of the richest records of the exchange between early settlers and Native Americans."--BOOK JACKET.

Notorious Woman

Author : Elizabeth Urban Alexander
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807130249
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Notorious Woman written by Elizabeth Urban Alexander and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legal crusade of Myra Clark Gaines (1804?--1885) has all the trappings of classic melodrama -- a lost heir, a missing will, an illicit relationship, a questionable marriage, a bigamous husband, and a murder. For a half century the daughter of New Orleans millionaire Daniel Clark struggled to justify her claim to his enormous fortune in a case that captivated the nineteenth-century public. Elizabeth Urban Alexander taps voluminous court records and letters to unravel the twists and turns of Gaines's litigation and reveal the truth behind the mysterious saga of this notorious woman. Myra, the daughter of real estate heir Clark and Zulime Carrière, a beautiful young Frenchwoman, was raised by friends of Clark and kept ignorant of her real parentage until 1832, when she discovered her true lineage in letters among her foster father's papers. She thereupon returned to Louisiana with tales of a lost will and a secret marriage between Clark and Carrière and claimed to be Clark's missing heir. Was Myra the legitimate daughter of the prominent merchant or the "fruit of an adulterous union?" The courts would decide. The Great Gaines Case wound its tortuous path through the United States legal system from 1834 until 1891. It was considered by the U.S. Supreme Court seventeen times and pursued even after Gaines's death by lawyers trying to recoup fees. By courageously bringing her case to the courtroom and doggedly keeping it there, Alexander asserts, Gaines helped instigate a new type of family law that provided special protection of women, children, and marriages. Though Gaines never recovered more than a tiny fraction of the rumored millions, this riveting chronicle of her struggle for legitimacy and legacy as told by Elizabeth Urban Alexander is a gold mine for anyone interested in legal history, women's studies, or a good yarn superbly spun.

States at War, Volume 4

Author : Richard F. Miller
Publisher : University Press of New England
ISBN 13 : 1611686210
Total Pages : 929 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book States at War, Volume 4 written by Richard F. Miller and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 929 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many Civil War reference books exist, there is no single compendium that contains important details about the combatant states (and territories) that Civil War researchers can readily access for their work. People looking for information about the organizations, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Civil War States and state governments must assemble data from a variety of sources, with many key sources remaining unavailable online. This crucial reference book, the fourth in the States at War series, provides vital information on the organization, activities, economies, demographics, and prominent personalities of Delaware, Maryland, and New Jersey during the Civil War. Its principal sources include the Official Records, state adjutant-general reports, legislative journals, state and federal legislation, federal and state executive speeches and proclamations, and the general and special orders issued by the military authorities of both governments, North and South. Designed and organized for easy use by professional historians and amateurs, this book can be read in two ways: by individual state, with each chapter offering a stand-alone history of an individual stateÕs war years; or across states, comparing reactions to the same event or solutions to the same problems.

Giving Voice to Bear

Author : David Rockwell
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
ISBN 13 : 1461664578
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book Giving Voice to Bear written by David Rockwell and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 2003-04-21 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new edition of a classic, David Rockwell describes the captivating and awe-inspiring presence of the bear in Native American rituals. The bear played a central role in shamanic rights, initiation, healing and hunting ceremonies, and new year celebrations. Considered together, these traditions are another way of looking at the world, one in which the mysteries of the universe are revealed through animals.

The Papers of Henry Clay

Author : Henry Clay
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813130514
Total Pages : 996 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of Henry Clay written by Henry Clay and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Papers of Henry Clay span the crucial first half of the nineteenth century in American history. Few men in his time were so intimately concerned with the formation of national policy, and few influenced so profoundly the growth of American political institutions. The year 1837 found Henry Clay hard at work in a successful effort to organize and strengthen the new Whig party. In his attempt to provide for it an ideological core, he emphasized restoration of the Bank of the United States, distribution of the treasury surplus to the states, continued adherence to his Compromise Tariff Act of 1833, and federal funding of internal improvements. The achievement of these goals, Clay reasoned, would mitigate the severe impact of the Depression of 1837 and sweep the Whigs into the White House in 1840. Soon after the election of 1836, Clay began running again for the presidency. By 1838 it was clear to him that he would have to come to grips politically with the long-muted slavery question. This he did in February 1839 in a Senate speech that was so proslavery, anti-abolitionist, and racially extremist that it cost him the Whig presidential nomination at the Harrisburg convention in December 1839. William Henry Harrison was nominated in his stead and won handily. But one month after his inauguration Harrison died and Vice President John Tyler, a states' rights Democrat turned Whig, was elevated to the presidency. Senator Clay emerged from his disappointment at Harrisburg as the acknowledged leader of the Whig party and further unified it in a wide-ranging assault on the Tyler administration's refusal to support Whig principles. By the end of 1843 Tyler had been broken, the Whig party was Clay's to lead, and the Kentuckian was again in the presidential lists. Confident that 1844 would surely be his year, Clay unfortunately failed to see the formation and growth of the black cloud that was Texas annexation. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860

Author : H. Clare Pentland
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780888623782
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Download or read book Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 written by H. Clare Pentland and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation.

Writings on American History

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memory Lands

Author : Christine M. Delucia
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300201176
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Memory Lands written by Christine M. Delucia and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful study of King Philip's War and its enduring effects on histories, memories, and places in Native New England from 1675 to the present

The Publishers' Trade List Annual

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1782 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Publishers' Trade List Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century "

Author : Janice Helland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351570846
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book "Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century " written by Janice Helland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craft practice has a rich history and remains vibrant, sustaining communities while negotiating cultures within local or international contexts. More than two centuries of industrialization have not extinguished handmade goods; rather, the broader force of industrialization has redefined and continues to define the context of creation, deployment and use of craft objects. With object study at the core, this book brings together a collection of essays that address the past and present of craft production, its use and meaning within a range of community settings from the Huron Wendat of colonial Quebec to the Girls? Friendly Society of twentieth-century England. The making of handcrafted objects has and continues to flourish despite the powerful juggernaut of global industrialization, whether inspired by a calculated refutation of industrial sameness, an essential means to sustain a cultural community under threat, or a rejection of the imposed definitions by a dominant culture. The broader effects of urbanizing, imperial and globalizing projects shape the multiple contexts of interaction and resistance that can define craft ventures through place and time. By attending to the political histories of craft objects and their makers, over the last few centuries, these essays reveal the creative persistence of various hand mediums and the material debates they represented.

Genealogical Periodical Annual Index

Author : Ellen Stanley Rogers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogical Periodical Annual Index written by Ellen Stanley Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Conservation of Furniture

Author : Shayne Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113641536X
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)

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Download or read book Conservation of Furniture written by Shayne Rivers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-07 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive resource covering the principles and practice of the conservation and restoration of furniture, and other decorative art objects made wholly or partly of wood. It integrates theory with practice to show the principles which govern interaction between wooden objects, the environmental and conservation treatments and the factors which need to be taken into account to arrive at acceptable solutions to conservation problems. The practical knowledge and experience of a team of conservators active in the field are bought together with theoretical and reference material from diverse sources and unified within a systematic framework. Specialist conservators from related disciplines cover diverse materials often incorporated into furniture.

Millions for Defense

Author : Frederick Leiner
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612513484
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Millions for Defense written by Frederick Leiner and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s—“millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.” Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France’s galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered towards open war, were disturbed by their country’s lack of warships. Provoked to action, private U.S. citizens decided to help build a navy. Merchants from Newburyport, Massachusetts, took the lead by opening a subscription to fund a 20-gun warship to be built in ninety days, and they persuaded Congress to pass a statute that gave them government “stock” bearing 6 percent interest in exchange for their money. Their example set off a chain reaction down the coast. More than a thousand subscribers in the port towns pledged money and began to build nine warships with little government oversight. Among the subscription ships were the Philadelphia, later lost on the rocks at Tripoli; Essex, the first American warship to round the Cape of Good Hope; and Boston, which captured the French corvette Le Berceau. This book is the first to explore in depth the subject of subscribing for warships. Frederick Leiner explains how the idea materialized, who the people were who subscribed and built the ships, how the ships were built, and what contributions these ships made to the Quasi-War against France. Along the way, he also offers significant insights into the politics of what is arguably the most critical period in American history.

Producers Versus Capitalists

Author : Tony Allan Freyer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813914961
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)

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Download or read book Producers Versus Capitalists written by Tony Allan Freyer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This mid-Atlantic region is intended to serve as a federal system in miniature, offering opportunities for comparative analysis.

The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire

Author : Francis Jennings
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393303025
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Ambiguous Iroquois Empire written by Francis Jennings and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1984 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continues: The invasion of America. 1976, c1975.

Electric Interurbans and the American People

Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253023203
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Electric Interurbans and the American People written by H. Roger Grant and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A well-written social history of the shortest-lived major US transportation mode” from the railway historian and author of A Mighty Fine Road (Choice). One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance travel. At a time when most roads were unpaved and horse and buggy travel were costly and difficult, these streetcar-like electric cars were essential to economic growth. But why did interurban fever strike so suddenly and extensively in the Midwest and other areas? Why did thousands of people withdraw their savings to get onto what they believed to be a “gravy train?” How did officials of competing steam railroads respond to these challenges to their operations? H. Roger Grant explores the rise and fall of this fleeting form of transportation that started in the early 1900s and was defunct just 30 years later. Perfect for railfans, Electric Interurbans and the American People is a comprehensive contribution for those who love the flanged wheel. “With this book, the subject no longer has footnote status. In fact, Grant’s work deserves a place alongside some of the other landmark surveys of the subject . . . Here, Grant moves beyond the receiverships, the rickety track, and all that fascinating rolling stock. He shows us why the whole darned thing mattered.” —Railroad History “H. Roger Grant has produced a fine social history of America’s electric interurbans, exploring the relationship between people and those railway enterprises. The book fills a void, is eminently readable, and richly illustrated.” —Don L. Hofsommer, author of Off the Main Lines