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Category : Trademarks
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical Broadsides, 1850-1870. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
History of Westchester County
Author: John Thomas ScharfPublisher:
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Category : Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Acreage, Production, and Value of Principal Farm Crops in the United States, 1866 to 1895
Author: Henry A. Robinson (Statistician)Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Contains data from 1866-1985 for corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, hay, buckwheat, tobacco, potatoes, cotton, mess pork, Ohio fleece wool, and the world cotton crop.
Annual Report of the Young Men's Christian Association, Trenton, N.J. ...
Author: Young Men's Christian Association of Trenton (N.J.).Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Author: Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland
Author: Christine KinealyPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441133089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The Great Irish Famine was one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of the nineteenth century. In a period of only five years, Ireland lost approximately 25% of its population through a combination of death and emigration. How could such a tragedy have occurred at the heart of the vast, and resource-rich, British Empire? Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland explores this question by focusing on a particular, and lesser-known, aspect of the Famine: that being the extent to which people throughout the world mobilized to provide money, food and clothing to assist the starving Irish. This book considers how, helped by developments in transport and communications, newspapers throughout the world reported on the suffering in Ireland, prompting funds to be raised globally on an unprecedented scale. Donations came from as far away as Australia, China, India and South America and contributors emerged from across the various religious, ethnic, social and gender divides. Charity and the Great Hunger in Ireland traces the story of this international aid effort and uses it to reveal previously unconsidered elements in the history of the Famine in Ireland.
Annual Report of the Council of the Montreal Board of Trade
Author: Montréal (Québec) Board of TradePublisher:
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Category : Boards of trade
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
Author: Robert E. MayPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations of a week or more depending on how long an oversized “Yule log” burned in their master’s fireplace. As long as the log held out, slaves escaped heavy labor and their masters’ whips and enjoyed a rare freedom of movement to go and do what they wished as well as gorge themselves on food and drink they never got the rest of the year. No wonder they soaked those logs in swamps to make them burn even longer. But is it true? In this book historian Robert May takes readers on a detective caper as he investigates a story that reaches back to colonial America and continues today. May finds no evidence of the Yule log tradition in the historical record, instead showing that it originated with pro-Confederate Lost Cause propagandists attempting to present the South’s prewar system of human bondage in as soft tones as possible. Tales about good-natured masters and unresentful slaves jovially sharing Christmases played to this impulse beautifully. Debunking the Yule Log Myth does more than correct the historical record. It serves as a highly instructive case study in the process of historical mythmaking. This captivating tale will appeal to all readers interested in African American history and the long struggle to support white supremacy by creating a mythical antebellum American South.
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