Author: Record Society of Lancashire and CheshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Includes the society's Report
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Author: Record Society of Lancashire and CheshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Includes the society's Report
Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire
Author: Record Society of Lancashire and CheshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Undelivered Letters to Hudson's Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-57
Author: Helen M. BussPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774841397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
In the early nineteenth century, when the Hudson’s Bay Company sent men to its furthest posts along the coast of North America’s Pacific Northwest, the letters of those who cared for those men followed them in the Company’s supply ships. Sometimes, these letters missed their objects – the men had returned to Britain, or deserted their ships, or died. The Company returned the correspondence to its London office and over the years amassed a file of “undelivered letters.” Many of these remained sealed for 150 years and until they were opened by archivist Judith Hudson Beattie, when the Company archives were moved to Canada. These letters tell the fascinating stories of ordinary people whose lives are rarely recounted in traditional histories. Beattie and Helen M. Buss skilfully introduce us to both the lives of the letter writers and their would-be recipients. Their commentaries frame, for contemporary readers, the words of early nineteenth century working and middle class British folk as well as letters to “voyageurs” from Quebec. The stories of their lives – fathers struggling to support a family, widowed mothers yearning to see their sons, bereft sweethearts left behind, and wives raising their children alone – reach out over two centuries to offer rare insight into the varied worlds of men and women in the early nineteenth century, many of whom became settlers in Washington, Oregon, and the new British colony of Vancouver Island.
Accounts
Author: University of ReadingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
97 Orchard
Author: Jane ZiegelmanPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061288519
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
In 97 Orchard, Jane Ziegelman explores the culinary life that was the heart and soul of New York's Lower East Side around the turn of the twentieth century—a city within a city, where Germans, Irish, Italians, and Eastern European Jews attempted to forge a new life. Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, Ziegelman takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments, down dimly lit stairwells, beyond the front stoops where housewives congregated, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets. Ziegelman shows how immigrant cooks brought their ingenuity to the daily task of feeding their families, preserving traditions from home but always ready to improvise. 97 Orchard lays bare the roots of our collective culinary heritage.
Mr. Mothercountry
Author: Keally McBridePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190252987
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Today, every continent retains elements of the legal code distributed by the British empire. The British empire created a legal footprint along with political, economic, cultural and racial ones. One of the central problems of political theory is the insurmountable gap between ideas and their realization. Keally McBride argues that understanding the presently fraught state of the concept of the rule of law around the globe relies upon understanding how it was first introduced and then practiced through colonial administration--as well as unraveling the ideas and practices of those who instituted it. The astonishing fact of the matter is that for thirty years, between 1814 and 1844, virtually all of the laws in the British Empire were reviewed, approved or discarded by one individual: James Stephen, disparagingly known as "Mr. Mothercountry." Virtually every single act that was passed by a colony made its way to his desk, from a levy to improve sanitation, to an officer's pay, to laws around migration and immigration, and tariffs on products. Stephen, great-grandfather of Virginia Woolf, was an ardent abolitionist, and he saw his role as a legal protector of the most dispossessed. When confronted by acts that could not be overturned by reference to British law that he found objectionable, he would make arguments in the name of the "natural law" of justice and equity. He truly believed that law could be a force for good and equity at the same time that he was frustrated by the existence of laws that he saw as abhorrent. In Mr. Mothercountry, McBride draws on original archival research of the writings of Stephen and his descendants, as well as the Macaulay family, two major lineages of legal administrators in the British colonies, to explore the gap between the ideal of the rule of law and the ways in which it was practiced and enforced. McBride does this to show that there is no way of claiming that law is always a force for good or simply an ideological cover for oppression. It is both. Her ultimate intent is to illuminate the failures of liberal notions of legality in the international sphere and to trace the power disparities and historical trajectories that have accompanied this failure. This book explores the intertwining histories of colonial power and the idea of the rule of law, in both the past and the present, and it asks what the historical legacy of British Colonialism means for how different groups view international law today.
Digest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911] Contained in the American State Reports : Volumes 1 to [140] Inclusive, and of the Notes to the Cases Reported Therein: Abandonment to Youthful employees
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Author: Edmund Samson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1656
Book Description
Annotated Code of the State of Iowa
Author: IowaDigest of the Decisions of the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States from 1887 to [1911]: Abandonment to Youthful employees
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Author: Edmund Samson GreenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1660
Book Description
A Text-book of Pathology for Nurses
Author: Armin Von St. GeorgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nursing
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description