Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Minutes of Evidence taken before the Lords Committee to whom was Referred The Bill, intituled "An Act to repeal certain Acts of His "late Majesty relating to the Wages of Persons employed " in the Manufacture of Silk, and of Silk mixed with other" Materials.".
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Galignani's Messenger
Author: English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Caroline Sheridan NortonPublisher:
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Category : Divorce
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Essay on the legal status of women in British law and her own personal experience with leaving her husband in 1836 and the legal aftermath. Pages 18-21 discuss legal cases involving enslaved persons in British colonies and the United States.
The History and Present State of Virginia
Author: Robert BeverleyPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469607956
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
While in London in 1705, Robert Beverley wrote and published The History and Present State of Virginia, one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Like his brother-in-law William Byrd II, Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, personally ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American--most famously claiming "I am an Indian--he provided English readers with the first thoroughgoing account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. In this new edition, Susan Scott Parrish situates Beverley and his History in the context of the metropolitan-provincial political and cultural issues of his day and explores the many contradictions embedded in his narrative. Parrish's introduction and the accompanying annotation, along with a fresh transcription of the 1705 publication and a more comprehensive comparison of emendations in the 1722 edition, will open Beverley's History to new, twenty-first-century readings by students of transatlantic history, colonialism, natural science, literature, and ethnohistory.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina BelozerskayaPublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 0892367857
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
How Social Movements Die
Author: Christian DavenportPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316194701
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.
Ten Hours' Factory Bill
Author: Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of ShaftesburyPublisher:
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Category : Ballot
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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History of the Colony of New Haven, Before and After the Union with Connecticut
Author: Edward Rodolphus LambertPublisher:
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Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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A History of the Commercial and Financial Relations Between England and Ireland
Author: Alice Effie MurrayPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Report of the Poor Law Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Poor Law CommissionersPublisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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