Author: Rufus King CutlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
New Orleans Custom-house Officials
Author: Rufus King CutlerOfficial Register
Author: United States Civil Service CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government executives
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Directories, Governmental
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Includes maps of the U.S. Congressional districts.
Executive Documents printed by Order of the House of Representatives during the First Session of the Thirty-Sixth Congress, 1859-60
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375104081
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
The Official Railway Guide
Author: The American Presidency
Author: Sidney M. MilkisPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1544360819
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
The American Presidency examines the constitutional foundation of the executive office and the social, economic, political, and international forces that have reshaped it. Authors Sidney M. Milkis and Michael Nelson broadly examine the influence of each president, focusing on how these leaders have sought to navigate the complex and ever-changing terrain of the executive office and revealing the major developments that launched the modern presidency at the dawn of the twentieth century. By connecting presidential conduct to the defining eras of American history and the larger context of politics and government in the United States, this award-winning book offers vital perspective and insight on the limitations and possibilities of presidential power. The Eighth Edition examines recent events and developments including the latter part of the Obama presidency, the 2016 election, the first twenty months of the Trump presidency, and updated coverage of issues involving race and the presidency.
Official Danger, Distress, and Storm-signal Codes for Signal Service Sea-coast Stations and Mariners
Author: United States. Army. Signal CorpsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Signals and signaling
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Smuggler Nation
Author: Peter AndreasPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199301611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1815
Book Description
America is a smuggler nation. Our long history of illicit imports has ranged from West Indies molasses and Dutch gunpowder in the 18th century, to British industrial technologies and African slaves in the 19th century, to French condoms and Canadian booze in the early 20th century, to Mexican workers and Colombian cocaine in the modern era. Contraband capitalism, it turns out, has been an integral part of American capitalism. Providing a sweeping narrative history from colonial times to the present, Smuggler Nation is the first book to retell the story of America--and of its engagement with its neighbors and the rest of the world--as a series of highly contentious battles over clandestine commerce. As Peter Andreas demonstrates in this provocative and fascinating account, smuggling has played a pivotal and too often overlooked role in America's birth, westward expansion, and economic development, while anti-smuggling campaigns have dramatically enhanced the federal government's policing powers. The great irony, Andreas tells us, is that a country that was born and grew up through smuggling is today the world's leading anti-smuggling crusader. In tracing America's long and often tortuous relationship with the murky underworld of smuggling, Andreas provides a much-needed antidote to today's hyperbolic depictions of out-of-control borders and growing global crime threats. Urgent calls by politicians and pundits to regain control of the nation's borders suffer from a severe case of historical amnesia, nostalgically implying that they were ever actually under control. This is pure mythology, says Andreas. For better and for worse, America's borders have always been highly porous. Far from being a new and unprecedented danger to America, the illicit underside of globalization is actually an old American tradition. As Andreas shows, it goes back not just decades but centuries. And its impact has been decidedly double-edged, not only subverting U.S. laws but also helping to fuel America's evolution from a remote British colony to the world's pre-eminent superpower.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion
Author: United States. Naval War Records OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Author: