Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario
Author: Ontario. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
The Counterrevolution of Slavery
Author: Manisha SinhaPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860972
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
In this comprehensive analysis of politics and ideology in antebellum South Carolina, Manisha Sinha offers a provocative new look at the roots of southern separatism and the causes of the Civil War. Challenging works that portray secession as a fight for white liberty, she argues instead that it was a conservative, antidemocratic movement to protect and perpetuate racial slavery. Sinha discusses some of the major sectional crises of the antebellum era--including nullification, the conflict over the expansion of slavery into western territories, and secession--and offers an important reevaluation of the movement to reopen the African slave trade in the 1850s. In the process she reveals the central role played by South Carolina planter politicians in developing proslavery ideology and the use of states' rights and constitutional theory for the defense of slavery. Sinha's work underscores the necessity of integrating the history of slavery with the traditional narrative of southern politics. Only by taking into account the political importance of slavery, she insists, can we arrive at a complete understanding of southern politics and the enormity of the issues confronting both northerners and southerners on the eve of the Civil War.
The House of Commons
Author: R. G. ThornePublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780436521010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 3610
Book Description
The House of Commons volumes, part of the History of Parliament series, are a major academic project describing the House's members, constituencies and activities covering the period 1386-1832. Consists of biographies of every person who sat as a member of the House during the period concerned; descriptions of each election during the period in each constituency; and an introductory survey, pulling together and analysing the information given in the biographies and constituency histories.
General Index to the Journals and Sessional Papers of the Legislative Assembly, Ontario
Author: Ontario. Legislative AssemblyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920
Author: David HochfelderPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421407973
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity. The telegraph revolutionized the spread of information—speeding personal messages, news of public events, and details of stock fluctuations. During the Civil War, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union war effort a critical advantage. Afterward, the telegraph helped build and break fortunes and, along with the railroad, altered the way Americans thought about time and space. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
The Rotarian
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
The Effect of Low Silver, Hearings ..., on H.Res. 72 ..., MAr 7- April 15, 1932
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on coinage, weights & measuresPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description