Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Scully V. United States of America
Author: Landlord William Scully
Author: Homer E. SocolofskyPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631755
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life’s energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost land. He carefully husbanded his inheritance, and in 1850 he traveled to the United States and purchased with personal savings more than 8,000 acres in central Illinois. In 1851 he acquired another 30,000 acres of swampy virgin land. He added to his holdings until, by the late nineteenth century, he had amassed almost 225,000 acres of fertile farm land in Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska, and had become an absentee, alien landlord to some 1,500 tenants. Meanwhile, Scully was involved in lawsuits and violent landlord-tenant confrontations over his Irish holdings, which exceeded 2,000 acres. In one skirmish with his tenants Scully was severely wounded and two of his party were killed. Public remonstrance against Scully’s actions brought his name into notoriety throughout Great Britain. To handle his huge estate in America, Scully employed agents who were strategically located near his land. He inaugurated formal leasing procedures, insisting on elaborate controls: cash rentals, one-year leases, tenant-owned improvements, and soil conservation measures—all unusual for the time. Agitation against his practices as an absentee landlord in the 1880s and 1890s was widely covered in newspapers of the times. Because Scully used crop liens and court action to protect his rights, he was widely denounced for his disregard for his tenants’ welfare. State legislation designed to limit acquisition and inheritance of land by aliens finally forced Scully to gain American citizenship in 1900, six years before his death. Homer Socolofsky’s biography of Scully, the product of more than thirty years of research, provides a narrative and analysis of Scully’s activities as an investor in both Ireland and the United States. It is based on numerous archival and newspaper sources never before analyzed in published works, including private business records of the Scully estate, as well as Socolofsky’s interviews with Scully tenants. Socolofsky traces the acquisitions that led to Scully’s vast wealth, stressing the landlord’s strong will and determination and his unique methods of management. He looks closely at the charges against Scully on both sides of the Atlantic and describes Scully’s court fights and other confrontations with his tenants. Finally, he follows the inheritance of Scully’s multi-million dollar estate from Scully’s death to the present. Scully’s colorful career provides a unique opportunity for studying the economics and politics of land use in this country during the nineteenth century. This volume moves beyond biography to encompass an important segment of the business and agricultural history of the American Midwest.
Dominion
Author: Matthew ScullyPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429980435
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth." --Genesis 1:24-26 In this crucial passage from the Old Testament, God grants mankind power over animals. But with this privilege comes the grave responsibility to respect life, to treat animals with simple dignity and compassion. Somewhere along the way, something has gone wrong. In Dominion, we witness the annual convention of Safari Club International, an organization whose wealthier members will pay up to $20,000 to hunt an elephant, a lion or another animal, either abroad or in American "safari ranches," where the animals are fenced in pens. We attend the annual International Whaling Commission conference, where the skewed politics of the whaling industry come to light, and the focus is on developing more lethal, but not more merciful, methods of harvesting "living marine resources." And we visit a gargantuan American "factory farm," where animals are treated as mere product and raised in conditions of mass confinement, bred for passivity and bulk, inseminated and fed with machines, kept in tightly confined stalls for the entirety of their lives, and slaughtered in a way that maximizes profits and minimizes decency. Throughout Dominion, Scully counters the hypocritical arguments that attempt to excuse animal abuse: from those who argue that the Bible's message permits mankind to use animals as it pleases, to the hunter's argument that through hunting animal populations are controlled, to the popular and "scientifically proven" notions that animals cannot feel pain, experience no emotions, and are not conscious of their own lives. The result is eye opening, painful and infuriating, insightful and rewarding. Dominion is a plea for human benevolence and mercy, a scathing attack on those who would dismiss animal activists as mere sentimentalists, and a demand for reform from the government down to the individual. Matthew Scully has created a groundbreaking work, a book of lasting power and importance for all of us.
Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions
Author: District Judges Association, Sixth Circuit. Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury InstructionsPublisher:
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Category : Criminal procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Understanding Sexual Violence
Author: Diana ScullyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135220204
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Understanding Sexual Violence examines the structural supports for rape in sexually violent cultures and dispels a number of myths about sexual violence--for example, that childhood abuse, alcohol, and drugs are direct causes of rape.
Supreme Court Reporter
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Bargaining with the State from Afar
Author: Eileen P. ScullyPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231121095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
-- Foreign Affairs.
Pull Up a Chair
Author: Curt SmithPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1597974242
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Discusses the lengthy career of the famous sportscaster, including his early life, his move with the Dodgers to Los Angeles, and his numerous awards for outstanding work in his field.
Hollywood Tough
Author: Stephen J. CannellPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312989422
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning writer/producer sets this action-packed Shane Scully thriller in the high-stakes world he knows best--Hollywood. Martin's Press.
United States Supreme Court Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.