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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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The Economist
Author: Silver Not a Local Issue
Author: Darwin Rush JamesPublisher:
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
Author: Homer Edward SocolofskyPublisher: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Benjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most neglected and least understood presidents. In this first interpretive study of the Harrison administration, the authors illuminate our twenty-third president's character and policies and rescue him from the long shadow of his charismatic secretary of state, James G. Blaine. An Ohio native and Indiana lawyer, Harrison opened the second century of the American presidency in a rapidly industrializing and expanding nation. His inaugural address reflected the nation's optimism: "The masses of our people are better fed, clothed, and housed than their fathers were. The facilities for popular education have been vastly enlarged and more generally diffused. The virtues of courage and patriotism have given proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people." But the burdens and realities of his office soon imposed themselves upon Harrison. The biggest blow came at midterm with the Republicans' devastating losses in the 1890 congressional elections. In an era of congressional dominance, those losses eroded Harrison's position as a legislative advocate—at least, for domestic issues. His impact in foreign affairs was more lasting. One of the highlights of this study is its revealing look at Harrison's visionary foreign policy, especially toward the Pacific. Socolofsky and Spetter convincingly demonstrate that although Harrison's ambition to acquire the Hawaiian Islands was not realized during his presidency, his foreign policy was a major step toward American control of Hawaii and American expansion in the Far East.
The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society
Author: American Journal of Numismatics
Author: American Journal of Numismatics, and Bulletin of American Numismatic and Archæological Societies
Author: Hugo Black of Alabama
Author: Steve SuittsPublisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1603064478
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Decades after his death, the life and career of Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black continue to be studied and discussed. This definitive study of Black’s origins and early influences has been 25 years in the making and offers fresh insights into the justice’s character, thought processes, and instincts. Black came out of hardscrabble Alabama hill country, and he never forgot his origins. He was further shaped in the early 20th-century politics of Birmingham, where he set up a law practice and began his political career, eventually rising to the U.S. Senate, from which he was selected by FDR for the high court. Black’s nomination was opposed partly on the grounds that he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. One of the book’s conclusions that is sure to be controversial is that in the context of Birmingham in the early 1920s, Black’s joining of the KKK was a progressive act. This startling assertion is supported by an examination of the conflict that was then raging in Birmingham between the Big Mule industrialists and the blue-collar labor unions. Black of course went on to become a staunch judicial advocate of free speech and civil rights, thus making him one of the figures most vilified by the KKK and other white supremacists in the 1950s and 1960s.
The Excavations at Dura-Europos
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Category : - Dura-Europos (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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