Author: James Morrison (Accountant)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Mercantile Teacher's Assistant: Or a Guide to Practical Book-keeping ...
Author: James Morrison (Accountant)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Employment of Merchant Seamen
Author: Jonathan S. KitchenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351806785
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
This book, first published in 1980, covers the employment of merchant seamen, principally from the perspective of a labour lawyer, but including a great deal of material not normally found in books on labour law. It also shows how the law is but one kind of rule; that the collective organisations of works and employers create and enforce rules of industrial practice that have just as important an effect on the lives of those they cover.
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Baltimore, 1858
Author: Laws Relating to Shipping and Merchant Marine
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Aristocracy in America
Author: Francis J. GrundPublisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826274056
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In Jacksonian America, as Grund exposes, the wealthy inhabitants of northern cities and the plantation South may have been willing to accept their poorer neighbors as political and legal peers, but rarely as social equals. In this important work, he thus sheds light on the nature of the struggle between “aristocracy” and “democracy” that loomed so large in early republican Americans’ minds. Francis J. Grund, a German emigrant, was one of the most influential journalists in America in the three decades preceding the Civil War. He also wrote several books, including this fictional, satiric travel memoir in response to Alexis de Tocqueville’s famous Democracy in America. Armin Mattes provides a thorough account of Grund’s dynamic engagement in American political life, and brings to light many of Grund’s reflections on American social and political life previously published only in German. Mattes shows how Grund’s work can expand our understanding of the emerging democratic political culture and society in the antebellum United States.
Mid-Ch'ing Rice Markets and Trade
Author: Han-sheng ChuanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 1684171857
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Analysis of China's rice markets and trade during the mid-Ch'ing dynasty. Provides quantitative data for how the commodity pricing worked over time in the pre-modern Chinese economy. Includes four chapters plus four detailed appendices.
Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the ... Library
Author: Alphabetical and Analytical Catalogue of the American Institute Library
Author: American Institute of the City of New York. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries, Public
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Madeleine's Children
Author: Sue PeabodyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190233893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Madeleine's Children uncovers a multigenerational saga of an enslaved family in India and two islands, Réunion and Mauritius, in the eastern empires of France and Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A tale of legal intrigue, it reveals the lives and secret relationships between slaves and free people that have remained obscure for two centuries. As a child, Madeleine was pawned by her impoverished family and became the slave of a French woman in Bengal. She accompanied her mistress to France as a teenager, but she did not challenge her enslavement there on the basis of France's Free Soil principle, a consideration that did not come to light until future lawyers investigated her story. In France, a new master and mistress purchased her, despite laws prohibiting the sale of slaves within the kingdom. The couple transported Madeleine across the ocean to their plantation in the Indian Ocean colonies, where she eventually gave birth to three children: Maurice, Constance, and Furcy. One died a slave and two eventually became free, but under very different circumstances. On 21 November 1817, Furcy exited the gates of his master's mansion and declared himself a free man. The lawsuit waged by Furcy to challenge his wrongful enslavement ultimately brought him before the Royal Court of Paris, despite the extreme measures that his putative master, Joseph Lory, deployed to retain him as his slave. A meticulous work of archival detection, Madeleine's Children investigates the cunning, clandestine, and brutal strategies that masters devised to keep slaves under their control-and paints a vivid picture of the unique and evolving meanings of slavery and freedom in the Indian Ocean world.
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