Author: William Earnshaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Digest of The Laws (From 12 Charles II. to 58 George III. Inclusive) Relating to Shipping, Navigation, Commerce, and Revenue, in the British Colonies In America and the West Indies, Including the Laws Abolishing the Slave Trade. By William Earnshaw, Solicitor for the Customs for the Northern Ports of England and Wales. Published by Permission of the Honorable the Commissioners of HIs Majesty's Customs
Author: William Earnshaw
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maritime law
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
A Digest of the Laws (from 12 Charles II. to 58 George III. Inclusive)
Author: William Earnshaw
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Britain's Political Economies
Author: Julian Hoppit
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015251
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107015251
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.
American and British Claims Arbitration
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
One Hundred Years of Singapore
Author: Walter Makepeace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singapore
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Singapore
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The History and Future of Technology
Author: Robert U. Ayres
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030713938
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earths ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030713938
Category : Technology
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Eminent physicist and economist, Robert Ayres, examines the history of technology as a change agent in society, focusing on societal roots rather than technology as an autonomous, self-perpetuating phenomenon. With rare exceptions, technology is developed in response to societal needs that have evolutionary roots and causes. In our genus Homo, language evolved in response to a need for our ancestors to communicate, both in the moment, and to posterity. A band of hunters had no chance in competition with predators that were larger and faster without this type of organization, which eventually gave birth to writing and music. The steam engine did not leap fully formed from the brain of James Watt. It evolved from a need to pump water out of coal mines, driven by a need to burn coal instead of firewood, in turn due to deforestation. Later, the steam engine made machines and mechanization possible. Even quite simple machines increased human productivity by a factor of hundreds, if not thousands. That was the Industrial Revolution. If we count electricity and the automobile as a second industrial revolution, and the digital computer as the beginning of a third, the world is now on the cusp of a fourth revolution led by microbiology. These industrial revolutions have benefited many in the short term, but devastated the Earths ecosystems. Can technology save the human race from the catastrophic consequences of its past success? That is the question this book will try to answer.
Marsden and Gault on Collisions at Sea
Author: Reginald Godfrey Marsden
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780414088221
Category : Collisions at sea
Languages : en
Pages : 975
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780414088221
Category : Collisions at sea
Languages : en
Pages : 975
Book Description
A Short History of the Middle Ages
Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781442636231
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In this bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a dynamic narrative that is complemented by exquisite illustrations and maps. In the new edition, Rosenwein makes significant additions to the Islamic and Mediterranean material as well as to the coverage of Eurasian connections. The maps now show topographical differences as well as changes over time, eighteen new plates highlight the art and architecture of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and genealogies and the plans for a mosque are now included. New essays have also been added in order to introduce readers to the analysis of material culture."--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781442636231
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In this bestselling book, Barbara H. Rosenwein integrates the history of three medieval civilizations (European, Byzantine, and Islamic) in a dynamic narrative that is complemented by exquisite illustrations and maps. In the new edition, Rosenwein makes significant additions to the Islamic and Mediterranean material as well as to the coverage of Eurasian connections. The maps now show topographical differences as well as changes over time, eighteen new plates highlight the art and architecture of the Islamic and Byzantine worlds, and genealogies and the plans for a mosque are now included. New essays have also been added in order to introduce readers to the analysis of material culture."--
Venezuelan Arbitrations of 1903
Author: Jackson Harvey Ralston
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venezuela
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Venezuela
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
A New History of the Isle of Man: The modern period 1830-1999
Author: Richard Chiverrell
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237266
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labor, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial center.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780853237266
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
A New History of the Isle of Man will provide a new benchmark for the study of the island’s history. In five volumes, it will survey all aspects of the history of the Isle of Man, from the evolution of the natural landscape through prehistory to modern times. The Modern Period is the first volume to be published. Wide in coverage, embracing political, constitutional, economic, labor, social and cultural developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the volume is particularly concerned with issues of image, identity and representation. From a variety of angles and perspectives, contributors explore the ways in which a sense of Manxness was constructed, contested, continued and amended as the little Manx nation underwent unprecedented change from debtors’ retreat through holiday playground to offshore international financial center.