Author: Will Soper
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147669057X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854 to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York Tribune reported the intrigues that really doomed the port: Greytown had been a hindrance to the supremacy of a U.S.-owned steamboat company and to the colonization plans of American land speculators. Both interests used pretexts to convince the U.S. government to level the town. When an American sued for damages, he lost, resulting in a case law still cited to justify military interventions without the Congressional approval required by the Constitution. This book corrects the record regarding the causes of Greytown's destruction, and challenges the case law, based as it is on a gross misapprehension of events.
"Greytown is no more!"
Author: Will Soper
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147669057X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854 to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York Tribune reported the intrigues that really doomed the port: Greytown had been a hindrance to the supremacy of a U.S.-owned steamboat company and to the colonization plans of American land speculators. Both interests used pretexts to convince the U.S. government to level the town. When an American sued for damages, he lost, resulting in a case law still cited to justify military interventions without the Congressional approval required by the Constitution. This book corrects the record regarding the causes of Greytown's destruction, and challenges the case law, based as it is on a gross misapprehension of events.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 147669057X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854 to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York Tribune reported the intrigues that really doomed the port: Greytown had been a hindrance to the supremacy of a U.S.-owned steamboat company and to the colonization plans of American land speculators. Both interests used pretexts to convince the U.S. government to level the town. When an American sued for damages, he lost, resulting in a case law still cited to justify military interventions without the Congressional approval required by the Constitution. This book corrects the record regarding the causes of Greytown's destruction, and challenges the case law, based as it is on a gross misapprehension of events.
The Affair at Grey Town
Author: Augustus Granville Stapleton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
When the Eternal Can Be Met
Author: Corey Latta
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630872598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. Decades before Lewis, Eliot, and Auden sought to creatively construct a fictive or poetic theology of time, the prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state, a theory well known by Lewis, Eliot, and Auden. When the Eternal Can Be Met argues that one cannot fully understand Lewis, Eliot, and Auden's theology of time without understanding Bergson's theories. From the secular philosophy of Bergson dawned the most important works of literary theology and treatments of time of the twentieth century, and in the Bergson-influenced literary constructs of Lewis, Eliot, and Auden, a common theological articulation sounds out--time present is where humans meet God.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1630872598
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
When the Eternal Can Be Met excavates the philosophy behind the theology of the twentieth century's most prominent Christian writers: C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and W. H. Auden. These three literary giants converted to Christianity within little more than a decade of one another, and interestingly, all three theological authors turned to the theme of time. All three authors also came to remarkably similar conclusions about time, positing that the temporal present moment allowed one to meet the eternal. Decades before Lewis, Eliot, and Auden sought to creatively construct a fictive or poetic theology of time, the prominent philosopher Henri Bergson wrote about time's power to transform an individual's emotional and spiritual state, a theory well known by Lewis, Eliot, and Auden. When the Eternal Can Be Met argues that one cannot fully understand Lewis, Eliot, and Auden's theology of time without understanding Bergson's theories. From the secular philosophy of Bergson dawned the most important works of literary theology and treatments of time of the twentieth century, and in the Bergson-influenced literary constructs of Lewis, Eliot, and Auden, a common theological articulation sounds out--time present is where humans meet God.
The United States Democratic Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Vols. 1-3, 5-8 contain the political and literary portions; v. 4 the historical register department, of the numbers published from Oct. 1837 to Dec. 1840.
The U.S. Democratic Review
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
United States Magazine, and Democratic Review
Author:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The United States Review
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
The American Whig Review
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 704
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