Author: Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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Cambridge Public Library Bulletin
Author: Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge, Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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The Missouri Compromise and Its Aftermath
Author: Robert Pierce Forbes
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458721663
Category : Missouri compromise
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458721663
Category : Missouri compromise
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Cambridge Public Library Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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From Captives to Consuls
Author: Brett Goodin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421438976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Drawing on archival collections, newspapers, private correspondence, and government documents, From Captives to Consuls sheds new light on the significance of ordinary individuals in guiding early American ideas of science, international relations, and what it meant to be a self-made man.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421438976
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Drawing on archival collections, newspapers, private correspondence, and government documents, From Captives to Consuls sheds new light on the significance of ordinary individuals in guiding early American ideas of science, international relations, and what it meant to be a self-made man.
A Good and Wise Measure
Author: Francis M. Carroll
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. Though established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the boundary was plagued by ambiguities and errors in the document.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802083586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
The story of the attempts to settle the original boundary between British North America and the United States. Though established by the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the boundary was plagued by ambiguities and errors in the document.
Freedom's Battle
Author: Gary J. Bass
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307269299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly romantic and full of bizarre enthusiasms, these activists were pioneers of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about today’s human rights crises.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307269299
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This gripping and important book brings alive over two hundred years of humanitarian interventions. Freedom’s Battle illuminates the passionate debates between conscience and imperialism ignited by the first human rights activists in the 19th century, and shows how a newly emergent free press galvanized British, American, and French citizens to action by exposing them to distant atrocities. Wildly romantic and full of bizarre enthusiasms, these activists were pioneers of a new political consciousness. And their legacy has much to teach us about today’s human rights crises.
At the Edge of the Precipice
Author: Robert V. Remini
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465021662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in response, Southerners baldly threatened to secede from the Union. Only Henry Clay could keep the nation together. At the Edge of the Precipice is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare. A masterful narrative by an eminent historian, At the Edge of the Precipice also offers a timely reminder of the importance of bipartisanship in a bellicose age.
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465021662
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
In 1850, America hovered on the brink of disunion. Tensions between slave-holders and abolitionists mounted, as the debate over slavery grew rancorous. An influx of new territory prompted Northern politicians to demand that new states remain free; in response, Southerners baldly threatened to secede from the Union. Only Henry Clay could keep the nation together. At the Edge of the Precipice is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare. A masterful narrative by an eminent historian, At the Edge of the Precipice also offers a timely reminder of the importance of bipartisanship in a bellicose age.
A History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. 2. Later national literature: pt. 1
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Beneath the United States
Author: Lars Schoultz
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674043282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs. In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes. Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a civilizing mission--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace, while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children. Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674043282
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
In this sweeping history of United States policy toward Latin America, Lars Schoultz shows that the United States has always perceived Latin America as a fundamentally inferior neighbor, unable to manage its affairs and stubbornly underdeveloped. This perception of inferiority was apparent from the beginning. John Quincy Adams, who first established diplomatic relations with Latin America, believed that Hispanics were lazy, dirty, nasty...a parcel of hogs. In the early nineteenth century, ex-President John Adams declared that any effort to implant democracy in Latin America was as absurd as similar plans would be to establish democracies among the birds, beasts, and fishes. Drawing on extraordinarily rich archival sources, Schoultz, one of the country's foremost Latin America scholars, shows how these core beliefs have not changed for two centuries. We have combined self-interest with a civilizing mission--a self-abnegating effort by a superior people to help a substandard civilization overcome its defects. William Howard Taft felt the way to accomplish this task was to knock their heads together until they should maintain peace, while in 1959 CIA Director Allen Dulles warned that the new Cuban officials had to be treated more or less like children. Schoultz shows that the policies pursued reflected these deeply held convictions. While political correctness censors the expression of such sentiments today, the actions of the United States continue to assume the political and cultural inferiority of Latin America. Schoultz demonstrates that not until the United States perceives its southern neighbors as equals can it anticipate a constructive hemispheric alliance.
Proceedings of [1st]-6th National Conference, American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes. 1910-16
Author: American Society for Judicial Settlement of International Disputes
Publisher:
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Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arbitration (International law)
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description