Author: St. George Tucker
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2020
Book Description
Blackstone's commentaries
Author: St. George Tucker
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2020
Book Description
Publisher: The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN: 1886363161
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2020
Book Description
The Sea and Civilization
Author: Lincoln Paine
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors’ first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post–Cold War era. This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. We find out how a once-enslaved East African king brought Islam to his people, what the American “sail-around territories” were, and what the Song Dynasty did with twenty-wheel, human-powered paddleboats with twenty paddle wheels and up to three hundred crew. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307962253
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human. Lincoln Paine takes us back to the origins of long-distance migration by sea with our ancestors’ first forays from Africa and Eurasia to Australia and the Americas. He demonstrates the critical role of maritime trade to the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Indus Valley. He reacquaints us with the great seafaring cultures of antiquity like those of the Phoenicians and Greeks, as well as those of India and Southeast and East Asia, who parlayed their navigational skills, shipbuilding techniques, and commercial acumen to establish thriving overseas colonies and trade routes in the centuries leading up to the age of European expansion. And finally, his narrative traces how commercial shipping and naval warfare brought about the enormous demographic, cultural, and political changes that have globalized the world throughout the post–Cold War era. This tremendously readable intellectual adventure shows us the world in a new light, in which the sea reigns supreme. We find out how a once-enslaved East African king brought Islam to his people, what the American “sail-around territories” were, and what the Song Dynasty did with twenty-wheel, human-powered paddleboats with twenty paddle wheels and up to three hundred crew. Above all, Paine makes clear how the rise and fall of civilizations can be linked to the sea. An accomplishment of both great sweep and illuminating detail, The Sea and Civilization is a stunning work of history.
The Law Reports
Author: Great Britain. High Court of Justice. Queen's Bench Division
Publisher:
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 990
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The Black Book of the Admiralty
Author: Travers Twiss
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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Languages : en
Pages : 634
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The Nautical Magazine and Naval Chronicle
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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Category : Naval art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1230
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Proceedings
Author: United States. Merchant Marine Council
Publisher:
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Westminster Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Languages : en
Pages : 618
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The Sea Trader
Author: David Hannay
Publisher:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 460
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A Complete Collection of State-trials and Proceedings for High-treason, and Other Crimes and Misdemeanors: 1679-1684
Author: Sollom Emlyn
Publisher:
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Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
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ISBN:
Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
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The Mariner's Mirror
Author: Leonard George Carr Laughton
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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