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Report copyright infringementby John William Midgley (Author)Car Service Reform: Considerations Leading To The Per Diem Rental Of Freight Cars, penned by John William Midgley, delves into the intricate world of 19th-century railroad economics. This historical work examines the challenges and potential solutions surrounding the use and rental of freight cars across different railway lines. Midgley's study provides invaluable insights into the evolution of railway management practices in the Un...

Cannon Mills and Kannapolis: Persistent Paternalism in a Textile Town

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy W. Vanderburg (Author)Cannon Mills was once the country's largest manufacturer of household textiles, and in many ways it exemplified the textile industry and paternalism in the postbellum South. At the same time, however, its particular brand of paternalism was much stronger and more enduring than elsewhere, and it remained in place long after most of the industry had transitioned to modern, bureaucratic management. In Cannon Mills and Kannapolis, Tim...

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Report copyright infringementby William Graham Sumner (Author)Though his writings are not spoken of as frequently as they once were, William G. Sumner was a prominent voice in the laissez-faire economic and social philosophies of the late 19th century. This 1919 volume collects some of his most significant essays and lectures, including: . "Protectionism, the -Ism which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth" (1885) . "What is Free Trade?" (1886) . "Prosperity Strangled by Gold" (1896) . "The Delusi...

An elementary treatise on the American law of real property.

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman (Author)The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks...

Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances for the Year: 1917

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Report copyright infringementby United States Dept of the Treasury (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other...

Money, Prices and Wages: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Mayhew

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Report copyright infringementby M. Allen (Editor), D. Coffman (Editor)Nick Mayhew has made key contributions to fields as diverse as medieval European monetary history, numismatics, financial history, price and wage history, and macroeconomic history. These essays, in his honour, demonstrate the analytical power and chronological reach of the novel interdisciplinary approach he has nurtured in himself and others.Author BiographyChris Briggs, University of Cambridge, UK Richard Britnell, Unive...

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Yip (Author)China's war against Japan was, at its heart, a struggle for food. As the Nationalists, Chinese Communist Party, and Japanese vied for a dwindling pool of sustenance, grain emerged as the lynchpin of their strategies for a long-term war effort. In the first in-depth examination of how the Nationalists fed their armies, Jennifer Yip demonstrates how the Chinese government relied on mass civilian mobilization to carry out all stages of provisi...

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Report copyright infringementby Georges François Renard (Author), G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole (Author), Dorothy Terry (Author)Explore the vibrant world of medieval trade and craftsmanship in George Renard's "Guilds in the Middle Ages." This meticulously prepared edition offers a deep dive into the history of guilds, those powerful organizations that shaped the economic and social landscape of Europe. Discover how these associations of merchants and artisans regulated trade, maintain...

Bullies, Parasites and Slaves: Replacing EXPLOITATION with MUTUAL CARE

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Report copyright infringementby George Byron Koch (Author)Human exploitation is a cruel legacy of our past, a present reality, and a threat to our commonfuture. If we allow it for any one of us, we authorize it for all of us.MUTUAL CARE will change the future. It is the golden rule of every great religion and moralphilosophy. When we protect each other, and help each other to thrive, we ensure our ownsafety, and create abundance for all of us.But bullies steal from us, with threat and harm; p...

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by Damon Murray (Editor), Stephen Sorrell (Editor), Olesya Turkina (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Celebrating the dogs that conquered the final frontier, in ephemera and collectiblesThis book is dedicated to the Soviet Space Dogs, who played a crucial part in the Soviet Space program. These homeless dogs, plucked from the streets of Moscow, were selected because they fitted the program's criteria: weighing no more than 15 pounds, measuring no more than 14 inches in length, robust, photogenic and ...

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by Audie Murphy (Author), Tom Brokaw (Foreword by)The classic bestselling war memoir by the most decorated American soldier in World War II, back in print in a trade paperback. Originally published in 1949, To Hell and Back was a smash bestseller for fourteen weeks and later became a major motion picture starring Audie Murphy as himself. Many decades later, this classic wartime memoir is just as gripping as it was then. Desperate to see action but rejected by both the marines and paratroopers...

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by Rp Kids (Author), Lisa Engler (Illustrator)Celebrate real-life heroes in the US Air Force with this early introduction board book series to the US military branches. The Mini Military series focuses on introducing young readers to the various branches of the US military. Lil' Air Force Pilot highlights what it's like to be in the US Air Force, focusing on uniforms and flight gear, and introducing toddlers to military vehicles, such as the fighter jets, helicopters, and bombers. Perfect fo...

History of the Great American Fortunes, Volume III

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Report copyright infringementby Gustavus Myers (Author)"Under the surface, the Rothschilds long had a powerful influence in dictating American financial laws. The law records show that they were powers in the old Bank of the United States [abolished by Andrew Jackson]." -Gustavus Myers, History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III The History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. III (1910), by Gustavus Myers, is the final volume in the original edition of a trilogy that attempted to docum...

Consumerism in World History: The Global Transformation of Desire

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Report copyright infringementby Peter N. Stearns (Author)The third edition of Consumerism in World History explores the nature of consumerism and its evolution, with particular emphasis on the modern "consumer revolution" and its global scope.Author BiographyPeter N. Stearns is a Distinguished University Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University, USA. He has written and taught on a variety of subjects in world history, including consumerism. He has worked extensively on the mod...

When Darkness Falls: Tales of San Antonio Ghosts and Hauntings

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Report copyright infringementby Docia Shultz Williams (Author)San Antonio is such an interesting and fascinating place to live, it seems a lot of folks just don't want to leave when it's their time to go. So, those Spirits of San Antonio just keep on returning-most often "When Darkness Falls". Once again, well-known ghost story writer Docia Williams brings us a new book about recent ghost sightings and mysterious happenings in the Alamo City. A chilling book for those wanting a guide to place...

Ohio Canal Era: A Case Study of Government and the Economy, 1820-1861

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Report copyright infringementby Harry N. Scheiber (Author)Ohio Canal Era, a rich analysis of state policies and their impact in directing economic change, is a classic on the subject of the pre-Civil War transportation revolution. This edition contains a new foreword by scholar Lawrence M. Friedman, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School, and a bibliographic note by the author. Professor Scheiber explores how Ohio-as a "public enterprise state," creating state agencies and mobilizing public r...

Undoing a Revolution: Sudan and the Politics of Debt

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Report copyright infringementby Harry Cross (Author)In 2019, a people's revolution ended the thirty-year reign of Sudan's military president Umar al-Bashir. A transitional government took power, led by esteemed international economist Abdalla Hamdok and promising a return to civilian rule. But Sudan's new government quickly imposed a shock therapy program of cuts, privatizations and devaluation, following the diktat of foreign lenders. In 2021, as Sudan grew poorer, the army seized on popular...

La Cucina: The Regional Cooking of Italy - Hardcover

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by The Italian Academy of Cuisine (Author)Fifty years ago, a group of Italian scholars gathered to discuss a problem: how to preserve traditional Italian cooking. They formed the Italian Academy of Cuisine to document classic recipes from every region. The academy's more than seven thousand associates spread out to villages everywhere, interviewing grandmothers and farmers at their stoves, transcribing their recipes--many of which had never been documented before. This is the culmination of t...

The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism - Hardcover

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by Yanni Kotsonis (Author)A sweeping global history of the birth of modern Greece In 1821, a diverse territory in the southern Balkans on the fringe of the Ottoman Empire was thrust into a decade of astounding mass violence. The Greek Revolution and the Violent Birth of Nationalism traces how something new emerged from an imperial mosaic of myriad languages, religions, cultures, and localisms--the world's first ethnic nation-state, one that was born from the destruction and the creation of wh...

Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound - Paperback

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by David B. Williams (Author)Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the regi...

The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages - Paperback

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by François-Xavier Fauvelle (Author), Troy Tice (Translator)An unforgettable journey into the forgotten history of medieval Africa From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which Gh na, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists played celebrated roles in an increasingly...

Mexican Phoenix: Our Lady of Guadalupe: Image and Tradition Across Five Centuries - Paperback

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by D. A. Brading (Author)In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Throu...

Foxe's Book of Martyrs (Updated): Updated Up to the 21st Centure - Paperback

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by John Foxe (Author)Would you suffer persecution, poverty, and prison for Christ? Would you endure cruel tortures that take your mind and body to the brink of death and beyond? Would you watch your children suffering for their faith and urge them to remain faithful to Christ? Would you endure inhuman tortures and "hold fast the profession of your faith without wavering" (Hebrews 10:23)? Would you stand boldly and without shame and confess Christ as your Lord, to your own and to your family's...

Tourism Case Studies Latin America Region

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Report copyright infringementby Sandro Carnicelli (Editor), Thiago Allis (Editor)Latin America is a complex mosaic of nations, people and landscapes, with unique cultural, scenic and economic resources but with no more than 6% of global international tourist arrivals (World Bank, 2019). The region hosts several top international destinations - such as the Caribbean islands and the sacred city of the Incas, Machu Picchu (Peru). Cities like São Paulo and Mexico City are internationally known fo...

The Middle East Economy: Decline and Recovery: Selected Essays

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Issawi (Author)In this work, Charles Issawi examines the main reasons for the economic decline of the Middle East. He discusses climate, geography, and religion, with particular emphasis on the military elite, whose contempt for artisans and merchants thwarted positive economic initiatives. The role played by minorities and foreigners throughout the region's history is also examined. Finally, the author compares the economic histories of different Middl...

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Report copyright infringementby Jackson McQuigg (Author)At well over 100 years old, Tampa Union Station is one of the few historic buildings in Tampa that still serves its original purpose. Designed by architect J.F. Leitner of Wilmington, North Carolina, Tampa Union Station has seen millions of travelers pass through its doors since its 1912 opening--from servicemen and women to flower children and from families on vacation to college kids setting out on their own. Once threatened with demol...

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Report copyright infringementby J. Roffe Wike (Author)The Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association is a book written by J. Roffe Wike that provides a comprehensive history of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association (PMA). The PMA was founded in 1909 and played a significant role in shaping the economic and political landscape of Pennsylvania in the 20th century. The book explores the origins of the PMA, its early years, and its growth into a powerful lobbying organization that represented ...

The Almightier: How Money Became God, Greed Became Virtue, and Debt Became Sin

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Vigna (Author)The complete story of how we came to worship money, and how we can stop greed from destroying everything.The pursuit of wealth is considered an essential function of human nature, and greed is an unspoken civic virtue. Many of us revere billionaires and Wall Street rain-makers, then complain about "the system" being rigged, and wonder why the country doesn't seem to work for the little guy anymore. Some blame the Deep State for income inequal...

Last One In: Tales of a New England Boyhood

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Report copyright infringementby John Gould (Author)There used to be a time when marvelous skyrockets could be purchased for a dime and the iceman came around once a week, when throwing a cap on and off took special talent and pants had watch pockets. When John Gould was young it didn't take much to amuse a boy. A boy would wake up in the morning ready to be "amazed all day long at all manner of things." Warmth, humor, nostalgia--these pages are filled with them, all conveyed lovingly in John ...

Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by David Cottington (Author)Public interest in modern art continues to grow, as witnessed by the spectacular success of the Tate Modern in London and the Bilbao Guggenheim. Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction engages general readers, offering them not only information and ideas about modern art, but also explaining its contemporary relevance and history. The book focuses on interrogating the idea of "modern" art by asking such questions as: What makes a work of art qualify as modern, or fai...

Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Paperback

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by Jeffrey E. Garten (Author)The former dean of the Yale School of Management and Undersecretary of Commerce in the Clinton administration chronicles the 1971 August meeting at Camp David, where President Nixon unilaterally ended the last vestiges of the gold standard--breaking the link between gold and the dollar--transforming the entire global monetary system.Over the course of three days--from August 13 to 15, 1971--at a secret meeting at Camp David, President Richard Nixon and his brain t...

The Illustrator. the Best from Around the World - Hardcover

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by Julius Wiedemann (Editor), Steven Heller (Editor)For the last couple of years, Steven Heller and Julius Wiedemann have traced the latest developments in illustration around the globe--and for all those who thought digital heralded the end of an era, they're here to set the record straight.There were extraordinary eras before mass media changed our viewing habits, back in the day when illustration was the primary means of illuminating the word on paper--all the way to today, when we get our...