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Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy and the Law

A Reflective Memoir of Three Generations

By: John Thomas Smith II

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Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy and the Law

A Reflective Memoir of Three Generations

By: John Thomas Smith II

This multigenerational memoir sketches the lives of three generations of the author’s family that were involved with some of the most profound issues of the twentieth century. Smith’s paternal grandfather was present at the creation of General Motors Corporation and served as its Vice President and General Counsel. His maternal grandfather, William G. Maguire, was an entrepreneur and natural gas pipeline pioneer with a visionary grasp of natural gas’s significance in the twentieth century American economy. Smith’s father served as a senior diplomat under five presidents, working to constrain the nuclear arms race between the United States and Russia and to curtail proliferation of nuclear weapons.

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277

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1442220120

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9781442220126

The Pilgrim Fathers and their Successors

By: John Brown

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The Pilgrim Fathers and their Successors

By: John Brown

Four hundred years ago, a small band of ordinary men and women set out on an epic journey from Britain to New England facing stormy seas, near starvation and death. What drove them to undertake this hazardous journey and endure such hardships? In this book, John Brown demonstrates that it was principally their desire for freedom to worship God according to their consciences. Their journey began long before the Mayflower set sail, and the author charts the persecution they had endured in Britain, their settling in Holland for a period, and all the events leading to their sailing in 1620, first from Southampton where they had gathered and then finally from Plymouth. The initial hardships, cold and many deaths experienced through the first winter in their new home only deepened their resolve to continue in dependence on God. Continuing difficulties gradually yielded to success and the addition of further emigrants to strengthen them and establish other colonies. This book covers events up to the uniting of these colonies in 1643. John Brown (1830-1922) was minister of the Bunyan Meeting in Bedford and is well known for his historical works.

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285

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Counted Faithful

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178872206X

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9781788722063

Annals of Cambridge

Vol. II

By: Charles Henry Cooper,John William Cooper

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Annals of Cambridge

Vol. II

By: Charles Henry Cooper,John William Cooper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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650

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385129702

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9783385129702

The World of William Byrd

Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: Mr John Harley

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The World of William Byrd

Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: Mr John Harley

In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.

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332

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140949408X

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9781409494089

The World of William Byrd

Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: John Harley

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Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: John Harley

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Routledge

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1317011465

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9781317011460

John Jacob Astor

Business and Finance in the Early Republic

By: John Denis Haeger

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John Jacob Astor

Business and Finance in the Early Republic

By: John Denis Haeger

Biography of John Jacob Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860. John Jacob Astor was the best-known and most important American businessman for more than a half-century. His career encompassed the country's formative economic years from the precarious days following the American Revolution to the emergence of an urban-centered manufacturing economy in the late 1840s. Change was the dominant motif of the period, and Astor either exemplified the varied economic, social, and political changes in his business career or he directly affected the course of events. In this biography of John Jacob Astor, John Denis Haeger uses Astor's life and his career as a merchant, fur trader, and land speculator as vehicles for examining several important themes and issues in American economic and urban development between 1790 and 1860. Haeger addresses, in fascinating detail, the complexity of Astor's business endeavors, his extensive connections with the country's dominant political figures, and the "modern" business strategies and managerial techniques that he used to build his business empire. Astor was clearly not a business revolutionary who radically altered an existing system. He was, however, an entrepreneur who exerted a profound change on an industry. He fascinated his contemporaries precisely because he so mirrored his age and its changing business and economic patterns. He grasped the greater size and complexity of an emerging commercial economy in post-Revolutionary America and adopted strategies and structures that transformed the fur and China trades. His investment in city real estate, stocks, bonds, and even a western city made him part of America's evolution into an urbanindustrial society. For his era, John Astor's career was remarkable for its modernity, vision, and reflection of American economic and political values. More than just a personal biography, John Jacob Astor combines economic theories with a fascinating narrative that demonstrates, like no other book has, Astor's impact on the early republic.

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380

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Wayne State University Press

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0814343430

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9780814343432

Wellspring of Liberty

How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

By: John A. Ragosta

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Wellspring of Liberty

How Virginia's Religious Dissenters Helped Win the American Revolution and Secured Religious Liberty

By: John A. Ragosta

Before the American Revolution, no colony more assiduously protected its established church or more severely persecuted religious dissenters than Virginia. Both its politics and religion were dominated by an Anglican establishment, and dissenters from the established Church of England were subject to numerous legal infirmities and serious persecution. By 1786, no state more fully protected religious freedom. This profound transformation, as John A. Ragosta shows in this book, arose not from a new-found cultural tolerance. Rather, as the Revolution approached, Virginia's political establishment needed the support of the religious dissenters, primarily Presbyterians and Baptists, for the mobilization effort. Dissenters seized this opportunity to insist on freedom of religion in return for their mobilization. Their demands led to a complex and extended negotiation in which the religious establishment slowly and grudgingly offered just enough reforms to maintain the crucial support of the dissenters. After the war, when dissenters' support was no longer needed, the establishment leaders sought to recapture control, but found they had seriously miscalculated: wartime negotiations had politicized the dissenters. As a result dissenters' demands for the separation of church and state triumphed over the establishment's efforts and Jefferson's Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom was adopted. Historians and the Supreme Court have repeatedly noted that the foundation of the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty lies in Virginia's struggle, turning primarily to Jefferson and Madison to understand this. In Wellspring of Liberty, John A. Ragosta argues that Virginia's religious dissenters played a seminal, and previously underappreciated, role in the development of the First Amendment and in the meaning of religious freedom as we understand it today.

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273

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Oxford University Press

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0199779929

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9780199779925

British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

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British Banking

A Guide to Historical Records

By: John Orbell

This substantially expanded new edition of the Guide to the Historical Records of British Banking contains details of over 700 archive collections held in local record offices, university and local libraries and of course, banks. This monumental reference work facilitates a wider knowledge and understanding of the history of British finance.

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674

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Taylor & Francis

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1351954687

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9781351954686

The Forty-Seven Ronin

The Vendetta in History

By: John A. Tucker

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The Forty-Seven Ronin

The Vendetta in History

By: John A. Tucker

The Forty-Seven Rōnin vendetta is one of the most famous incidents in Japanese history, but it is also one of the most misunderstood. John A. Tucker seeks to provide a credible account of the vendetta and its afterlife in history. He suggests that, when considered historically and holistically, the vendetta appears as a site of contested cultural ground, with conflicts, disagreements, and debates characterizing its three-century history far more than cultural unanimity about its values, virtues, and icons. Tucker narrates the incident as the historical event that it was, within the context of Tokugawa social, political, cultural, and spiritual history, before exploring the vendetta as conflicted cultural ground, generating a steady flow of essays, novels, plays, and ideologically driven expressions intrinsic to the course of Japanese history. This engaging, accessible study provides insights into ways in which events and debates from early modern history have continued to inform developments in modern Japan.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108622569

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9781108622561

Book's by John Thomas Smith II

Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy and the Law

Cars, Energy, Nuclear Diplomacy and the Law

The Pilgrim Fathers and their Successors

The Pilgrim Fathers and their Successors

Annals of Cambridge

Annals of Cambridge

The World of William Byrd

The World of William Byrd

The World of William Byrd

The World of William Byrd

John Jacob Astor

John Jacob Astor

Wellspring of Liberty

Wellspring of Liberty

British Banking

British Banking

The Forty-Seven Ronin

The Forty-Seven Ronin

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