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Peter Strickland

New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal

By: Stephen H. Grant

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Peter Strickland

New London Shipmaster, Boston Merchant, First Consul to Senegal

By: Stephen H. Grant

The first biography of this nineteenth-century sea captain, adventurer, and State Department official: “A vivid picture of [a] unique career.” —The Day (New London, CT) This is the first biography of Capt. Peter Strickland, a little-known Connecticut Yankee who crossed the Atlantic one hundred times in command of a sailing vessel, traded with French and Portuguese colonies during the period 1864-1905, and served as the first American consul to French West Africa for over twenty years. We know about Peter Strickland’s long life because he wrote a daily journal from the age of nineteen until the year he died. He broke away from a long line of farmers to adopt a seafaring life at age fifteen, and his merchant marine career led him from the east coast of the United States to the west coast of Africa. He introduced American tobacco and wood products into French and Portuguese colonies, and on the return trips carried animal hides and peanuts in his 100-ton schooners. Eventually, the U.S. State Department asked him to become the first consul in French West Africa, with residence in Senegal. The captain accepted the terms: He would receive no salary, but he could keep the port fees he collected and continue to practice his import-export business. This book tells his life story, from his accomplishments and adventures to coping with the epidemics of the day and a tragic personal loss—in the process capturing a unique era in American diplomatic history. “Grant’s careful blending of historical hindsight with Strickland’s own words brings enormous value to our understanding of U.S. diplomacy.” —Foreign Service Journal

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New Acdemia+ORM

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1955835152

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9781955835152

Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina

By: Stephen R. Wise,Lawrence S. Rowland

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Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893

The History of Beaufort County, South Carolina

By: Stephen R. Wise,Lawrence S. Rowland

The continued history of Beaufort County, South Carolina, during and following the Civil War In Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861-1893, the second of three volumes on the history of Beaufort County, Stephen R. Wise and Lawrence S. Rowland offer details about the district from 1861 to 1893, which influenced the development of the South Carolina and the nation. During a span of thirty years the region was transformed by the crucible of war from a wealthy, slave-based white oligarchy to a county where former slaves dominated a new, radically democratic political economy. This volume begins where volume I concluded, the November 1861 Union capture and occupation of the Sea Islands clustered around Port Royal Sound, and the Confederate retreat and re-entrenchment on Beaufort District's mainland, where they fended off federal attacks for three and a half years and vainly attempted to maintain their pre-war life. In addition to chronicling numerous military actions that revolutionized warfare, Wise and Rowland offer an original, sophisticated study of the famous Port Royal Experiment in which United States military officers, government officials, civilian northerners, African American soldiers, and liberated slaves transformed the Union-occupied corner of the Palmetto State into a laboratory for liberty and a working model of the post-Civil War New South. The revolution wrought by Union victory and the political and social Reconstruction of South Carolina was followed by a counterrevolution called Redemption, the organized campaign of Southern whites, defeated in the war, to regain supremacy over African Americans. While former slave-owning, anti-black "Redeemers" took control of mainland Beaufort County, they were thwarted on the Sea Islands, where African Americans retained power and kept reaction at bay. By 1893, elements of both the New and Old South coexisted uneasily side by side as the old Beaufort District was divided into Beaufort and Hampton counties. The Democratic mainland reverted to an agricultural-based economy while the Republican Sea Islands and the town of Beaufort underwent an economic boom based on the phosphate mining industry and the new commercial port in the lowcountry town of Port Royal.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1643362828

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9781643362823

TV Violence and the Child

Evolution and Fate of the Surgeon General's Report

By: Douglass Cater,Stephen Strickland

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TV Violence and the Child

Evolution and Fate of the Surgeon General's Report

By: Douglass Cater,Stephen Strickland

In 1969, Senator John Pastore requested that the Surgeon General appoint a committee to conduct an inquiry into television violence and its effect on children. When the Surgeon General's report was finally released in 1972—after a three-year inquiry and a cost of over $1.8 million—it angered and confused a number of critics, including politicians, the broadcast industry, many of the social scientists who had helped carry out the research, and the public. While the final consequences of the Report may not be played out for years to come, TV Violence and the Child presents a fascinating study of the Surgeon General's quest and, in effect, the process by which social science is recruited and its findings made relevant to public policy. In addition to dealing with television as an object of concern, the authors also consider the government's effectiveness when dealing with social objectives and the influence of citizen action on our communication systems. Their overwhelming conclusion is that the nation's institutions are ill-equipped for recruiting expert talent, providing clear findings, and carrying out objectives in this area of delicate human concern.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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1610446003

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9781610446006

The Integrity of Ireland

Home Rule, Nationalism, and Partition, 1912-1922

By: Stephen M. Duffy

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The Integrity of Ireland

Home Rule, Nationalism, and Partition, 1912-1922

By: Stephen M. Duffy

Circumstances placed John Redmond and the Irish Parliamentary Party at the center of British politics in 1912. After more than a century of struggle, Irish nationalists looked likely to return a parliament to Dublin that would allow the Irish people, as one nation, to determine their own domestic affairs. Staunch Ulster Unionists stood in opposition, determined to reject Home Rule for their region. Alongside them were Unionist Party members who declared that such an action would destroy the British Empire, wreck the constitution, and possibly foment a civil war. Over the next decade, the Home Rulers saw their cause betrayed and their party destroyed. Asquith, Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill all served to undercut Redmond and his supporters in the interests of political expediency. Four years of war in Europe, followed by four years of conflict in Ireland, led to a more radical approach to the Irish question that allowed Sinn Fein and the Irish Republican Army to make the nationalist cause their own. By 1922, Eamon de Valera, Michael Collins, James Craig and their followers took possession of a divided Ireland embittered by the enmity of two Irish identities and the strains of factional strife.

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Associated University Presse

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0838641873

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9780838641873

Caffeine Blues

Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug

By: Stephen Cherniske

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Caffeine Blues

Wake Up to the Hidden Dangers of America's #1 Drug

By: Stephen Cherniske

One of the most accomplished nutritional biochemists and medical writers in his field reveals the truth about caffeine and helps you kick the habit forever. Nearly 80% of all Americans are hooked on caffeine, this country's #1 addiction. A natural component of coffee, tea and chocolate, and added to drugs, soft drinks, candy and many other products, the truth about caffeine is that it can affect brain function, hormone balance, and sleep patterns, while increasing your risk of osteoporosis, diabetes, ulcers, PMS, stroke, heart disease and certain types of cancer. Discover a step-by-step, clinically-proven program that reduces your caffeine intake, and effective ways to boost your energy with nutrients, healthy beverages, better sleep and high-energy habits.

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Hachette+ORM

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0446551112

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9780446551113

$L$ Functions for the Orthogonal Group

By: David Ginzburg,Ilʹi︠a︡ Iosifovich Pi︠a︡tet︠s︡kiĭ-Shapiro,Stephen Rallis

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$L$ Functions for the Orthogonal Group

By: David Ginzburg,Ilʹi︠a︡ Iosifovich Pi︠a︡tet︠s︡kiĭ-Shapiro,Stephen Rallis

In this book, the authors establish global Rankin Selberg integrals which determine the standard [italic capital]L function for the group [italic capitals]GL[subscript italic]r x [italic capital]Gʹ, where [italic capital]Gʹ is an isometry group of a nondegenerate symmetric form. The class of automorphic representations considered here is for any pair [capital Greek]Pi1 [otimes/dyadic/Kronecker/tensor product symbol] [capital Greek]Pi2 where [capital Greek]Pi1 is generic cuspidal for [italic capitals]GL[subscript italic]r([italic capital]A) and [capital Greek]Pi2 is cuspidal for [italic capital]Gʹ([italic capital]A). The construction of these [italic capital]L functions involves the use of certain new "models" of local representations; these models generalize the usual generic models. The authors also computer local unramified factors in a new way using geometric ideas.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821805436

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9780821805435

Shenandoah Religion

Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865

By: Stephen L. Longenecker

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Shenandoah Religion

Outsiders and the Mainstream, 1716-1865

By: Stephen L. Longenecker

By surveying the religiously pluralistic setting of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century Shenandoah Valley, Longenecker reveals how the fabric of American pluralism was woven. Calling worldliness the "mainstream" and otherworldliness, "outsidernesss," Shenandoah Religion describes the transition certain denominations made in becoming mainstream and the resistance of others in maintaining distinctive dress, manners, social relations, economics, and apolitical viewpoints.

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Baylor University Press

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0918954835

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9780918954831

VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs

By: Stephen Snelling

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VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs

By: Stephen Snelling

The Naval VCs is a complete record of almost fifty men who won the Victoria Cross while serving in the Royal Navy during the First World War. They include the conflict's youngest and oldest winners in operations ranging from the Atlantic to the coast of Africa and from the Straits of Otranto to the rivers of Mesopotamia. These awards were won aboard all manner of fighting ships, from disguised schooner to light cruiser, from motor launch to submarine and from river steamer to battle cruiser. This book charts the lives and careers of the VC recipients and presents graphic accounts of their award-winning actions based on original material, much of it from eyewitness sources.

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The History Press

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0750951974

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9780750951975

Uniform Rectifiability and Quasiminimizing Sets of Arbitrary Codimension

By: Guy David,Stephen Semmes

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Uniform Rectifiability and Quasiminimizing Sets of Arbitrary Codimension

By: Guy David,Stephen Semmes

This book is intended for graduate students and research mathematicians interested in calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821820486

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9780821820483

Endangered Animals of Thailand

By: Stephen R. Humphrey

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Endangered Animals of Thailand

By: Stephen R. Humphrey

This work presents the state of knowledge on the endangered and threatened species of Thailand. Its pragmatic purpose is to improve Thailand’s future by providing access to technical guidance for planning development projects or other land-use changes. This information also should stimulate naturalists, professional biologists, or anyone who wishes to learn about the status of animals in Thailand. Which species are now on the brink of extinction from Thailand, and why? How can the Thai people reorganize themselves to reverse the course of destruction? Can ways be found for both the people and the rest of the fauna to prosper? Another purpose is to present a case study of the effects of longterm development for human use on the biological diversity of a tropical country.

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CRC Press

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1498710883

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9781498710886

Hayes and Williams' Family Law

By: Stephen Gilmore,Lisa Glennon

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Hayes and Williams' Family Law

By: Stephen Gilmore,Lisa Glennon

Provides a comprehensive, critical, and case-focused introduction to family law. Hayes & Williams' Family Law helps students to gain a firm understanding of family law principles, the developing law, and key reform debates.

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Oxford University Press

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019875308X

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9780198753087

Nordic-Baltic-U. S. Almanac

Transatlantic Connections

By: Stephen Strickland,Jay Ryfa

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Nordic-Baltic-U. S. Almanac

Transatlantic Connections

By: Stephen Strickland,Jay Ryfa

This 340-page Almanac, full of colorful graphics and photos, covers past and present connections between Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the USA. Each country is introduced by its Ambassador. All sections contain scenic views and interesting facts about that country. The Almanac covers Diplomacy, Business, Trade, Investment, Culture, Education, and Science. Directory gives information on 3000 corporations and hundreds of other institutions. Feature articles and interviews with the late U.S. Chief Justice Rehnquist; Lithuanian President Adamkus; Congressmen Sabo and Shimkus; actor Viggo Mortensen; drummer Lars Ulrich of Metallica; ABBA and ""MAMA MIA!;"" directors Peter Martins and Helgi Tomasson of New York City and San Francisco Ballets; conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen, Osmo Vanska, Andre Previn, Neeme and Paavo Jarvi; architects Eliel and Eero Saarinen; pianist Leif Oves Andsnes and many others. Additional info: www.NordicBaltic.US

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Strickland Assoc LLC

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0977402509

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9780977402502

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Peter Strickland

Peter Strickland

Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893

Rebellion, Reconstruction, and Redemption, 1861–1893

TV Violence and the Child

TV Violence and the Child

The Integrity of Ireland

The Integrity of Ireland

Caffeine Blues

Caffeine Blues

$L$ Functions for the Orthogonal Group

$L$ Functions for the Orthogonal Group

Shenandoah Religion

Shenandoah Religion

VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs

VCs of the First World War: The Naval VCs

Uniform Rectifiability and Quasiminimizing Sets of Arbitrary Codimension

Uniform Rectifiability and Quasiminimizing Sets of Arbitrary Codimension

Endangered Animals of Thailand

Endangered Animals of Thailand

Hayes and Williams' Family Law

Hayes and Williams' Family Law

Nordic-Baltic-U. S. Almanac

Nordic-Baltic-U. S. Almanac

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