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Table Annexed To Article: Mr Text Of Prefaces To Histories Appearing In Twenty-Eight Congressionally Sponsored Multi-Volume Works With Publication Dates 1815-1861, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

To introduce the first volume of each of the multi-volume works of the twenty-eight Congressionally sponsored multi-volume documentary histories, compilations, recreated debates and similar works the respective authors created 20 different instances of prefatory material, with a total of 122 pages in 42,276 words. These have been keyed into machine readable format and are available for word counts and surveys of frequencies.

Table Annexed To Article: Speeches And Essays Concerning The Neutrality Proclamations Debates, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

In 1793 Alexander Hamilton and James Madison crafted sixteen essays, public and private letters addressing Washington’s Neutrality Proclamation of April 22, 1793. The pertinent text of the proclamation reads: ‘Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands of the one part and France on the other, and the duty and interest of the United States require that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerent powers: I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of …

An Academic Parable: Robert W. Fogel's Raft, Heitor Moura Filho

Heitor Moura Filho

The book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, by Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman achieved great fame as a revolutionary interpretation of North American slavery, even though at the time it was criticized in detail by specialists in quantitative economic history. We believe that to quote it as a pioneering quantitative study of slavery has become an academic “meme”, which does not adequately reflect the severe criticism suffered by the book during the years following its publication. This text looks back to the book’s release and the subsequent debates in the ideological and methodological …

Book Review. 2014. Foreign Intervention In Africa: From The Cold War To The War On Terrror, Felix Kumah-Abiwu

Felix Kumah-Abiwu

No abstract provided.

The Myth Of The Early Aviation Patent Hold-Up – How A U.S. Government Monopsony Commandeered Pioneer Airplane Patents, Ron D. Katznelson, John Howells

Ron D. Katznelson

The prevailing historical accounts of the formation of the U.S. aircraft “patent pool” in 1917 assume the U.S. Government necessarily intervened to alleviate a patent hold-up among private aircraft manufacturers. We show these accounts to be inconsistent with the historical facts. We show that despite the existence of basic aircraft patents, aircraft manufacturers faced no patent barriers in the market dominated by Government demand. We show that the notion of the aircraft patent hold-up is a myth created by Government officials and used to persuade Congress to authorize eminent domain condemnation of basic aircraft patents. Government officials used the threat …

The Act Of Killing - Review, Robert Cribb

Robert Cribb

Critically reviews Joshua Oppenheimer's celebrated film The Act of Killing. Suggests that the film appears to have been staged in sigificant places and that it gives a misleading impression of the character of the 1965-66 killings, especially by downplaying the role of the military in order to emphasise the psychopathic character of Anwar Congo and his friends.

Tyrolian Cultural Heritage, Fathi Habashi

Fathi Habashi

Report on the 12th Cultural Heritage Symposium, which took place between 30 September and 4 October at the Museum of Nature, Bolzano, in Italy’s South Tyrol. The symposium covered a variety of subjects ranging from biographies of famous geologists and mineralogists to postage stamps showing cultural heritage in mining and metallurgy. Papers also included descriptions of archives located in different countries. There were also number of presentations of interest to iron and steel.

Bibliografia Sobre A Cidade De São Paulo, Com Comentários, Vittorio Pastelli

Vittorio Pastelli

Bibliografia sobre a Cidade de São Paulo, com comentários

Table Annexed To Article: Multi-Volume Documentary Histories, Compilations, Recreated Debates And Similar Works, 1815-1861: Title Page From Each Work (In Recreation Text Format), Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Our Constitutional Logic has extracted, in recreation text, the title pages (one page per work) from each of the multi-volume works surveyed. The qualifications for listing are that the works must be: (a) multi-volume, (b) federally sponsored, (c) first sent to press between 1815 and 1861 [with the exception for The Serial Set as noted] , (d) in English. In addition, the subject must be historical or form the basis of historical study in any broadly conceived sense.

Patriotism Or Revenge?, Eric S. Benninghoff

Eric S Benninghoff

No abstract provided.

Living In The Past: Preservation, Interpretation, And Engagement, And The 19th – Early 20th Century Home, Kirsten Jarrett

Kirsten Jarrett

In recent years, boundaries between curated domestic space (typically open to the public, maintained by museum professionals, and supported by government or charitable funding), and privately occupied dwellings, have on occasion been eroded. Each year, usually as part of annual heritage events run by non-profit organisations, a small number of residents permit members of the public to view features of historic interest within their homes. Furthermore, extensive opportunities to share information, images, and data on-line allow residents to ‘virtually’ display historical features within otherwise closed domestic spaces. Adopting approaches from ‘Rescue’, Research, and Public Archaeology, the Living in the Past …

Review: The Bush Leadership, The Power Of Ideas, And The War On Terror, Dylan Kissane

Dylan Kissane

No abstract provided.

Table Annexed To Article: Counting Words In The Federalist, Peter Aschenbrenner

Peter J. Aschenbrenner

Word counts for each of the eighty-five articles published by Publius, the (collective) pseudonym of John Jay, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, are surveyed. The 189,497 words are also broken down by author. The effort is ancillary to a project fixing the semantic values of ‘constitution’, ‘federal’ and ‘republic’ throughout the Early Republic (=1787 through 1857).

The Evolution Of Political Cinema, Eric S. Benninghoff

Eric S Benninghoff

No abstract provided.

The Comparison Of Power And Authority Of Women In China And Minangkabau Societies, Arif Rohman

Arif Rohman

The power and authority available for women are very important in measuring the cultural system in each society contains a gender bias or not. This study will examine whether the matrifocal and matrilineal society guarantees gender equality rather than the patriarchal and patrilineal society and to what extent these societies provide power and authority to women in both domestic and public spheres. To support analysis, this article will compare two Asian societies; those are China as a representative of the patriarchal and patrilineal society and Minangkabau as a representative of the matrifocal and matrilineal society. The analysis will be focused …

Publications, Miguel Ramos

Miguel Ramos

Listing of available publications by the author.

Monkee Business: The Musical And Commercial Revolution Of The 1960s, Andrew T. Murphree

Andrew T Murphree

Very few bands in the history of American popular music possess a more captivating story of rapid ascension to commercial acclaim than that of The Monkees, an American rock band that was brought together in 1966 by executives at Screen Gems, a division of Columbia Pictures. Originally conceived for the purpose of a television show that followed the everyday life of four young musicians aspiring to become the next Beatles, their artificial construction as a band represented their primary purpose as a commercial venture as opposed to a traditional artistic endeavor. While The Monkees rose to success as a merchandising …

Antiquarianism As Genealogy: Arnaldo Momigliano’S Method, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

No abstract provided.

Aaron Swartz’S Legacy, Rebecca Gould

Rebecca Gould

“Aaron Swartz’s Legacy,” Academe: Magazine of the American Association of University Professors 95(1): 19-23. Special issue on the “New Public Intellectual.” http://www.aaup.org/article/aaron-swartz%E2%80%99s-legacy#.UtZGm2RDtmk

The Origins And Meaning Of “Vacancies That May Happen During The Recess” In The Constitution’S Recess Appointments Clause, Robert G. Natelson

Robert G. Natelson

There has been longstanding uncertainty about the meaning of “the Recess” and “Vacancies that may happen” in the Constitution’s Recess Appointments Clause. This Article finds that both “the Recess” and close variants of “Vacancies that may happen” were standard terms in Founding-Era legislative practice, and appear copiously in legislative records. Those records inform us that “the Recess” means only the intersession recess and that a vacancy “happens” only when it first arises.

Patrick Scott’S Work For Signa Design Consultants, Mary Ann Bolger

Mary Ann Bolger

This essay examines Patrick Scott’s work as a designer in mid-twentieth century Ireland. It focuses in particular on the work of one of Ireland’s first modern design consultancies, Signa, where Scott was the general design consultant. The paper argues that Signa’s designs provided an early model for a design vocabulary that could be, in the words of the British design critic Herbert Read, both “Irish and contemporary”.

Faultless Liability For Employees: On Missed Opportunities (Belgium And France, 19th C.) (Een Gemiste Kans: De Foutloze Aansprakelijkheid Voor Préposés In De Negentiende Eeuw (Frankrijk En België)), Dave De Ruysscher

Dave De ruysscher

Section 1384 § 3 of the French Civil code (1804) provides that employers are liable for damages caused by their 'préposés', and purports this liability to be faultless. Yet, around the middle of the nineteenth century, a revival of older academic insights regarding liability in French legal literature, which focused on personal fault and which rejected automatic compensation for damages incurred through actions of subordinates, obfuscated the original meaning of the mentioned rule. Legal literature blocked innovation in this respect, which proved seriously problematic as labour accidents and damages through machinery and industrial processes invited for faultless liability. In the …

Por Uma História Da Família E Da População Na Amazônia Brasileira: Percursos Historiográficos, Daniel Barroso

Daniel S. Barroso

No abstract provided.

Múltiplos Do Cativeiro: Casamento, Compadrio E Experiência Comunitária Numa Propriedade Escrava No Grão-Pará (1840-1870), Daniel S. Barroso

Daniel S. Barroso

No abstract provided.

Inscribed Cotton Ikat From Yemen In The Tenth Century Ce, Carol Bier

Carol Bier

No abstract provided.

Stolperstein Für Ernst Collin, Peter D. Verheyen

Peter D Verheyen

Article (in German) provides biographical details about the life of Ernst Collin, son and grandson of Prussian and German court bookbinders, who was one of the leading writers in the field of bookbinding and the history of the book in the period between the World Wars.

On April 1, 2014 two Stolpersteine (Stumbling Blocks) were laid to memorialize Ernst Collin and his wife Else (nee Cronheim) in front of the entrance to their home at Cicerostr 61 in Berlin. Stolpersteine are “monuments created by Gunter Demnig that commemorate victims of the Holocaust. They are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for an individual …

The Indian Novel: The Indigenization Of The English Novel In India, Allison M. Smyth Miss

Allison M Smyth Miss

In the early years of the nationalist movement the Indian people looking to break free from colonial domination. While the British novel became very popular among Indian book buyers and library borrowers, its subjects and themes did not necessarily agree with Indian history and traditions. After 1865 Indian authors began indigenizing this popular literary form through a series of experiments and debates about the form the Indian novel would take, and its similarities and differences from the British form. In a relatively short time period the Indian novel developed and became a founding component of what would become the Indian …