Infidels and Empires in a New World Order


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Examines early modern Spanish contributions to international relations by focusing on ambivalence of natural rights in European colonial expansion to the Americas.




The American Coast Pilot


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Repair Revolution


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Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don't know how to fix them. Some products are manufactured in a way that makes it hard, if not impossible, for people to repair them themselves. This throwaway lifestyle depletes Earth's resources and adds to overflowing landfills. Now there's a better way. Repair Revolution chronicles the rise of Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics, and other volunteer-run organizations devoted to helping consumers repair their beloved but broken items for free. Repair Revolution explores the philosophy and wisdom of repairing, as well as the Right to Repair movement. It provides inspiration and instructions for starting, staffing, and sustaining your own repair events. "Fixperts" share their favorite online repair resources, as well as tips and step-by-step instructions for how to make your own repairs. Ultimately, Repair Revolution is about more than fixing material objects: in an age of over-consumption and planned obsolescence, do-it-yourself repair is a way of caring for our lives, our communities, and our planet.




Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana


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Between 1717 and 1731, the French Company of the Indies (Compagnie des Indes) held a virtual monopoly over Louisiana culture and trade. Among numerous controls, its administrators oversaw the slave trade, the immigration of free and indentured whites, negotiations with Native American peoples, and the purchase and exportation of Louisiana-grown tobacco. In Marc-Antoine Caillot and the Company of the Indies in Louisiana, Erin M. Greenwald situates the colony within a French Atlantic circuit that stretched from Paris and the Brittany coast to Africa's Senegambian region to the West Indies to Louisiana and back. Focusing on the travels and travails of Marc-Antoine Caillot, a company clerk who set sail for Louisiana in 1729, Greenwald deftly examines the company's role as colonizer, developer, slaveholder, commercial entity, and deal maker. As the company's focus shifted away from agriculture with the reversion of Louisiana to the French crown in 1731, so too did the lives of the individuals whose fortunes were bound up in the company's trade, colonization, and agricultural mission in the Americas. Greenwald’s focus on Caillot provides an engaging microhistory for readers interested in the culture and society of early Louisiana and its place in the larger French Atlantic world.







The London Gazette


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Expenditure on Fixed Assets


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number of these concerns may be compared with capitalist enterprises ways), derived from the utility's annual reports, have been added to the (1. 5), but generally they scarcely rise above the level of one-man figures for private rail-and tramways (Tables 1 and 2). Expenditure ~n concerns. Although it is true that when taken individually, the fixed assets by the 'Gemeenschappelijke Mijnbouw Maatschappij Billi allocations for increasing productive capacity in these concerns required ton' (Billiton Mining Company, in which the Government participated) only small amounts of money (in many cases they were not even are taken up under Mining (Table 3). Remaining public expenditure on monetary transactions at all), the large number of businesses concerned production-generating durable equipment and assets, including the oth mean that taken as a whole, these efforts amount to substantial sums. It er mixed enterprises, have been derived from the finalised public ac has not, however, proved possible to quantify these investments. counts ('extraordinary expenditure', CEI, 32, Vo1. 2. pp. 32-35). Among other things it covers irrigation and power installations (Table 1. 3 The data 2). Expenditure on roads and buildings have, however, been excluded For the most part, this research has been based on the data made (Budin and De Meel29, Van der Stok 101). available by the 'Bureau Schadeclaims Indonesie' (1. 1). The data are thus confined exclusively to Dutch enterprises. The report on this 1.




The English in the West Indies


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The London Gazette


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