Author : Theodore Frank Thomas Plucknett
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Common law
ISBN : 1584771372
Originally published: 5th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1956.
Author : Peter Thorsheim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1316395502
During the Second World War, the United Kingdom faced severe shortages of essential raw materials. To keep its armaments factories running, the British government enlisted millions of people in efforts to recycle a wide range of materials for use in munitions production. Recycling not only supplied British munitions factories with much-needed raw materials - it also played a key role in the efforts of the British government to maintain the morale of its citizens, to secure billions of dollars in Lend-Lease aid from the United States, and to uncover foreign intelligence. However, Britain's wartime recycling campaign came at a cost: it consumed items that would never have been destroyed under normal circumstances, including significant parts of the nation's cultural heritage. Based on extensive archival research, Peter Thorsheim examines the relationship between armaments production, civil liberties, cultural preservation, and diplomacy, making Waste into Weapons the first in-depth history of twentieth-century recycling in Britain.
Author : Ellis Sandoz
Publisher : Amagi Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,57 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780865977099
The Roots of Liberty is a critical collection of essays on the origin and nature of the often elusive idea of the nature of liberty. Throughout this book, the original and thought-provoking views from scholars J C Holt, Christopher W Brooks, Paul Christianson, and John Phillip Reid offer insights into the development of English ideas of liberty and the relationship those ideas hold to modern conceptions of rule of law. Ellis Sandoz's introduction details Fortescue's vision of the constitution and places each of the essays in historiographical context. Corrine C. Weston's spirited epilogue evaluates the essays' arguments.
Author : James Hammond Trumbull
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 49,69 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
ISBN :
Author : Association of American Law Schools
Publisher :
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 49,7 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Common law
ISBN :
Author : Brian Cowan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,65 MB
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300133502
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
Author : Leslie Tomory
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 30,45 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421422042
"Beginning in 1580, London companies sold water to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London's water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London's water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks, and it inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks."--Provided by the publisher.
Author : James Denholm Van Trump
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 45,87 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1907
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Sharon Sullivan
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606061240
A collection of essays and reports examining key issues in conservation and management of archaeological sites. It is divided into parts that focuses on historical methods, concepts, and issues; conserving the archaeological resource; physical conservation of archaeological sites; the cultural values of archaeological sites; and site management.
