edited by Neil Kagan ; narrative by Stephen G. Hyslop ; introduction by Harris J. Andrews.
ISBN
0792262069
9780792262060
9780792252801 (deluxe ed.)
0792252802 (deluxe ed.)
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
National Geographic,
Date of Publication
c2006.
Physical Description
416 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 404-405) and index.
Contents
Prologue : A nation divided -- 1861 : First blood -- 1862 : Total war -- 1863 : Victory or death -- 1864 : Rebels under siege -- 1865 : The final act -- Epilogue : The nation reunited.
Summary
Records the military, political, social, and cultural history of the Civil War through photographs, artifacts, period illustrations, maps, essays by historians, and firsthand accounts.
This book, written in 1875, is intended for "those who are intrusted with the care and management of locomotive engines and boilers." The book provides technical descriptions of the components of a locomotive and its operation.
This report is a compilation of the waterbodies and places in and around the Susquehanna River Basin that have names whose origins are directly linked to Native Americans.
Publication / Susquehanna River Basin Commission ; 229
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Chapters: INTRODUCTION - AMERICAN WATERBODY, VILLAGE, AND PLACE NAMES - OBSERVATIONS - REFERENCES TABLE - Table: ORIGIN OF NATIVE AMERICAN NAMES - PLATE: LOCATION OF NATIVE AMERICAN WATERBODY, VILLAGE, AND PLACE NAMES.
translated from the original Latin of Cornelius van Bynkershoek, being the first book of his Quaestiones juris publici, with notes, by Peter Stephen Du Ponceau.
Signatures preceded by a dagger, e.g. [dagger]a, [dagger]A, [dagger]2E.
Errata: p. [199].
Issued also as The American law journal, v. 3, no. 11-12, Oct. 1810.
"An account of the life and writings of the author": pages [xiii]-xxi.
Half title: Treatise on the law of war.
Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.
Yeates's signature at top of title page.
Book number 806 as assigned by Yeates.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxx) and index.
Shaw & Shoemaker
Cohen, M.L. Bib. of early Amer. law,
Contents
Of war in general -- Of a declaration of war -- Of war, considered as between enemies -- Of the capture of movable property, and particularly of ships -- Of the recapture of movable property -- Of the possession of immovables taken in war -- Of the confiscation of the enemy's actions and credits -- Of hostilities in a neutral port or territory -- Of neutrality -- Of contraband -- Of trade with blockaded and besieged places -- Of the mixture of lawful with contraband goods -- Of neutral goods found on board of the ships of enemies -- Of enemy's goods found on board of neutral ships -- Of the right of Postliminy on neutral territory -- Of the right of Postliminy, as applied to cities and states -- Of pirates -- Of privateers -- Of the responsibility of owners of privateers -- Of captures made by vessels not commissioned -- Of insuring enemy's property -- Of enlisting men in foreign countries, and incidentally, of expatriation -- Of the right of the several provinces of the United Netherlands, to declare and make war -- Of reprisals -- Miscellaneous maxims and observations.
Summary
"A brief alphabetical notice of several writers and works on the civil law and the law of nations: not generally known, and which are quoted or referred to in this book": pages [xxiii]-xxx.
