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The best set of solutions is likely to span the scale from individual to international action, and to address different points along the chain of production, consumption, and disposal.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Prologue: Young Entrepreneur -- THE STANDARD YEARS -- 1 Rockefeller, Andrews & -- Flagler -- 2 Cleveland Company, National Business -- 3 The Supreme Evener of Oil Transport -- 4 The Great Pipeline Battle -- 5 Standard's "Lawyer -- THE FLORIDA YEARS -- 6 St. Augustine: "Newport of the South -- 7 Railroads: From Short Lines to East Coast Lines -- 8 Palm Beach: "Queen of Winter Resorts -- 9 Miami and Nassau: "American Riviera -- 1O Land Baron -- 11 "My Domain -- 12 Key West: "America's Gibraltar -- 13 The Florida Baron's Estate -- Epilogue: "Time is Life -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- THE RIVER BARONS: MONTREAL BUSINESSMEN AND THE GROWTH OF INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION 1837-53 -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The business community: the pattern of involvement -- PART ONE. SHIPPING -- 3. Montreal forwarding firms on the upper St Lawrence -- 4. Shipping on the middle St Lawrence and Richelieu rivers -- 5. Ocean shipping and trade -- 6. John Young, Hugh Allan, and the advent of ocean steamshipping -- PART TWO. RAILWAYS -- 7. The Champlain and St Lawrence: Montreal's pioneer railway -- 8. The St Lawrence and Atlantic Railway: the first stage 1844-6 -- 9. The completion of the St Lawrence and Atlantic 1846-53 -- 10. Western railway projects and rivalries 1846-53 -- 11. The Montreal and New York Railway 1849-53 -- PART THREE. INDUSTRY -- 12. The rise of Montreal as a manufacturing centre -- 13. Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

A sweeping biography that opens a window onto the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Baron Maurice de Hirsch was one of the emblematic figures of the nineteenth century. Above all, he was the most influential Jewish philanthropist of his time. Today Hirsch is less well known than the Rothschilds, or his gentile counterpart Andrew Carnegie, yet he was, to his contemporaries, the very embodiment of the gilded age of Jewish philanthropy. Hirsch's life provides a singular entry point for understanding Jewish philanthropy and politics in the late nineteenth century, a period when, as now, private benefactors played an outsize role in shaping the collective fate of Jewish communities. Hirsch's vast fortune derived from his role in creating the first rail line linking Western Europe with the Ottoman Empire, what came to be known as the Orient Express. Socializing with the likes of the Austrian crown prince Rudolph and "Bertie," Prince of Wales, Hirsch rose to the pinnacle of European aristocratic society, but also found himself the frequent target of vicious antisemitism. This was an era when what it meant to be Jewish—and what it meant to be European—were undergoing dramatic changes. Baron Hirsch was at the center of these historic shifts. While in his time Baron Hirsch was the subject of widespread praise, enraged political commentary, and conspiracy theories alike, his legacy is often overlooked. Responding to the crisis wrought by the mass departure of Jews from the Russian Empire at the turn of the century, Hirsch established the Jewish Colonization Association, with the goal of creating a refuge for the Jews in Argentina. When Theodor Herzl, the founder of Zionism, advertised his plan to create a Jewish state (not without inspiration from Hirsch), he still wondered whether to do so in Palestine or in Argentina—and left the question open. In The Baron, Matthias Lehmann tells the story of this remarkable figure whose life and legacy provide a key to understanding the forces that shaped modern Jewish history

Serat Baron Sakendher (SBS) is one of the classic Javanese works that narrates the relationship between the Javanese and the Belanda. The SBS script was written in the post-Java war of 1830, when the south-central part of Java was politically completely controlled by the Belanda. The kings and aristocrats in the four Javanese palaces were very submissive to the authority of the VOC as well as being an extension of the power to suppress and explore the population. SBS became the legitimacy of the Javanese king's power over his people as well as the history of the presence of white people. SBS was written by Ngabei Yudasara and later developed by Carik Sasanapustaka. In four Javanese courts, the SBS script was rewritten by different authors during the reign of the same king and duke. Until now, through catalog searches, 21 SBS scripts were found with different panedhak and in different years. It is narrated that at first the presence of Baron Sakendher (BS) to Java was to trade and expand the territory. But when he arrived in the Mataram area, he lost to Panembahan Senopati, the first Mataram King. Finally, BS and his brother made up their mind to serve the Javanese rulers by changing their form into subtle creatures who served and protected the King of Mataram. This narrative reverses with the orientalism narrative which is echoed by the west against the east. West as the ocean and east as the other. Javanese poets view the presence of westerners on the contrary from the discourse of orientalism. West was seen by Javanese poets as someone who came to serve the Javanese rulers.

64 p. ; 20 cm. (4to) ; Half-title: Considerations, &c. ; Attributed to Baron Rokeby in Halkett & Laing.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Introduction -- CHAPTER TWO. The Politics of Immigration Control: Understanding the Rise and Fall of Policy Regimes -- CHAPTER THREE. Immigrant Voters in a Partisan Polity: European Settlers, Nativism, and American Immigration Policy, 1776–1896 -- CHAPTER FOUR. Chinese Exclusion and Precocious State-Building in the Nineteenth-Century American Polity -- CHAPTER FIVE. Progressivism, War, and Scientific Policymaking: The Rise of the National Origins Quota System, 1900–1928 -- CHAPTER SIX. Two-Tiered Implementation: Jewish Refugees, Mexican Guestworkers, and Administrative Politics -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Strangers in Cold War America: The Modern Presidency, Committee Barons, and Postwar Immigration Politics -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Rebirth of American Immigration: The Rights Revolution, New Restrictionism, and Policy Deadlock -- CHAPTER NINE. Two Faces of Expansion: The Contemporary Politics of Immigration Reform -- CHAPTER TEN. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. The Sample of Interviewees -- Notes -- Index