Aspirations to "whoop" the North notwithstanding, Confederates set their hopes for independence not on the belief that they could defeat the North but on the hope that their armies could stave off defeat long enough for the North to weary of war. The South's single biggest opportunity to effect political change in the North was the presidential contest of 1864. If Lincoln's support foundered and the North elected a president with a more flexible vision of peace on the continent, the South might realize its dream of independence. In Bullets, Ballots, and Rhetoric, Larry Nelson vividly brings to
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From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert Allison traces the perceptions and mis-perceptions of Islam in the American mind as the new nation constructed its ideology and system of government.""A powerful ending that explains how the experience with the Barbary states compelled many Americans to look inward . . . with increasing doubts about the institution of sla
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Title-page of v.2: Laws of New-York, from the 11th Nov. 1752, to 22d May 1762. Published according to an order of the General Assembly. The second volume, with a table common to both volumes. Digested by William Livingston, and William Smith, jun. New-York: Printed by William Weyman, Printer to the Government, 1762. ; [v.1] Laws of New York from the year 1691 to 1751, inclusive -- v. 2. Laws of New York from the 11th Nov. 1752, to 22d May 1762. ; Mode of access: Internet.
""Constructive engagement"" became a catchphrase under the Clinton administration for America's reinvigorated efforts to pull China firmly into the international community as a responsible player, one that abides by widely accepted norms. Skeptics questioned the effectiveness of this policy and those that followed. But how is such socialization supposed to work in the first place? This has never been all that clear, whether practiced by the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), Japan, or the United States. Social States is the first book to systematically test the effects of soc
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Table of contents of v. 2 wanting. ; "A digression concerning the smallpox": v. 2, p. 392-414. ; Sections concerning North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, noted in "The author to the reader", p. ii, v. 1, as part of "Vol. II, Part 1" are not found in this work. The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of second section XVI, Virginia); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.-p. "Boston . 1753" prefixed, pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") ; The three maps described in the Introduction to v. 2, p. 20-21 ("Originals composed and lately printed in the several countries") are wanting in this copy and in all L. C. copies of different editions of the "Summary"; the "Map of the Dominions of New-England", and that of "New-York, the Jersies and Pensylvania, published 1749, by Mr. Evans in Pensylvania", are found separately in the map collection of the Library of Congress. ; To vol. 2 of this copy is prefixed the t.-p. of "No I . Vol. II" with imprint, "Boston: Printed and Sold by Daniel Fowle in Queen-Street; where may be had the first Volume bound or stitch'd. Also some odd Numbers to compleat imperfect Setts. 1750." There are many references in v. 2 to the year 1752 (cf. pages 394, 395, 399, 412, etc.) ; Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752. ; Mode of access: Internet.
"A digression concerning the smallpox"; v. 2, p. 392-414. ; The second volume ends at p. 416 (end of section XVI, Virginia); in a re-issue [1758?] of v. 2, with t.-p. "Boston .1753" prefixed, pages 417-440 were added ("in order to render this work more compleat, the following is collected from Mr. Salmon's Geographical and historical grammar, printed in London 1757") [i.e. the 6th ed. 1758, events to Nov. 1758 being included] ; At end of table of contents of v. 1 is printed the direction "Place the map to face the title of vol. I." No reference to a map is found in the earlier editions, nor elsewhere in this issue. ; Subtitle varies. ; Originally issued in numbers: v. 1, Jan. 1747-May 1749; v. 2, April 1750-Aug. (?) 1752, but not printed in the "American magazine" as first announced by the publisher; left unfinished at the author's death in October 1752. ; Mode of access: Internet.
ii, 3-17, [1] p. ; (8vo) ; In verse. ; Concerning John Dickinson's defeat as candidate for the Assembly. ; Attributed to Isaac Hunt by Evans. ; A reissue, having five, rather than four verses in the ballad and an errata statement on p. 17. ; Ascribed to the press of Andrew Steuart by Evans.
