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Zénobe Gramme à contre-courant
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ISBN: 2874150673 9782874150678 Year: 2001 Publisher: Bruxelles : Luc Pire,

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A Brave Man Stands Firm
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ISBN: 0875868843 9780875868844 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Algora Pub.

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It has been often said that "an institution is lengthened by the shadow of one man." This is certainly true of John Marshall, who established the Supreme Court, made the judiciary a co-equal branch of government, and served as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1801-1835. In this book a legal expert discusses the battles over the judiciary between Chief Justice John Marshall and President Thomas Jefferson during the Jefferson Presidency. The focus is on the treason trial of Aaron Burr and the story interweaves conflicts over the Judiciary Acts, Marbury v. Madison, and impeac

Prime obsession : Bernhard Riemann and the greatest unsolved problem in mathematics
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ISBN: 0452285259 9780452285255 Year: 2004 Publisher: New York : Plume,

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Van Napels naar Amsterdam
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ISBN: 1282401653 9786612401657 9048506476 9789048506477 9789053563427 9789048506477 9053563423 9789053563427 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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A bundle of traveloguess, a mixture of the classical travelstory and the modern travel literature, by one of Holland's most important writers. After 130 years it is still surprisingly up to date.


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Lady Jane Wilde's letters to Fröken Lotten von Kraemer, 1857-1885
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ISBN: 077342167X 9780773421677 9780773448919 0773448918 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press

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This is the first volume of Lady Jane Wilde's letters to be published. Its contents should help to dispel some of the malicious rumors about the Wildes repeated in most biographies.


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Lady Jane Wilde's Letters to Mr. John Hilson, 1847-1876
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ISBN: 0773421653 9780773421653 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lewiston Edwin Mellen Press

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This work presents the letters of Lady Jane Wilde whose affinity for letter-writing, over a period of thirty years, is captured in her correspondence with a Scot, Mr. John Hilson, whom she only met once during a visit to the Borders. This book contains five color photographs.


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"A rich spot of earth"
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ISBN: 0300183402 1299709362 9781299709362 9780300183405 9780300171143 0300171145 Year: 2012 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today, he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1,000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch's brilliant direction, Jefferson's unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century. The garden is a living expression of Jefferson's genius and his distinctly American attitudes. Its impact on the culinary, garden, and landscape history of the United States continues to the present day. Graced with nearly 200 full-color illustrations, "A Rich Spot of Earth" is the first book devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden. Hatch guides us from the asparagus and artichokes first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years (1809-1826). The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden, garden pests of the time, and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens. He also discusses Jefferson's favorite vegetables and the hundreds of varieties he grew, the half-Virginian half-French cuisine he developed, and the gardening traditions he adapted from many other countries.


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The Cherokee settlements in east Texas and the Fredonia Revolution of 1826
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ISBN: 0773420320 9780773420328 9780773415874 0773415874 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press

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This is the first historical study of the Fredonia Revolution and its impact on Texan history. While providing an overview of the history of Texas, the book examines the relationship of the Cherokee Indians with the competing forces of Spanish, French, Mexican, and American settlers in Texas. While examining their lifestyle, inter-tribal conflicts, as well as their adaptation to the horse, Johnson provides the reader with a history of Texas from the Cherokee perspective. The book highlights the Edwards brother's Fredonia Revolution of 1826, the Cherokee's temporary decision to side with them,


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The memoirs of Walter Bagehot
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ISBN: 0300198612 0300195540 1299788262 9780300198614 9780300195545 Year: 2013 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters. For many years he was editor of The Economist, and to this day the magazine includes a weekly "Bagehot" column. His analyses of politics, economics, and public affairs were nothing short of brilliant. Sadly, he left no memoir. How, then, does this book bear the title, The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot? Frank Prochaska explains, "Given my longstanding interest in Bagehot's life and times, I decided to compose a memoir on his behalf." And so, in this imaginative reconstruction of the memoir Bagehot might have written, Prochaska assumes his subject's voice, draws on his extensive writings (Bagehot's Collected Works fill 15 volumes), and scrupulously avoids what Bagehot considered that most unpardonable of faults-dullness. A faux autobiography allows for considerable license, but Prochaska remains true to Bagehot's character and is accurate in his depiction of the times. The memoir immerses us in the spirit of the Victorian era and makes us wish to have known Walter Bagehot. He is, Prochaska observes, the Victorian with whom we would most want to have dinner.

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