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Aaron W. Marrs challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America with this original study of the history of the railroad in the Old South. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Marrs skillfully expands on the conventional business histories that have characterized scholarship in this field. He situates railroads in the fullness of antebellum life, examining how slavery, technology, labor, social convention, and the environment shaped their evolution. Far from seeing the Old South as backward and premodern, Marrs finds evidence of urban life, industry, and entrepreneurship throughout the region. But these signs of progress existed alongside efforts to preserve traditional ways of life. Railroads exemplified Southerners' pursuit of progress on their own terms: developing modern transportation while retaining a conservative social order.Railroads in the Old South demonstrates that a simple approach to the Old South fails to do justice to its complexity and contradictions.
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The trading, selling, and buying of personal transport has changed little over the past one hundred years. Whether horse trading in the early twentieth century or car buying today, haggling over prices has been the common practice of buyers and sellers alike. Horse Trading in the Age of Cars offers a fascinating study of the process of buying an automobile in a historical and gendered context. Steven M. Gelber convincingly demonstrates that the combative and frequently dishonest culture of the showroom floor is a historical artifact whose origins lie in the history of horse trading. Bartering and bargaining were the norm in this predominantly male transaction, with both buyers and sellers staking their reputations and pride on their ability to negotiate the better deal. Gelber comments on this point-of-sale behavior and what it reveals about American men. Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.
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Em razão da importância do controle dos endoparasitos para a saúde dos pequenos ruminantes frente ao desafio imposto pelo crescente desenvolvimento da resistência parasitária aos produtos químicos, surgiu o interesse em desenvolver uma obra atual, com informações claras sobre os principais helmintos gastrintestinais, estratégias de manejo animal, resistência desenvolvida aos fármacos sintéticos (em especial, a resistência associada aos SNPs), bem como as formas alternativas de controle. Dando ênfase à fitoterapia como estratégia economicamente viável e ambientalmente segura para o tratamento alternativo de animais de produção, a obra traz uma revisão de espécies vegetais encontradas no Brasil cujas ações anti-helmínticas de importância para a saúde de pequenos ruminantes são descritas na literatura. Diante da vasta diversidade de plantas contendo antiparasitários naturais, é dado destaque às metodologias aplicadas in vitro e in vivo para validação científica de plantas como anti-helmínticas, potencialmente úteis como plantas medicinais fitoterápicas. Tais validações vêm sendo realizadas pelos autores, caracterizando plantas do Semiárido Nordestino como fontes de biomoléculas antiparasitárias. Por fim, a Biotecnologia é sinalizada como uma área indispensável para desvendar o conhecimento atual sobre endoparasitas a nível molecular, bem como para desenvolver tecnologias visando o controle parasitário, tais como fármacos inteligentes nanoencapsulados e vacinas gênicas.
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According to some commentators, forum shopping is an "evil" that must be eradicated. It has been suggested that the unification of substantive law through international conventions constitutes one way to achieve this outcome. This book shows that the drafting of uniform substantive law convention cannot prevent forum shopping. The reasons are classified into two main categories: convention-extrinsic and convention-intrinsic reasons. The former category comprises those reasons upon which uniform substantive law conventions do not have an impact at all. These reasons range from the costs of access to justice to the bias of potential adjudicators to the enforceability of judgments. The convention-intrinsic reasons, on the other hand, are reasons that relate to the nature and design of uniform substantive law conventions, and include their limited substantive and international spheres of application as well as their limited scope of application, the need to provide for reservations, etc. This book also focuses on another reason why forum shopping cannot be overcome: the impossibility of ensuring uniform applications and interpretations of the various uniform substantive law conventions.
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Chelmsford (England) --- Essex (England) --- General Interest Periodicals --- Periodicals
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International Law. --- International Law: General Interest. --- Law --- International law.
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