Civil category: 10105 books
by Catherine M. Paden
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
This unique historical compilation provides comprehensive information on the role of naval power in the American Civil War, including a full list of Confederate ships afloat, biographies of important figures, and stories about famous battles such as the Battle for Hampton Roads.
Contents: Chapter...
by W. Craig Gaines
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
On the evening of February 2, 1864, Confederate Commander John Taylor Wood led 250 sailors in two launches and twelve boats to capture the USS Underwriter, a side-wheel steam gunboat anchored on the Neuse River near New Bern, North Carolina. During the ensuing fifteen-minute battle, nine Union crewmen...
Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructures, Volume 1
Sensing Hardware and Data Collection Methods for Performance Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2014
Sensors are used for civil infrastructure performance assessment and health monitoring, and have evolved significantly through developments in materials and methodologies. Sensor Technologies for Civil Infrastructure Volume I provides an overview of sensor hardware and its use in data collection.
The...
Civil Litigation in China and Europe
Essays on the Role of the Judge and the Parties
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
This volume addresses the role of the judge and the parties in civil litigation in mainland China, Hong Kong and various European jurisdictions. It provides an overview and an analysis of how these respective roles have been changed in order to cope with growing caseloads and quality demands. It also...
The 8th Texas Cavalry Collection: Terry's Texas Rangers, The Diary Of Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Reminiscences Of The Terry Rangers, Life Record Of H. W. Graber; A Terry Ranger 1861-1865 (4 Volumes In 1)
Civil War Texas Rangers & Cavalry, #6
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
"The 8th Texas Cavalry Collection: Terry's Texas Rangers, The Diary Of Ephraim Shelby Dodd, Reminiscences Of The Terry Rangers, Life Record Of H. W. Graber; A Terry Ranger 1861-1865 (4 Volumes In 1) by Leonidas P. Giles, Ephraim S. Dodd, James K. P. Blackburn, and Henry W. Graber is a collection...
A Vignette Of An Unsung Civil War Heroine: Anna "Michigan Annie" Etheridge; The Michigan Infantry's "Daughter Of The Regiment
Unsung Heroines Of History, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Thousands of books and articles have been written about the battles----both great and small----and the major personalities of the American Civil War. The vast majority of these books and articles have concentrated on the battles and personalities of the famous "household names"----the generals...
Georgia Civil War Manuscript Collections
An Annotated Bibliography
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This book provides historians and genealogists with a one-stop guide to every Civil War–related manuscript collection stored in Georgia’s many repositories. With this guide in hand, researchers will no longer spend countless hours pouring through online catalogs, emailing archivists, and wondering...
Civil War Wests
Testing the Limits of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
This innovative study presents a new, integrated view of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the history of the western United States.
Award-winning historians such as Steven Hahn, Martha Sandweiss, William Deverell, Virginia Scharff, and Stephen Kantrowitz offer original essays on lives,...
All for Civil Rights
African American Lawyers in South Carolina, 1868–1968
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
“The history of the black lawyer in South Carolina,” writes W. Lewis Burke, “is one of the most significant untold stories of the long and troubled struggle for equal rights in the state.” Beginning in Reconstruction and continuing to the modern civil rights era, 168 black lawyers were admitted...
by Paulo Pimenta
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: July 11, 2014
A entrada em vigor do Código de Processo Civil de 2013, para além das profundas alterações introduzidas no quotidiano forense, implica que os manuais universitários sejam reformulados e ajustados ao novo quadro legal. É assim que surge este Processo Civil Declarativo. Tendo cessado a parceria que,...
by Câmara dos Deputados, Edições Câmara
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Com a obra Código Civil e de Processo Civil, a Edições Câmara reúne em um único volume toda a legislação que determina os direitos e deveres civis das pessoas no Brasil. Atualizada até 28/11/2018, a coletânea inclui a Lei do Inquilinato, a Lei sobre a Ação Popular, a Lei sobre a Ação...
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
For Cause and Comrades
Why Men Fought in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 1997
General John A. Wickham, commander of the famous 101st Airborne Division in the 1970s and subsequently Army Chief of Staff, once visited Antietam battlefield. Gazing at Bloody Lane where, in 1862, several Union assaults were brutally repulsed before they finally broke through, he marveled, "You...