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Trial: Trial of Lieutenant Joel Abbot by the General Naval Court Martial... 1822

[Trial]. Abbot, Joel [1793-1855], Defendant. Trial of Lieutenant Joel Abbot by the General Naval Court Martial, Holden on Board the U.S. Ship Independence, at the Navy Yard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, on Allegations Made Against Him, by Capt. David Porter, Navy Commissioner. Printed From the Official Record on File in the Navy Department. Washington: Printed and Published by Davis and Force, 1822. 152 pp. Octavo (9" x 6"). Stab-stitched pamphlet in plain wrappers, contemporary hand-lettered label to front board, uncut edges. Moderate rubbing with wear to corners and spine ends, front cover just beginning to detach at head. Several uncut signatures, light browning and occasional light foxing to text. Small inkstain to title page, interior otherwise clean. * First edition, issued the same year as the Boston imprint published by Russell and Gardiner. With an appendix containing texts of documents relating to irregularities at the Boston naval station and the misconduct of the naval agent, Amos Binney. Abbott was a decorated naval officer who fought under Commodore Rogers on the frigate President during the War of 1812. "In March 1822...he discovered a series of frauds upon the government... [and] made very serious charges against his commandant, Captain Isaac Hull. Failing to prove these accusations when brought before a court-martial, Abbot was suspended from the naval service for the period of two years.": Dictionary of American Biography 1:14. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 13395.

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New York; Livingston, William; Smith, William. Laws of New-York, From the Year 1691, To 1751, Inclusive, 1752

[New York]. [Livingston, William (1723-1790), Compiler]. [Smith, William Smith, Jr. (1728-1793), Compiler]. Laws of New-York, from the Year 1691 to 1751, Inclusive. Published According to an Act of the General Assembly. New York: Printed James Parker, 1752. [i], iv, [iii], [1], 488. Folio (13-1/2" x 9"). Recent quarter calf over cloth, raised bands and lettering piece to spine, endpapers renewed. Light browning, occasional faint dampstaining, confined mostly to margins, some edgewear to title page and final three index leaves, internally clean. * First edition. With a subscriber list that includes Benjamin Franklin, Charles Pinckney, and James De Lancey. This volume was commissioned by the colonial assembly in order to codify the body of laws that had accrued since becoming a crown colony in 1690. Livingston and Smith were prominent New York attorneys who followed divergent paths during the Revolution. Smith, a loyalist, served as Chief Justice of New York during the British occupation. He settled in Canada after the war, served as Chief Justice of Quebec, and ended his career as the first chief justice of Lower Canada. Livingston was an ardent supporter of American independence and a delegate to the First, Second, and Third Continental Congresses. He became New Jersey's governor in 1776 and represented that state at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. The importance of this publication is evident in its subscriber list, a virtual "who's who" of colonial statesmen. It appears that fewer than 200 copies of this volume were printed, counting the 169 subscriber copies and three official copies produced for the colony. Tower, The Charlemagne Tower Collection of Colonial Laws 624. Benedict, Acts and Laws of the Thirteen Original Colonies and States 343-345.

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Tahmima Anam: Good Muslim, CANONGATE BOOKS, Mai 2011 ISBN: 1847679730
A new novel from the author of A Golden Age, who has moved to Canongate. Follows a family in Bangladesh, who, having fought in the brutal war of independence, must now face the challenges of peace. Maya returns to her village 8 years on, to find a different world and to feel estranged from her old friends and family. Anam writes for the Guardian and New Statesman, and this is based on her own family's history.

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Aponte Moreno, Marco: Metaphors in Hugo Chavez's Political Discourse Conceptualizing Nation, Revolution, and Opposition, VDM VERLAG DR. MÜLLER, , Besorgungstitel - vorauss. Lieferzeit 3-5 Tage. ISBN: 3639115252
This book provides the first comprehensive analysisof metaphors used by Hugo Chavez in his efforts to construct andlegitimize his Bolivarian Revolution. It focuses on metaphors drawn from three of his most frequent target domains:the nation, his revolution, and the opposition. The author arguesthat behind an official discourse of inclusion, Chavez's choice of metaphors contributes to the construction of apolarizing discourse of exclusion in which his political opponents arerepresented as enemies of the nation. Chavez constructs this polarizing discourse of exclusion by combiningmetaphors that conceptualize: (a) the nation as a person who hasbeen resurrected by his government, as a person ready to fight for his revolution, or as Chavez himself; (b) the revolutionas war; and (c) members of the opposition as war combatants orcriminals. At the same time, by making explicit references in his discourse about the revolution as the continuation ofSimon Bolivar's wars of independence, Chavez contributes to representopponents as enemies of the nation, given that in the Venezuelan collective imaginary Bolivar is the symbolof the nation's emancipation.

NEUBUCH! 2009. 180 S.

[KW: Venezuela]

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