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pt. 1. List of patentees.--pt. 2. Index to subjects of inventions.
Of - A tale of how Peter Mueller came to be is crisply-written historical fiction that deftly examines a family's lineage over a period of roughly 100 years. Characters battle in three wars and labor in a steel mill, on a horse farm and in a coal mine. The harshness of life in America for immigrants in the late 19th century and early 20th century is brightened with humor. The book relieves heavily upon character dialogue, including that of characters who speak broken English. An easy, enjoyable read.
First Published in 1994. This book focuses on the historical development of the library as an institution. Its contents assume no single theoretical foundation or philosophical perspective but instead reflect the richly diverse opinions of its many contributors. This text is intended to serve as a reference tool for undergraduate and graduate students interested in library history, for library school educators whose teaching requires knowledge of the historical development of library institutions, services, and user groups, and for practicing library professionals.
"Historical Comparative Law and Comparative Legal History Legal history and comparative law overlap in important respects. This is more apparent with the use of some methods for comparison, such as legal transplant, natural law, or nation building. M.N.S. Sellers nicely portrayed the relationship. The past is a foreign country, its people strangers and its laws obscure.... No one can really understand her or his own legal system without leaving it first, and looking back from the outside. The comparative study of law makes one's own legal system more comprehensible, by revealing its idiosyncrasies. Legal history is comparative law without travel. Legal historians, perhaps especially in the United States, have been skeptical about the possibility of a fruitful comparative legal history, preferring in general to investigate the distinctiveness of their national experience. Comparatists, however, content with revealing or promoting similarities or differences between legal systems, by their nature strive toward comparison. Some American historians, especially since World War II, see the value in this"--
Includes entries for maps and atlases.