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The town of Waterbury, Connecticut is the focus of Volume 50 of the Barbour Collection. Compiled by Jerri Lynn Burket, Volume 50 refers to nearly 40,000 inhabitants of Waterbury between 1686 and 1853.
Cannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day. This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. It does so to trace a global history of the plant and its preparations, arguing that Western colonialism shaped and disseminated ideas in the nineteenth century that came to drive the international control regimes of the twentieth. More recently, the emergence of commercial interests in cannabis has been central to the challenges that have undermined that cannabis consensus. Throughout, the determination of people around the world to consume substances made from the plant has defied efforts to stamp them out and often transformed the politics and cultures of using them. These texts also suggest that globalization might have a cannabis history. The migration of consumers, the clandestine networks established to supply them, and international cooperation on control may have driven much of the interconnectedness that is a key feature of the contemporary world.
The Constitution, regular Elections, two Parties, Checks and Balances, our brilliant Founding Fathers created this Nation through a Revolution to end all Revolutions. But did they? What about Americas westward expansion at the early nineteenth century? Was its excess within what the Constitution envisioned? The Civil War it was as near a Revolution as it could get, but it failed to split or change the governance of America. What about exceeding Constitutional limits through the New Deal and the Great Society (from Wilson, Roosevelt to Johnson)? What about the Republicans claim Kennedy stole his Election, just as the Democrats claim W (G.W. Bush) stole his as well. So we never ever had a Coup...
Set in the days of the early Renaissance, Knight and Dae is a slice of life in a small hamlet in England. From a murder, albino, kidnapping, a joust, and a rude house steward, Dae must overcome all to save her family.
Young Hannah experiences the excitement, joys, and hardships of life in a frontier village in western Pennsylvania prior to the Revolutionary War.