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UNINA9910455074303321 |
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Matthews Linda H |
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Middling folk [[electronic resource] ] : three seas, three centuries, one Scots-Irish family / / Linda H. Matthews |
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Chicago, : Chicago Review Press, 2009 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (385 p.) |
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Scots-Irish |
Electronic books. |
Virginia Genealogy |
United States Genealogy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front Cover; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; Prologue; PART I THE HAMMILL FAMILY IN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND; 1. Origins; 2. A Possibility Opens; 3. Scots-Irish Pioneers, 1606-1641; 4. Hugh and William Hammill and the Siege of Derry; 5. John Hammill the Immigrant; PART II CHARLES COUNTY, MARYLAND 1725-1778; 6. John Hammill, Tidewater Planter; 7. Sarah Hammill and Her Household - 81; 8. Things Fall Apart; 9. Hugh the Heir; 10. Good-Bye to Charles County; PART III PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1778-1845; 11. Crossing the Potomac; 12. Life and Death on Revolution's Doorstep; 13. Three Stories |
14. The Second John Hammill, Citizen of the New Republic15. Three Stories More; PART IV PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1845-1896; 16. The Second Hugh Hammill, A Keen, Shrewd Man; 17. The Civil War Comes to Prince William County; 18. A Virginian in a Yankee Court; 19. Nothing to Do and Nothing to Do It With - The War's Last Years; 20. Hugh Takes Care of His Children; PART V THE HAMMILL FAMILY IN THE FAR NORTHWEST 1880-1928; 21 A Virginian Weighs His Options; 22. Washington Territory, a Last Frontier; 23. The Mill on Salkum Creek; 24. |
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William and Lucretia Hammill, Pioneer Folk; Epilogue |
AcknowledgmentsNotes; Index |
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Telling the stories of those who quietly conducted the business and built the livelihoods that made their societies prosper or fail, this account shows how one Scots-Irish American family, the Hammills?millers, wagon makers, and blacksmiths?lived out their lives against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the Civil War, and westward expansion. Spanning three centuries from the shores of Ireland to the Chesapeake Bay Area to the Pacific Northwest, this saga brings to life the early days of the founding of this country through the lens of the middl |
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UNINA9910459631403321 |
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Autore |
Cheung Derek T. |
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Conquering the electron : the geniuses, visionaries, egomaniacs, and scoundrels who built our electronic age / / Derek Cheung and Eric Brach |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Electronics - History |
Electronic industries - History |
Computer industry - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I. AGE OF ELECTROMAGNETISM; Chapter 1. THE KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION; Chapter 2. THE TELEGRAPH; Chapter 3. THE TELEPHONE; Chapter 4. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY; Part II. AGE OF VACUUM ELECTRONICS; Chapter 6. CURRENT FLOW IN A VACUUM; Chapter 7. CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF ELECTRONS; Chapter |
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8. RADIO; Chapter 9. TELEVISION; Chapter 10. RADAR; Chapter 11. COMPUTER; Part III. AGE OF SOLID-STATE ELECTRONICS; Chapter 12. THE SEMICONDUCTOR; Chapter 13. THE BIRTH OF THE TRANSISTOR; Chapter 14. LAUNCHING THE ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; Chapter 15. THE DAWN OF SILICON VALLEY |
Chapter 16. THE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT AND THE CHIPChapter 17. CHIP TECHNOLOGY BLOSSOMS; Chapter 18. EVOLUTION OF THE ELECTRONICSINDUSTRY; Chapter 19. LEDS, FIBER OPTICS, AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS; Chapter 20. THE INFORMATION AGE AND BEYOND; APPENDIX I: FURTHER READING; APPENDIX II: SUMMARYOF KEY "CONQUERORSOF THE ELECTRON" |
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Conquering the Electron offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of friction and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern day technologies. Want to understand how radio and television work-and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers this story and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles t |
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UNINA9910954186503321 |
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Titolo |
The Warren court : a retrospective / / edited by Bernard Schwartz |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1996 |
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1-280-76091-5 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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SchwartzBernard <1923-1997.> |
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347.73/26 347.30735 |
347.7326347.30735 |
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Appellate courts - United States - History |
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Papers presented to a Warren Court conference in 1994. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. A Personal Remembrance; 3. Earl Warren and His America; I. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CORPUS; II. THE JUSTICES; III. A BROADER PERSPECTIVE |
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A judge-made revolution? The very term seems an oxymoron, yet this is exactly what the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren achieved. In Bernard Schwartzs latest work, based on a conference at the University of Tulsa College of Law, we get the first retrospective on the Warren Court--a detailed analysis of the Courts accomplishments, including original pieces by well-known judges, professors, lawyers, popular writers such as Anthony Lewis, David Halberstam, David J. Garrow, and a rare personal remembrance by Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. The Warren Court: A Retrospective begins with |
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