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A Gallery of Harlem Portraits
A Gallery of Harlem Portraits is Melvin B. Tolson's first book-length collection of poems. It was written in the 1930s when Tolson was immersed in the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, the subject of his master's thesis at Columbia University, and will provide scholars and critics a rich insight into how Tolson's literary picture of Harlem evolved. Modeled on Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology and showing the influence of Browning and Whitman, it is rooted in the Harlem Renaissance in its fascination with Harlem's cultural and ethnic diversity and its use of musical forms. Robert M. Farnsworth's afterword elucidates these and other literary influences. Tolson eventually attempted to incorporate the technical achievements of T.S. Eliot and the New Criticism into a complex modern poetry which would accurately represent the extraordinary tensions, paradoxes, and sophistication, both highbrow and lowbrow, of modern Harlem. As a consequence his position in literary history is problematical. The publication of this earliest of his manuscripts will help clarify Tolson's achievement and surprise many of his readers with its readily accessible, warmly human poetic portraiture.
The Letts Line
This Letts family begins with William Letts who came to America from England in 1665. He landed in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. He married Elizabeth Laud in 1667. They had two children and Elizabeth died about 1685/6. He then married his second wife Ann and had two more children. Descendants are living in New Jersey, Virginia, Texas and elsewhere in the United States. Includes families of Platt, Suttle, Fisher and others marrying into the family.
From the Battle of Solferino of 1859 to the Geneva Conventions of 1949
This collection of contributions, authored by renowned international experts and practitioners and based on presentations delivered at the Sanremo Round Table, examines some of the most complex and significant aspects of International Humanitarian Law (IHL). Held on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Geneva Conventions in 1949, the 47th Sanremo Round Table explored the evolution of, and current compliance with, IHL provisions worldwide. The event brought together academics, legal advisors, humanitarian actors, and senior military officials for a series of six thematic sessions, examining the historical roots, contemporary implementation, and latest challenges to the respect of its key rules.
United Nations Naval Peace Operations in the Territorial Sea
This book examines UN naval peace operations, addressing the construction and assessment of authority with respect to a range of acts essential to the conduct of such operations. The focus is particularly upon operations as they relate to and impact upon the Territorial Sea. Within a conceptual approach emphasising the interaction of power and legitimation in the construction of authority, naval peace operations issues such as Innocent Passage, interdiction operations, and transitional administration are considered. The book concludes by proposing a conceptually and operationally sensitive approach to constructing authority for the conduct of UN naval peace operations in the Territorial Sea.
Marine Scientific Research, New Marine Technologies and the Law of the Sea
Viewed from space, one might imagine “Planet Ocean” a more apt name for Earth. For policymakers from oceanic States, the oceans are the next frontier for scientific discoveries and deployments of new technologies. Marine Scientific Research, New Marine Technologies and the Law of the Sea offers legal insights from international scholars based in Asia, Europe, and North America on existing and evolving legal regimes for marine scientific research and marine technology under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Topics covered include marine scientific research in disputed areas, unmanned and autonomous merchant ships, floating nuclear power plants, and marine genetic resources.
History of La Salle County, Illinois
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Intestates and Others from the Orphans Court Books of Monmouth Co., N.J., 1785-1906
Dunmore's War of 1774 was the culmination of a long series of disputes between settlers and Native Americans in western Virginia and Pennsylvania. In an effort to quell the increasingly violent Indian incursions, Virginia Governor John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, carried on a successful retaliatory campaign known as "Dunmore's War." This book presents a history of that war through the use of primary documents selected from the mass of manuscript historical material in the famous Draper Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Numerous footnotes throughout the volume provide a wealth of biographical information, as do the lists of muster rolls and biographies of field officers at the end of the book.
