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  • Petition and Memorial of David Quinn, Asking for the Re-Establishment of Negro Slavery in the United States
    David active 1850-1869 Quinn
    A controversial and thought-provoking document from a pivotal era in American history, 'Petition and Memorial of David Quinn, Asking for the Re-establishment of Negro Slavery in the United States' offers a chilling glimpse into the justifications and arguments used to defend slavery during and after the Civil War. This meticulously prepared print republication allows readers to...
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    15,63 €

  • Petition and memorial of David Quinn, asking for the re-establishment of Negro slavery in the United States
    David Quinn
    Slavery was abolished in certain states, and David Quinn sent a petition and memorial to the government asking for its reinstatement in those states as well as its reinstatement in all other states and territories. In addition to asserting that there is a general disparity among human races, which breeds chaos and hostility, the paper makes the case that human rules must be in ...
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    9,81 €

  • Steel Shamrocks
    David Quinn
    Steel Shamrocks - The Sons of Annie McKenna In 1830 Hugh McKenna, a widowed farmer and father of eleven, left his home in Ireland’s County Tyrone for economic survival in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Arriving in Quebec on a 'timber ship,' Hugh and the family walked the twelve hundred miles to a new life in the raucous, burgeoning gateway to the American West. Thus began nearly a h...
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    16,12 €

  • Poems of Faith, Family, and Love
    Ernest David Quinn
    In this, my first published book, I have taken some eighty-six poems from more than three hundred I have written over nearly fifty years. Some express a simple faith in God the Father, some give praises to Jesus, some focus on biblical events and people, and some are what I call the opposite of the parables of Jesus. Instead of comparing an earthly situation with a heavenly sit...
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    31,02 €

  • Poems of Faith, Family, and Love
    Ernest David Quinn
    In this, my first published book, I have taken some eighty-six poems from more than three hundred I have written over nearly fifty years. Some express a simple faith in God the Father, some give praises to Jesus, some focus on biblical events and people, and some are what I call the opposite of the parables of Jesus. Instead of comparing an earthly situation with a heavenly sit...
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    14,12 €

  • Leviathan’s Master
    M. Quinn David M. Quinn / MQuinn David MQuinn
    It was the biggest sailing vessel ever built and the world’s first supertanker. In the winter of 1907, the T.W. Lawson, a four-hundred foot schooner with seven masts, makes her first transatlantic crossing with more than two million gallons of kerosene to be delivered to London. With almost fifty years of sailing experience, Captain George W. Dow is not intimidated, despite the...
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    8,80 €

  • Leviathan’s Master
    M. Quinn David M. Quinn / MQuinn David MQuinn
    It was the biggest sailing vessel ever built and the world’s first supertanker. In the winter of 1907, the T.W. Lawson, a four-hundred foot schooner with seven masts, makes her first transatlantic crossing with more than two million gallons of kerosene to be delivered to London. With almost fifty years of sailing experience, Captain George W. Dow is not intimidated, despite the...
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    13,52 €

  • Mediating International Crises
    David Quinn / Jonathan Wilkenfeld / Kathleen Young
    This new book shows how international crises are dangerous episodes that can be destabilizing not only to the actors directly involved but also to the entire international system. Recognizing the primacy of crises as defining moments in international relations, scholars and policy makers alike are increasingly concerned with identifying mechanisms for crisis prevention, manage...
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    88,14 €

  • It May Be Forever
    David M. Quinn / David MQuinn
    It May Be Forever is a nineteenth century tale of adventure and tragedy, based upon the real-life story of Michael Quinn. To escape the grinding poverty of Ireland’s Great Famine, Michael and his family flee to England, where at age eight, Michael becomes a child laborer in a textile mill. As he grows older and more aware of British prejudice and discrimination, he is motivated...
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    21,46 €

  • It May Be Forever
    David M. Quinn / David MQuinn
    It May Be Forever is a nineteenth century tale of adventure and tragedy, based upon the real-life story of Michael Quinn. To escape the grinding poverty of Ireland’s Great Famine, Michael and his family flee to England, where at age eight, Michael becomes a child laborer in a textile mill. As he grows older and more aware of British prejudice and discrimination, he is motivated...
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    32,16 €

  • Mediating International Crises
    David Quinn / Jonathan Wilkenfeld / Kathleen Young
    This book investigates the crisis management mechanism-mediation by third parties to determine the effectiveness of mediation efforts in crisis negotiations. ...
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    268,05 €

  • Set Fair for Roanoke
    David Beers Quinn
    Quinn’s study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists’ experiences in the New World. Quinn 'solves' the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with t...
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    53,56 €

  • Lost Colonists
    David Beers Quinn
    This book discusses the composition of the Lost Colony of 1587, the conditions on Roanoke Island, and the activities of the English colonists after landing there. The author speculates about what happened to the colonists between 1587 and 1590 and offers his conclusion to their fate. ...
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    9,58 €

  • The First Colonists
    Alison M. Quinn / David Beers Quinn
    Sixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the English. ...
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    19,73 €