American poems, 1776-1900,

Mode of access: Internet.

William Ryle Davies, 1844-1901.

Mode of access: Internet.

Corona funebre del doctor Agustin Andrade.

Provisional Circ record

An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies.

Mode of access: Internet.

Biografías americanas. Simón Bolívar. El general S. Martín. José Morales Lemus. José Joaqúin de Olmedo. Daniel Wébster. José Francisco Heredia. Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés.

1. Simón Bolívar.--2. El genral S. Martín--3. José Morales Lemus.--4. José Joaquín de Olmedo.--5. Daniel Wébster.--6. José Francisco Heredia.--7. Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés.

Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads, etc.; reprinted from the edition of 1776, with an appendix containing the pieces substituted in the edition of 1791 for omissions from that of 1776.

Mode of access: Internet.

Letters & papers of John Singleton Copley and Henry Pelham, 1739-1776.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Kress library of business and economics. Catalog, covering material published through 1776, with data upon cognate items in other Harvard libraries.

Arranged chronologically, with alphabetical index of authors and anonymous titles.

Negotiating identities, striving for state recognition: Blacks in Córdoba, Argentina 1776–1853

Race in Argentina played a significant role as a highly durable construct by identifying and advancing subjects (1776–1810) and citizens (1811–1853). My dissertation explores the intricacies of power relations by focusing on the ways in which race informed the legal process during the transition from a colonial to national State. It argues that the State’s development in both the colonial and national periods depended upon defining and classifying African descendants. In response, people of African descendent used the State’s assigned definitions and classifications to advance their legal identities. It employs race and culture as operative concepts, and law as a representation of the sometimes, tense relationship between social practices and the State’s concern for social peace. This dissertation examines the dynamic nature of the court. It utilizes the theoretical concepts multicentric legal orders that are analyzed through weak and strong legal pluralisms, and jurisdictional politics, from the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. This dissertation juxtaposes various levels of jurisdiction (canon/state law and colonial/national law) to illuminate how people of color used the legal system to ameliorate their social condition. In each chapter the primary source materials are state generated documents which include criminal, ecclesiastical, civil, and marriage dissent court cases along with notarial and census records. Though it would appear that these documents would provide a superficial understanding of people of color, my analysis provides both a top-down and bottom-up approach that reflects a continuous negotiation for African descendants’ goal for State recognition. These approaches allow for implicit or explicit negotiation of a legal identity that transformed slaves and free African descendants into active agents of their own destinies.

Guillermo O. Quinteros. La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia, Buenos Aires, 1776-1860. Rosario, Prohistoria, 2015, 234 páginas

Reseña crítica de La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia

Guillermo O. Quinteros. La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia, Buenos Aires, 1776-1860. Rosario, Prohistoria, 2015, 234 páginas

Reseña crítica de La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia

Population and Government in Colonial Buenos Aires. An Approach to the Study of the Tensions Generated by Demographic Growth in the City (1740-1776)

The relationship between population and government in the City of Buenos Aires is analyzed, focusing on the tensions generated by the arrival of new individuals, a local elite with great interests in commerce and in charge of community affairs, and Spanish functionaries that progressively adopted the ideals of the Bourbon Dynasty, despite also being implicated in local logics. It interests us to observe the governors’ perspectives with respect to everyday developments in the city, their preoccupations and interests, and how they would vary the mechanisms to which they resorted in order to organize daily life, in the period defined between 1740 and 1776.

Commentary on International Copyright Act 1844

Legislation replacing the International Copyright Act 1838 (uk_1838) and providing that the British monarch could, by Order in Council, grant to foreign authors both copyright protection for works of literature, drama, music and art, as well as performance rights for dramatic pieces and musical compositions. The document contains the following associated material: Bill to amend Law relating to International Copyright 1844 (uk_1844a).
This Act addressed perceived inadequacies of the International Copyright Act 1838 (uk_1838) by expanding upon both the subject-matter and the nature of the rights that might be included in a reciprocal copyright arrangement with a foreign state. It also specifically linked the protections that foreign authors would enjoy within Britain to existing domestic copyright legislation. Following this legislation Britain successfully negotiated a series of bilateral international copyright treaties the first of which was concluded with Prussia in May 1846.
The commentary locates the Act within existing legislative provisions designed to address the problem of the market for cheap foreign imports of British books. It suggests that, regardless of the existence of stringent measures targeting unlawful foreign imports, the British government regarded a system of international copyright protection as integral in both addressing the import issue and in fostering a more secure overseas market in the interests of the British book trade.

Guillermo O. Quinteros. La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia, Buenos Aires, 1776-1860. Rosario, Prohistoria, 2015, 234 páginas

Reseña crítica de La política del matrimonio. Novios, amantes y familias ante la justicia