Publisher's Synopsis
Title: A dictionary, practical, theoretical, and historical of commerce and commercial navigation.
Author: J R McCulloch
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP02173902
CollectionID: CTRG97-B129
PublicationDate: 18510101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: "With an appendix, containing the new tariff of 1846, together with the tariff of 1842, reduced to ad valorem rates as far as practicable. Also the sub-treasury, warehousing, and the Canadian transit bills, of 1846. Likewise, the new British tariff, as amended by the passage of the new corn law and sugar duties. With a table of all foreign gold and silver coin, reduced to federal currency, &c., &c., &c."
Collation: 2 v.: ill., maps; 24 cm
