Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Residential and Light Construction, Volume 1
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Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Residential and Light Construction, Volume 1
Edward J. Muller , and Philip A. Grau
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ASIN: 0131114689

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Unique in coverage and providing updated information to reflect the most current changes in the industry, the Sixth Edition enables readers to further improve their communication skills when dealing with the technical information found in construction documents. This book introduces concepts essential to a basic, introductory understanding of residential and light construction—drawing, mathematics, geometry, terminology, materials, systems—while providing hands-on experience in reading architectural working drawings. For professionals with a career or interest in architectural drawing/design, residential design, construction, contracting, and those who are required to read and interpret information found in construction documents.

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4 out of 5 stars Good.......2007-03-12

This is a very useful book if you are looking to draft something it is full of information on everything you will need to know.
Architectural Drawing and Light Construction (7th Edition)
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  • a one book resource guide to construction
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Edward J. Muller , and Philip A. Grau
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5 out of 5 stars Excellent Text of Architectural Drawing & Light Construction.......2007-08-20

I purchased an older edition of this same book over 30 years ago. The book was recommended by the Department of Architecture of University of Oklahoma, where I was also a graduate student of regional & city planning. The text was also helpful when I later on took 'hands-on' architecture and building construction technology classes at Crowder Community College in Missouri.

The book provides excellent detail drawings and information on every phase of light residential architectural design and construction, from site design to electrial wiring planning. Book also contains valuable joist & rafter span tables, a necessary reference guide to have on hand when you are designing and planning.

I used the book as a reference text when designing and building (using the inner resources of my own mind and the musculature of my own brawn) my own two-story cabin 30 years ago.

Another excellent publication to keep on hand if you're a student or a designer-builder of light residential construction is "Building Trades Blueprint Reading" by Elmer W. Sundberg. The title, however, is extremely misleading, as it is far more than a building trades blueprint reading manual. It is a designer's manual, convenientely spirally bound, that explains in detail every aspect of designing and building small residential dwellings.

Both books are time tested. Highly recommended. An older edition of Muller's book can be puchased (second hand) from Amazon at a much lower price than the current edition. Thanks to the creators of Amazon.com!

5 out of 5 stars A very useful text that has passed the test of time - useful for the classroom and for students reading on their own.......2007-05-08

While I am not an architect or an engineer of any stripe, I have sold and setup CADD systems for engineers and seen them convert from their drafting boards (this was years ago - I am sure most students learn on computer systems today). I do like the fact that this text still talks about the manual methods of drafting and believe that it has some benefit to the student to learn to draw by hand in order to develop their sense for the methods and means in a very direct way. Learning to letter by hand, sketch freehand, and all the other aspects of architectural drawing can only help one use the computer-based systems in more rich ways. Also, even in our day and age it is conceivable that one would be in a situation where a computer system is unavailable and one has to produce a drawing. It is good to have the skills to do so. The text also discusses the use of CADD systems (particularly AutoCAD).

Since architectural and technical drawings are meant to communicate specific things to many users, it is good to learn the conventions as well as the lessons of what has been shown to work over the years and what does not. This book communicates this important information very well. There are twenty chapters and they are:

1) Drafting Equipment and Its Uses, 2) Computer-Aided Drafting and Design (CADD), 3) Lettering, 4) Drafting Expression, 5) Modular and Metric Drafting, 6) Basic Technical Drawing, 7) Axonometric and Oblique Pictorial Drawings, 8) Freehand Sketching, 9) Perspective Drawing, 10) Shades and Shadows, 11) Presentation Drawings and Renderings, 12) Principles of Light Construction, 13) Structural Member Selection, 14) Typical Architectural Details, 15) Basic Residential Planning, 16) Building Models, 17) Writing Specifications, 18) Working Drawings of Small Homes, 19) Residential Mechanical and Electrical Systems, 20) Drawing a Small Commercial Building.

As you can see, this book centers on learning how to draw residential and small commercial buildings. This is a great place to start and happens to be what I was interested in learning when I obtained this book.

There are six appendices that cover abbreviations, modular vertical brick coursing, metric system in construction, tables from the UBC, span tables for wood structural members, and heat loss / gain calculation examples. There is also a helpful glossary and a useful index.

A very good text that has helped many and has passed the test of time.

5 out of 5 stars a one book resource guide to construction.......1999-09-11

I recommend this book to anyone looking for quick building or construction reference. Excellent for Design students.
Architectural Drawing and Light Construction - 6th Edition
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    Architectural Drawing & Light Construction (Special Edition -- Volume II, 2)
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      Architectural Drawing & Light Construction Special Edition -- Volume II: Compiled by James T. Darling Taken from Architectural Drawing and Light Construction Sixth Edition by Edward J. Muller, James G. Fausett and Philip A. Grau III as well as Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Commercial Construction, Volume Two by Edward J. Muller and Robert L. Myatt, J.R., P.E.
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                Reading Architectural Working Drawings: Basics, Residential and Light
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                  L'INDE ET L'ORIENT CLASSIQUE, 2 VOLUMES
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                    Gisbert Combaz (1869-1941): Fin de Siecle Artist
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                      Jane Block , and Gisbert Combaz
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                      Gisbert Combaz is among a handful of turn-of-the century poster artists to create a personal style that is still recognizable today. His posters for the exhibition society La Libre Esthetique and his sets of postcards are as prized now as they were in Combaz's day. As this lavishly illustrated book reveals, however, Combaz was also an accomplished graphic artist, painter, and art critic who made important contributions to Western understanding of the art of the Far East and was an inspiring teacher to several generations of Belgian artists. For this thoroughly researched first study of Combaz's life, the author consulted family documents, unpublished photographs, works in private collections, and institutional and governmental archives to offer a full assessment of the man and his oeuvre. Included are a biographical essay and an analysis of his major works, with extensive documentation of his 24 posters.
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                          Star-Hopping: Your Visa to Viewing the Universe
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                          Star-hopping--using easily seen bright stars to locate fainter celestial objects in the night sky--is a basic and essential technique for all star gazers, novice and veteran alike. Robert Garfinkle shows you how to locate the many stellar objects usually overlooked by the untrained eye. Two or more detailed star hops for each month of the year, which can be read in any order, take you on a trip through the night sky, opening new doors of discovery and reinforcing star-hopping methods and techniques. With Garfinkle's able guidance, learn to take the Messier Marathon--a night-long hop across the skies. Additional basic astronomy skills are carefully outlined, including reading star charts, finding celestial directions, understanding telescope types, and using light pollution filters. A lively history of the universe and the ancient myths and legends of the sky round out the text. This is an essential guide for sky gazers who want to get the most out of their evening sky explorations.

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                          4 out of 5 stars Some great tours of the sky!.......2001-04-17

                          This is a thick book heavy on content and true to its purpose: to help the novice amateur astromoner learn how to navigate the sky without the aid of motorized GOTO computers or setting circles. The work contains about 24 starhops, most of which are fairly lengthy and take two hours or longer to complete if observing leisurely.

                          Although the text is a bit dry and not as enjoyable to work through as in MacRoberts' wonderfully descriptive and similar work "Star-Hopping for Backyard Astronomers", the emphasis in this book is on *empirical star-hopping practice*. Once you complete the exercises in this book you *will* have gained a subconscious feel for navigating the skies with your scope. Traditional star-hopping becomes second nature and loses its daunting aspect.

                          I feel that all amateur astronomers should have this skill down pat. It makes your observing immeasurably easier because you have an intuitive "feel" for which direction and how far to move your scope.

                          The maps are well done but do not completely reflect the text. Sometimes objects are discussed in the text but don't appear on the map. Also, the maps are not at near a large enough scale to make the star-hops fully straightforward. For the dimmer DSOs in his tours (and there are many of them), I highly advise the reader to purchase a solid Mag 8.5 or deeper star atlas to accompany this book, such as Tirion's Sky Atlas 2000.0 2nd Ed.

                          Overall, recommended over MacRoberts' book for serious training and experience in this skill. Rank beginners will want to start with something easier, like MacRoberts or the excellent Turn Left at Orion.

                          5 out of 5 stars Great guide for novice and experienced alike.......2000-11-13

                          Garfinkle's book is a first-rate introduction into "star-hopping," the practice of using patterns of stars to find interesting objects in the night sky. He has a couple of chapters that provide useful tips for the novice--such as judging the field of view of a view finder--but then he dives right in. He adopts a constellation-based approach, marching around the major stars in a constellation to find the stellar and deep sky objects within. He is cosmopolitan in his interests, highlighting double, multiple and variable stars as well as every possible deep sky object accessible to amateur telescopes. His text is so full of information and folklore that it can almost be distracting: did you really need to know the exact spectral class of Deneb? Nevertheless, his guides and maps are outstanding and the tours he assembles are just GREAT. To my knowledge, there is nothing like them in the literature. His tours of Cygnus, Sagitarius, and Lyra got me hooked on telescope astronomy, and I return to them again and again. It would take years of dedicated effort to exhaust the richness of this book.

                          The main strength of Garfinkle's approach--the constellation-based approach--is also its main weakness. This is because fascinating objects a view-finder or two away from the constellation in questions are either discussed in some chapter other than the one in hand or are not discussed at all. This can be frustrating if you are an experienced star-hopper. Garfinkle compensates for this by identifying so much of interest in each of his star hops that you probably won't care. If you do, an excellent companion to "Star Hopping" is "Discover the Stars" by Richard Berry, which touches upon a small fraction of the objects discussed by Garfinkle but presents a broader swipe of the sky.

                          5 out of 5 stars An excellent guide for practical amateur observing.......1998-07-16

                          The feature that recommends this book is the road-map approach to viewing objects in a constellation beyond the standard show-pieces. The author includes all kinds of fascinating background information, and you end up seeing things you would otherwise pass by. First-rate.

                          Statistics Sources 2001: A Subject Guide to Data on Industrial, Business, Social, Educational, Financial, and Other Topics for the United States and Internationally (Statistics Sources)
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                            Statistics Sources: A Subject Guide to Data on Industrial, Business, Social, Educational, Financial, and Other Topics for the United States and Internationally (Statistics Sources)
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                                Consuming the American Landscape
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                                Using highly detailed color photographs, John Ganis has chronicled the effects of development and extraction industries in every region of the Continental United States over a period of seventeen years. The subjects of Ganis's images are for the most part flagrantly clear-abandoned wrecks, desolate strip mines, clear-cut forests, industrial parks, landfill sites, and the flattening of terrain for housing -developments-and just as flagrantly disturbing. This is a thesaurus of our "civilized" incursions into the wildness of nature, a charting of our debris-strewn topographies, and a cogent report on our abdication of any reverence -towards the land. In an introductory essay, Robert -Sobieszek, from Los Angeles County Museum, gives an insightful overview of the historical responses to the American landscape and places the work of John Ganis within the context of "the new American pastoral." In 1989, Ganis entered into a collaborative exchange with the noted anthropologist Dr. Stanley Diamond, who wrote the poetry for this book in response to John Ganis's photographs. They represent some of his last and previously unpublished poetic work.

                                John Ganis established his reputation with work on -important environmental issues. His color photographs of land use in America have been exhibited widely and are in the collections of The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Center for Creative Photography, The Detroit Institute of Arts, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art etc.

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                                5 out of 5 stars A moving landscape.......2005-08-16

                                The cover of this book has the perfect image to sum up the contents, a family are perched on a rock taking in the stunning aura of South Dakota's Badlands National Park yet behind them, at the top of a gully and going down is some sort of large metal tubing, what it's for doesn't really matter because it perfectly captures the book's contents: the hand of man on the American landscape.

                                What I thought was so fascinating about the book was the type of image John Ganis has captured, basically the ordinary everyday environmental impact of industry and commerce and not the pollution and devastation that other photographers have exposed, like David Hanson's amazing aerial work in 'Waste Land' (ISBN 0893817260).

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                                Consuming Passions: Dining from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
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                                  Maureen Carroll , Dawn Hadley , and Hugh Willmott
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                                  This multidisciplinary book explores the social practice of dining over 2000 years, examining the archaeological, documentary, material culture, and art historical evidence for the consumption of food and drink in various historical, social, and cultural contexts. The authors look at the locations for dining and the concomitant decoration, furniture, and tableware. They explore the norms for appropriate and inappropriate behavior and the rituals of dining, such as food preparation and presentation, the serving of food, and its means of consumption.
                                  Consuming Subjects
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                                  -- Laura Brown, author of Ends of Empire: Women & Ideology in Early EighteenthCentury English Literature



                                  Consuming Subjects is an insightful exploration of the origin of the modern idea of women as shoppers. Kowaleski-Wallace considers the origins of current ideas about women and consumerism to call into question the "natural" link between women and the commodities they buy.

                                  While previous scholars have posited the nineteenth-century department store and arcade as the crucial place for understanding the emergence of the female consumer, Kowaleski-Wallace argues that the eighteenth century yields a keener understanding by allowing us to view the foundations of contemporary cultural practices.

                                  Drawing on feminist criticism, cultural studies, and new historical ideas, she surveys eighteenth-century literary texts, material objects -such as china- and cultural events to illuminate the ways in which women are both controlled and empowered through images of consumption. Kowaleski-Wallace links the rise of shopping to the appearance of modern pronography: like pornography, shopping embodies a cultural fantasy, claiming to locate and control female "pleasure."

                                  This elegant study is an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies and will appeal to a broader audience of readers interested in feminist and cultural issues.

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                                  3 out of 5 stars Women and the world of goods.......2000-09-08

                                  This slim and accessible book is a study of the ideological construction of modern female subjectivity in relation to the emergence of consumer culture. Wallace argues that the relationship between the world of women and the world of goods can be understood by semiotic connections. She employs a symbolic approach and a scholarly popular concept of Micheal Foucault's discursive discipline to examine "three cultural movements" surrounding the tea table, shopping, and business. The book can be counted an interdisciplinary study which applies a range of feminist, linguistic, and historicist strategies, it can be seen as a good example of literary analysis. Wallace's investigation of female subjectivity as consumer and commodity in relation to consumerism places strong emphasis on the interpretation of the eighteenth-century literature. Therefore, the book will be more comprehensible if the reader has some background in the study of eighteenth-century literature and likes to read an academic style which leans more to literary than historical analysis.
                                  Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870
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                                    Consuming Texts: Readers and Reading Communities, 1695-1870
                                    Stephen Colclough
                                    Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
                                    ProductGroup: Book
                                    Binding: Hardcover

                                    GeneralGeneral | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
                                    GeneralGeneral | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
                                    18th Century18th Century | England | Europe | History | Subjects | Books
                                    History of IdeasHistory of Ideas | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
                                    Social HistorySocial History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
                                    History of BooksHistory of Books | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
                                    LiteracyLiteracy | Books & Reading | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
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                                    SemioticsSemiotics | Criticism & Theory | History & Criticism | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
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                                    LiteracyLiteracy | Education | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                                    ASIN: 0230525385
                                    Release Date: 2007-10-16

                                    Book Description

                                    Consuming Texts explores the history of reading in the British Isles during a period in which the printed word became all pervasive. Beginning with an overview of recent work, it goes on to provide a series of case studies of individual readers and the communities to which they belonged. From wealthy readers of 'amatory fiction' in the early Eighteenth century, through to men and women reading surreptitiously at the Victorian railway bookstall, it argues that a variety of new reading communities emerged during this period.
                                    Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.(Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
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                                      Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.(Review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
                                      Ashley Montague
                                      Manufacturer: Modern Humanities Research Association
                                      ProductGroup: Book
                                      Binding: Digital

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                                      ASIN: B00098UY8G
                                      Release Date: 2005-07-28

                                      Book Description

                                      This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Modern Humanities Research Association on April 1, 1999. The length of the article is 681 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                      Title: Consuming Subjects: Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth Century.(Review)
                                      Author: Ashley Montague
                                      Publication: The Modern Language Review (Refereed)
                                      Date: April 1, 1999
                                      Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association
                                      Volume: 94 Issue: 2 Page: 501(2)

                                      Article Type: Book Review

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                                      An account of the patent and other methods of preventing or consuming smoke: With acts of Parliament on the subject, evidence of indictments for smoke ... others, for exhibiting and explaining models
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                                        An account of the patent and other methods of preventing or consuming smoke: With acts of Parliament on the subject, evidence of indictments for smoke ... others, for exhibiting and explaining models
                                        William West
                                        Manufacturer: Baines and Newsome
                                        ProductGroup: Book
                                        Binding: Unknown Binding
                                        ASIN: B0008BIEMC
                                        Consuming Subjects
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                                          Consuming Subjects
                                          Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace
                                          Manufacturer: Columbia University Press
                                          ProductGroup: Book
                                          Binding: Paperback
                                          ASIN: B000OPKEKC

                                          Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850
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                                          Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850
                                          Francisco Vidal Luna , and Herbert S. Klein
                                          Manufacturer: Stanford University Press
                                          ProductGroup: Book
                                          Binding: Paperback

                                          Economic ConditionsEconomic Conditions | Economics | Business & Investing | Subjects | Books
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                                          BrazilBrazil | South America | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
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                                          Slavery & EmancipationSlavery & Emancipation | World | History | Subjects | Books
                                          Social HistorySocial History | Historical Study | History | Subjects | Books
                                          GeneralGeneral | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
                                          ASIN: 0804748594
                                          Release Date: 2003-07-09

                                          Book Description

                                          Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world’s most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, however, is poorly understood. Most scholarly attention has been paid to the period after 1850, when coffee rose to economic dominance, or to the period since 1880, when large-scale European immigration turned the city of São Paulo into one of the largest metropolises in the world.

                                          This book thus provides the first comprehensive portrait of the economy and people of São Paulo during the critical transition from the traditional eighteenth-century colonial world to the modernizing world of the nineteenth century.

                                          The result is a major rethinking of the history of early slavery in Brazil—it shows that, contrary to previous beliefs, slavery was as deeply entrenched and exploited in São Paulo as elsewhere in Brazil, and that the state’s early economic growth (as the world’s leading coffee-producing region after 1850) was made possible by an expanding African slave labor force. This raises many questions about São Paulo’s supposed “exceptionalism” and challenges the standard account of the state’s economic history, which has been strongly shaped by ideas of path dependence.

                                          In addition to studying the slave-owning class, the authors investigate the economic role of free whites and colored who did not own slaves, and compare São Paulo’s slave society and economy with other such regions in the Americas.

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                                          5 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!!!!!!!.......2007-07-31

                                          The authors of this book summarize in a masterful way the information contained in manuscript censuses taken from 1765 to 1836 at the current states of São Paulo and Paraná in Brazil.

                                          Despite the small size of the books it distills decades of research and primary data collection from two of the most distinguished scholars Brazilian history. If interested in more detail I suggest a google search which will reveal many excelent reviews of this outstanding book.
                                          Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
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                                            Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850.(Book review): An article from: The Historian
                                            Dale Tomich
                                            Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
                                            ProductGroup: Book
                                            Binding: Digital
                                            ASIN: B000MX6WUW
                                            Release Date: 2007-01-24

                                            Book Description

                                            This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 637 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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                                            Title: Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo, 1750-1850.(Book review)
                                            Author: Dale Tomich
                                            Publication: The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
                                            Date: September 22, 2005
                                            Publisher: Thomson Gale
                                            Volume: 67 Issue: 3 Page: 528(2)

                                            Article Type: Book review

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                                            Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo: 1750-1850.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
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                                              Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo: 1750-1850.(Book Review): An article from: Canadian Journal of History
                                              Juliana Garavazo Renato Leite Marcondes
                                              Manufacturer: University of Saskatchewan
                                              ProductGroup: Book
                                              Binding: Digital

                                              GeneralGeneral | Canada | Americas | History | Subjects | Books
                                              ASIN: B000ALTUXW
                                              Release Date: 2005-07-25

                                              Book Description

                                              This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1019 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

                                              Citation Details
                                              Title: Slavery and the Economy of Sao Paulo: 1750-1850.(Book Review)
                                              Author: Juliana Garavazo Renato Leite Marcondes
                                              Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
                                              Date: April 1, 2005
                                              Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
                                              Volume: 40 Issue: 1 Page: 149(3)

                                              Article Type: Book Review

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