Dashiell Family Records
Dashiell Family Records

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Publisher:

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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James Dashiell (1634-1697), son of James Dashiell and Margaret Inglis, was born Scotland and immigrated from England to Northumberland County, Virginia in 1653. He married Ann Cannon in 1659, and moved to Somerset County, Maryland in 1663. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, New York, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Louisiana, California, Washington and elsewhere. Includes some ancestry and family history in England, Scotland, France and elsewhere.

The Alphabetic Labyrinth
The Alphabetic Labyrinth

Author: Johanna Drucker

Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780500280683

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The letters of the alphabet have been the object of speculation since their invention. This book examines the many ways in which the letters of the alphabet have been assigned value in political, spiritual, or religious systems over two millennia.

Transit States
Transit States

Author: ʻUmar Hišām aš- Šihābī

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 9781783712205

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The states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman and Qatar) form the largest destination for labour migration in the global South. In all of these states, however, the majority of the working population is composed of temporary, migrant workers with no citizenship rights. The cheap and transitory labour power these workers provide has created the prodigious and extraordinary development boom across the region, and neighbouring countries are almost fully dependent on the labour markets of the Gulf to employ their working populations. For these reasons, the Gulf takes a central place in contemporary debates around migration and labour in the global economy. This book attempts to bring together and explore these issues. The relationship between 'citizen' and 'non-citizen' holds immense significance for understanding the construction of class, gender, city and state in the Gulf, however too often these questions are occluded in too scholarly or overly-popular accounts of the region. Bringing together experts on the Gulf, Transit States confronts the precarious working conditions of migrants in a accessible, yet in-depth manner.