The Discovery of San Francisco Bay

The Discovery of San Francisco Bay

Author: George Davidson

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05-27

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780282059071

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Excerpt from The Discovery of San Francisco Bay: The Rediscovery of the Port of Monterey; The Establishment of the Presidio, and the Founding of the Mission of San FranciscoWhen we began to put on record our investigations of the Discovery of San Francisco Bay, we proposed to confine our paper to the solution of that question alone. We had published some of the facts of the discovery in two separate papers relating to the early voyages of discovery and exploration on this coast, and in the four editions of the Coast Pilot of California, Oregon and Washington.In the year 1895 Mr. Andrew J. Moulder, Superintendent of the Public Schools of San Francisco, a long time friend, prevailed upon us to read a paper upon the subject before the teachers of the San Francisco School Department, as part of the required Institute work.That has appeared to us too brief for preservation, and therefore we have undertaken to recast it, and add new material with more detail.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.


Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

Sovereignty and Territorial Temptation

Author: Christopher R. Rossi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1316878384

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This powerful book stands on its head the most venerated tradition in international law and discusses the challenges of scarcity, sovereignty, and territorial temptation. Newly emergent resources, accessible through global climate change, discovery, or technological advancement, highlight time-tested problems of sovereignty and challenge liberal internationalism's promise of beneficial or shared solutions. From the High Arctic to the hyper-arid reaches of the Atacama Desert, from the South China Sea to the history of the law of the sea, from doctrinal and scholarly treatments to institutional forms of global governance, the historically recurring problem of territorial temptation in the ageless age of scarcity calls into question the future of the global commons, and illuminates the tendency among states to share resources, but only when necessary.