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  • I would add this to my rss feedJazmine Meiggs (Quote)

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Inaccurate legal claim from the Democratic Governors Association 2010

  • For an introduction to the Themistocles Decree and the debate among scholars, see Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis, eds., A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century, B.C., rev. ed.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • For an introduction to the Themistocles Decree and the debate among scholars, see Russell Meiggs and David M. Lewis, eds., A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the Fifth Century, B.C., rev. ed.

    The Battle of Salamis Barry Strauss 2004

  • Surveyed by an American railway engineer, Henry Meiggs, and built between 1870 and 1893 by the Peruvian Ernesto Malinowski, the route is the highest passenger line in the world, with a rate of ascent so precipitous that oxygen is dispensed in the first-class cars.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Surveyed by an American railway engineer, Henry Meiggs, and built between 1870 and 1893 by the Peruvian Ernesto Malinowski, the route is the highest passenger line in the world, with a rate of ascent so precipitous that oxygen is dispensed in the first-class cars.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Similarly, in a law from Halicarnassus of ca. 460-455 B.C. (Meiggs and Lewis, No. 32): the fact that it refers to itself as nomos shows that the term was used to describe a written statute (lines 32, 34-35); but, when the same law (lines 19-20) stipulates an oath to be taken nomōi by jurors, we have no way of knowing whether the oath was incorporated in a written law.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MARTIN OSTWALD 1968

  • As Russell Meiggs has written, even while Athens and its allies called their relationship a league or alliance, “the tools of empire had already been forged.”

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • The Athenian analogy seems to me more curious than enlightening: can it really be said that in 1897 American influence in Hawaii, the Philippines, and China or, indeed, in Latin America approximated Athenian control of Ionia in the decade before 450 B.C., that the Americans had already made off with the Delian treasury, or that the United States possessed “instruments of empire” like those described by Russell Meiggs?

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • Given all the talk of the American China Development Company, it is instructive to compare the sketches in the Dictionary of America Biography of Scrymser, Henry Meiggs a great-uncle, by the way, of Russell Meiggs, who thus enjoys both inherited and acquired qualifications as an historian of informal empire, Charles J. Harrah, William R. Grace, and Minor W.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

  • Given all the talk of the American China Development Company, it is instructive to compare the sketches in the Dictionary of America Biography of Scrymser, Henry Meiggs a great-uncle, by the way, of Russell Meiggs, who thus enjoys both inherited and acquired qualifications as an historian of informal empire, Charles J. Harrah, William R. Grace, and Minor W.

    Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

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