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Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out...

This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share...

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This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share...

In Liberty and Slavery, Niels Eichhorn examines the language of slavery, a component he considers central to revolutionary struggles, especially those fought by European separatists in the first half of the nineteenth century. Tracing the European uprisings of 1830 and 1848 and the American Civil War in 1861, Eichhorn shows that separatism, broadly defined as a group's desire for self-determination manifested in the form of a breakaway state, ...

Um die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens zu sichern, besteht ein Ansatz in der Effizienzsteigerung der Produktion. Eine Möglichkeit - als Beispiel wird die spanende Fertigung gewählt - besteht in der Rüstoptimierung, die zu einer Reduzierung der Nebenzeiten und damit zu geringeren Stückkosten führt. Die bekannten Ansätze der Rüstprozessoptimierung werden vorgestellt und ihre Vor- bzw. Nachteile diskutiert. Die bestehenden Methoden und We...