Robbery Under Law

	Robbery Under Law ''Robbery Under Law'' (1939) is a polemic travel literature, travel book by the British writer Evelyn Waugh. It depicts the Leftist nationalization of the petroleum industry, and the persecution of Catholics in Mexico, under Lázaro Cárdenas, in 1938. Waugh's trip to Mexico was financed by the Cowdray Estate, which held extensive interests in Mexican oil and had suffered heavy losses due to the nationalization.Kostopulos, Dan S. "Mexico Imagined: ''Robbery Under Law'' and the Lessons of Mexican Travel". In Flor, Carlos Villar & Davis, Robert Murray, eds. (2005)''Waugh Without End: New Trends in Evelyn Waugh Studies'' pp. 116-17. Peter Lang AG. There is another book of the same name by the author John Armstrong Chaloner. Critical reception In contrast to Graham Greene's ''The Lawless Roads'', this work of 1930s travel writing found little favor in its time. One critic called it "polemical in content, rancorous in tone — by much the dreariest of [Waugh's] travel books". Howe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	John Armstrong Chaloner John "Archie" Armstrong Chaloner (né Chanler; October 10, 1862 – June 1, 1935) was an American writer and activist, known for his catch phrase "Who's looney now?". Early life Chaloner was born John Armstrong Chanler on October 10, 1862 to Margaret Astor Ward Chanler and John Winthrop Chanler. Chaloner was related to the elite Astor, Livingston, and Stuyvesant families. He and his siblings became orphans after the death of their mother in December 1875 and their father in October 1877, both to pneumonia. The children were raised at their parents' estate in Rokeby, New York. John Winthrop Chanler's will provided $20,000 a year for each child for life (equivalent to $470,563 in 2018 dollars), enough to live comfortably by the standards of the time.Thomas, Lately. ''The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions'', W. Morrow, 1971. Chaloner had ten brothers and sisters, of whom he was the oldest, including the politician Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler and the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler. Hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Books About Mexico A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is '' codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	British Travel Books British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses ''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch People or things associated with: Great Britain, an island United Kingdom, a sovereign state Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	1939 Non-fiction Books This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the largest and deadliest conflict in human history. Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 Third Reich * Jews are forbidden to work with Germans. * The Youth Protection Act was passed on April 30, 1938 and the Working Hours Regulations came into effect. * The Jews name change decree has gone into effect. The rest of the world * In Spain, it becomes a duty of all young women under 25 to complete compulsory work service for one year. * First edition of the Vienna New Year's Concert. * The company of technology and manufacturing scientific instruments Hewlett-Packard, was founded in a garage in Palo Alto, California, by William (Bill) Hewlett and David Packard. This garage is now considered the birthplace of Silicon Valley. * Sydney, in Australia, records temperature of 45 ˚C, the highest record for the city. * Philipp Etter took over as Swiss Fed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Books By Evelyn Waugh A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]