Author: Francis d' IvernoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assignats
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
A Cursory View of the Assignats and Remaining Resources of French Finance, (September 6, 1795)
Author: Francis d' IvernoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assignats
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Coup d'œil sur les assignats. A Cursory View of the Assignats, and Remaining Resources of French Finance ... drawn from the debates of the Convention ... Translated from the original French
Author: Sir Francis d' IVERNOISPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Washington Collection in the Boston Athenæum
Author: Boston AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare books
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
A Powerful Mind
Author: Adrienne M. HarrisonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612347258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his aspiration to rise in colonial Virginian agricultural society would be difficult. Throughout his life he faced challenges for which he lacked the academic foundations shared by his more highly educated contemporaries. Yet Washington’s legacy is clearly not one of failure. Breaking new ground in Washington scholarship and American revolutionary history, Adrienne M. Harrison investigates the first president’s dedicated process of self-directed learning through reading, a facet of his character and leadership long neglected by historians and biographers. In A Powerful Mind, Harrison shows that Washington rose to meet these trials through a committed campaign of highly focused reading, educating himself on exactly what he needed to do and how best to do it. In contrast to other famous figures of the revolution—Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin—Washington did not relish learning for its own sake, viewing self-education instead as a tool for shaping himself into the person he wanted to be. His two highest-profile and highest-risk endeavors—commander in chief of the Continental Army and president of the fledgling United States—are a testament to the success of his strategy.
The History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995 Vol 3
Author: Mark DuckenfieldPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040251234
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Looks at the origins and consequences of seminal financial crises throughout history, combining contemporary texts from nineteen financial disasters between 1763 and 1994, with academic interpretations of the major causes and consequences of each crisis. These documents contain evaluations of the underlying causes of the various crises.
The History of Financial Disasters, 1763-1995 Vol 1
Author: Mark DuckenfieldPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040242626
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
Looks at the origins and consequences of seminal financial crises throughout history, combining contemporary texts from nineteen financial disasters between 1763 and 1994, with academic interpretations of the major causes and consequences of each crisis. These documents contain evaluations of the underlying causes of the various crises.
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdThe Afterlives of the Terror
Author: Ronen SteinbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501739263
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century's age of democratic revolutions. Thanks to generous funding from Michigan State University and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes, available on the Cornell University Press website and other Open Access repositories.
A History of Money
Author: John F. ChownPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415102790
Category : Credit
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Introduces monetary history: money as coin, the development of credit and banking, and inconvertible paper money.
Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Author: James LiveseyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674006249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy.