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
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.
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.
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Catalogue of the Historical Library of Andrew Dickson White
Author: Cornell University. Library. President White LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A collection of riddles focusing on the Old West.
The Maclure Collection of French Revolutionary Materials
Author: James D. Hardy, Jr.Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512819832
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Complete catalogue and index of one of the largest collections of its kind of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic newspapers pamphlets and official publications covering the years 1789-1815. Over 20,000 listings are preceded by an introduction giving a history of the collection, a survey of other notable French Revolution collections, and a biographical essay on William S. Maclure. William S. Maclure (1763-1840) was a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, a radical social reformer, and our first scientific geologist. His huge collection of French Revolutionary publications is one of the greatest libraries of its kind to be formed during the period of the Revolution. Maclure bestowed the collection on the Philadelphia Academy of the Natural Sciences in 1821, and the Academy in turn gave the collection to the Historical Society of Philadelphia, In 1949 it was acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.
The Pursuits of Literature
Author: Thomas James MathiasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books, Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description