Author: John Sherburne SLEEPERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
An Address delivered before the Agricultural Society of Westborough and vicinity ... October the 6th, 1841
Author: John Sherburne SLEEPERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library, 1862-1965
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 778
Book Description
The United States
Author: Arthur H. Clark CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Transactions and Proceedings
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Includes list of members.
Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Freaks of Fortune
Author: Jonathan LevyPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071123
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 425
Book Description
Until the early nineteenth century, “risk” was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells the story of how the modern concept of risk emerged in the United States. Born on the high seas, risk migrated inland and became essential to the financial management of an inherently uncertain capitalist future. Focusing on the hopes and anxieties of ordinary people, Jonathan Levy shows how risk developed through the extraordinary growth of new financial institutions—insurance corporations, savings banks, mortgage-backed securities markets, commodities futures markets, and securities markets—while posing inescapable moral questions. For at the heart of risk’s rise was a new vision of freedom. To be a free individual, whether an emancipated slave, a plains farmer, or a Wall Street financier, was to take, assume, and manage one’s own personal risk. Yet this often meant offloading that same risk onto a series of new financial institutions, which together have only recently acquired the name “financial services industry.” Levy traces the fate of a new vision of personal freedom, as it unfolded in the new economic reality created by the American financial system. Amid the nineteenth-century’s waning faith in God’s providence, Americans increasingly confronted unanticipated challenges to their independence and security in the boom and bust chance-world of capitalism. Freaks of Fortune is one of the first books to excavate the historical origins of our own financialized times and risk-defined lives.
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977568
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description