Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
Calvin Durand. Letter from the Secretary of State, Addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Relative to a Discriminating Duty Exacted at the Customhouse, New York, from Calvin Durand, &c. February 19, 1864. -- Referred to the Committee on Commerce and Ordered to be Printed
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
House Documents
Author: United States House of RepresentativesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Miscellaneous Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
A History of Interest Rates
Author: Sidney HomerPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813508405
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition presents a readable account of interest rate trends and lending practices spanning over four millennia of economic history. Filled with in-depth insights and illustrative charts and tables, this unique resource provides a broad perspective on interest rate movements - from which financial professionals can evaluate contemporary interest rate and monetary developments - and applies analytical tools, such as yield-curve averaging and decennial averaging, to the data available." "A History of Interest Rates, Fourth Edition offers a highly detailed analysis of money markets and borrowing practices in major economies. It places the rates and corresponding credit forms in context by summarizing the political and economic events and financial customs of particular times and places." "To help you stay as current as possible, this revised and updated Fourth Edition contains a new chapter of contemporary material as well as added discussions of interest rate developments over the past ten years."--BOOK JACKET.
Chicago and the Great Conflagration
Author: Elias ColbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Abbé Grégoire and his World
Author: Jeremy D. PopkinPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780792362470
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A distinguished group of international scholars from the disciplines of history, philosophy, literature and art history offer a reconsideration of the ideas and the impact of the abbé Henri Grégoire, one of the most important figures of the French Revolution and a contributor to the campaigns for Jewish emancipation, rights for blacks, the reform of the Catholic Church and many other causes
The Works of Voltaire
Author: VoltaireThe Venice Variations
Author: Sophia PsarraPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787352390
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
From the myth of Arcadia through to the twenty-first century, ideas about sustainability – how we imagine better urban environments – remain persistently relevant, and raise recurring questions. How do cities evolve as complex spaces nurturing both urban creativity and the fortuitous art of discovery, and by which mechanisms do they foster imagination and innovation? While past utopias were conceived in terms of an ideal geometry, contemporary exemplary models of urban design seek technological solutions of optimal organisation. The Venice Variations explores Venice as a prototypical city that may hold unique answers to the ancient narrative of utopia. Venice was not the result of a preconceived ideal but the pragmatic outcome of social and economic networks of communication. Its urban creativity, though, came to represent the quintessential combination of place and institutions of its time. Through a discussion of Venice and two other works owing their inspiration to this city – Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities and Le Corbusier’s Venice Hospital – Sophia Psarra describes Venice as a system that starts to resemble a highly probabilistic ‘algorithm’, that is, a structure with a small number of rules capable of producing a large number of variations. The rapidly escalating processes of urban development around our big cities share many of the motivations for survival, shelter and trade that brought Venice into existence. Rather than seeing these places as problems to be solved, we need to understand how urban complexity can evolve, as happened from its unprepossessing origins in the marshes of the Venetian lagoon to the ‘model city’ that endured a thousand years. This book frees Venice from stereotypical representations, revealing its generative capacity to inform potential other ‘Venices’ for the future.
Thinking at Crossroads
Author: Eduardo PortellaPublisher: Unesco
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book considers the role of Western philosophy in the 21st century in the light of historical developments; and presents contributions from experts in a number of fields including philosophy, sociology, history, politics and literature.
Ghost Brothers
Author: Rony BlumPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572465
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Devastating losses caused by diseases such as smallpox led to an epidemic of bereavement among the Natives. This loss resonated with the French, who had dealt with smaller epidemics in France and were also mourning their absent communities through a nostalgia for home. Blum traces how ghosts provided transgenerational and transcultural links that guided understanding rather than encouraging violence. Ghost Brothers insightfully examines the process of this colonial interdependent alliance between Native and European worlds.