Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
The Acts of Sederunt of the Lords of Council and Session, from the 15th of January 1553 to the 11th of July 1790
Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil procedure
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Contemporary Printed Sources for British and Irish Economic History 1701-1750
Author: L. W. HansonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521051967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
This 1963 volume records all new works on economic affairs published in British and Irish libraries in the first half of the eighteenth century.
The Eighteenth Century
Author: The Decisions of the Lords of Council and Session, from June 6th, 1678, to July 30th, 1712
Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 814
Book Description
Indian Captive, Indian King
Author: Timothy J. ShannonPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674981227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
In 1758 Peter Williamson appeared on the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland, dressed as a Native American and telling a remarkable tale. He claimed that as a young boy he had been kidnapped from the city and sold into slavery in America. In performances and in a printed narrative he peddled to his audiences, Williamson described his tribulations as an indentured servant, Indian captive, soldier, and prisoner of war. Aberdeen’s magistrates called him a liar and banished him from the city, but Williamson defended his story. Separating fact from fiction, Timothy J. Shannon explains what Williamson’s tale says about how working people of eighteenth-century Britain, so often depicted as victims of empire, found ways to create lives and exploit opportunities within it. Exiled from Aberdeen, Williamson settled in Edinburgh, where he cultivated enduring celebrity as the self-proclaimed “king of the Indians.” His performances and publications capitalized on the curiosity the Seven Years’ War had ignited among the public for news and information about America and its native inhabitants. As a coffeehouse proprietor and printer, he gave audiences a plebeian perspective on Britain’s rise to imperial power in North America. Indian Captive, Indian King is a history of empire from the bottom up, showing how Williamson’s American odyssey illuminates the real-life experiences of everyday people on the margins of the British Empire and how those experiences, when repackaged in travel narratives and captivity tales, shaped popular perceptions about the empire’s racial and cultural geography.
Cases Decided in the Court of Session, Jury Court, and High Court of Justiciary ... Reported by George Deas ... and James Anderson. [13 March 1829-8 Sept. 1832.] (Analogous Cases Decided in the Courts of England, During 1831. Digested by James Anderson.).
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Author: Scotland. Court of SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Legislating Instability
Author: Tyler Beck GoodspeedPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674969014
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
From 1716 to 1845, Scotland’s banks were among the most dynamic and resilient in Europe, effectively absorbing a series of adverse economic shocks that rocked financial markets in London and on the continent. Legislating Instability explains the seeming paradox that the Scottish banking system achieved this success without the government controls usually considered necessary for economic stability. Eighteenth-century Scottish banks operated in a regulatory vacuum: no central bank to act as lender of last resort, no monopoly on issuing currency, no legal requirements for maintaining capital reserves, and no formal limits on bank size. These conditions produced a remarkably robust banking system, one that was intensely competitive and served as a prime engine of Scottish economic growth. Despite indicators that might have seemed red flags—large speculative capital flows, a fixed exchange rate, and substantial external debt—Scotland successfully navigated two severe financial crises during the Seven Years’ War. The exception was a severe financial crisis in 1772, seven years after the imposition of the first regulations on Scottish banking—the result of aggressive lobbying by large banks seeking to weed out competition. While these restrictions did not cause the 1772 crisis, Tyler Beck Goodspeed argues, they critically undermined the flexibility and resilience previously exhibited by Scottish finance, thereby elevating the risk that another adverse economic shock, such as occurred in 1772, might threaten financial stability more broadly. Far from revealing the shortcomings of unregulated banking, as Adam Smith claimed, the 1772 crisis exposed the risks of ill-conceived bank regulation.
The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland ... A. D. M.C.XXIV-[A. D. M.DCC.VII.] ...
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Author: ScotlandJournals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description