Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Wealth and Wild Cats: Travels and Researches in the Gold-fields of Western Australia and New Zealand ... With Numerous Illustrations
Author: Raymond RADCLYFFEWealth and Wild Cats
Author: Raymond RadclyffePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Wild Cat Book
Author: Fiona SunquistPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226780260
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Cat experts Fiona and Mel Sunquist present comprehensive entries for each of the thirty-seven cat species that include color distribution maps and up-to-date information related to the species' IUCN conservation and management statuses, while their informative sidebars reveal why male lions have manes (and why dark manes are sexiest), how cats see with their whiskers, the truth behind our obsession with white lions and tigers, and why cats can't be vegetarians. The Wild Cat Book also highlights the grave threats faced by the world's wild cats--from habitat destruction to human persecution.
Conservatives Versus Wildcats
Author: Simone PolilloPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804785554
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
For decades, the banking industry seemed to be a Swiss watch, quietly ticking along. But the recent financial crisis hints at the true nature of this sector. As Simone Polillo reveals in Conservatives Versus Wildcats, conflict is a driving force. Conservative bankers strive to control money by allying themselves with political elites to restrict access to credit. Barriers to credit create social resistance, so rival bankers—wildcats—attempt to subvert the status quo by using money as a tool for breaking existing boundaries. For instance, wildcats may increase the circulation of existing currencies, incorporate new actors in financial markets, or produce altogether new financial instruments to create change. Using examples from the economic and social histories of 19th-century America and Italy, two decentralized polities where challenges to sound banking originated from above and below, this book reveals the collective tactics that conservative bankers devise to legitimize strict boundaries around credit—and the transgressive strategies that wildcat bankers employ in their challenge to this restrictive stance.
"Wild Cat Money".
Author: Journal
Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of RepresentativesPublisher:
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1806
Book Description
Myths and Memories
Author: Cindy LanePublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443875791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.
Wealth and Wild Cats
Author: Raymond RadcliffePublisher:
ISBN: 9780859053099
Category : Gold mines and mining
Languages : en
Pages : 125
Book Description
A reissue of a book published in 1898, written by Raymond Radclyffe, a London journalist who travelled to WA and NZ in the late 1890s. This book looks in depth at the gold rush period in WA during the 1890s.
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