Author: William Maxwell HetheringtonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Branthwaite Hall, and Other Poems
Author: William Maxwell HetheringtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Branthwaite Hall, and other poems
Author: William HETHERINGTON (of Cockermouth.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
A Third and Concluding Canto of the Poem of Branthwaite Hall
Author: William Maxwell HetheringtonPublisher:
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Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
A Guide to the Interesting Places in and Around Cockermouth ...
Author: John AskewPublisher:
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Category : Cockermouth (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bibliotheca JacksonianaPublisher:
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Category : Cumberland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
All That Glittered
Author: Timothy AlbornPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190603534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.
Provincial Poetry, 1789-1839
Author: C. R. JohnsonPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Minor British Poets, 1789-1918: The Romantic period, 1789-1839
Author: University of California, Davis. LibraryPublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
Author: The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 920
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.