Author: John G. Lockhart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: John G. Lockhart
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Francis Turner Palgrave
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sydney Fowler Wright
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott
Author: John Gibson Lockhart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Rob Roy
The Wizard of the North
Author: Carola Oman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Scottish
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of the City of Money
Author: Ray Perman
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 178885229X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 178885229X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.
Edinburgh Companion to Sir Walter Scott
Author: Fiona Robertson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748670203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748670203
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.