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Anglo-American Life Insurance, 1800-1914 "3 Vol. Set."
Alborn, Timothy
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933521
- Páginas: 1472
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.398,85 €
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The life insurance industry was one of the most important financial institutions of the long nineteenth century, on both sides of the Atlantic. By the eve of the Great Depression, there existed in America the ...
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The Great Exhibition. A Documentary History "4 Vol. Set."
Cantor, Geoffrey
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933552
- Páginas: 1776
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.473,20 €
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was the outstanding public event of the Victorian era. Housed in Joseph Paxton's glass and iron Crystal Palace, it presented a vast array of objects, technologies and works of art ...
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The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories
González, Sara
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933897
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,15 €
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As Spain encountered economic and political crises in the seventeenth century, the imagery of musical performance was invoked by the state to represent the power of the monarch and to denote harmony throughout the kingdom. ...
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The Optical Munitions Industry in Great Britain, 1888-1923
Sambrook, Stephen C.
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933125
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,15 €
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The story of the optical munitions industry embraces not only entrepreneurship and invention, but also aspects of military technology and international politics. Running counter to the general decline of technological industries in post-Victorian Britain, optical ...
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Mercantilism and Economic Underdevelopment in Scotland, 1600-1783
Robinson Rössner, Phillipp
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933460
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,15 €
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ince the early seventeenth century, Scotland's economy rested on a traditional baseline of raw goods: cattle, linen, coal, salt and herring. Though often classed as the poor relation to England, Rossner argues that, thanks to ...
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Debt and Slavery in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds
Campbell, Gwyn
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933743
- Páginas: 208
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,95 €
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Slavery casts a long shadow over human history. Though, historically, the chief mechanism of slavery was seen as violent abduction, this view is being adjusted to recognize the importance of financial indebtedness in creating and ...
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Respectability and the London Poor, 1780-1870 "The Value of Virtue"
Mackay, Lynn
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848932814
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,15 €
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The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Recent studies of the 'civilizing mission of middle-class Londoners determined to instigate social reform, have ...
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Women's Travel Writings in Iberia "5 Vol. Set"
Bending, Stephen Bygrave, Stephen
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781851966479
- Páginas: 1952
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.574,60 €
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Travel within Iberia was still a potentially dangerous activity in the years after the Peninsula War (1808-14) and most accounts of the time come from men who were there in a military capacity. Romantic poets ...
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The Letters of Luisa De Carvajal Y Mendoza "2 Vol. Set"
Redworth, Glyn
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932180
- Páginas: 736
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.263,65 €
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Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza (1566-1614) was a noblewoman who left her native Spain for a life of self-imposed exile and Catholic evangelism in Jacobean England. Her letters provide an unparalleled resource of information on ...
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US Credit and Payments, 1800-1935 "Part 1. 3 Vol. Set"
Phillips, Ronnie J.
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932944
- Páginas: 1200
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.371,80 €
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Recent financial crises have led many economists and policy makers to ask if it is possible to design a financial system that is both efficient and safe. Examining the history of credit and payments in ...
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The Life of George Ranken Askwith, 1861-1942
Heath, Alison
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933798
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,30 €
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George Ranken Askwith was a key figure in the development of British industrial relations. Beginning his career as a barrister, he went on to work as a freelance arbitrator for the Board of Trade. As ...
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Rockefeller Philanthropy and Modern Social Science
Seim, David L.
Pickering And Chatto (2013)
- EAN: 9781848933910
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.81,20 €
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Making extensive use of untapped archival resources, Seim looks at the impact of the Rockefellers, as viewed through the lens of their philanthropic support of social science between 1890 and 1940. Focusing specifically on the ...
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American Exceptionalism "4 Volume Set"
Dicuirci, Lindsay Roberts, Timothy
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932890
- Páginas: 1600
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.473,20 €
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American exceptionalism - the idea that America is fundamentally distinct from other nations - is a philosophy that has dominated economics, politics, religion and culture for two centuries. This collection of primary source material seeks ...
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Female Economic Strategies in the Modern World
Moring, Beatrice
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848933507
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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This collection of essays looks at the various ways in which women have coped financially in a male-dominated world. Chapters focus on Europe and Latin America, and cover the whole of the modern period. The ...
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Reforming the World Monetary System "Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group"
Connell, Carol M.
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848933606
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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At a time when monetary systems are under increasing pressure from external shocks and the need to combat recessionary trends, it is vital that we understand previous attempts to deal with such problems. Focusing on ...
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Entrepreneurial Families "Business, Marriage and Life in the Early Nineteenth Century"
Popp, Andrew
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932364
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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Entrepreneurship is increasingly being recognized as an important facet of economic history. Popp examines the Shaw family business to present a study of entrepreneurism that puts the family centre stage. This focus on the influence ...
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Welfare and Old Age in Europe and North America "The Development of Social Insurance"
Harris, Bernard
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848931893
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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Over the last twenty years, historians have become increasingly interested in the role of non-state
organizations in the development of welfare services. This study is particularly focused on the role of friendly
societies and other ... -
The Economies of Latin America
Carreras, Albert Yañez, Cesar
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848933231
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
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The economic backwardness of Latin America and the Caribbean has long been discussed, but seldom been the subject of such a wide-ranging quantitative study. The twelve essays in this collection present a twenty-first-century analysis of ...
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Money in the Pre-Industrial World "Bullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes"
Munro, John H.
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932302
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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The papers in this edited volume discuss key historical elements of 'monetarism, including coins and moneys of account, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys. The debasement of coinage is fundamental to ...
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Markets and Growth in Early Modern Europe
Bateman, Victoria N.
Pickering And Chatto (2012)
- EAN: 9781848932586
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.79,95 €
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This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period. Bateman compares agricultural data with less abundant information ...
