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  • Gleeson on the International Regulation of Banking

    by Simon Gleeson ...
    Financial capital regulation drives almost every aspect of the financial markets, from the structures of financial groups and the way they raise capital to the development of investment structures and financial engineering such as derivatives, securitisations, structured finance, credit derivatives, repos and stock lending. This new, third edition of the leading guide on the structure of bank ... Read more

    $214.99 CAD

  • The Legal Concept of Money

    by Simon Gleeson ...
    This new book analyses the challenge of how money (including coins, notes, credit, and virtual currency) should be defined from both a legal and an economic perspective. As new electronic payment mechanisms proliferate, this question of definition is likely to become an important issue in global legal, commercial, economic, macro-prudential and fiscal policymaking. The book re-examines money in ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Bank Resolution and Crisis Management

    Law and Practice

    by Simon Gleeson, Randall Guynn ...
    The 2008 global financial crisis ushered in the biggest explosion in new bank regulation around the world since the Great Depression. Even more so than then, this new regulation has been coordinated on a global basis and reflects global standards as well as local idiosyncracies. Although governments and regulators have sought to put measures in place to prevent the failure of banks, they have ... Read more

    $182.99 CAD

  • The Civil War as Global Conflict

    Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

    by David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    A collection of scholarly essays exploring the American Civil War from international perspectives.In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

    by James Laxer ...
    Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cause

    The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

    by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. ...
    New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading"Challenging conventional wisdom, The Cause offers a “necessary” (John S. Gardner, Guardian) account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era.For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The C... ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • American Revolutions

    A Continental History, 1750-1804

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Alan Taylor is featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBS"Excellent…deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness." —Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal**The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ... Read more

    $22.09 CAD

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  • Inhuman Bondage

    The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

    by David Brion Davis ...
    David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his prodigious research, his brilliant analytical skill, and his rich and powerful prose. Now, in Inhuman Bondage, Davis sums up a lifetime of insight in ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    by Kevin Phillips ...
    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Black Patriots and Loyalists

    Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

    by Alan Gilbert ...
    A surprising look at the roles of African Americans in the Revolutionary War: "An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches."— HistorianWe think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cause of All Nations

    An International History of the American Civil War

    by Don H Doyle ...
    When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed "perish from the earth."In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • A Concise History of the United States of America

    by Susan-Mary Grant ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD