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  • The Age of Paper

    The Bank Note, Communal Currency and British Society, 1790s–1830s

    par Hiroki Shin ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    In the first detailed examination of Britain's transition to paper currency, Hiroki Shin explores how state, nation and community each played their respective role in its introduction. By examining archival materials and personal accounts, Shin's work sheds fresh light on societal, institutional, communal and individual responses to the transformation. The dominance of communal currency during the ... En savoir plus

    $110.99 CAD

  • Trains, Culture, and Mobility

    Riding the Rails

    par Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall ...
    Trains, Culture and Mobility: Riding the Rails goes beyond textual representations of rail travel to engage an impressive range of political, sociological and urban theory. Taken together, these essays highlight the complexity of the modern experience of train mobility, and its salient relation to a number of cultural discourses. Incorporating traditionally marginal areas of cultural production ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD

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    A practical and informative guide for family historians interested in researching their British ancestry through social welfare records.Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about. Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors provides a ... En savoir plus

    $12.79 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    par Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington ...
    This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Freedom's Debt

    The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

    par William A. Pettigrew ...
    Collections series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the years following the Glorious Revolution, independent slave traders challenged the charter of the Royal African Company by asserting their natural rights as Britons to trade freely in enslaved Africans. In this comprehensive history of the rise and fall of the RAC, William A. Pettigrew grounds the transatlantic slave trade in politics, not economic forces, analyzing the ideological arguments ... En savoir plus

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  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

    Modifié par Paul Mitchell, Professor Charles Mitchell ...
    Collections series Landmark Cases
    Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen original essays on leading tort cases, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It is the third volume in a series of collected essays on landmark cases (the previous two volumes having dealt with restitution and contract). The cases examined raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    par John Foster ...
    Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution represents both a continuation of, and a stark contrast to, the impressive tradition of social history which has grown up in Britain in the last two decades. Its use of sophisticated quantitative techniques for the dissection of urban social structures will serve as a model for subsequent research workers. This work examines the impact of ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Shareholder Democracies?

    Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

    par Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, James Taylor ...
    Understanding the challenges of corporate governance is central to our comprehension of the economic dynamics driving corporations today. Among the most important institutions in capitalism today, corporations and joint-stock companies had their origins in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. And as they became more prevalent, the issue of internal governance became more ... En savoir plus

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  • The Sinews of Power

    War, Money and the English State 1688-1783

    par John Brewer ...
    First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review. ... En savoir plus

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  • Making the Market

    Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    par Paul Johnson ...
    Collections series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules of thumb and the unspoken agreements that made this market structure work. This innovative study ... En savoir plus

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  • Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950: Essays in honour of W.H. Crawford

    par Brenda Collins, Philip Ollerenshaw, Trevor Parkhill ...
    Bill Crawford (W.H. Crawford) had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950 are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations ... En savoir plus

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  • Key Ideas in Contract Law

    par Mr Nicholas McBride ...
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    This book introduces the reader to a number of ideas and issues that underlie the English law of contract-an area of law that is often regarded as forbiddingly dry and technical but which is here made easy to understand and full of interest.Taking as its starting point the role contract law plays in helping markets to operate, the book explains how contract law regulates the commercial risks ... En savoir plus

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