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Author : James Pigot (and co.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1086 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590788368
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455984
Author : Pigot James and co
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590788361
Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385430143
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Isaac Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1662 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Scotland
ISBN : NLS:B000056784
Author : Philip T. Hoffman,Gilles Postel-Vinay,Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691185057
How a vast network of shadow credit financed European growth long before the advent of banking Prevailing wisdom dictates that, without banks, countries would be mired in poverty. Yet somehow much of Europe managed to grow rich long before the diffusion of banks. Dark Matter Credit draws on centuries of cleverly collected loan data from France to reveal how credit abounded well before banks opened their doors. This incisive book shows how a vast system of shadow credit enabled nearly a third of French families to borrow in 1740, and by 1840 funded as much mortgage debt as the American banking system of the 1950s. Dark Matter Credit traces how this extensive private network outcompeted banks and thrived prior to World War I—not just in France but in Britain, Germany, and the United States—until killed off by government intervention after 1918. Overturning common assumptions about banks and economic growth, the book paints a revealing picture of an until-now hidden market of thousands of peer-to-peer loans made possible by a network of brokers who matched lenders with borrowers and certified the borrowers’ creditworthiness. A major work of scholarship, Dark Matter Credit challenges widespread misperceptions about French economic history, such as the notion that banks proliferated slowly, and the idea that financial innovation was hobbled by French law. By documenting how intermediaries in the shadow credit market devised effective financial instruments, this compelling book provides new insights into how countries can develop and thrive today.
Author : John Parker Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : British Isles
ISBN : OXFORD:590021417
Author : A.D. Morrison-Low
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351920742
At the start of the Industrial Revolution, it appeared that most scientific instruments were made and sold in London, but by the time of the Great Exhibition in 1851, a number of provincial firms had the self-confidence to exhibit their products in London to an international audience. How had this change come about, and why? This book looks at the four main, and two lesser, English centres known for instrument production outside the capital: Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Sheffield, along with the older population centres in Bristol and York. Making wide use of new sources, Dr Morrison-Low, curator of history of science at the National Museums of Scotland, charts the growth of these centres and provides a characterisation of their products. New information is provided on aspects of the trade, especially marketing techniques, sources of materials, tools and customer relationships. From contemporary evidence, she argues that the principal output of the provincial trade (with some notable exceptions) must have been into the London marketplace, anonymously, and at the cheaper end of the market. She also discusses the structure and organization of the provincial trade, and looks at the impact of new technology imported from other closely-allied trades. By virtue of its approach and subject matter the book considers aspects of economic and business history, gender and the family, the history of science and technology, material culture, and patterns of migration. It contains a myriad of stories of families and firms, of entrepreneurs and customers, and of organizations and arms of government. In bringing together this wide range of interests, Dr Morrison-Low enables us to appreciate how central the making, selling and distribution of scientific instruments was for the Industrial Revolution.
Author : David Gwyn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300267891
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution--one that would truly change the world. In this rich new history, David Gwyn tells the neglected story of the early iron railway from a global perspective. Driven by a combination of ruthless enterprise, brilliant experimenters, and international cooperation, railway construction began to expand across the world with astonishing rapidity. From Britain to Australia, Russia to America, railways would bind together cities, nations, and entire continents. Rail was a tool of industry and empire as well as, eventually, passenger transport, and developments in technology occurred at breakneck speed--even if the first locomotive in America could muster only 6 mph. The Coming of the Railway explores these fascinating developments, documenting the early railway's outsize social, political, and economic impact--carving out the shape of the global economy as we know it today.
Author : James M'Kie (Printer in Kilmarnock.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Private libraries
ISBN : NLS:V000643983
Author : James MACKIE (of Kilmarnock.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017941828
Author : James M'Kie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590639854
Author : Isaac Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 820 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590915517
Author : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780773550612
The step-dancing of the Scotch Gaels in Nova Scotia is the last living example of a form of dance that waned following the great emigrations to Canada that ended in 1845. The Scotch Gael has been reported as loving dance, but step-dancing in Scotland had all but disappeared by 1945. One must look to Gaelic Nova Scotia, Cape Breton, and Antigonish County, to find this tradition. Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing, the first study of its kind, gives this art form and the people and culture associated with it the prominence they have long deserved. Gaelic Scotland’s cultural record is by and large pre-literate, and references to dance have had to be sought in Gaelic songs, many of which were transcribed on paper by those who knew their culture might be lost with the decline of their language. The improved Scottish culture depended proudly on the teaching of dancing and the literate learning and transmission of music in accompaniment. Relying on fieldwork in Nova Scotia, and on mentions of dance in Gaelic song and verse in Scotland and Nova Scotia, John Gibson traces the historical roots of step-dancing, particularly the older forms of dancing originating in the Gaelic–speaking Scottish Highlands. He also places the current tradition as a development and part of the much larger British and European percussive dance tradition. With insight collected through written sources, tales, songs, manuscripts, book references, interviews, and conversations, Gaelic Cape Breton Step-Dancing brings an important aspect of Gaelic history to the forefront of cultural debate.
Author : Amanda J Thomas
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781783463503
Discover the story of the disease that devastated the Victorian population, and brought about major changes in sanitation. Drawing on the latest scientific research and a wealth of archival material, Amanda Thomas uses first-hand accounts, blending personal stories with an overview of the history of the disease and its devastating after-effects on British society. This fascinating history of a catastrophic disease uncovers forgotten stories from each of the major cholera outbreaks in 1831-3, 1848-9, 1853-4 and 1866. Amanda Thomas reveals that Victorian theories about the disease were often closer to the truth than we might assume, among them the belief that cholera was spread by miasma, or foul air.