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Author : James R. Fichter
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674050576
"Fichter has given us a powerful and authoritative book of major importance to students of empire and business alike." --
Author : Timothy H. Kistner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761865711
Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer. Later he became a wealthy merchant, a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratification Convention and a director of the National Bank in Boston. A longtime Federalist legislator, he was highly regarded within the radical circles that contemplated secession during the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. After the war, Thorndike concluded his multifaceted career as the leading venture capitalist financing the early Industrial Revolution. Sadly, his story is little known. Federalist Tycoon pulls Thorndike's life and career from the shadows and fully examines his impact on American economic development. Born poor in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1755, the young Israel Thorndike was a fisherman and ship owner who made a small fortune as a Revolutionary War privateer. Later he became a wealthy merchant, a delegate to the Massachusetts Ratification Convention and a director of the National Bank in Boston. A longtime Federalist legislator, he was highly regarded within the radical circles that contemplated secession during the Jefferson administration and the War of 1812. After the war, Thorndike concluded his multifaceted career as the leading venture capitalist financing the early Industrial Revolution. Sadly, his story is little known. Federalist Tycoon pulls Thorndike's life and career from the shadows and fully examines his impact on American economic development.
Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141972091
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2020 A SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, THE TIMES AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR For most of human history, the seas and oceans have been the main means of long-distance trade and communication between peoples - for the spread of ideas and religion as well as commerce. This book traces the history of human movement and interaction around and across the world's greatest bodies of water, charting our relationship with the oceans from the time of the first voyagers. David Abulafia begins with the earliest of seafaring societies - the Polynesians of the Pacific, the possessors of intuitive navigational skills long before the invention of the compass, who by the first century were trading between their far-flung islands. By the seventh century, trading routes stretched from the coasts of Arabia and Africa to southern China and Japan, bringing together the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific and linking half the world through the international spice trade. In the Atlantic, centuries before the little kingdom of Portugal carved out its powerful, seaborne empire, many peoples sought new lands across the sea - the Bretons, the Frisians and, most notably, the Vikings, now known to be the first Europeans to reach North America. As Portuguese supremacy dwindled in the late sixteenth century, the Spanish, the Dutch and then the British each successively ruled the waves. Following merchants, explorers, pirates, cartographers and travellers in their quests for spices, gold, ivory, slaves, lands for settlement and knowledge of what lay beyond, Abulafia has created an extraordinary narrative of humanity and the oceans. From the earliest forays of peoples in hand-hewn canoes through uncharted waters to the routes now taken daily by supertankers in their thousands, The Boundless Sea shows how maritime networks came to form a continuum of interaction and interconnection across the globe: 90 per cent of global trade is still conducted by sea. This is history of the grandest scale and scope, and from a bracingly different perspective - not, as in most global histories, from the land, but from the boundless seas.
Author : Richard Ravalli
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781496212207
2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title More than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world’s largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush. In addition to the more conventional aspects of the sea otter trade, including Russian expansion in Alaska, British and American trading in the Pacific Northwest, and Spanish colonial ventures along the California coast, the global importance of the species can be seen in its impact on the East Asian maritime fur trade. This trade linked Imperial China, Japan, and indigenous Ainu peoples of the Kurile Islands as early as the fifteenth century. In Sea Otters: A History Richard Ravalli synthesizes anew the sea otter’s complex history of interaction with humans by drawing on new histories of the species that consider international and global factors beyond the fur trade, including sea mammal conservation, Cold War nuclear testing, and environmental tourism. Examining sea otters in a Pacific World context, Ravalli weaves together the story of imperial ambition, greed, and an iconic sea mammal that left a determinative imprint on the modern world.
Author : Priya Satia
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 655 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780735221871
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE AND SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE By a prize-winning young historian, an authoritative work that reframes the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of British empire, and emergence of industrial capitalism by presenting them as inextricable from the gun trade "A fascinating and important glimpse into how violence fueled the industrial revolution, Priya Satia's book stuns with deep scholarship and sparkling prose."--Siddhartha Mukherjee, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies We have long understood the Industrial Revolution as a triumphant story of innovation and technology. Empire of Guns, a rich and ambitious new book by award-winning historian Priya Satia, upends this conventional wisdom by placing war and Britain's prosperous gun trade at the heart of the Industrial Revolution and the state's imperial expansion. Satia brings to life this bustling industrial society with the story of a scandal: Samuel Galton of Birmingham, one of Britain's most prominent gunmakers, has been condemned by his fellow Quakers, who argue that his profession violates the society's pacifist principles. In his fervent self-defense, Galton argues that the state's heavy reliance on industry for all of its war needs means that every member of the British industrial economy is implicated in Britain's near-constant state of war. Empire of Guns uses the story of Galton and the gun trade, from Birmingham to the outermost edges of the British empire, to illuminate the nation's emergence as a global superpower, the roots of the state's role in economic development, and the origins of our era's debates about gun control and the "military-industrial complex" -- that thorny partnership of government, the economy, and the military. Through Satia's eyes, we acquire a radically new understanding of this critical historical moment and all that followed from it. Sweeping in its scope and entirely original in its approach, Empire of Guns is a masterful new work of history -- a rigorous historical argument with a human story at its heart.
Author : Thomas Rundall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317097808
The volume includes documents, including a description of Japan in the sixteenth century from Harleian mss. 6249, and the letters of William Adams, 1611-17, edited and annotated, and a summary of a narrative by His Excellancy Don Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco of his residence in the empire, 1608-1610. The supplementary material includes the 1849 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1850.
Author : Patricia Johnston,Caroline Frank
Publisher : University of New Hampshire Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611685855
A highly original and much-needed collection that explores the impact of Asian and Indian Ocean trade on the art and aesthetic sensibilities of New England port towns in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This diverse, interdisciplinary volume adds to our understanding of visual representations of economic and cultural changes in New England as the region emerged as a global trading center, entering the highly prized East Indies trades. Examining a wide variety of commodities and forms including ceramics, textiles, engravings, paintings, architecture, and gardens, the contributors highlight New Englanders' imperial ambitions in a wider world. This book will appeal to a broad audience of historians and students of American visual art, as well as scholars and students of fine and decorative arts.
Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : NLI:3005193-60
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Atlases
ISBN : WISC:89120027974
Author : William Dwight Whitney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Biography
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6N88
Author : Andrea Finkelstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047408901
This study uses the evolving meaning of "profit" in religious, political, economic, and social discourse to reveal the relationship between the prevailing concept of "just profit" and contemporary reactions to the Sixteenth-Century Price Revolution in Europe.
Author : William Dwight Whitney,Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101074871821
Author : Antoin E. Murphy,Chūhei Sugiyama
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Money
ISBN : 0415140218
This six-volume set contains the writings of the earliest pioneers of monetary theory. It contains some 28 texts, beginning with Gerard de Maynes' "A Treatise of the Canker of England's Common Wealth" (1601) and ending with Joseph Harris' "An Essay on Money and Coins" (1757/58).
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:18691917
Author : Thomas Rundall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : British
ISBN : UCSD:31822019570142