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  • The Age of Paper

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

    de Hiroki Shin ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Trains, Culture, and Mobility

    Riding the Rails

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    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, ... Leer más

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  • Freedom's Debt

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    Series 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 ... Leer más

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  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

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  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Shareholder Democracies?

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Sinews of Power

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