Money in the Dutch Republic

Money in the Dutch Republic

Author: Sebastian Felten

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-03-10

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1009116479

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The Dutch Republic was an important hub in the early modern world-economy, a place where hundreds of monies were used alongside each other. Sebastian Felten explores regional, European and global circuits of exchange by analysing everyday practices in Dutch cities and villages in the period 1600-1850. He reveals how for peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists, money was an everyday social technology that helped them to carve out a livelihood. With vivid examples of accounting and assaying practices, Felten offers a key to understanding the internal logic of early modern money. This book uses new archival evidence and an approach informed by the history of technology to show how plural currencies gave early modern users considerable agency. It explores how the move to uniform national currency limited this agency in the nineteenth century and thus helps us make sense of the new plurality of payments systems today.


The Jewish Messiah

The Jewish Messiah

Author: Arnon Grunberg

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008-01-10

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 1101202815

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The new novel by the internationally acclaimed author- "a farce of nuclear proportions"(Vanity Fair) Arnon Grunberg is one of the most subtly outrageous provocateurs in world literature. The Jewish Messiah, which chronicles the evolution of one Xavier Radek from malcontent grandson of a former SS officer, to Jewish convert, to co- translator of Hitler's Mein Kampf into Yiddish, to Israeli politician and Israel's most unlikely prime minister, is his most outrageous work yet. Taking on the most well-guarded pieties and taboos of our age, The Jewish Messiah is both a great love story and a grotesque farce that forces a profound reckoning with the limits of human guilt, cruelty, and suffering. It is without question Arnon Grunberg's masterpiece.


The Big Five Personality Factors

The Big Five Personality Factors

Author: Boele de Raad

Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13:

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This book describes the origin, history, rationale, procedures, developments, models and practical applications of the so-called Big Five traits, providing a concise but thorough insight into the Big Five model of personality and its emergence from the lexical trait approach to personality structure. Written by one of the world's leading experts in this field, this integrated text includes a critical description of the theory that provides readers with all the necessary background information. The text is of interest to specialists in the field of personality and to applied psychologists.


Silent Extras

Silent Extras

Author: Arnon Grunberg

Publisher: Harvill Secker

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13:

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Een onafscheidelijk drietal jongeren droomt van een toekomst in de wereld van de film.


The Story of My Baldness

The Story of My Baldness

Author: Marek van der Jagt

Publisher: Other Press (NY)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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In this darkly funny novel, an obsessive Viennese philosophy student is in search of l'amour.


Colonial Surry

Colonial Surry

Author: John Bennett Boddie

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1966

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0806300264

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This is a collection of genealogical data from important name lists for Colonial Surry, which once encompassed almost the entire southern part of the state of Virginia (i.e., fourteen present-day Virginia counties). Noteworthy lists include Surry land grants, 1624-1740, and various Surry and Sussex censuses and marriage bonds.


Virginia Historical Genealogies

Virginia Historical Genealogies

Author: John Bennett Boddie

Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0806300426

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This work, naming 4,000 related individuals, contains the lineages of about fifty families, the main branches of which were located in Virginia, Maryland, and North and South Carolina. Genealogies of the following families are given: Allen, Aston, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Berkeley-Ligon-Norwood, Binns, Butler, Claiborne, Clark, Colclough, Crafford, Crayfford-Crafford, Davis, Doniphan, Eldridge, Flood, Godwyn, Gray, Gregg, Griffis, Grigsby, Harris, Haynes, Jones, Mallory, Mason, Moore, Mumford-DeJarnette-Perryman, Newton, Norwood, Pace, Peche-Cornish-Everard-Mildmay-Harcourt-Crispe, Reade, Ruffin, Sledge, Smith, Sowerby-Sorsby, Stone-Smallwood-Smith, Stover, Thomas, Travis, Warren, Woodliffe, Wynne, and Wythe.