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With Paper Promises in Their Pockets

Author: Emily Jane Teipe

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Published: 1997

Total Pages: 586

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"It is the objective of this study to examine the lives of Revolutionary soldiers in the New Republic by focusing on veterans' efforts to petition the government for military pensions, and by evaluating the pensioning process itself. An analysis of individual veterans post war experiences culled from their pension records and memoirs as well as statistical analysis of veterans as a group indicated the long term economic effects of the war on their lives. In addition these data reveal the degree of success they achieved after the war in terms of their own individual economic and social status. This study has also unearthed not only how the first pensions were established and subsequently amended but what value the government and the community placed on the soldier's service"--Introduction

Paper Promises

Author: Philip Coggan

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2012-01-17

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 1610391276

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Winner of the Spear's Best Business Book Award Longlisted for the 2012 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award For the past forty years western economies have splurged on debt. Now, as the reality dawns that many debts cannot be repaid, we find ourselves again in crisis. But the oncoming defaults have a time-worn place in our economic history. As with the crises in the 1930s and 1970s, governments will fall, currencies will lose their value, and new systems will emerge. Just as Britain set the terms of the international system in the nineteenth century, and America in the twentieth century, a new system will be set by today's creditors in China and the Middle East. In the process, rich will be pitted against poor, young against old, public sector workers against taxpayers and one country against another. In Paper Promises, Economist columnist Philip Coggan helps us to understand the origins of this mess and how it will affect the new global economy by explaining how our attitudes towards debt have changed throughout history, and how they may be about to change again.

Paper Promises

Author: Mazie M. Harris

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 2018-03-20

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1606065491

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Scholarship on photography’s earliest years has tended to focus on daguerreotypes on metal or on the European development of paper photographs made from glass or paper negatives. But Americans also experimented with negative-positive processes to produce photographic images on a variety of paper formats in the early decades of the medium. Paper Promises: Early American Photography presents this rarely studied topic within photographic history. The well-researched and richly detailed texts in this book delve into the complexities of early paper photography in the United States from the 1840s to 1860s, bringing to light a little-known era of American photographic appropriation and adaptation. Exploring the economic, political, intellectual, and social factors that impacted its unique evolution, both the essays and the carefully selected images illustrate the importance of photographic reproduction in shaping and circulating perceptions of America and its people during a critical period of political tension and territorial expansion. Due to the fragility of paper photography from this period, the works in this catalogue are rarely displayed, making the volume an essential tool for any scholar in the field and a very rare peek into the mid-nineteenth century.