A Culture of Credit
A Culture of Credit

Author: Rowena OLEGARIO

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0674041631

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In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.

The Age of Silver
The Age of Silver

Author: Ning Ma

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0190606576

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The Age of Silver advances a "horizontal" method of comparative literature and applies this approach to analyze the multiple emergences of early realism and novelistic modernity in Eastern and Western cultural spheres from the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Naming this era of economic globalization the Age of Silver, Ning Ma emphasizes the bullion flow from South America and Japan to China through international commerce, and argues that the resultant transcontinental monetary and commercial co-evolutions stimulated analogous socioeconomic shifts and emergent novelistic realisms. The main texts addressed within include The Plum in the Golden Vase (China), Don Quixote (Spain), The Life of an Amorous Man (Japan), and Robinson Crusoe (England). These Eastern and Western narratives indicate from their own geographical vantage points commercial expansions' stimulation of social mobility and larger processes of cultural destabilization. Their realist tendencies are underlain with politically critical functions and connote "heteroglossic" national imaginaries. This horizontal argument realigns novelistic modernity with a multipolar global context and reestablishes commensurabilities between Eastern and Western literary histories. The Age of Silver challenges the unilateral equation between globalization and modernity with westernization, and foregrounds a polycentric mode of global early modernity for pluralizing the genealogy of world literature and historical transcultural relations.

English Spirituality
English Spirituality

Author: Gordon Mursell

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 604

ISBN-13: 9780664225056

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This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for those interested in exploring, teaching, or studying English spirituality. In two stand-alone volumes, it traces the history from Roman times until the year 2000. The main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late-modern feminist spirituality, are included. These volumes present the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain
A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Author: Daniel Defoe

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780300049800

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Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 1-6)
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 1-6)

Author: Charles Lamb

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2020-06-12

Total Pages: 4095

ISBN-13:

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This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook collection in 6 volumes is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. _x000D_ Essays of Elia is a collection of essays written by Charles Lamb, first published in book form in 1823, with a second volume, Last Essays of Elia, issued in 1833. The essays in the collection first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. The personal and conversational tone of the essays has charmed many readers. Lamb himself is the Elia of the collection, and his sister Mary is "Cousin Bridget." Charles first used the pseudonym Elia for an essay on the South Sea House, where he had worked decades earlier; Elia was the last name of an Italian man who worked there at the same time as Charles, and after that essay the name stuck._x000D_ Tales from Shakespeare is an English children's book written by Charles and Mary Lamb in 1807. The book is designed to make the stories of Shakespeare's plays familiar to the young. Mary Lamb was responsible for the comedies, while Charles wrote the tragedies; they wrote the preface between them._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Curious fragments, extracted from a commonplace-book which belonged to Robert Burton, the famous Author of "The Anatomy of Melancholy"_x000D_ Early Journalism_x000D_ Characters of Dramatic Writers, Contemporary with Shakspeare_x000D_ On the Inconveniences Resulting from Being Hanged_x000D_ On the Danger of Confounding Moral with Personal Deformity: with a Hint to those who have the Framing of Advertisements for Apprehending Offenders…_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Essays of Elia_x000D_ Last Essays of Elia_x000D_ Volume 3:_x000D_ Tales from Shakespeare_x000D_ The Adventures of Ulysses_x000D_ Mrs. Leicester's School_x000D_ The King and Queen of Hearts_x000D_ Poetry for Children_x000D_ Three Poems Not in "Poetry for Children"_x000D_ Prince Dorus_x000D_ Volume 4:_x000D_ Rosamund Gray, Essays, Etc._x000D_ Poems_x000D_ Album Verses, With a Few Others_x000D_ Volume 5:_x000D_ The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb (1796-1820)_x000D_ Volume 6:_x000D_ The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb (1821-1842)

Defoe's America
Defoe's America

Author: Dennis Todd

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139488252

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The Americas appear as an evocative setting in more than half of Daniel Defoe's novels, and often offer a new beginning for his characters. In the first full-length study of Defoe and colonialism, Dennis Todd explores why the New World loomed so large in Defoe's imagination. By focusing on the historical contexts that informed Defoe's depiction of American Indians, African slaves, and white indentured servants, Dennis Todd investigates the colonial assumptions that shaped his novels and, at the same time, uncovers how Defoe used details of the American experience in complex, often figurative ways to explore the psychological bases of the profound conversions and transformations that his heroes and heroines undergo. And by examining what Defoe knew and did not know about America, what he falsely believed and what he knowingly falsified, Defoe's America probes the doubts, hesitancies, and contradictions he had about the colonial project he so fervently promoted.

Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 7
Studies in the History of Tax Law, Volume 7

Author: Peter Harris

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-09-24

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1509902082

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These are the papers from the 2014 Cambridge Tax Law History Conference revised and reviewed for publication. The papers fall within six basic themes. Two papers focus on colonialism and empire dealing with early taxation in colonial New Zealand and New South Wales. Two papers deal with fiscal federalism; one on Australia in the first half of the twentieth century and the other with goods and services taxation in China. Another two papers are international in character; one considers development of the first Australia-United States tax treaty and the other development of the first League of Nations model tax treaties. Four papers focus on UK income tax; one on source, another on retention at source, a third on the use of finance bills and the fourth on establishment of the Board of Referees. Three papers deal with tax and status; one with the tax profession, another with the medical profession and a third with aristocrats. The final three papers deal with tax theorists, one with David Hume, another focused on capital transfer tax scholarship and a final paper on the tax state in the global era.