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  • Season of Infamy

    A Diary of War and Occupation, 1939-1945

    by Charles Rist ...
    Translated by Michele McKay Aynesworth ...
    "A valuable account of what one significant and perceptive Frenchman experienced during the protracted disgrace of France as a vassal state of Nazi Germany." — Publishers WeeklyIn 1939, the 65-year-old French political economist Charles Rist was serving as advisor to the French government and consultant to the international banking and business world. As France anxiously awaited a German invasion, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Economic Doctrines from the time of the physiocrats to the present day

    Enriched edition. Tracing the Evolution of Economic Thought

    by Charles Gide, Charles Rist, Everett Lockmere ...
    Translated by R. Richards, William Smart ...
    A History of Economic Doctrines from the time of the physiocrats to the present day weaves a rich tapestry of economic thought, capturing the evolution of ideologies that have shaped the world's economic landscape. From the groundbreaking concepts of the physiocrats to contemporary theoretical debates, this anthology offers a comprehensive overview of the pivotal moments in economic philosophy. ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Monetary and Credit Theory

    From John Law to the Present Day

    by Charles Rist ...
    Translated by Jane Degras ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Landmarks in the History of Economic Thought
    Originally published in 1940, this book traces the development of theories concerning currency and credit from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. It provides a comprehensive account of the political and economic conditions in which the theories and controversies arose, with the result that the work has become a classic in its field. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Capital

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    by Karl Marx ...
    Translated by Ben Fowkes ...
    Series Book 1 - Capital
    'A groundbreaking work of economic analysis. It is also a literary masterpice' Francis Wheen, GuardianOne of the most notorious and influential works of modern times, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis. ... Read more

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  • Works Of Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels: Das Kapital, Communist Manifesto, Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte And More (Mobi Collected Works)

    by Friedrich Engels,Karl Marx ...
    This collection was designed for optimal navigation on eReaders and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of ... Read more

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  • Chasing Gold

    by George M Taber ...
    For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis was no less enthralled by it, and felt that gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders to bring the United States and the rest of the world out of a severe depression. FDF was hardly the first ... Read more

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  • Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

    by Joseph Schumpeter ...
    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century. When it first appeared the New English Weeklypredicted that `for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted.' Fifty years on, this prediction seems a little ... Read more

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  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

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  • Vienna, 1814

    How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna

    by David King ...
    “Reads like a novel. A fast-paced page-turner, it has everything: sex, wit, humor, and adventures. But it is an impressively researched and important story.”—David Fromkin, author of Europe’s Last SummerVienna, 1814 is an evocative and brilliantly researched account of the most audacious and extravagant peace conference in modern European history. With the feared Napoleon Bonaparte presumably ... Read more

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  • The First Total War

    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

    by David A. Bell ...
    "A mesmerizing account that illuminates not just the Napoleonic wars but all of modern history . . . It reads like a novel" (Lynn Hunt, Eugen Weber Professor of modern European history, UCLA).The twentieth century is usually seen as "the century of total war." But as the historian David A. Bell argues in this landmark work, the phenomenon actually began much earlier, in the era of muskets, cannons ... Read more

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  • The Dreyfus Affair

    The Scandal That Tore France in Two

    by Piers Paul Read ...
    July 20, 1894. The German Military Attache in Paris. Colonel Maximillien von Schwarzkoppen received a visit from a seedy-looking middle-aged Frenchman who would not give his name. He told Schwarzkoppen that he was a French army officer serving on the General Staff; that he was in desperate need of money; and was therefore prepared to sell military secrets to the Germans.Captain Alfred Dreyfus, ... Read more

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