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  • The Age of Paper

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

    by 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 ... Read more

    $98.39 USD

  • Trains, Culture, and Mobility

    Riding the Rails

    by Hiraku Shimoda, Peter Soppelsa, Alexander Medcalf, Rowan Wilken, Samuel Gerald Collins, Hiroki Shin, Tristan R. Grunow, Araceli Masterson-Algar, Agata Morka, Colin Divall ...
    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 ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Robert Burlison ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    A practical and informative guide for family historians interested in researching their British ancestry through social welfare records.Many family historians will come across direct links to ancestors who were affected by poverty. Yet despite the burgeoning interest in genealogy, the history of pauperism and of poor relief has rarely been written about. Tracing Your Pauper Ancestors provides a ... Read more

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  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington ...
    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, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • In Search of a Better Life

    British and Irish Migration

    Edited by Graham Davis ...
    In Search of a Better Life' challenges the traditional histories of British and Irish migration, the stories of oppression and exile that form an essential part of the existing literature. By no means were all migrants forced to leave their country by circumstances; many looked forward to a better life abroad. They were largely opportunists rather than victims, whether financed by the state or by ... Read more

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  • Freedom's Debt

    The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752

    by William A. Pettigrew ...
    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 ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort

    Edited by Paul Mitchell, Professor Charles Mitchell ...
    Series series Landmark Cases
    Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort contains thirteen original essays on leading tort cases, ranging from the early nineteenth century to the present day. It is the third volume in a series of collected essays on landmark cases (the previous two volumes having dealt with restitution and contract). The cases examined raise a broad range of important issues across the law of tort, including such ... Read more

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  • Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution

    Early Industrial Capitalism in Three English Towns

    by 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 ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Shareholder Democracies?

    Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850

    by Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, James Taylor ...
    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 ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

  • The Sinews of Power

    War, Money and the English State 1688-1783

    by John Brewer ...
    First published in 1989. `The book is a distinguished work - of importance to students of governmental development generally. It is written in a fluent, non-technical manner that should reach a wide audience.' American Historical Review. ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Making the Market

    Victorian Origins of Corporate Capitalism

    by Paul Johnson ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    Corporate capitalism was invented in nineteenth-century Britain; most of the market institutions that we take for granted today - limited companies, shares, stock markets, accountants, financial newspapers - were Victorian creations. So were the moral codes, the behavioural assumptions, the rules of thumb and the unspoken agreements that made this market structure work. This innovative study ... Read more

    $38.59 USD