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  • Mr Five Per Cent

    The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world’s richest man

    by Dr Jonathan Conlin ...
    Winner of the BAC Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2020When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Met

    A History of a Museum and Its People

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range—including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor—and span millennia, from ancient Egypt and Greece to Islamic art to European Old Masters and modern artists. How did the Met amass this trove, and what do the experiences of the people who ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • They All Made Peace—What Is Peace?

    The 1923 Lausanne Treaty and the New Imperial Order

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin, Ozan Ozavci ...
    An analysis of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne from multiple historical, economic, and social perspectives.The last of the post-World War One peace settlements, the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne departed from methods used in the Treaty of Versailles and took on a new peace-making initiative: a forced population exchange that affected one and a half million people. Like its German and Austro-Hungarian allies ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Evolution and the Victorians

    Science, Culture and Politics in Darwin's Britain

    by Dr Jonathan Conlin ...
    Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Great Economic Thinkers

    An Introduction – from Adam Smith to Amartya Sen

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Alfred Marshall, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, and Nobel Prize winners Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, John Forbes Nash Jr, Daniel Kahneman, Amartya Sen and Joseph Stiglitz.Free from jargon and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • The Chevalier d'Eon and his Worlds

    Gender, Espionage and Politics in the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Professor Simon Burrows, Dr Jonathan Conlin, Professor Russell Goulbourne, Valerie Mainz ...
    Cross-dressing author, envoy, soldier and spy Charles d'Eon de Beaumont's unusual career fascinated his contemporaries and continues to attract historians, novelists, playwrights, filmmakers, image makers, cultural theorists and those concerned with manifestations of the extraordinary. D'Eon's significance as a historical figure was already being debated more than 45 years before his death.Not ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public. Picturesque walks and arbors offered a pastoral retreat from the city, while at the same time the garden's attractions indulged distinctly urban tastes for fashion, novelty, and sociability. High- and low-born alike were free to walk the paths; the proximity to strangers and the danger of dark ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Charles Kingsley

    Faith, Flesh, and Fantasy

    Edited by Jonathan Conlin, Jan Marten Ivo Klaver ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cultural History
    Novelist, poet, Anglican priest, and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819–75) epitomizes the bustling Victorian man of faith and letters, a prolific polymath as ready to break a lance with John Henry Newman over Christian doctrine as he was to preach to schoolchildren on the virtues of manly, physical struggle. Kingsley’s The Water-Babies and Westward Ho! were best-sellers which became ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Adam Smith

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Series Book 64 - Critical Lives
    Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for developing the concept of the ‘invisible hand’. The ‘hand’ helped to explain how the removal of state regulation could set individuals free to specialize and pursue their own interests for the good of all. Unfortunately this idea was later manipulated by advocates of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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    Mr Five Per Cent

    The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Narrated by Simon Vance ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 23 min

    When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered top-level oil deals, concealing his mysterious web of business interests and contacts within a labyrinth of Asian and European cartels, and convincing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD