Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Comedy and Crisis
Author: Joyce Goggin
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789628210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1789628210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders [Quincampoix of de Windhandelaars], and Harlequin Stock-Jobber [Arlequin Actionist]. The first play is a full-length satirical comedy, and the second is a short, comic harlequinade; both were written in Dutch in response to the speculative financial crisis or bubble of 1720 and were performed in Amsterdam in the fall of 1720, as the bubble in the Netherlands was bursting. Comedy and Crisis also contains our translation of the extensive apparatus prepared by C.H.P. Meijer (Introduction and notes) for his 1892 edition of these plays. The current editors have updated the footnotes and added six new critical essays by contemporary literary and historical scholars that contextualize the two plays historically and culturally. The book includes an extensive bibliography and index. The materials assembled in Comedy and Crisis are a rich resource for cultural, historical, and literary students of the history of finance and of eighteenth-century studies.
Corporate Culture
Author: Liam D. Haydon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315531038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and exchange, national identity, and salvation. Drawing on a wide range of genres – including corporate publications, letters, and minute books; dramatic works; epic poetry and sermons – this study shows how widely corporate rhetoric spread, and how embedded it was in the early modern social imagination.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315531038
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The corporation – an immortal collective bound to act for the common good – was developed in the seventeenth century, but comparatively little attention has been paid to its literary ramifications. This work combines corporate history with literary analysis to demonstrate how corporations, and the literature they engendered, shaped ideas of the public sphere, trust, the morality of trade and exchange, national identity, and salvation. Drawing on a wide range of genres – including corporate publications, letters, and minute books; dramatic works; epic poetry and sermons – this study shows how widely corporate rhetoric spread, and how embedded it was in the early modern social imagination.
City of Capital
Author: Bruce G. Carruthers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
While many have examined how economic interests motivate political action, Bruce Carruthers explores the reverse relationship by focusing on how political interests shape a market. He sets his inquiry within the context of late Stuart England, when an active stock market emerged and when Whig and Tory parties vied for control of a newly empowered Parliament. Carruthers examines the institutional linkage between politics and the market that consisted of three joint-stock companies--the Bank of England, the East India Company, and the South Sea Company--which all loaned large sums to the government and whose shares dominated trading on the stock market. Through innovative research that connects the voting behavior of individuals in parliamentary elections with their economic behavior in the stock market, Carruthers demonstrates that party conflict figured prominently during the company foundings as Whigs and Tories tried to dominate company directorships. For them, the national debt was as much a political as a fiscal instrument. In 1712, the Bank was largely controlled by the Whigs, and the South Sea Company by the Tories. The two parties competed, however, for control of the East India Company, and so Whigs tended to trade shares only with Whigs, and Tories with Tories. Probing such connections between politics and markets at both institutional and individual levels, Carruthers ultimately argues that competitive markets are not inherently apolitical spheres guided by economic interest but rather ongoing creations of social actors pursuing multiple goals.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400822106
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
While many have examined how economic interests motivate political action, Bruce Carruthers explores the reverse relationship by focusing on how political interests shape a market. He sets his inquiry within the context of late Stuart England, when an active stock market emerged and when Whig and Tory parties vied for control of a newly empowered Parliament. Carruthers examines the institutional linkage between politics and the market that consisted of three joint-stock companies--the Bank of England, the East India Company, and the South Sea Company--which all loaned large sums to the government and whose shares dominated trading on the stock market. Through innovative research that connects the voting behavior of individuals in parliamentary elections with their economic behavior in the stock market, Carruthers demonstrates that party conflict figured prominently during the company foundings as Whigs and Tories tried to dominate company directorships. For them, the national debt was as much a political as a fiscal instrument. In 1712, the Bank was largely controlled by the Whigs, and the South Sea Company by the Tories. The two parties competed, however, for control of the East India Company, and so Whigs tended to trade shares only with Whigs, and Tories with Tories. Probing such connections between politics and markets at both institutional and individual levels, Carruthers ultimately argues that competitive markets are not inherently apolitical spheres guided by economic interest but rather ongoing creations of social actors pursuing multiple goals.
Impunity and Capitalism
Author: Trevor Jackson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516288
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Analyses how and why financial crises stopped being treated as crimes and started being thought of as natural disasters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516288
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Analyses how and why financial crises stopped being treated as crimes and started being thought of as natural disasters.
Biographia Dramatica, Or a Companion to the Playhouse
Author:
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Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica; Or A Companion To The Playhouse
Author: David Erskine Baker
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica
Author: David Erskine Baker
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v.2 and 3. Additions and corrections to v.2 and 3
Author: David Erskine Baker
Publisher:
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Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Biographia Dramatica: Names of dramas: M-Z. Latin plays by English authors. Oratorios. Appendix to v. 2 and 3. Additions and correction to v. 2 and 3
Author: David Erskine Baker
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description