Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385242150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

Author: George Earl Church
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Category : Madeira River (Brazil and Bolivia)
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: George Earl Church
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Category : Bolivia
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Author: George Earl Church
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Category : Amazon River
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Marc Flandreau
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022636044X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Beginning with the discovery of a curious plot wherein science became the handmaiden of white-collar crime, "Anthropology and the Stock Exchange "by economic historian Marc Flandreau tracks a group of Victorian gentlemen-swindlers as they shuffled between the corridors of the London Stock Exchange and the meeting rooms of learned societies. It explores how the commodification of scientific truth became every bit as integral as financial engineering to the profitability of foreign investment and speculation in foreign government debt. Flandreau underscores the crucial role of finance (what he calls the Stock Exchange Modality ) in shaping the contours of human knowledge and vice versa in an age of mercantile expansion. He further argues that a new brand of imperialism, born under Benjamin Disraeli s first term as British Premier, built on the multiple covert links between the birth of social sciences and novel mechanisms of financial revenue creation and extraction. As anthropologists advocated the study of Miskito Indians or stated their views on a Jamaican Rebellion or Abyssinian Expedition, for example, they responded and catered to the impulses of the Stock Exchange. The marriage between anthropological science and finance, Flandreau asserts, formed the foundational structures of late 19th century British Imperialism, which in turn produced essential technologies of globalization."

Author: A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421441209
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383

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Winner of the Dom João de Castro Prize for Portuguese History This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that previously have been constrained by strict chronological approaches. Using the study of movement as a focus, Russell-Wood gains unique insight into the diversity, breadth, and balance between the competing interests and priorities that characterized the Portuguese culture and its expansion spanning four centuries' events on four different continents.

Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Languages : en
Pages : 734

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Author: John Murray
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Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Languages : en
Pages : 392

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