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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America

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Report copyright infringementby Brian P. Luskey (Author)When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day," he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart of the Union's war effort. Despite Northerners' devotion to the principles of free labor, the war produced rampant speculation and coercive labor arrangements that many Americans labeled fraudulent. Debates about this contradiction focused on employment agencies called "intelligence offices," in...

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Report copyright infringementby David Lowe (Author)Conceived in 1950, the Colombo Plan for Co-operative Development in South and Southeast Asia was a unique experiment in foreign relations. Meeting annually across what we now know as the 'Indo-Pacific', talented administrators facilitated foreign aid provision, and promoted development fuelled state-making, internationalism and experimental regionalism across postwar Asia. David Lowe argues that this new setting and dynamic international cast...

Specifications for a Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the Chinese Government to be Erected in Peking, China

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Report copyright infringementby Heister &. Co Milburn (Author)This historical document provides detailed specifications for the construction of a Bureau of Engraving and Printing in Peking (now Beijing), China. Prepared by Heister & Co Milburn, likely in the early 20th century, the text offers valuable insights into the engineering and architectural standards of the time, as well as the international business relationships between the United States and China. A fascinating glimpse int...

Land and Society in Colonial Mexico; the Great Hacienda

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Report copyright infringementby François Chevalier (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

Hidden Landmarks of New York: A Tour of the City's Most Overlooked Buildings - Hardcover

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by Tommy Silk (Author)Discover dozens of underappreciated landmarks and the stories behind them in this unique history on New York City, written and photographed by Landmarks of NY creator, Tommy Silk. New York is a city of landmarks - more than 37,000 of them. Visitors and New Yorkers walk by hundreds of these landmarks daily, often never knowing the rich history behind each of these buildings. One of these New Yorkers, Tommy Silk, has been photographing and chronicling a landmarked building...

Modernizing the Mountaineer: People, Power, and Planning in Appalachia

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Report copyright infringementby David E. Whisnant (Author) "Modernizing the Mountaineer is required reading for anyone studying the evolution of Appalachia and its place in American history since the Civil War. Whisnant's use of the politics of culture as an interpretive tool is brilliant."--H. Tyler Blethen, Western Carolina University Since its initial publication a decade ago, Modernizing the Mountaineer has become a classic in Appalachian studies. Now available with a substantial new int...

Digging for Dollars: American Archaeology and the New Deal

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Fagette (Author)Fagette's book is a thorough, compelling history of American archaeology in its most critical decade, the 1930s.Back JacketThis study investigates the institutional evolution of American archaeology during the 1930s. Its primary focus is the process by which archaeologists created a modern professional science through government, especially at the federal level. Number of Pages: 248 Dimensions: 0.7 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN ...

Soviet Workers and Late Stalinism: Labour and the Restoration of the Stalinist System After World War II

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Report copyright infringementby Donald Filtzer (Author)Donald Filtzer's new book is the study of industry and labor during Late Stalinism, covering the entire post-war period from 1945 to Stalin's death. He has uncovered a wealth of previously inaccessible archive material and analyzes it to show that the post-war period was one of "political victory and historical defeat". This subtle and compelling study will be of interest to all scholars of Russian history. Number of Pages: 2...

Trust in Troubled Times: Money, Banks, and State-Society Relations in Republican Tianjin

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Report copyright infringementby Brett Sheehan (Author)This timely book traces the development of banking and paper money in republican Tianjin in order to explore the creation of social trust in financial institutions. Framing the study around Bian Baimei, a conscientious branch manager of the Bank of China, Brett Sheehan analyzes the actions of bankers, officials, and local elites as they tried to overcome political and financial crises and instill trust in the banking system. After early fa...

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Report copyright infringementby Michael A. Bernstein (Editor), David E. Adler (Editor), Robert Heilbroner (Foreword by)The public has been painfully aware of the economy's stagnation for a long time. In this major new volume, leading thinkers in the social sciences directly confront the various economic difficulties facing the United States today. Underlying each essay is the premise that these problems can be understood only in a broad historical context--that such difficulties arise not fro...

Growth and Decline in Colchester, 1300-1525

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Report copyright infringementby R. H. Britnell (Author)This is a study of one of England's principal cloth towns during the late Middle Ages. It draws extensively upon unpublished records in Colchester and elsewhere, and is the first history of a medieval English town to analyse in conjunction the relationships between overseas trade, urban development and changes in rural society. First it describes Colchester in the earlier fourteenth century, its trade, its agricultural setting and its for...

South America and the First World War: The Impact of the War on Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chile

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Report copyright infringementby Bill Albert (Author), Paul Henderson (Author), Alan Knight (Editor)The collapse of this economy in August 1914 and its subsequent restructuring, therefore, created extremely testing conditions for peripheral countries. These conditions and the way in which they were dealt with help to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the variants of the primary-export-based capitalist development which had taken root here. Also, as had happened in Europe, the war witne...

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Report copyright infringementby Cormac O. Grada (Author), Cormac O. Grada (Author), Economic History Society (Author)The Irish Famine of 1846-50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century. Cormac Ó Gráda's concise survey puts the Famine in the context of the Irish economy, assesses the Famine itself, and discusses its many consequences. Despite a devastating food shortage, the huge death toll of one million was hardly inevitable; a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief coul...

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Bramall (Author)A welcome addition to a growing literature, this book highlights the economic and social achievements of the Maoist regime. Using a wealth of new data it shows that while many rural industries were initially inefficient, the workers employed in them acquired skills making the creation of a globally competitive Chinese industrial sector possible.Author BiographyChris Bramall was trained in Economics at the University of Cambridge, where he ...

Luxury and Public Happiness in the Italian Enlightenment

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Report copyright infringementby Till Wahnbaeck (Author)Through an analysis of the eighteenth-century debate about luxury, Wahnbaeck traces the shaping of a new language of political economy. By charting not only the development of political economy in Italy, but the methods of transmission of the ideas at the heart of this debate, the author argues that the focus on economic thought is characteristic of the Italian enlightenment at large. Ultimately, these methods were responsible for the dev...

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Report copyright infringementby Marc Egnal (Author)New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada examines the economic development of both the original American colonies and early French Canada, looking at the impact of changing prices, capital flows, and shifts in demand. It is a companion volume to Marc Egnal's well-regarded earlier book, Divergent Paths, which emphasized the influence of culture and institutions upon growth. New World Economies studies transatla...

The Economic History of Italy 1860-1990 ' Recovery After Decline '

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Report copyright infringementby Vera Zamagni (Author)Vera Zamagni traces the growth of industrialization and argues that despite several advanced areas, Italy only became an industrialized nation after World War II and reveals that during the 1980s the South was still clearly behind the rest of the country. Analyzing data from a macroeconomic perspective, the author examines the growth of the finance sector and the role of the State. Number of Pages: 428 Dimensions: ...

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Report copyright infringementby Doni Glover (Author)Black Blueprint: Baltimore to Burkina FasoFrom the political streets of Baltimore to the global platforms of the United Nations, Blueprint 25 is a compelling journey through the intersections of Black media, business, activism, and faith. Doni Glover - publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and unapologetic truth-teller - pulls back the curtain on 25 years of lessons, triumphs, and battles in the pursuit of Black empowerment.Through deeply per...

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Report copyright infringementby Agnes Christina Laut (Author)"The Conquest of the Great Northwest" recounts the captivating saga of the Hudson's Bay Company and its profound impact on the Canadian Northwest and the Western United States. Agnes Christina Laut chronicles the adventurers of England as they navigated uncharted territories, engaged in the lucrative fur trade, and laid the foundations for future settlements. This comprehensive two-volume work delves into the intricate details of th...

Bilderberg Exposed: The Shadow Architects of Global Power

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Rodriguez (Author)What if the most important decisions shaping your world are made not in parliaments or congress halls, but in secret hotel meetings you've never heard of?For over 70 years, the Bilderberg Group has gathered the global elite behind closed doors, away from public scrutiny and democratic oversight. Presidents, prime ministers, central bankers, tech billionaires, and media moguls meet annually to coordinate policies that affect billions of...

After the Fall: The Rise of Authoritarianism in the World We've Made - Paperback

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by Ben Rhodes (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "Vital reading for Americans and people anywhere who seek to understand what is happening 'after the fall' of the global system created by the United States" (New York Journal of Books), from the former White House aide, close confidant to President Barack Obama, and author of The World as It Is At a time when democracy in the United States is endangered as never before, Ben Rhodes spent years traveling the world to understand why. He visited ...

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by John McPhee (Author)A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains sketches of orange growers, orange botanists, orange pickers, orange packers, early settlers on Florida's Indian River, the first orange barons, modern concentrate makers, and a fascinating profile of Ben Hill Griffin of Fr...

Ten Days That Shook the World - Paperback

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by John Reed (Author), Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Introduction by), A. J. P. Taylor (Introduction by)An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution, which celebrates its 100th anniversary in March 2017 An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives...

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest, Finest Hour - Paperback

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by Lynne Olson (Author)The acclaimed author of Troublesome Young Men reveals the behind-the-scenes story of how the United States forged its wartime alliance with Britain, told from the perspective of three key American players in London: Edward R. Murrow, the handsome, chain-smoking head of CBS News in Europe; Averell Harriman, the hard-driving millionaire who ran FDR's Lend-Lease program in London; and John Gilbert Winant, the shy, idealistic U.S. ambassador to Britain. Each man formed clos...

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by Bruno Munari (Author)An illustrated journey into the artistic possibilities of modern design, by the enfant terrible of Italian art and design for most of the twentieth century A Penguin Classic Bruno Munari was among the most inspirational designers of all time, described by Picasso as "the new Leonardo." Munari insisted that design be beautiful, functional and accessible, and this enlightening and highly entertaining book sets out his ideas about visual, graphic and industrial design and...

Discourses and Selected Writings - Paperback

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by Epictetus (Author), Robert Dobbin (Editor), Robert Dobbin (Introduction by)A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher DESPITE BEING BORN into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures given by the philosopher around AD 108. A gateway into the life and mind of a great intellectual, it is also an important example of th...

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by Bob Spitz (Author)"In this authoritative, unsparing history of the biggest rock group of the 1970s, Spitz delivers inside details and analysis with his well-known gift for storytelling." --PEOPLEFrom the author of the iconic, bestselling history of The Beatles, the definitive account of arguable the greatest rock band of all time. Rock star. Whatever that term means to you, chances are it owes a debt to Led Zeppelin. No one before or since has lived the dream quite like Jimmy Page, Robert ...

The Cosmography and Geography of Africa - Paperback

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by Johannes Leo Africanus (Author), Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Translator), Richard J. Oosterhoff (Translator)The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance: an African diplomat's guide to Africa A Penguin Classic In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Afr...

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy - Paperback

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by Henry Kissinger (Author)The New York Times bestseller Henry Kissinger, consummate diplomat and statesman, examines the strategies of six great twentieth-century figures and brings to life a unifying theory of leadership and diplomacy"An extraordinary book." -The Wall Street Journal "A must read...His books - including this one - will hopefully be read well into the future. Indeed our present and future leaders would benefit from reading all of Kissinger's books. They are timeless." -The Ne...

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Report copyright infringementby H a Van Ysselsteyn (Created by)The Port of Rotterdam offers a detailed historical account of one of the world's most significant ports. Authored by H.A. van Ysselsteyn, this book explores the growth and development of the Port of Rotterdam, tracing its evolution from its early days to its prominent position in international trade and shipping. The book provides insights into the port's infrastructure, economic impact, and the various challenges and innovations ...

The Boardroom: A Guide to Effective Leadership and Good Corporate Governance in Southeast Asia

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Report copyright infringementby Peter Verhezen (Author), Tanri Abeng (Author)Most books about corporate governance are written for a Western audience. The Boardroom, however, takes a different approach to leadership development by emphasizing the unique socio-cultural and judicial features as well as idiosyncratic board structures in Asia, particularly in an Indonesian context. The principles of good corporate governance are accepted across borders, but the implementation and translation of...

Evanston Wyoming Volume 2: Boom-Bust-Politics

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Report copyright infringementby Dennis J. Ottley (Author)Evanston Wyoming: Boom--Bust--Politics, is a story about an old Union Pacific railroad tent city, once called "Hell on Wheels," that eventually grew to become an amazing community in southwestern Wyoming, and about one man's experience as a city official. Evanston survived and thrived through many boom and bust cycles by having a good strong base of loving, committed citizens.Told through the eyes of a city official who served Evanston ...