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Kingston
(Paperback)
James J Enright, Kalena J Kelly-Rossop, Emma L Williams
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Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge
book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic
institutions, and business practices in the divergence between
Europe and China during the trade revolution. Focusing on the
operating modes of three major regional trading networks active in
Fujian, Huizhou, and Shanxi from the sixteenth to the nineteenth
centuries, Francois Gipouloux assesses the driving forces behind
their dynamism, the role they played in Chinese economic
development, and the constraints in which they were embedded.
Examining merchants' business practices, partnerships,and
investment strategies, chapters portray the three central figures
of China's economy - the financier, the middleman, and the business
entrepreneur - and their complex relationships with the imperial
bureaucracy. By analysing the divergent trajectory of seemingly
identical institutions in China and Europe, Elusive Capital takes a
comparative approach to shed light on the factors that inhibited
the transformation of commercial development into an industrial
revolution, ultimately discovering why capital accumulation proved
so elusive in late imperial China. Revealing novel insights from
primary documentation including trial accounts, Elusive Capital
will prove an invigorating read for students and scholars of
economic history, business studies, and Asian urban and regional
studies
The English rugby team has been scrummaging its way around the
rugby fields of the world since 1871. James Stafford's An
Illustrated History of English Rugby takes you on a thrilling
journey through a century and a half of glory, failure, mediocrity
and brilliance. Mixing stats and facts with player profiles, match
reports and social history, this book is perfect for hardcore and
casual fans aged eight to 80. Packed with delightful illustrations
from Raluca Moldovan, this follow up to Stafford's best-selling An
Illustrated History of Welsh Rugby will give readers a new
appreciation of the stars of today and the pioneers of yesteryear.
WINNER OF THE LINCOLN FORUM BOOK PRIZE "A Lincoln
classic...superb." -The Washington Post "A book for our
time."-Doris Kearns Goodwin Lincoln on the Verge tells the dramatic
story of America's greatest president discovering his own strength
to save the Republic. As a divided nation plunges into the deepest
crisis in its history, Abraham Lincoln boards a train for
Washington and his inauguration-an inauguration Southerners have
vowed to prevent. Lincoln on the Verge charts these pivotal
thirteen days of travel, as Lincoln discovers his power, speaks
directly to the public, and sees his country up close. Drawing on
new research, this riveting account reveals the president-elect as
a work in progress, showing him on the verge of greatness, as he
foils an assassination attempt, forges an unbreakable bond with the
American people, and overcomes formidable obstacles in order to
take his oath of office.
Cradock is a vivid history of a South African town in the years
when segregation gradually emerged, preceding the rapid and
rigorous implementation of apartheid. Through the details of one
emblematic community, Jeffrey Butler offers an ambitious treatment
of the racial themes that dominate recent South African history.
Although Butler was born and raised in Cradock, he eschews
sentimentality in favour of scholarly precision. Augmenting the
obvious political narratives, Cradock examines the poor
infrastructural conditions, ranging from public health to public
housing, that typify a grossly unequal system of racial segregation
but are otherwise neglected in the region's historiography. Butler
shows, with the richness that only a local study could provide, how
the lives of blacks, whites and coloureds were affected by the
bitter transition from segregation before 1948 to apartheid
thereafter.
Survival in the 'Dumping Grounds' examines a defining aspect of
South Africa's recent past: the history of apartheid-era
relocation. While scholars and activists have long recognised the
suffering caused by apartheid removals to the so-called
'homelands', the experiences of those who lived through this
process more often have been obscured. Drawing on extensive
archival and oral history research, this book explores the makings
and multiple meanings of relocation into two of the most notorious
apartheid 'dumping grounds' established in the Ciskei bantustan
during the mid-1960s: Sada and Ilinge. Author Laura Evans describes
the local and global dynamics of the project of bantustan
relocation and develops a multi-layered analysis of the complex
histories-and ramifications-of displacement and resettlement in the
Ciskei.
An internationally admired figure, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the most high-profile monarch in the world, enjoying enduring and wide-ranging popularity.
Spanning from 1926 to the present day, Elizabeth The Queen and the Crown reveals the story behind Britain's longest-reigning monarch's extraordinary life. Sarah Gristwood follows the twists and turns of Her Majesty’s life and its key turning points – including her teenage years during World War II, meeting and marrying Prince Philip of Greece, later the Duke of Edinburgh, and her accession to the throne in 1952.
Split into chapters covering different periods of her life, from ‘Apprenticeship (1926–1956)’, ‘Being Queen (1956–1986)’ to ‘Change, Celebration and Commemoration (1986–2022)’, the book charts the extraordinary events in the Queen's life alongside the everyday duties of her role as monarch.
Originally published in 2017, this book has been updated for the Platinum Jubilee in 2022, illustrated with historic photography that makes it as beautiful to own as enjoyable to read.
This is definitive take on the wildest story of the year- the
David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze, a tale of fortunes won
and lost overnight that may end up changing Wall Street forever.
Bestselling author Ben Mezrich offers a gripping, beat-by-beat
account of how a loosely affiliate group of private investors and
internet trolls took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall
Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatens to
upend the financial establishment. It started on a subreddit forum
called WallStreetBets - a meme-filled, freewheeling place where a
disparate group of investors shared their shoot-the-moon investment
tips, laughed about big losses, and posted diamond hand emojis.
Until some members noticed an opportunity in Game Stop - a flailing
bricks and mortar video-game retailer - and somehow rode a rocket
ship to tens of millions of dollars in earnings overnight,
simultaneously triggering unfathomable losses for one of the most
respected funds on the street. In thrilling, pulse-pounding prose,
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK offers a fascinating, never-before-seen
glimpse at the outsize personalities, dizzying swings, corporate
drama, and underestimated American heroes and heroines who
captivated the world during one of the most volatile weeks in
financial history. It's the amazing story of what just happened-and
where we go from here.
In the mountains of northern New Mexico above Taos Pueblo lies a
deep, turquoise lake which was taken away from the Taos Indians,
for whom it is a sacred life source and the final resting place of
their souls. The story of their struggle to regain the lake is at
the same time a story about the effort to retain the spiritual life
of this ancient community. Marcia Keegan's text and historic
photographs document the celebration in 1971, when the sacred lake
was returned to Taos Pueblo after a sixty year struggle with the
Federal government.
This revised and expanded edition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of this historic event, and includes forwards from the
1971 edition by Frank Waters, and from the 1991 20th anniversary
edition by Stewart L. Udall. Also contained here is new material:
statements from past and current tribal leaders, reflections from
Pueblo members, historic tribal statements made at the 1970
Congressional hearings and a 1971 photograph o
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