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This book reassesses the actual effects of the Bubble Act, still
popularly associated with the bursting of the South Sea Bubble. The
book builds on the foundational work of Ron Harris to discuss the
act’s effect on corporate governance, literary culture, colonial
law, and the Industrial Revolution. The Bubble Act was deemed an
empty letter within England itself as it was rarely used in legal
proceedings. Several chapters consider whether this was the case
outside England, from Scotland to the Americas, India, and Africa.
Others assess the impact of the act, both on literary culture and
in the history of economic thought. The act has been conceptualized
as a brake on economic development or of little consequence. This
edited collection offers a timely reassessment of the Bubble Act
and its legacy. Â
Learn how to meditate and leave your stress behind. Learn how to
expand your consciousness and intuition. Learn known techniques to
achieve Samadhi. If you're spiritual, and want a blueprint to a
direct connection to the Cosmos (God) - this is it. If you're
religious but have found something lacking in all religions, and
continue searching for the answer - this may be your answer. If you
don't believe in anything but have an open mind, and are willing to
experiment naturally with your mind - this could be your answer to
finally finding your 'self'. The health benefits to meditation are
well documented by science and medicine now. Through the simple
technique found in this book, you can reap the benefits of health
to your body and mind. This technique is probably thousands of
years old. Use it, and it may just change your life, in ways, you
could have never imagined. It did for me
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This
IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced
typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
In accounts of Chinese history, the Western Zhou period has been
lionized as a golden age of ritual, when kings created the
ceremonies that underlay the traditions of imperial governance. In
this book, Paul Nicholas Vogt rediscovers their roots in the
vagaries of Western Zhou royal geopolitics through an investigation
of inscriptions on bronze vessels, the best contemporary source for
this period. He shows how the kings of the Western Zhou adapted
ritual to create and retain power, while introducing changes that
affected later remembrances of Zhou royal ritual and that shaped
the tradition of statecraft throughout Chinese history. Using
ritual and social theory to explain Western Zhou history, Vogt
traces how the traditions of pre-modern China were born, how a
ruling dynasty establishes and holds on to power, how religion and
politics can support and restrain each other, and how ancient
peoples made, used, and assigned meaning to art and artifacts.
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