An Itinerary Containing His Ten Yeeres Travell
Author : Fynes Moryson
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Europe
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Author : Fynes Moryson
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Fynes Moryson
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 49,1 MB
Release : 1617
Category : History
ISBN : 5882916550
Author : Fynes Moryson
Publisher :
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1617
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Fynes Moryson
Publisher :
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Europe
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Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Page : 698 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 42,29 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
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Author : John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Arts
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Author : Oliver Volckart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2024-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0198894503
The Silver Empire is the first comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with-and even to benefit from-the parallel circulation of many different types of coin, it nevertheless harmed both the common people and the political authorities. The authorities in particular suffered from neighbours who used their comparatively good money as raw material to mint poor imitations. Debasing their own coinage provided an, at best, short-term solution. Over the medium and long term, it drove the members of the Empire into rounds of competitive debasements, until they realised that a common currency was the only answer that addressed the core of the problem. Oliver Volckart examines the conditions that shaped the monetary outlook of the member states of the Empire, paying particular attention to the uneven access to silver and gold. Following closely the negotiations that prepared the common currency, he is able to illuminate the interest groups that were formed, what their agendas and ulterior motives were, how alliances were forged, and how it was eventually possible to obtain majority agreement on what a common currency should look like: a silver-based currency that was introduced in 1559-66. In fact, in contrast to what historians once believed, the common currency they achieved turns out to have functioned not significantly worse than other currencies of the time: it had similar problems and similar advantages as the money issued by more centralized governments.
Author : Thomas A Foster
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 32,34 MB
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1479812196
Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women—both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant—who lived and worked in not only British mainland America, but also New Spain, New France, New Netherlands, and the West Indies. In these essays we learn about the conditions that women faced during the Salem witchcraft panic and the Spanish Inquisition in New Mexico; as indentured servants in early Virginia and Maryland; caught up between warring British and Native Americans; as traders in New Netherlands and Detroit; as slave owners in Jamaica; as Loyalist women during the American Revolution; enslaved in the President’s house; and as students and educators inspired by the air of equality in the young nation. Foster showcases the latest research of junior and senior historians, drawing from recent scholarship informed by women’s and gender history—feminist theory, gender theory, new cultural history, social history, and literary criticism. Collectively, these essays address the need for scholarship on women’s lives and experiences. Women in Early America heeds the call of feminist scholars to not merely reproduce male-centered narratives, “add women, and stir,” but to rethink master narratives themselves so that we may better understand how women and men created and developed our historical past.
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Page : 1416 pages
File Size : 15,21 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
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