The Empire of "The City": The Secret History of British Financial Power, Hardcover - E. C. Knuth

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The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their invo...

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It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions...

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So you thought you knew everything about Manchester City, did you? Well, think again.

The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. Th...

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DescriptionOver the course of the eighteenth century, Anglo-Americans purchased an unprecedented number and array of goods. The Power of Objects in...

This book examines how the expansion of a steam-powered Royal Navy from the second half of the nineteenth century had wider ramifications across th...

Examines various ways in which the Empire was displayed in Britain between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at music, satirica...

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How did decolonization impact on Britain itself? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? Sarah Stockw...

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

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Reducere. Most readers know Salem only for the city's notorious witch trials. But years later it became a very different city, one that produced America's fi...

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Reducere. 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 ...

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

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Contributor(s): Author: Eric GrynaviskiThroughout American political history, the US government has formed alliances with militias, tribes, and reb...

DescriptionA global tour of energy--the builder of human civilization and also its greatest threat. Energy is humanity's single most important reso...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Middle Ages, then keep reading...One of the least understood periods of European history occ...

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This is the colourful story of how Edinburgh rose to be one of the top 10 financial centres in Europe - and how the crisis of 2008 decimated its ba...

DescriptionThe Great Uighur Empire ruled Inner Asia in the 8th and 9th centuries and their descendants, the Taklamakanians, created a thousand year...

Reducere. The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript with cursive hieroglyphs and illustrations created c. 1250 BCE, in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom o...

Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of s...

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Reducere. In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous pr...

Paperback edition of a monumental new history by the Churchill College, Cambridge author of Eminent Edwardians and Dark Valley, full of brief lives...

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...