The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations, Hardcover - Jacob Soll

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Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar - Barry Eichengreen

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The Irish experience of Christianity has never been simple or uncomplicated. Here, Crawford Gribben describes the ancient emergence, long dominance...

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Eminent Corporations. The Rise and Fall of the Great British Corporation - Andrew Simms, David Boyle

The surprising story of the wine industry's role in the rise of French Algeria and the fall of empire. "We owe to wine a blessing far more precious...

Reducere. On Being a Vermonter is a case study of a Vermont farm that existed from the early 1800s to the early 1900s. As the Holmes Farm pioneered advanced ...

Laura Shenton offers an in-depth perspective on The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars from a range of angles including how ...

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SIX STARRED REVIEWS Discover the dark side of Charles Lindbergh--one of America's most celebrated heroes and complicated men--in this riveting biog...

Reducere. On March 16, 2008, Alan Greenberg, former CEO and current chairman of the executive committee of Bear Stearns, found himself in the company's offic...

In 1851 Isaac Singer brought onto the market the first practical sewing machine in history. He had combined all the ideas that had gone before to m...

Reducere. It's 1990 and the World Wide Web is making its way into homes all across the world. Everyone wants in on the action, including Charles - a PhD stud...

A biography chronicling the tumultuous personal and professional life of horror icon Bela Lugosi. Lugosi, the tragic life story of one of horror's ...

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What made Ray Prosser a coach ahead of his time?In this engrossing book, Alun Carter and Nick Bishop recount the dramatic story of the rise and fal...

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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...

The story of how the dollar rose to global dominance in the twentieth century - and an assessment of what the future holds for the world's most imp...

New B-format paperback - The extraordinary history of Mercia and its rulers from the seventh century to 1066. Once the supreme Anglo-Saxon kingdom,...