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Book Book Auction Records

Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.

Book MacBean Collection

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  • Author : University of Aberdeen. Library
  • Publisher : Aberdeen : University Press
  • Release : 1949
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book MacBean Collection written by University of Aberdeen. Library and published by Aberdeen : University Press. This book was released on 1949 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aberdeen University Studies

Download or read book Aberdeen University Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Aberdeen University Studies Series

Download or read book Aberdeen University Studies Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Devonshire Characters and Strange Events

Download or read book Devonshire Characters and Strange Events written by Sabine Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Utility and Democracy

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  • Author : Philip Schofield
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2006-06-29
  • ISBN : 0198208561
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Utility and Democracy written by Philip Schofield and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton textiles were the first good to achieve a truly global reach. For many centuries muslins and calicoes from the Indian subcontinent were demanded in the trading worlds of the Indian Ocean and the eastern Mediterranean. After 1500, new circuits of exchange were developed. Of these, the early-modern European craze for Indian calicoes and the huge nineteenth-century export trade in Lancashire goods, and subsequent deindustrialization of the Indian subcontinent, are merely the best known. These episodes, although of great importance, far from exhaust the story of cotton. They are well known because of the enormous research energy that has been devoted to them, but other important elements of cotton's long history are deserving of similar attention. This collection of essays examines the history of cotton textiles at a global level over the period 1200-1850. This volume sheds light on new answers to two questions: what is it about cotton that made it the paradigmatic first global commodity? And second, why did cotton industries in different parts of the world follow different paths of development? Included in this second question is, of course, the problem of the so-called "great divergence" that suggests that Europe and Asia followed a common path of economic development until the end of the eighteenth century. Cotton textiles have been central in explaining the nature, timing and effects of a "divergence" in the nineteenth. A volume of this sort is timely for many reasons, not least of which is the growing interest in global history. Textiles remain one of the most important manufactured commodities in debates about economic, social and cultural change across the globe. By adopting a long historical view and a broad geographical viewpoint, this book wishes to avoid a Eurocentric perspective that has long dominated debates over the birth and rise of the cotton textiles industry in Europe. Empirically this book brings together, and adds to, the current state of knowledge on a number of questions related to the history of cotton textiles. The outlines of the cotton industry in medieval and early modern times, whether in southern Europe, central Africa, west Asia or the Indian subcontinent, are known only in the sketchiest of terms. The relationship between cotton textiles and those made from other fibers such as wool, linen, and silk is poorly understood. And there has been a woeful neglect of the cloth made from the great mixtures of cotton and linen, cotton and wool, and cotton and silk, which were mainstays of textile manufacturing from Europe to Bengal. And the long history of commerce and connections between the producers and consumers of cotton textiles in Asia, Africa, the Americas and Europe remains under-researched. As a consequence, even the Indian trade in cotton textiles and the rise of the Lancashire cotton industry are not fully understood within their larger temporal and regional and global contexts. This volume draws upon papers that were presented at a conference on "Cotton Textiles as a Global Industry" held in Padua, Italy, in November 2005 and a workshop on "Global Histories of Economic Development: Cotton Textiles and Other Global Industries in the Early Modern Period" held at the Fondation des Treilles, France, in March 2006. Both meetings were sponsored and organized by the Global Economic History Network of the London School of Economics and were held in preparation for Session 59 on "Cotton Textiles as a Global Industry" for the XIV International Economic History Association Congress held in Helsinki in late August 2006. Essays included in the volume are authored by 19 scholars from eight different nations, all of whom are specialists in the study of textiles. They are drawn from a range of sub-disciplines within history and bring together their areas and periods of specialization to provide a global history. Therefore, the volume covers a wide variety of approaches to the study of history, which is essential for constructing a global picture. Some of the contributors are internationally well known for their publications on the history of cotton, as well as other textiles in different world areas. The volume also draws upon the research of a number of younger scholars whose work will form the core of the future development of textile history as a global discipline.

Book Economic Studies

Download or read book Economic Studies written by Walter Bagehot and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Popular History of England  From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria  Volume I

Download or read book A Popular History of England From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria Volume I written by François Guizot and published by . This book was released on 2024-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria; Volume I, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Book Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review

Download or read book Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  The Grasshopper  in Lombard Street

Download or read book The Grasshopper in Lombard Street written by John Biddulph Martin and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martins Bank was a London private bank, trading under the symbol of “The Grasshopper”, that could trace its origins back to Thomas Gresham and the London goldsmiths, known as Martin's Bank from 1890.

Book Critical  Historical and Miscellaneous Essays

Download or read book Critical Historical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Benjamin Franklin  Self revealed

Download or read book Benjamin Franklin Self revealed written by William Cabell Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Women and Politeness in Eighteenth Century England

Download or read book Women and Politeness in Eighteenth Century England written by Soile Ylivuori and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first in-depth study of women’s politeness examines the complex relationship individuals had with the discursive ideals of polite femininity. Contextualising women’s autobiographical writings (journals and letters) with a wide range of eighteenth-century printed didactic material, it analyses the tensions between politeness discourse which aimed to regulate acceptable feminine identities and women’s possibilities to resist this disciplinary regime. Ylivuori focuses on the central role the female body played as both the means through which individuals actively fashioned themselves as polite and feminine, and the supposedly truthful expression of their inner status of polite femininity.