International Government Finance and the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1740–1815

During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century's end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service together consumed up to eighty percent of peacetime revenues and more in war. Borrowing on international markets stabilised previously disruptive deficit financing techniques and moderated the economic consequences of sharply irregular war spending. This development however, eased the problems of war-making more than it developed national economies or enhanced prosperity. The Dutch, heretofore seen as having squandered the advantage of cheap credit, actually faced the difficult problem of finding productive uses for their savings at satisfactory returns.

History

Riley, James

Europe

Cambridge University Press

Twice Upon A Time (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Turtleback Books

A collection of arithmetic problems based on little known facts about animals, sports, and other subjects, and other situations

Stand Up Math: 180 Fun and Challenging Problems for Kids! ; Level 1 (Level 1 Budding Genius Ages 8-10)

Gisler, Peggy

Eberts, Marge

Good Year Books

A collection of arithmetic problems based on little known facts about animals, sports, and other subjects, and other situations

Stand Up Math: 180 Fun and Challenging Problems for Kids! (Level 2)

Stand Up Math: 180 Fun and Challenging Problems for Kids! ; Level 3 (Level 3 Super Genbius Ages 10 & Up)

Young American sea captain James Riley, shipwrecked off the coast of north Africa in 1815, was captured by nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. This dramatic account of Riley's trials and sufferings, wildly popular in his day, was read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty.

Sufferings in Africa: Library Edition

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Blackstone Pub

In this classic true adventure story, a young American sea captain named James Riley, shipwrecked off the western coast of North Africa in 1815, is captured by a band of nomadic Arabs and sold into slavery. Thus begins an epic adventure of survival and a quest for freedom that takes him across the Sahara desert. This dramatic account of Captain Riley's trials and sufferings sold more than one million copies in his day and was even read by a young and impressionable Abraham Lincoln. The degradations of a slave existence and the courage to survive under the most harrowing conditions have rarely been recorded with such painful honesty. Sufferings in Africa is a classic travel-adventure narrative and a fascinating testament of white Americans enslaved abroad, during a time when slavery flourished throughout the United States.

Sufferings in Africa Lib/E: Captain Riley's Narrative

Historical

Blackstone Publishing

This book is a collage of human experiences made from overlapping pieces and woven together by themes of crises, revolution, and change, aiming to raise issues that people in the twentieth-century world tried to address.

The 20th Century: A Retrospective

Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.

Chatterjee, Choi

Martin, Phyllis

Gould, Jeffrey

World

Perseus

Three grand themes characterized the twentieth century: crises on a scale that outstripped any in human history; revolutionary ideology and action that brought social and political transformation on a global scale; and new technologies breathtaking in their pace and innovation. It was a century of triumphant creativity and achievement, yet it witnessed violence and destruction of appalling, even cataclysmic, intensity. How can such contradictions be captured so that those who live in the twenty-first century may understand, and perhaps learn from, the varieties of human experience in the twenty-first century may understand, and perhaps learn from, the varieties of human experience in the twentieth century? The authors go back to 1870 to present a thematic history of the tumultuous 20th century (concluding in 2000) organized in fifteen chapters that stress, cultural, social, and material issues as well as major political developments. Carefully selected case studies bring to life in ordinary experience the themes of each chapter. Themes with a temporal orientation are featured in Part One on the Early Century” (Modernization, Imperialism, Materialism, Socialist Revolution, and Fascism); and in Part Two on the Later Century” (Decolonization, Peasant Movements, 1960s' Radicalism, and Islamic Fundamentalism). Part three takes up larger themes that encompass the whole century (Feminism, War and Peace, Science, Population, and Economic Inequality). Illustrations and suggestions for further reading, films, and videos, enhance this innovative text.

Americas

Westview Press

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