An Authentic Narrative Of The Loss Of The American Brig Commerce: Wrecked On The Western Coast Of Africa, In The Month Of August, 1815 : With An ... Who Were Enslaved By The Wandering Arabs,

History

Riley, James

Bleecker, Anthony

Africa

Franklin Classics

The 20th Century: A Retrospective: A Retrospective

Chatterjee, Choi

Martin, Phyllis

Gould, Jeffrey

Americas

Routledge

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.

Europe

Cambridge University Press

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

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Turtleback Books

Once Upon The End (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Half upon a Time)

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

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