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Author : Larry Neal
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031562771
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase written by Larry Neal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Neal
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031562761
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (627 download)
Download or read book The Forgotten Financiers of the Louisiana Purchase written by Larry Neal and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 was financed. Where existing research has focused predominantly on the political and diplomatic significance of the Purchase, this book demonstrates the importance of the Purchase to global financial history. The book provides context and background for the Louisiana Purchase and examines the role of key actors and companies, focusing particularly on the ‘forgotten financiers’ of the Purchase – individuals from the US, France and the UK including Alexander Baring, Albert Gallatin, Pierre Cesar Labouchere and Francois Barbe-Marbois. Based on extensive, original archival research, the chapters will illuminate the role played by these individuals in bringing about financial innovation and facilitating a major transaction that doubled the size of the original United States and helped set the country on a path to global power. The book will be a valuable resource for historians of Europe and America, particularly those with interests in economic and financial history, as well as banking and finance scholars who are interested in the emergence of large-scale international finance in the 19th century.
Author : James Kendall Hosmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book The History of the Louisiana Purchase written by James Kendall Hosmer and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1620 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (964 download)
Download or read book The Financier written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger G. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190288426
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause written by Roger G. Kennedy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-06 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger G. Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of the gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops--first tobacco, then cotton--sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period. Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause was a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2003.
Author : Junius P. Rodriguez
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576077381
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (76 download)
Download or read book The Louisiana Purchase written by Junius P. Rodriguez and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in celebration of the Purchase's bicentennial, this resource offers a multifaceted view of a watershed American event. In one easy-access resource, The Louisiana Purchase brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed in the new territory, frontier outposts, and the Native Americans uprooted by expansion westward. The book examines every aspect and consequence of Thomas Jefferson's momentous transaction: the largest real estate deal in American history. Readers will learn how the purchase made Manifest Destiny really seem like destiny; how it sparked the rise of America's urban industrial society and inflamed passions over the expansion of slavery; and how it triggered tragic conflicts between the government and Native Americans as well as immeasurable environmental damage. Ideal for students, historians, and public and private libraries, the Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive reference ever compiled on an event so central to the American experience that it seems to lie at the heart of everything triumphant and tragic in our history.
Author : James Quay Howard
Publisher : Chicago : Callaghan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Louisiana Purchase written by James Quay Howard and published by Chicago : Callaghan. This book was released on 1902 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Howard has written a history of the Louisiana Purchase that begins with the Louisiana Region in the pre-1700 era. The critical period, he believes, was during the Spanish possession when its leaders began to interact with the fledgling US government and later with John Adams. He moves on to the Great Treaty and then to the purchase. He has also included supplemental reading on notable historical figures and their relation to the purchase.
Author : Jay Sexton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191515671
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Debtor Diplomacy written by Jay Sexton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its national debt held overseas. Lacking the resources to develop the nation and to fund the wars necessary to expand and then preserve it, the United States looked across the Atlantic for investment capital. The need to obtain foreign capital greatly influenced American foreign policy, principally relations with Britain. The intersection of finance and diplomacy was particularly evident during the Civil War when both the North and South integrated attempts to procure loans from European banks into their larger international strategies. Furthermore, the financial needs of the United States (and the Confederacy) imparted significant political power to an elite group of London-based financiers who became intimately involved in American foreign relations during this period. This study explores and assesses how the United State's need for capital influenced its foreign relations in the tumultuous years wedged between the two great financial crises of the nineteenth century, 1837 to 1873. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work illuminates our understanding of mid-nineteenth-century American foreign relations by highlighting how financial considerations influenced the formation of foreign policy and functioned as a peace factor in Anglo-American relations. This study also analyses a crucial, but ignored, dimension of the Civil War - the efforts of both the North and the South to attract the support of European financiers. Though foreign contributions to each side failed to match the hopes of Union and Confederate leaders, the financial diplomacy of the Civil War shaped the larger foreign policy strategies of both sides and contributed to both the preservation of British neutrality and the ultimate defeat of the Confederacy.
Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071352
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Founders and Finance written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—immigrants—solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments—currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America’s immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and—barely—to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation’s hard-won independence from Britain.
Author : Steve Ritter
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480808814
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)
Download or read book A Bike Across America written by Steve Ritter and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a midlife challenge, author Steve Ritter decided to leave the comforts of home and the daily routine of his office and set out on an epic journey to bicycle across the United States. Ritter wanted to rediscover his rural roots, explore nature, immerse himself in the rich history of his country, and find out if he still had the endurance of his youth. He wanted to see what other people did every day as he sat at his desk. In A Bike across America, he narrates the story of his thirty-five day, 3,461-mile journey that began April 27, 2013, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and ended in Newport, Oregon. This travelogue shares Ritter’s thoughts, expectations, and surprises––battling the weather, equipment failures, and his doubts and fears, and being assisted by kind-hearted strangers. With some history and geography included, Ritter tells how this cross-country ride changed his life. Frank and honest, A Bike across America recounts Ritter’s ultimate road trip—one that taught this fifty-year-old empty nester that through perseverance and determination, it could be done.
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond Walters
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822974088
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Albert Gallatin written by Raymond Walters and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1957-10-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond Walters, Jr. presents the definitive biography of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), recounting sixty years that the Swiss-born diplomat served his adopted country as a congressional leader, Secretary of the Treasury, financier, and ambassador. Gallatin was a founder of the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee), a member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and an active politician who opposed the Federalist Party and its programs, while also helping to bring about the election of Thomas Jefferson.
Author : Karl E. Meyer
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137279761
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book The China Collectors written by Karl E. Meyer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the unlikely artistic encounters between America and China presents the account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.
Author : Stephanie R. Bird
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Light, Bright, and Damned Near White written by Stephanie R. Bird and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-03-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bird takes us into a world where people are struggling to be heard, recognized, and celebrated for the racial diversity one would think is the epitome of America's melting pot persona. But being biracial or tri-racial brings unique challenges - challenges including prejudice, racism and, from within racial groups, colorism. Yet America is now experiencing a multiracial baby boom, with at least three states logging more multiracial baby births than any other race aside from Caucasians. As the Columbia Journalism Review reported, American demographics are no longer black and white. In truth, they are a blended, difficult-to-define shade of brown. Bird shows us the history of biracial and tri-racial people in the United States, and in European families and events. She presents the personal traumas and victories of those who struggle for recognition and acceptance in light of their racial backgrounds, including celebrities such as golf expert Tiger Woods, who eventually quit trying to describe himself as Cablanasin, a mix including Asian and African American. Bird examines current events, including the National Mixed Race Student Conference, and the push to dub this Generation MIX. And she examines how American demographics, government, and society are changing overall as a result. This work includes a guide to tracing your own racial roots.
Author : Michael Meade
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 098147442X
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (814 download)
Download or read book Empty Contract Promises Will Be Without Guarantee In Heaven written by Michael Meade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Los Angeles Financier written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald Rapp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387876308
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (878 download)
Download or read book Bubbles, Booms, and Busts written by Donald Rapp and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thorough explanation of the nature and history of booms, bubbles and busts in financial markets. The first part of the book deals with financial booms and bubbles and how they emerge, develop and collapse. It describes the distribution of wealth, inflation, rationality of bankers, monetary and fiscal policy, the role of central banks, tax policies, social security, US federal, state, municipal and personal debt, and valuation of common stocks. The book describes historical boom/bust cycles including bubbles of the 1720s, the Florida land boom and the stock market in the 1920s, the depression of the 1930s, the S&L scandal of the 1980s, the great bull market of 1982-1995, the crash of 1987, the dot.com mania of 1995-2000, corporate swindles of the 1990s and 2000s, the sub-prime fiasco of the 2000s, and Japan in the late 20th century. Most of the recent wealth generation has derived from increased debt and appreciation of paper assets. The architects of the new economics were Ronald Reagan and Arthur Greenspan. Inevitably, the US Government’s cure for excessive spending and inadequate revenues is to increase spending and cut revenues. American voters must choose between “tax and spend” Democrats and “spend and borrow” Republicans. The theme of American finance was uttered by VP Cheney: “Deficits don’t matter”.
