Battles For The Standard

Author : Ted Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135172567X
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles for the Standard written by Ted Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2000. This is a history of the monetary developments in the international economy of the 19th century. It reviews the monetary developments in the core economies of the period: Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and also India. Particular attention is given to the expansion of the gold standard in the context of the intense national and international debates about the role of precious metals and the author also examines the conflict between supporters of gold, silver and bimetallism, both in terms of competing financial and economic theories and in terms of the varying social and cultural backgrounds that informed them. The main thrust of the work is that the sheer plurality of ideas and contexts helped to ensure the eventual victory of the gold standard, despite the inherent superiority of bimetallic systems.

Author : Sebastian Edwards
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196044
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Default written by Sebastian Edwards and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy.

Author : Albert Castel
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070060748X
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decision in the West written by Albert Castel and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1992-11-02 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following a skirmish on June 28, 1864, a truce is called so the North can remove their dead and wounded. For two hours, Yankees and Rebels mingle, with some of the latter even assisting the former in their grisly work. Newspapers are exchanged. Northern coffee is swapped for Southern tobacco. Yanks crowd around two Rebel generals, soliciting and obtaining autographs. As they part, a Confederate calls to a Yankee, "I hope to miss you, Yank, if I happen to shoot in your direction." "May I, never hit you Johnny if we fight again," comes the reply. The reprieve is short. A couple of months, dozens of battles, and more than 30,000 casualties later, the North takes Atlanta. One of the most dramatic and decisive episodes of the Civil War, the Atlanta Campaign was a military operation carried out on a grand scale across a spectacular landscape that pitted some of the war's best (and worst) general against each other. In Decision in the West, Albert Castel provides the first detailed history of the Campaign published since Jacob D. Cox's version appeared in 1882. Unlike Cox, who was a general in Sherman's army, Castel provides an objective perspective and a comprehensive account based on primary and secondary sources that have become available in the past 110 years. Castel gives a full and balanced treatment to the operations of both the Union and Confederate armies from the perspective of the common soldiers as well as the top generals. He offers new accounts and analyses of many of the major events of the campaign, and, in the process, corrects many long-standing myths, misconceptions, and mistakes. In particular, he challenges the standard view of Sherman's performance. Written in present tense to give a sense of immediacy and greater realism, Decision in the West demonstrates more definitively than any previous book how the capture of Atlanta by Sherman's army occurred and why it assured Northern victory in the Civil War.

Author : Tom McNichol
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118047028
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AC/DC written by Tom McNichol and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AC/DC tells the little-known story of how Thomas Edison wrongly bet in the fierce war between supporters of alternating current and direct current. The savagery of this electrical battle can hardly be imagined today. The showdown between AC and DC began as a rather straightforward conflict between technical standards, a battle of competing methods to deliver essentially the same product, electricity. But the skirmish soon metastasized into something bigger and darker. In the AC/DC battle, the worst aspects of human nature somehow got caught up in the wires; a silent, deadly flow of arrogance, vanity, and cruelty. Following the path of least resistance, the war of currents soon settled around that most primal of human emotions: fear. AC/DC serves as an object lesson in bad business strategy and poor decision making. Edison's inability to see his mistake was a key factor in his loss of control over the ?operating system? for his future inventions?not to mention the company he founded, General Electric.

Author : Emile de Laveleye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Bimetallism and the Battle of the Standard written by Emile de Laveleye and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gary B. Nash
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679767509
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History on Trial written by Gary B. Nash and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An incisive overview of the current debate over the teaching of history in American schools examines the setting of controversial standards for history education, the integration of multiculturalism and minorities into the curriculum, and ways to make history more relevant to students. Reprint.

Author : Emile de Laveleye
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385458099
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book International Bimetallism and the Battle of the Standard written by Emile de Laveleye and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : United States. Marine Corps
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle Standard of the U.S. Marine Corps written by United States. Marine Corps and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hereford Brooke George
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battles of English History written by Hereford Brooke George and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Walter Money
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First and Second Battles of Newbury and the Siege of Donnington Castle During the Civil War, 1643-6 written by Walter Money and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: