In Pursuit Of British Interests

Author : Percy Cradock
Publisher : John Murray Pubs Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780719554643
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of British Interests written by Percy Cradock and published by John Murray Pubs Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, the author surveys British foreign policy from 1984 to 1992, the last seven years of Margaret Thatcher's government and the first years of John Major's. The book offers a picture of the Downing Street setting, its personalities, the troubled relationship between No 10 and the Foreign Office, the way in which decisions were made, and the interplay between foreign policy and the secret world of intelligence. Topics covered include Margaret Thatcher's relations with Reagan and Gorbachev; the collapse of the Soviet empire; the reunification of Germany; Britain's quarrels with Europe; the Gulf War; and the beginnings of the Yugoslav tragedy.

Author : Clifton Hood
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023154295X
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of Privilege written by Clifton Hood and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York City's upper class has been drawn into the larger story of the city both through class conflict and through their role in building New York's cultural and economic foundations. In Pursuit of Privilege describes the famous and infamous characters and events at the center of this extraordinary history, from the elite families and wealthy tycoons of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the Wall Street executives of today. From the start, upper-class New Yorkers have been open and aggressive in their behavior, keen on attaining prestige, power, and wealth. Clifton Hood sharpens this characterization by merging a history of the New York economy in the eighteenth century with the story of Wall Street's emergence as an international financial center in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as well as the dominance of New York's financial and service sectors in the 1980s. Bringing together several decades of upheaval and change, he shows that New York's upper class did not rise exclusively from the Gilded Age but rather from a relentless pursuit of privilege, affecting not just the urban elite but the city's entire cultural, economic, and political fabric.

Author : Horatio Walpole Baron Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Steady Pursuit of the Interest of Great Britain written by Horatio Walpole Baron Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horatio Walpole Baron Walpole
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Steady Pursuit of the Interest of Great Britain ... written by Horatio Walpole Baron Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lance Edwin Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521357234
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire Abridged Edition written by Lance Edwin Davis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.

Author : Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Interests in the East written by Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Trevor H. J. Marchand
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800732759
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work written by Trevor H. J. Marchand and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the present ‘renaissance of craftsmanship’. The animated and scholarly accounts of learning, achievement and challenges reveal the deep human desire to create with our hands, the persistent longing to find meaningful work, and the struggle to realise dreams. In its penetrating explorations of the nature of embodied skill, the book champions greater appreciation for the dexterity, ingenuity and intelligence that lie at the heart of craftwork.

Author : Susan Beth Rottmann
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202701
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit of Belonging written by Susan Beth Rottmann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belonging is a not a state that we achieve, but a struggle that we wage. The struggle for belonging is more difficult if one is returning to a homeland after many years abroad. In Pursuit of Belonging is an ethnography of Turkish migrants’ struggle for understanding, intimacy and appreciation when they return from Germany to their Turkish homeland. Drawing on an established tradition of life story writing in anthropology, Rottmann conveys the struggle to forge an ethical life by relating the experiences of a second-generation German-Turkish woman named Leyla.

Author : Charles A. Murray
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671611002
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Pursuit written by Charles A. Murray and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern classic--back in print and available again. Originally published in 1988, this book draws on advances in psychology and sociology to explore the fundamental questions of what is meant by "success". Rich in fascinating case studies. Line drawings, graphs and tables.

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Download or read book Steady Pursuit of the Interest of Great Britain, Dispassionately Examined Into by Dates and Circumstances written by and published by . This book was released on 1743 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: