The Birth of the Modern: World Society, 1815-1830HarperCollins Publishers, 1991 - 1095 σελίδες From the bestselling author of Modern Times, A History of the Jews, and Intellectuals, a provocative, challenging, and readable history of 15 years that laid the foundations of the modern world. The period after Waterloo (1815-1830), traditionally viewed as an Age of Reaction, was astonishly fertile in new ideas and, Johnson maintains, the modern world. 16 pages of halftones. |
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... Bank of England . Founded in 1694 by William III to finance his French wars , the bank had become , by the mid - 1820s , easily the most powerful and august financial organ in the world . For more than 20 years , its physical appearance ...
... Bank of England . Founded in 1694 by William III to finance his French wars , the bank had become , by the mid - 1820s , easily the most powerful and august financial organ in the world . For more than 20 years , its physical appearance ...
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... bank to keep up its gold stocks , had got his hands on 200,000 more , and had 25 couriers ranging all over Europe buying sovereigns wherever they were to be found . Thus , the bank avoided a suspension of payments and saved its credit.3 ...
... bank to keep up its gold stocks , had got his hands on 200,000 more , and had 25 couriers ranging all over Europe buying sovereigns wherever they were to be found . Thus , the bank avoided a suspension of payments and saved its credit.3 ...
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... banking crisis broke : Every bank outside New England was forced to suspend payments , and many honest investors were ruined . The response of Congress was to reverse its earlier decision and set up ( 10 April 1816 ) the Second Bank of ...
... banking crisis broke : Every bank outside New England was forced to suspend payments , and many honest investors were ruined . The response of Congress was to reverse its earlier decision and set up ( 10 April 1816 ) the Second Bank of ...
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TWO The Congress Dances | 63 |
and return 75 Before during and after the Battle | 101 |
THREE The End of the Wilderness | 165 |
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