The value of a dollar : prices and incomes in the United States, 1860-2014 / / Scott Derks ; Laura Mars, editorial director ; Diana Delgado, associate editor ; Jim Duplessis, Tony Smith, contributors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464384903321
• Autore: Derks Scott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amenia, New York : , : Grey House Publishing, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-9162529-2-3; 1-78402-890-8
• Edizione: [Fifth edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (760 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.520973
• Soggetti: Prices - United States - History; Wages - United States - History; Purchasing power - United States - History; Cost and standard of living - United States - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "A universal reference book"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Value of a Dollar, 1860-2012 (table) -- 1860-1899: Age Of Endeavor: -- Background & dollar conversions -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1900-1919: Progressive Era And World War I: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 1900-1904: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1905-1909: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1910-1914: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1915-1919: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1920-1939: Return To "Normalcy," The Great Depression, And Recovery: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 1920-1924: -- ; Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1925-1929: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany 1930-1934: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1935-1939: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1940-1959: World War II, Recovery, And The Cold War: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 1940-1944: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1945-1949: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1950-1954: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1955-1959: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1960-1979: Vietnam War And The Global Economy: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 1960-1964: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1965-1969: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1970-1974: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1975-1979: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1980-1999: From Recession To The Era Of Possibilities: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 1980-1984: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1985-1989: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1990-1994: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1995-1999: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany --; 2000-2009: 9/11, The War On Terror, And The Aftermath: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 2000-2004: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 2005-2009: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 2010-2014: New Beginnings: -- Background & dollar conversions -- 2010-2014: -- Historical snapshot -- Selected income -- Consumer expenditures -- Investments -- Standard jobs -- Food basket -- Selected prices -- Miscellany -- 1920-2012: Trends: -- Pricing trends -- Around the house: -- Bath towel -- Chicago Daily Tribune: daily paper -- Electric iron -- Eureka vacuum cleaner -- Flashlight battery -- Ladies Home Journal -- Electric washing machine -- New home -- New York Times-daily paper -- New ; York Times-Sunday paper -- Postage stamp for 1oz first class mail -- Superman comic book -- Sunbeam toaster -- Time magazine -- Vogue magazine -- Atlantic Monthly: yearly rate -- Zippo standard brush chrome lighter -- Fashion: -- Brooks Brothers white button down shirt -- Men's dress (overcoat/trench) coat -- Men's black leather dress shoes -- Men's two-piece suit -- Men's dress shirt -- Men's dress slacks -- Men's sweater -- Women's black purse -- Women's dress suit -- Women's high heel shoes -- Women's one piece dress -- Women's shirt -- Women's swimsuit -- Help wanted: -- Average Major League Baseball player's salary -- Average US National annual salary -- Bookkeeper annual salary -- Coal miner annual salary -- Boston Red Sox Baseball Team payroll -- Domestic annual salary -- Durable goods manufacturer annual salary -- Federal hourly minimum wage -- Gas & electric worker annual salary -- Golf master champions earnings -- Medical/health service provider annual salary -- Playboy playmate modeling fee -- New York Yankees baseball team payroll -- President of the United States annual salary -- Public school teacher annual salary -- Pulitzer Prize Award amount -- Railroad worker annual salary -- State & Local government worker annual salary -- University of South Carolina yearly tuition -- United States Federal civilian annual salary -- Winning player's share of football championship game -- Items in the refrigerator: -- Bread ( 1 loaf) -- Butter (1 pound) -- Cheese (1 pound) -- Chicken (1 pound) -- Coffee (1 pound) -- Dr Pepper (per serving) -- Eggs (1 dozen) -- Hershey's milk chocolate bar -- Margarine (1 pound) -- McDonald's hamburger -- Milk (1 quart) -- Outdoors: -- Basketball -- Bicycle -- Fishing reel -- Hiking boots -- Golf ball -- Fishing rod -- Golf clubs (1 set) -- Hammock -- Harley-Davidson motorcycle -- Lawn mower -- Shotgun -- Sports page: -- Average ticket price for baseball -- World series game -- Average ticket price for Chicago Cubs -- Baseball game -- Average ticket price for Denver Broncos football game -- Average ticket price for football Super Bowl Game -- Kentucky Derby winners -- National Basketball Association's network TV contracts -- Travel & Entertainment: -- Adult ticket to Disneyland -- Airline ticket from New York City to Chicago -- Average movie ticket price -- Average price of Ford automobile -- Bottle of Beaulieu Vineyard Wine -- Hotel nightly rate -- Ocean cruise from New York City to Bermuda -- Rail fare from New York City to San Francisco -- Suitcase -- Roll of film -- Ticket to Broadway Show -- General sources -- Pricing trends sources.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Value of a Dollar records the actual prices of thousands of items that consumers purchased from the Civil War to the present, along with facts about investment options and income opportunities.

Common law, civil law, and colonial law : essays in comparative legal history from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries / / edited by William Eves, John Hudson, Ingrid Ivarsen, Sarah B. White [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910585953403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2019
• ISBN: 1-108-96067-7; 1-108-96044-8; 1-108-95519-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 340/.209
• Soggetti: Comparative law - History; Colonies - Law and legislation - History; Civil law - History; Common law - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
• Nota di contenuto: a'In aliquibus locis est consuetudo' : French lawyers and the Lombard customs of fiefs in the mid-fiefs in the mid-thirteenth century / Attilio Stella -- What does Regiam maiestatem actually say (and what does it mean)? / Alice Taylor -- James VI and I, rex et iudex : one king as judge in two kingdoms / Ian Williams -- George Harris and the comparative legal background of the first English translation of Justinian's Institutes / Łukasz Jan Korporowicz -- The nature of custom : legal science and comparative legal history in Blackstone's commentaries / Andrew J. Cecchinato -- Through a glass darkly : English common law seen through the lens of the Göttingische gelehrte anzeigen (Eighteenth Century) / Carsten Fischer -- Looking afresh at the French roots of continuous easements in English law / Ciara Kennefick -- Case law in Germany : the significance of Seuffert's Archiv / Clara Günzl -- Leone Levi (1821-1888) and the history of comparative commercial law / Annamaria Monti -- Radical title of the crown and aboriginal title : North America 1763, New South Wales 1788, and New Zealand 1840 / David V. Williams -- The High Court of Australia at mid-century : ; concealed frustrations, private advocacy, and the break with English law / Tanya Josev -- English societal laws as the origins of the comprehensive slave laws of the British West Indies / Justine Collins.
• Sommario/riassunto: Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law builds upon the legal historian F.W. Maitland's famous observation that history involves comparison, and that those who ignore every system but their own 'hardly came in sight of the idea of legal history'. The extensive introduction addresses the intellectual challenges posed by comparative approaches to legal history. This is followed by twelve essays derived from papers delivered at the 24th British Legal History Conference. These essays explore patterns in legal norms, processes, and practice across an exceptionally broad chronological and geographical range. Carefully selected to provide a network of inter-connections, they contribute to our better understanding of legal history by combining depth of analysis with historical contextualization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.