1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797989503321

Autore

Sinclair Upton

Titolo

Dragon harvest / / Upton Sinclair ; cover design by Kat JK Lee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Open Road Integrated Media, , 2016

©1945

ISBN

1-5040-2650-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (624 p.)

Collana

Lanny Budd Novels

Disciplina

823.914

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Book One: Regardless of their Doom; 1 The Little Victims Play; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; 2 Cherry Ripe, Ripe, Ripe!; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 3 Gold Will Be Master; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 4 Portents of Impending Doom; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; Book Two: Who Sups with the Devil; 5 The Pitcher to the Well; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; 6 Fighting the Devil with Fire; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX

XXI; XII; XIII; 7 Heute Gehört Uns Deutschland; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 8 Face of Danger; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 9 Time Gallops Withal; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; Book Three: Let Joy Be Unconfined; 10 When Fortune Favors; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; 11 The Trail of the Serpent; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 12 T'Other Dear Charmer Away; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; 13 Where Duty Calls Me; I

IIIII; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; Book Four: The Brazen Throat of War; 14 The Best-Laid Schemes; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; 15 Fools Rush In; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; 16 Where Angels Fear to Tread; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; Book Five: Ancestral Voices Prophesying War; 17 Oh, What a Tangled Web!; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 18 Grasp the Nettle; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV



19 Double-Dyed DeceiverI; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; 20 They That Take the Sword; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; 21 Auf den Bergen 1st Freiheit; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; Book Six: Let Slip the Dogs of War; 22 Mournful Midnight Hours; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; 23 Two's Company, Three's a Crowd; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; 24 A House Divided; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; 25 On with the Dance; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII

VIIIIX; X; XI; XII; XIII; Book Seven: The Winds Blew and Beat upon That House; 26 Time Ambles Withal; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; 27 With Hell at Agreement; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; 28 The Sparks Fly Upward; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; Book Eight: The Flinty and Steel Couch of War; 29 Secret Dread and Inward Horror; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV; XVI; XVII; 30 Those in Peril on the Sea; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; X; XI; XII; XIII; XIV; XV

31 Even in the Cannon's Mouth

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790889503321

Titolo

The political economy of empire in the early modern world [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. Reinert, P. Røge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2013

ISBN

1-349-31159-6

1-137-31555-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Classificazione

BUS023000HIS010020HIS037000POL010000

Disciplina

321.03

Soggetti

World politics

World history

Economic history

Imperialism

History, Modern

Europe—History—1492-

Political History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Economic History

Imperialism and Colonialism

Modern History

History of Early Modern Europe

Europe Colonies History



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Of Empire and Political Economy / Richard Drayton -- Introduction: The Political Economy of Empire / Sophus Reinert and Pernille R©ıge -- PART I. THEORISING THE EARLY MODERN EMPIRE -- 1. An Empire of Trade Commercial Reason of State in Seventeenth-Century Holland / Jan Hartman and Arthur Weststeijn -- 2. A Natural Order of Empire : The Physiocratic Vision of Colonial France after the Seven Years War / Pernille R©ıge -- 3. Adam Smith on American Economic Development and the Future of the European Atlantic Empires / Thomas Hopkins -- 4. Views from the South : Images of Britain and its Empire in Portuguese and Spanish Political Economic Discourse, c. 1740-1810 / Gabriel Paquette -- 5. The Empire of Emulation : A Quantitative Analysis of Economic Translations in the European World, 1500-1849 / Sophus Reinert -- PART II. IMPERIAL EXPERIENCES -- 6. War, Peace, and the Rise of the London Stock Market / Giles Parkinson -- 7. The Impact of Gifts and Trade : Georgia Colonists and Yamacraw Indians in the Colonial American Southeast / Claire Levenson -- 8. Retrenchment, Reform and the Practice of Military-Fiscalism in the Early East India Company State / James Lees -- 9. How Feeding Slaves Shaped the French Atlantic : Mercantilism and the Crisis of Food Provisioning in the Franco-Caribbean during the 17th and 18th Centuries / Bertie Mandelblatt.

Sommario/riassunto

This collection of essays draws on fresh readings of classic texts as well as rigorous research in the archives of Europe's greatest imperial power. Its contributors paint a powerful picture of the nature and implementation of political economy in the long eighteenth century, from the East to the West Indies.