wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780252041174 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics with her rejection of domesticity. Progressives like Victoria Woodhull, meanwhile, saw financial acumen as more important for women than the vote. George Robb's pioneering study sheds a light on the financial methods, accomplishments, and careers of three generations of women. Plumbing sources from...
Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and e...
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458,40 zł |
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British Culture and the First World War
ISBN: 9781137307507 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This essential survey of British society and culture during World War I focuses on the lives of ordinary Britons: how they were affected by the war, how they attempted to understand the conflict, and how they have dealt with its legacies. This timely new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest scholarship.
This essential survey of British society and culture during World War I focuses on the lives of ordinary Britons: how they were affected by the war, h...
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161,14 zł |
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Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780252082719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics with her rejection of domesticity. Progressives like Victoria Woodhull, meanwhile, saw financial acumen as more important for women than the vote. George Robb's pioneering study sheds a light on the financial methods, accomplishments, and careers of three generations of women. Plumbing sources from...
Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and e...
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100,70 zł |
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White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929
ISBN: 9780521526128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and partnerships to a complex financial structure dominated by large, joint-stock companies. The tremendous growth of big business created a world of new opportunities for criminal exploitation. The promotion and management of public companies and the trading of commercial securities proved vulnerable to the white-collar crimes of fraud and embezzlement. Problems of financial fraud were exacerbated by a climate of laissez-faire which championed the...
In the period between the 1840s and the 1920s the British economy was transformed, from small-scale capitalism dominated by individual traders and par...
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269,84 zł |
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British Culture and the First World War
ISBN: 9781137307491 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This essential survey of British society and culture during World War I focuses on the lives of ordinary Britons: how they were affected by the war, how they attempted to understand the conflict, and how they have dealt with its legacies. This timely new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of the latest scholarship.
This essential survey of British society and culture during World War I focuses on the lives of ordinary Britons: how they were affected by the war, h...
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428,18 zł |
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Hungerheart: The Story of a Soul
ISBN: 9781944981709 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,39 zł |
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Disorder in the Court: Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
ISBN: 9780814775264 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the turn of the century, a spate of sensational trials kept French and English readers spellbound and ignited bitter tugs of war over marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, gay prostitution, and lesbian literature. The chapters in Disorder in the Court each focus on a specific high-profile trial, and the public debates surrounding it, in order to address the role of the state in regulating sexual morality. The authors draw on police archives, records of coroners' inquests, magistrates' courts, and news coverage to bring to life social conflicts sparked by... At the turn of the century, a spate of sensational trials kept French and English readers spellbound and ignited bitter tugs of war over marriage a... |
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529,62 zł |