During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century's end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service together consumed up to eighty percent of peacetime revenues and more in war. Borrowing on international markets stabilised previously disruptive...
During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital...
Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves--which was called a "fast-paced, action-packed tale" by School Library Journal--from the author of the Half Upon a Time trilogy. Owen and Bethany have sworn off jumping into books for good. But they didn't make any promises about not jumping through strange portals that lead to a comic book world. Jupiter City was once filled with brightly costumed superheroes and villains, but nowadays, there's nothing left but the Dark....
Bethany travels to a new fictional world to rescue her father in this third book in the New York Times bestselling series, Story Thieves--
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1960s shape modern British fiction?
The 1960s were the "swinging decade" a newly energised youth culture went hand-in-hand with new technologies, expanding educational opportunities, new social attitudes and profound political differences between the generations. This volume explores the ways in which these profound changes were reflected in British fiction of the decade. Chapters cover feminist writing that fused the personal and the political, gay, lesbian and immigrant voices and the work of visionary...
How did social, cultural and political events in Britain during the 1960s shape modern British fiction?
Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in the finale of this "New York Times"-bestselling series.
Owen and Bethany try to find their way back to each other after the fictional and nonfictional worlds are torn apart in the finale of this "New York T...
