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141) Founding finance: how debt, speculation, foreclosures, protests, and crackdowns made us a nation
Author
Series
Discovering America volume 5
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both right-wing claims and certain liberal preconceptions, Founding Finance brings to life the violent conflicts over economics, class, and finance that played directly,...
142) Where to invade next
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Presents the theory that the American dream, all but abandoned in the United States, has been adopted successfully in other countries, including Italy, France, Finland, Slovenia, Germany, Portugal, Norway, Tunisia, and Iceland, looking at such areas as worker benefits, public expenditure for the common good, and state-funded higher education.
Author
Series
Publisher
Triangle Square
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and the outcome of the American Revolution? How did the fabled...
144) Frontier boosters: Port Townsend and the culture of development in the American West, 1850-1895
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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