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Merchants and Revolution examines the activities of London's merchant community during the early Stuart period. Proposing a new understanding of long-term commercial change, Robert Brenner explains the factors behind the opening of long-distance commerce to the south and east, describing how the great City merchants wielded power to exploit emerging business opportunities, and he profiles the new colonial traders, who became the chief architects of the Commonwealth's dynamic commercial policy.
A commanding survey of the world economy from 1950 to the present, from the author of the acclaimed The Boom and the Bubble.
Brenner demonstrates that the new economy was always a fragile phenomenon.
The Brenner Debate discusses the transition from feudalism to capitalism in Western Europe through a variety of view points.
The Faith and Doubt of Holocaust Survivors reveals the victims’ frank and thought-provoking answers to searching questions about their experiences: Was the Holocaust God’s will? Was there any meaning or purpose in the Holocaust? Was Israel worth the price six million had to pay? Did the experience in the death camps bring about an avowal of faith? A denial of God? A reaffirmation of religious belief? Did the Holocaust change beliefs about the coming of the Messiah, the Torah, the Jews as the chosen people, and the nature of God? Drawing on the responses of seven hundred survivors, Reeve Robert Brenner reveals the changes, rejections, reaffirmations, doubts, and despairs that have so prof...
Christmas advertising, games, puzzles, figurines, candy containers, and candy molds are a few of the new areas of collecting that are explored in this book. Never before treated in great detail, these collectibles are here illustrated, historically detailed, and explained. In addition, there is a major emphasis upon ornaments that have not been dealt with in other books such as Italian figurals. West and East German figurals, and other European glass ornaments. Dresden, cotton, wax, wood, metal, paper, and glass ornaments are covered, each with new discoveries of information and detail since the publication of his first book, Christmas Past. Over 1000 different Christmas decorations and collectibles from the very rare to the very common are illustrated in full color with a newly revised simple-to-use price guide at the end.
A chronological illustrated history of how people decorated and celebrated for Christmas. Many antique ornaments from German origins project various customs. Includes newly revised price guide!
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From the first reference to a valentine card in 1625 to modern times, this book celebrates sentimental charm, wit, and romance over the decades in antique valentines. European origins and American traditions, celebration and card sending customs, card designs and themes, artists and manufacturers from Howland, Whitney, Prang, to Gibson, Hallmark, and American Greetings are included.