Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hannah Farber
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1469663643
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Unassuming but formidable, American maritime insurers used their position at the pinnacle of global trade to shape the new nation. The international information they gathered and the capital they generated enabled them to play central roles in state building and economic development. During the Revolution, they helped the U.S. negotiate foreign loans, sell state debts, and establish a single national bank. Afterward, they increased their influence by lending money to the federal government and to its citizens. Even as federal and state governments began to encroach on their domain, maritime insurers adapted, preserving their autonomy and authority through extensive involvement in the formation of commercial law. Leveraging their claims to unmatched expertise, they operated free from government interference while simultaneously embedding themselves into the nation's institutional fabric. By the early nineteenth century, insurers were no longer just risk assessors. They were nation builders and market makers. Deeply and imaginatively researched, Underwriters of the United States uses marine insurers to reveal a startlingly original story of risk, money, and power in the founding era.
Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 322
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Published: 1820
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Nancy Rubin Stuart
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2022-03-15
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0807011401
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →“An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.” —Library Journal, Starred Review A vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America’s famous scientist and founding father. Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Richard’s Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah’s life and those of Ben’s other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben’s life in London; Catherine Ray, the 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees. What emerges from Stuart’s pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard’s Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben’s heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era.
Author: Scott E. Casper
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 488
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.
Author: American Antiquarian Society
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 628
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Clifford Kenyon Shipton
Publisher: Worcester, MA : American Antiquarian Society
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 630
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: American Antiquarian Society. Library
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Published: 1837
Total Pages: 580
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Collection includes about 8,000 vols. donated by Isaiah Thomas, founder of the Society. The catalogue is "almost wholly the work of the late lamented librarian, Christopher C. Baldwin ... completed and brought up to the present date by ... Maturin L. Fisher."