Merchants of War and Peace

Merchants of War and Peace PDF Author: Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Merchants of War and Peace

Merchants of War and Peace PDF Author: Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Outposts of the Fleet

Outposts of the Fleet PDF Author: Edward Noble
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022487550
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Outposts of the Fleet is a captivating collection of stories about the merchant marine during wartime and peacetime. Readers interested in maritime adventure and history will appreciate this engrossing book. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Merchants of Death

Merchants of Death PDF Author: Helmuth Carol Engelbrecht
Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN: 1610163907
Category : Arms transfers
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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A Country Merchant, 1495-1520

A Country Merchant, 1495-1520 PDF Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191624454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

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Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce controversy, in which the government was fearful of beggars and wary of rebellions. The 'commonwealth' writers such as Thomas More were sharply critical of the greed of profit hungry landlords who dispossessed the poor. This book is about a wool merchant and large scale farmer who epitomises in many ways the spirit of the period. John Heritage kept an account book, from which we can reconstruct a whole society in the vicinity of Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire. He took part in the removal of a village which stood in the way of agricultural 'improvement', ran a large scale sheep farm, and as a 'woolman' spent much time travelling around the countryside meeting with gentry, farmers, and peasants in order to buy their wool. He sold the fleeces he produced and those he gathered to London merchants who exported through Calais to the textile towns of Flanders. The wool growers named in the book can be studied in their native villages, and their lives can be reconstructed in the round, interacting in their communities, adapting their farming to new circumstances, and arranging the building of their local churches. A Country Merchant has some of the characteristics of a biography, is part family history, and part local history, with some landscape history. Dyer explores themes in economic and social history without neglecting the religious and cultural background. His central concerns are to demonstrate the importance of commerce in the period, and to show the contribution of peasants to a changing economy.

Outposts of the Fleet, Stories of the Merchant Service in War Peace

Outposts of the Fleet, Stories of the Merchant Service in War Peace PDF Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Peace, War, and Trade Along the Great Wall

Peace, War, and Trade Along the Great Wall PDF Author: Sechin Jagchid
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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This fascinating book tells the story of the centuries-long confrontation along the Great Wall of China.

Outposts of the Fleet

Outposts of the Fleet PDF Author: Edward Noble
Publisher: War College Series
ISBN: 9781296481490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

China, During the War and Since the Peace

China, During the War and Since the Peace PDF Author: Sir John Francis Davis
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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The Merchants' War

The Merchants' War PDF Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN: 9781429995757
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose. Now, in The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Merchants' War

The Merchants' War PDF Author: Frederik Pohl
Publisher: Sphere
ISBN: 9780708881828
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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