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The History of Banks - Couverture souple

Hildreth, Richard

 
9781974556168: The History of Banks
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1974556166 ISBN 13 : 9781974556168
Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

Synopsis

First edition of Hildreth’s important study of banking, published the same year as the financial disaster of 1837, a highly influential work that “helped to promote the growth of the free banking system in America” (Encyclopaedia Britanica), scarce in original boards. Historian and journalist “Richard Hildreth is one of the more enigmatic figures in American intellectual history” (Schlesinger, New England Quarterly). Following his studies at Harvard, Hildreth “was admitted to the bar in 1830, but he never practiced law. Instead, he turned to politics and journalism: first as a National Republican, then as a Whig” (ANB). A trip to the South prompted Hildreth to write his pioneering antislavery novel The Slave (1836), and in 1837 he published History of Banks,

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Présentation de l'éditeur

First edition of Hildreth’s important study of banking, published the same year as the financial disaster of 1837, a highly influential work that “helped to promote the growth of the free banking system in America” (Encyclopaedia Britanica), scarce in original boards. Historian and journalist “Richard Hildreth is one of the more enigmatic figures in American intellectual history” (Schlesinger, New England Quarterly). Following his studies at Harvard, Hildreth “was admitted to the bar in 1830, but he never practiced law. Instead, he turned to politics and journalism: first as a National Republican, then as a Whig” (ANB). A trip to the South prompted Hildreth to write his pioneering antislavery novel The Slave (1836), and in 1837 he published History of Banks,

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Éditeur
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1974556166
ISBN 13 
9781974556168
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
80
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