1. An overview of the 'Gold Bubble' companies -- 2. Getting started : the company promoters -- 3. Forming the companies -- 4. Government policies and mining laws -- 5. Operations in California -- 6. Operations in Australia -- 7. Shareholder activists -- 8. The only success story -- 9. The last...

Mention of the American West usually evokes images of rough and tumble cowboys, ranchers, and outlaws. In contrast, The Not So Wild, Wild West casts America's frontier history in a new framework that emphasizes the creation of institutions, both formal and informal, that facilitated cooperation...

Der Brexit bildet eine historische Zäsur, dessen Wurzeln siebzig Jahre zurückreichen. Seine Folgen werden lange nachwirken. Die Entscheidung Englands für den Brexit hat die dort schwelende EU-Debatte nicht gelöscht, sondern erst richtig entfacht und das Land unversöhnlicher gespalten als je...

"Technological change is about more than inventions. This concise history of the Industrial Revolution places the eighteenth-century British Industrial Revolution in global context, locating its causes in government protection, global competition, and colonialism. Inventions from spinning...

Victorian Britain was both a land of emigration and immigration. This book covers a wide range of case studies to unveil the complexity of transnational circulations and connections in the 19th century. Combining micro- and macro-studies, this volume looks into the history of the British Empire,...

This book explores the British Labour Party and the trade unions and how their relationship with the Jews of Palestine and Israel has evolved over the past one hundred years. It also reflects the changing attitudes of the Labour Party and the unions towards the persecution of the Jews, a Jewish...

Two of the greatest financial fiascos of all time took place at the same time and were instigated by two acquaintances: the Mississippi Bubble, on which John Law at first made a vast fortune and gained sway over French finances; and the South Sea Bubble, launched by Law and Thomas Pitt, Jr.,...