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Excerpt from Pennsylvania State Reports, Vol. 43: Comprising Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Vol. VII, Containing Cases Decided in January, May, October, and November Terms, 1862In Power v. Frick, 2 Grant's Cases 307, there was no test paper in question. The ruling related entirely to the knowledge of a party's handwriting which a witness must possess to enable him to prove a lost note.About the PublisherForgotten Books pu...

A Golden Treasury of Greek Prose is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1870.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly pu...

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Guide to U.S. Economic Policy shows students and researchers how issues and actions are translated into public policies for resolving economic problems (like the Great Recession) or managing economic conflict (like the left-right ideological split over the role of government regulation in markets). Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the guide highlights decision-making cycles requiring the cooperation of government, business, and an informe...

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Robert E. Wright is Nef Family Chair of Political Economy at Augustana College and the author of many books, including One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe.

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This book portrays the financial sector as the driving force behind early America's economic transition.

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The first selected poems of a major poet who "wrote with more heart than any other North American poet of the twentieth century" (Rodney Jones, "Parnassus") More than any other poet of his generation, James Wright spoke to the great sadness and hope that are inextricable from the iconography of America: its rail yards, rivers, cities, and once vast natural beauty. Speaking in the unique lyrical voice that he called his "Ohioan, " Wright create...

Wright offers fresh and compelling arguments that illuminate motivations for individual and collective actions, and brings agency back into the historical equation.

Recounting the history of Chestnut Street and its forgotten role in the birth of American finance, the author explains that at the dawn of the Republic, Philadelphia was the center of American Finance and explores this fascinating history.

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In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skillfully examines the political and economic forces that contributed to the origins and rise of banks in cities such as Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, as well as in smaller towns servicing rural America.

Die lebendige Geschichte eines der ältesten Verlagshäuser Amerikas - erschienen aus Anlass des 200-jährigen Firmenjubiläums Das Unternehmen John Wiley & Sons wurde vor zweihundert Jahren, zur Zeit der Präsidentschaft Thomas Jeffersons, gegründet und spielt seitdem eine bedeutende Rolle im Verlagswesen. Aus Anlass des Geschäftsjubiläums im Jahr 2007 erweckte ein Team herausragender Autoren die bewegte Geschichte des Verlagshauses zu neuem Lebe...

This ground-breaking book adds an economic angle to a traditionally moral argument, demonstrating that slavery has never promoted economic growth or development, neither today nor in the past. While unfree labor may be lucrative for slaveholders, its negative effects on a country’s economy, much like pollution, drag down all members of society. Tracing the history of slavery around the world, from prehistory through the US Antebellum South to ...

This book portrays the financial sector as the driving force behind early America's economic transition.

This book offers a fresh, original treatment of Seventh-day Adventists beliefs about Babylon the Great. It addresses issues head-on, challenging traditional views, providing alternative perspectives, yet leaving in tact the essential truths espoused by the church. The symbols of Revelation 12, 17 and 18 are reviewed, revealing compelling evidence that Babylon the Great, Mother of Harlots does not symbolize the Papacy as traditionally taught. T...