Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia
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Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia
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Author : Sergei Antonov
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-10
Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia written by Sergei Antonov and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-10 with History categories.
As readers of classic Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. With incomes erratic and banks inadequate, Russians of all social castes were deeply enmeshed in networks of credit and debt. The necessity of borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth, as well as notions of social respectability and personal responsibility. Credit and debt were defining features of imperial Russia’s culture of property ownership. Sergei Antonov recreates this vanished world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks in imperial Russia from the reign of Nicholas I to the period of great social and political reforms of the 1860s. Poring over a trove of previously unexamined records, Antonov gleans insights into the experiences of ordinary Russians, rich and poor, and shows how Russia’s informal but sprawling credit system helped cement connections among property owners across socioeconomic lines. Individuals of varying rank and wealth commonly borrowed from one another. Without a firm legal basis for formalizing debt relationships, obtaining a loan often hinged on subjective perceptions of trustworthiness and reputation. Even after joint-stock banks appeared in Russia in the 1860s, credit continued to operate through vast networks linked by word of mouth, as well as ties of kinship and community. Disputes over debt were common, and Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia offers close readings of legal cases to argue that Russian courts—usually thought to be underdeveloped in this era—provided an effective forum for defining and protecting private property interests.
Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia
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Author : Sergei Antonov
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-10
Bankrupts And Usurers Of Imperial Russia written by Sergei Antonov and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-10 with History categories.
As readers of Russian literature know, the nineteenth century was a time of pervasive financial anxiety. Russians of all classes were enmeshed in networks of credit and debt, and borrowing and lending shaped perceptions of material and moral worth. Sergei Antonov recreates this imperial world of borrowers, bankrupts, lenders, and loan sharks.
Rulers Religion And Riches
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Author : Jared Rubin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-16
Rulers Religion And Riches written by Jared Rubin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-16 with Business & Economics categories.
This book seeks to explain the political and religious factors leading to the economic reversal of fortunes between Europe and the Middle East.
Publishing In Tsarist Russia
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Author : Yukiko Tatsumi
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Release Date : 2020-02-20
Publishing In Tsarist Russia written by Yukiko Tatsumi and has been published by Bloomsbury Academic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-20 with History categories.
According to Benedict Anderson, the rapid expansion of print media during the late-1700s popularised national history and standardised national languages, thus helping create nation-states and national identities at the expense of the old empires. Publishing in Tsarist Russia challenges this theory and, by examining the history of Russian publishing through a transnational lens, reveals how the popular press played an important and complex Imperial role, while providing a “soft infrastructure” which the subjects could access to change Imperial order. As this volume convincingly argues, this is because the Russian language at this time was a lingua franca; it crossed borders and boundaries, reaching speakers of varying nationalities. Russian publications, then, were able to effectively operate within the structure of Imperialism but as a public space, they went beyond the control of the Tsar and ethnic Russians. This exciting international team of scholars provide a much-needed, fresh take on the history of Russian publishing and contribute significantly to our understanding of print media, language and empire from the 18th to 20th centuries. Publishing in Tsarist Russia is therefore a vital resource for scholars of Russian history, comparative nationalism, and publishing studies.
Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance In The Long Run
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Author : Maddison Angus
language : en
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Release Date : 1998-09-25
Development Centre Studies Chinese Economic Performance In The Long Run written by Maddison Angus and has been published by OECD Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-25 with categories.
The study provides a major reassessment of the scale and scope of China’s resurgence over the past half century, employing quantitative measurement techniques which are standard practice in OECD countries, but which have not hitherto been available for China.
Imperialism
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Author : Vladimir Lenin
language : en
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Release Date : 1939
Imperialism written by Vladimir Lenin and has been published by Ravenio Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1939 with Political Science categories.
The pamphlet here presented to the reader was written in the spring of 1916, in Zurich. In the conditions in which I was obliged to work there I naturally suffered somewhat from a shortage of French and English literature and from a serious dearth of Russian literature. However, I made use of the principal English work on imperialism, the book by J. A. Hobson, with all the care that, in my opinion, work deserves. This pamphlet was written with an eye to the tsarist censorship. Hence, I was not only forced to confine myself strictly to an exclusively theoretical, specifically economic analysis of facts, but to formulate the few necessary observations on politics with extreme caution, by hints, in an allegorical language—in that accursed Aesopian language—to which tsarism compelled all revolutionaries to have recourse whenever they took up the pen to write a “legal” work. It is painful, in these days of liberty, to re-read the passages of the pamphlet which have been distorted, cramped, compressed in an iron vice on account of the censor. That the period of imperialism is the eve of the socialist revolution; that social-chauvinism (socialism in words, chauvinism in deeds) is the utter betrayal of socialism, complete desertion to the side of the bourgeoisie; that this split in the working-class movement is bound up with the objective conditions of imperialism, etc.—on these matters I had to speak in a “slavish” tongue, and I must refer the reader who is interested in the subject to the articles I wrote abroad in 1914-17, a new edition of which is soon to appear. In order to show the reader, in a guise acceptable to the censors, how shamelessly untruthful the capitalists and the social-chauvinists who have deserted to their side (and whom Kautsky opposes so inconsistently) are on the question of annexations; in order to show how shamelessly they screen the annexations of their capitalists, I was forced to quote as an example—Japan! The careful reader will easily substitute Russia for Japan, and Finland, Poland, Courland, the Ukraine, Khiva, Bokhara, Estonia or other regions peopled by non-Great Russians, for Korea. I trust that this pamphlet will help the reader to understand the fundamental economic question, that of the economic essence of imperialism, for unless this is studied, it will be impossible to understand and appraise modern war and modern politics.
Law S Political Foundations
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Author : John O. Haley
language : en
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Release Date : 2016-06-24
Law S Political Foundations written by John O. Haley and has been published by Edward Elgar Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-24 with Law categories.
Law’s Political Foundations explains the development of the two basic systems of public and private law and their historical transformations. Examining the historical development of law in China, Japan, Western Europe, and Hispanic America, Haley argues that law is a product, rather than a constitutive element, of political systems.
Democratising Beauty In Nineteenth Century Britain
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Author : Lucy Hartley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Democratising Beauty In Nineteenth Century Britain written by Lucy Hartley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Art categories.
This book examines nineteenth-century interests in beauty, and considers whether these aesthetic pursuits were necessary to British public life.
A Brief History Of Human Culture In The 20th Century
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Author : Qi Xin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-08-27
A Brief History Of Human Culture In The 20th Century written by Qi Xin and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-27 with History categories.
This book examines the cultural concepts that guided the development of the “age of mankind”— the changes that took place in historical, philosophical, scientific, religious, literary, and artistic thought in the 20th century. It discusses a broad range of major topics, including the spread of commercial capitalism; socialist revolutions; the two world wars; anti-colonialist national liberation movements; scientific progress; the clashes and fusion of Eastern and Western cultures; globalization; women’s rights movements; mass media and entertainment; the age of information and the digital society. The combination of cultural phenomena and theoretical descriptions ensures a unity of culture, history and logic. Lastly, the book explores the enormous changes in lifestyles and the virtualized future, revealing cultural characteristics and discussing 21st -century trends in the context of information technology, globalization and the digital era.
History Of Insolvency And Bankruptcy From An International Perspective
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Author : Karl Gratzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
History Of Insolvency And Bankruptcy From An International Perspective written by Karl Gratzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Bankruptcy categories.