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The Darien Disaster
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Darien Scot's Colony, 1698-1700 categories.
The Darien Disaster
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: London : Secker & Warburg
Release Date : 1968
The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and has been published by London : Secker & Warburg this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Darien (Panama and Colombia) categories.
In 1698 the Parliament of Scotland, in one of its last acts before the nation lost its political identity, decided to establish a noble trading company and settle a colony. The site chosen for the colony was Darien on the Isthmus of Panama. Three years later the "noble undertaking", crippled by the quarrelsome stupidity of its leaders, deliberately obstructed by the English Government, and opposed in arms of Spain, had ended in stunning disaster. Nine fine ships owned by the Company had been sunk, burnt or abandoned. Over two thousand men, women and children who went to the fever-ridden colony never returned.
The Darien Disaster
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Darien Disaster written by John Prebble and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Darien (Panama and Colombia) categories.
Darien
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Author : John Prebble
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Publishers
Release Date : 2000
Darien written by John Prebble and has been published by Birlinn Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Darien (Panama and Colombia) categories.
In defiance of the king and in the face of English hostility, the Scottish parliament set out to establish a colony in Central America. This dream of William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England was to end in disaster.
The Disaster Of Dari N
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Author : Francis Russell Hart
language : en
Publisher: Alien Ebooks
Release Date : 2023-11-28
The Disaster Of Dari N written by Francis Russell Hart and has been published by Alien Ebooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-28 with History categories.
The true story of the Scottish venture in colonizing on the Isthmus of Darien (also known as the Isthmus of Panama) at the close of the seventeenth century. The "Disaster" arose from the strong resistance from both the English and the Spanish kings to this development. In the former case it threatened to compete with the East India Company while in the latter it was an incursion into the Spanish sphere of influence.
The Disaster Of Darien
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Author : Francis Russell Hart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1929
The Disaster Of Darien written by Francis Russell Hart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1929 with Darien (Panama and Colombia) categories.
Darien
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Author : John McKendrick
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2016-03-03
Darien written by John McKendrick and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Political Science categories.
The Company of Scotland and its attempts to establish the colony of Caledonia on the inhospitable isthmus of Panama in the late seventeenth century is one of the most tragic moments of Scottish history. Devised by William Paterson, the stratagem was to create a major trading station between Europe and the East. It could have been a triumph, but inadequate preparation and organization ensured it was a catastrophe - of the 3000 settlers who set sail in 1688 and 1699, only a handful returned, the rest having succumbed to disease, and the enormous financial loss was a key factor in ensuring union with England in 1707. Based on archive research in the UK and Panama, as well as extensive travelling in Darien itself, John McKendrick explores this fascinating and seminal moment in Scottish history and uncovers fascinating new information from New World archives about the role of the English and Spanish, and about the identities of the settlers themselves.
The Price Of Scotland
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Author : Douglas Watt
language : en
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Release Date : 2014-02-17
The Price Of Scotland written by Douglas Watt and has been published by Luath Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-17 with History categories.
The Price of Scotland covers a well-known episode in Scottish history, the ill-fated Darien Scheme. It recounts for the first time in almost forty years, the history of the Company of Scotland, looking at previously unexamined evidence and considering the failure in light of the Company's financial records. Douglas Watt offers the reader a new way of looking at this key moment in history, from the attempt to raise capital in London in 1695 through to the shareholder bail-out as part of the Treaty of Union in 1707. With the tercentenary of the Union in May 2007, The Price of Scotland provides a timely reassessment of this national disaster. REVIEWS Douglas Watt has brought an economist's eye and poet's sensibility in the Price of Scotland... to show definitively... that over-ambition and mismanagement, rather than English mendacity, doomed Scotland's imperial ambitions. - THE OBSERVER The Price of Scotland treats Darien as a financial mania. - THE FINANCIAL TIMES Exceptionally well written, it reads like a novel. As I say - if you're not Scottish and live here - read it. If you're Scottish read it anyway. It's a very, very good book. - i-on magazine The must-have book on the events in advance of the Act of Union that brought Scotland and England together in 1707 is Douglas Watt's The Price of Scotland. It's a fantastic run-through of the "catastrophic failure" of the Darien Scheme - the creation of the Company of Scotland to establish a Central American colony. THE FINANCIAL TIMES
The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Money
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Author : Ray Perman
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2019-10-10
The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Money written by Ray Perman and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-10 with Business & Economics categories.
It started and ended with a financial catastrophe. The Darien disaster of 1700 drove Scotland into union with England, but spawned the institutions which transformed Edinburgh into a global financial centre. The crash of 2008 wrecked the city's two largest and oldest banks – and its reputation. In the three intervening centuries, Edinburgh became a hothouse of financial innovation, prudent banking, reliable insurance and smart investing. The face of the city changed too as money transformed it from medieval squalor to Georgian elegance. This is the story, not just of the institutions which were respected worldwide, but of the personalities too, such as the two hard-drinking Presbyterian ministers who founded the first actuarially-based pension fund; Sir Walter Scott, who faced financial ruin, but wrote his way out of it; the men who financed American railways and eastern rubber plantations with Scottish money; and Fred Goodwin, notorious CEO of RBS, who took the bank to be the biggest in the world, but crashed and burned in 2008.
Disaster Of Darien
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Author : FRANCIS RUSSELL. HART
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Disaster Of Darien written by FRANCIS RUSSELL. HART and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with categories.