Tag: Founders

January 30, 2024

The Founders and Finance How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

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Free Download Thomas K. McCraw, "The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy"
English | 2012 | pages: 496 | ISBN: 0674284100, 0674066928 | PDF | 2,2 mb
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists―immigrants―solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success.

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January 19, 2024

Forced Founders Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia

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Free Download Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia By Woody Holton
1999 | 231 Pages | ISBN: 0807847844 | EPUB | 56 MB
In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule.The Virginia gentry’s efforts to shape London’s imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire.Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton’s fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.

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January 5, 2024

Mastering Uncertainty How great founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders thrive in an unpredictable world, UK Edition

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Free Download Mastering Uncertainty: How great founders, entrepreneurs and business leaders thrive in an unpredictable world, UK Edition by Matt Watkinson, Csaba Konkoly
English | March 30th, 2023 | ISBN: 1847943411, 1847943438 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 0.64 MB
‘Mandatory reading. Not just for company founders and leaders, but for anyone wanting to succeed in our ever-changing world.’ Keith Ferrazzi

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