The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Cannadine, David

Автор: David Cannadine
Название: Class in Britain
ISBN: 0140249540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140249545
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Originally published by Columbia University Press in 1998, a social history book which examines the role of the class system in eighteenth century through to twentieth century British society. It is written by the author of PLEASURES OF THE PAST, DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY and HISTORY IN OUR TIME.

Автор: Cannadine, David
Название: Mellon
ISBN: 0307386791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307386793
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 15330.00 T
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Описание: A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography of Andrew W. Mellon, the American colossus who bestrode the worlds of industry, government, and philanthropy, leaving his transformative stamp on each.
Andrew Mellon, one of America's greatest financiers, built a legendary personal fortune from banking to oil to aluminum manufacture, tracking America's course to global economic supremacy. As treasury secretary under Presidents Harding, Coolidge, and finally Hoover, Mellon made the federal government run like a business-prefiguring the public official as CEO. He would be hailed as the architect of the Roaring Twenties, but, staying too long, would be blamed for the Great Depression, eventually to find himself a broken idol. Collecting art was his only nonprofessional gratification and his great gift to the American people, The National Gallery of Art, remains his most tangible legacy.

Автор: David Cannadine
Название: The Undivided Past
ISBN: 0141036907 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141036908
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. This title presents an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences.