An intimate account of the eighteenth-century Bank of England that shows how a private institution became 'a great engine of state'

The eighteenth-century Bank of England was an institution that…

Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal…

Sex or lunch, what would you do, six days in a row? If you don't find the baby soon, will she freeze to death? It appears to be a single…

Times and Seasons: Surviving the Change by Gloria Murphy is an encouraging, Christian book about holding onto our purpose, not losing sight of our vision, and avoiding distractions as we…

A sobering excavation of how deeply nineteenth-century American banks were entwined with the institution of slavery.

It's now widely understood that the fullest expression of nineteenth-century American capitalism was found…

By helping readers understand the financial history of this period and the way banking shaped the society in which ordinary Americans lived and worked, this book broadens and deepens our…

This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. Methods to assess mitochondrial function is of…

This book examines the establishment of the institutions, such as the Bank of England, on which London’s financial system was built during this crucial period in English financial history, and…