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The Truffle Underground : A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
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ISBN: 0451495705 Year: 2019 Publisher: New York : Clarkson Potter/Publishers,

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Colorado's Mrs. Captain Ellen Jack : Mining Queen of the Rockies.
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ISBN: 1439677808 Year: 2023 Publisher: Chicago : The History Press,

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Classical liberalism and the industrial working class : the economic thought of Thomas Hodgskin
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ISBN: 9780367193621 9780429201899 0429201893 9780429510564 042951056X 9780429513992 0429513992 9780429517426 0429517424 0367193620 Year: 2020 Publisher: Milton Park: Routledge,

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"Thomas Hodgskin (1787-1869) is today a largely unknown figure, sometimes considered to be a forerunner of Karl Marx. Yet a closer look at Hodgskin's works reveals that he was actually a committed advocate of laissez-faire economics and enthusiastic about labor-saving machinery and the Industrial Revolution, with a genuine interest in the well-being of the working classes. This book places him in the tradition of classical liberalism, where he belongs-as a disciple of Adam Smith, but even less tolerant of government power than Smith was. The Economic Thought of Thomas Hodgskin will be of interest to advanced students and scholars in the history of economic thought, economic history and the history of political thought"--


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Tragedy and Triumph on the Great Lakes
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ISBN: 1609177517 Year: 2024 Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press,

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"Richard Gebhart traces the Atlantic-bound voyages of Great Lakes ships, recovering the voices of long-ago ship captains, along with their cargo manifests and itineraries. Drawing on research in old newspapers and maritime archives, he traces the construction of new ships and shipyards, the comings and goings and travails of the lakes' workhorses, and makes a visit to a boneyard where many ships ended their lives. Among many other lost tales, Gebhart brings back to light the rise of oil tankers, marking the great twentieth-century energy transition in shipping"--


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From Old Regime to Industrial State : A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I.
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ISBN: 9780226725437 022672557X 022672543X 9780226725574 Year: 2020 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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