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The heart of Jacob
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ISBN: 9785739988 9785477584 9789785739985 9789785477580 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lagos

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Jacob prospers as a moneylender and pig merchant by taking advantage of other people's misfortunes. But when he seeks to exploit the famine afflicting his village Tounga by lending money at high interest rates to poor villagers, he does not reckon what a sacrilege his pigs would commit which give the people an opportunity to feast on his own misfortune. When this happens community gives way to individual desires, and the stomach dictates to the head what it should think and believe in. Reason bends to absurdity and custom bows to bizarre novelty. Life explodes into a sinister mess that points to only one outcome: Jacob and society's ultimate ruin.


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The politics of giving in the Viceroyalty of Río de la Plata
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ISBN: 0826354467 1306398940 0826354475 9780826354471 9781306398947 9780826354464 Year: 2014 Publisher: Albuquerque

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This book examines an eighteenth century Spanish state finance based on voluntary donations rather than taxes. The author analyzes the "gifts" (donativos) that residents of colonial Argentina gave to the Spanish Crown and the city council of Buenos Aires.

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