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From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. A host of financial entities sought to control banking, trade, and finance in the region. In the process, they not only trampled local sovereignty, grappled with domestic banking regulation, and backed US imperialism-but they also set the model for bad behavior by banks, visible still today. In Bankers and Empire, Peter James Hudson tells the provocative story of this period, taking a close look at both the institutions and individuals who defined this era of American capitalism in the West Indies. Whether in Wall Street minstrel shows or in dubious practices across the Caribbean, the behavior of the banks was deeply conditioned by bankers' racial views and prejudices. Drawing deeply on a broad range of sources, Hudson reveals that the banks' experimental practices and projects in the Caribbean often led to embarrassing failure, and, eventually, literal erasure from the archives.

Banks and banking --- Branch banks --- Capitalism --- Racism --- Imperialism --- History --- History. --- Economic aspects --- United States --- Caribbean Area --- Foreign economic relations --- Economic conditions --- Caribbean. --- Wall Street. --- banking. --- corruption. --- crisis. --- debt. --- imperialism. --- international finance. --- regulation. --- sovereignty.

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"The intertwined story of five influential African American athletes who came together as teammates at UCLA in the 1930s" -- "The Black Bruins chronicles the inspirational lives of five African American athletes who faced racial discrimination as teammates at UCLA in the late 1930s. Best known among them was Jackie Robinson, a four-star athlete for the Bruins who went on to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball and become a leader in the civil rights movement after his retirement. Joining him were Kenny Washington, Woody Strode, and Ray Bartlett. The four played starring roles in an era when fewer than a dozen major colleges had black players on their rosters. This rejection of the "gentlemans agreement", which kept teams from fielding black players against all white teams, inspired black Angelinos and the African American press to adopt the teammates as their own. Washington became the first African American player to sign with an NFL team in the post-World War II era and later became a Los Angeles police officer and actor. Woody Strode, a Bruin football and track star, broke into the NFL with Washington in 1946 as a Los Angeles Ram and went on to act in at least fifty-seven full-length feature films. Ray Bartlett, a football, basketball, baseball, and track athlete, became the second African American to join the Pasadena Police Department, later donating his time to civic affairs and charity. Tom Bradley, a runner for the Bruins track team, spent twenty years fighting racial discrimination in the Los Angeles Police Department before being elected the first black mayor of Los Angeles" --

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A multifaceted portrait of the early American republic as seen through the lens of the Burr ConspiracyIn 1805 and 1806, Aaron Burr, former vice president of the newly formed American republic, traveled through the Trans-Appalachian West gathering support for a mysterious enterprise, for which he was arrested and tried for treason in 1807. This book explores the political and cultural forces that shaped how Americans made sense of the uncertain rumors and reports about Burr's intentions and movements, and examines what the resulting crisis reveals about their anxieties concerning the new nation's fragile union and uncertain republic.Burr was said to have enticed some people with plans to liberate Spanish Mexico, others with promises of land in the Orleans Territory, still others with talk of building a new empire beyond the Appalachian Mountains. The Burr Conspiracy was a cause célèbre of the early republic-with Burr cast as the chief villain of the Founding Fathers-even as the evidence against him was vague and conflicting. Rather than trying to discover the real intentions of Burr or his accusers-Thomas Jefferson foremost among them-James E. Lewis Jr. looks at how differing understandings of the Burr Conspiracy were shaped by everything from partisan politics and biased newspapers to notions of honor and gentility. He also traces the enduring legacy of the stories that were told and accepted during this moment of uncertainty. The Burr Conspiracy offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of the United States at a time when it was far from clear to its people how long it would last.

Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807. --- Burr, Aaron, --- Burr, Aaron, --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Aaron Burr. --- Acquittal. --- Affidavit. --- American Conspiracies. --- Americans. --- Benedict Arnold. --- Benjamin Henry Latrobe. --- Blennerhassett Island. --- Burr (novel). --- Burr conspiracy. --- Calculation. --- Censure. --- Central Kentucky. --- Citizens (Spanish political party). --- Civil authority. --- Correspondent. --- Court-martial. --- Courtroom. --- Cover letter. --- Criticism. --- Deference. --- Deportation. --- Despotism. --- Dismemberment. --- District attorney. --- Editorial. --- Edward Livingston. --- Edward Tiffin. --- Eloquence. --- Explanation. --- Federal Union. --- Francisco de Miranda. --- Grand jury. --- Henry Dearborn. --- His Family. --- Historical society. --- Historiography. --- Hostility. --- Humphrey Marshall (politician). --- Impeachment. --- Indictment. --- Informant. --- Interrogatories. --- James Parton. --- Joanne B. Freeman. --- Jonathan Dayton. --- Kentucky Gazette. --- Laborer. --- Lawyer. --- Legislator. --- Legislature. --- Louisiana Territory. --- Misdemeanor. --- Misprision of treason. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- Nathaniel Saltonstall. --- National Intelligencer. --- Newspaper. --- Obstacle. --- Overt act. --- Pamphlet. --- Patriotism. --- Persecution. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Postmaster General. --- Precedent. --- Presidential proclamation. --- Proclamation. --- Prosecutor. --- Publication. --- Publishing. --- Romanticism. --- Samuel Swartwout. --- Seminar. --- Separatism. --- Slavery. --- Special agent. --- Supporter. --- Tavern. --- Testimonial. --- The Juror. --- The Various. --- Thomas Cushing. --- Thomas Jefferson. --- Uncertainty. --- University of Virginia. --- Upstate New York. --- Veracity (Mark Lavorato novel). --- Warfare. --- Wealth. --- West Florida. --- Western Pennsylvania. --- What Happened. --- William Branch Giles. --- William C. C. Claiborne. --- William Plumer. --- William Wirt (Attorney General). --- Writing.