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Naufrage du brigantin américain: le commerce, perdu sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique, au moins d'août 1815
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Year: 1818 Publisher: Paris Le Normant

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Dialogue
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Year: 1974 Publisher: Bryn Mawr Elkan-Vogel

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Rising life expectancy
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ISBN: 0521802458 0521002818 1316036499 9781316036495 9780521802451 9780521002813 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Between 1800 and 2000 life expectancy at birth rose from about 30 years to a global average of 67 years, and to more than 75 years in favored countries. This dramatic change, called the health transition, is characterized by a transition both in how long people expected to live, and how they expected to die. The most common age at death jumped from infancy to old age. Most people lived to know their children as adults, and most children became acquainted with their grandparents. Whereas earlier people died chiefly from infectious diseases with a short course, by later decades they died from chronic diseases, often with a protracted course. The ranks of people living in their most economically productive years filled out, and the old became commonplace figures everywhere. Rising Life Expectancy: A Global History examines the way humans reduced risks to their survival, both regionally and globally, to promote world population growth and population aging.


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International government finance and the Amsterdam capital market, 1740-1815
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ISBN: 0521226775 0521101107 0511759703 Year: 1980 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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During the eighteenth century European governments began systematically using an international credit structure whose centre was the Amsterdam capital market. This book reconstructs that system and surveys its principal effects on the European and especially the Dutch economies. Eighteenth-century states borrowed chiefly to finance wars and, increasingly toward the century's end, debts from earlier wars. Military and naval spending and debt service together consumed up to eighty percent of peacetime revenues and more in war. Borrowing on international markets stabilised previously disruptive deficit financing techniques and moderated the economic consequences of sharply irregular war spending. This development however, eased the problems of war-making more than it developed national economies or enhanced prosperity. The Dutch, heretofore seen as having squandered the advantage of cheap credit, actually faced the difficult problem of finding productive uses for their savings at satisfactory returns.


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Sickness, recovery and death : a history and forecast of ill health.
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ISBN: 0333484401 Year: 1989 Publisher: Basingstoke : Macmillan,

Sick, not dead : the health of British workingmen during the mortality decline
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ISBN: 0801854113 Year: 1997 Publisher: Baltimore (Md.) : Johns Hopkins university press,


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The Seven Years War and the old regime in France : the economic and financial toll
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ISBN: 0691054886 1322006261 069161010X 1400858259 0691638268 9780691054889 Year: 1986 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated.Originally published in 1987.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Defective Santa Claus
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ISBN: 1300309229 9700000020181 Year: 2011 Publisher: S.l. : Zhingoora Books,

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Christmas classics short stories are a collection of renowned Christmas tales which are admired throughout the world. Start reading to unlock the Christmas magic this winter.

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Rubaiyat of Doc Sifers
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ISBN: 1282472666 9786612472664 0699027055 1117702588 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] BiblioBazaar

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The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection is a unique set of short stories, poems and novels from the late 19th to early 20th centuries. From tales of love, life and heartbreaking loss to humorous stories of ghost encounters, these volumes captivate the imaginations of readers young and old. Included in this collection are a variety of dramatic and spirited poems that contemplate the mysteries of life and celebrate the wild beauty of nature. The Shelf2Life Literature and Fiction Collection provides readers with an opportunity to enjoy and study these iconic literary works, many of which were written during a period of remarkable creativity.

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