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At the close of the American Revolution, Charleston, South Carolina, was the wealthiest city in the new nation, with the highest per-capita wealth among whites and the largest number of enslaved residents. Maurie D. McInnis explores the social, political, and material culture of the city to learn how--and at what human cost--Charleston came to be regarded as one of the most refined cities in antebellum America.
While other cities embraced a culture of democracy and egalitarianism, wealthy Charlestonians cherished English notions of aristocracy and refinement, defending slavery as a social good and encouraging the growth of southern nationalism. Members of the city's merchant-planter class held tight to the belief that the clothes they wore, the manners they adopted, and the ways they designed house lots and laid out city streets helped secure their place in social hierarchies of class and race. This pursuit of refinement, McInnis demonstrates, was bound up with their determined efforts to control the city's African American majority. She then examines slave dress, mobility, work spaces, and leisure activities to understand how Charleston slaves negotiated their lives among the whites they served.
The textures of lives lived in houses, yards, streets, and public spaces come into dramatic focus in this lavishly illustrated portrait of antebellum Charleston. McInnis's innovative history of the city combines the aspirations of its would-be nobility, the labors of the African slaves who built and tended the town, and the ambitions of its architects, painters, writers, and civic promoters.
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Personal reading.......2006-03-16
Great insight into Antebellum Charleston and the South! A Great read as well.............
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Title: The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston.(Book review)
Author: Michal Jan Rozbicki
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Journal of Southern History (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 72
Issue: 4
Page: 936(2)
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Arthur Rothstein's America in Photographs 1930-1980
Arthur Rothstein
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History: Fiction or Science? is the most explosive tractate on history ever written - however, every theory it contains, no matter how unorthodox, is backed by solid scientific data. The book is well-illustrated, contains over 446 graphs and illustrations, copies of ancient manuscripts, and countless facts attesting to the falsity of the chronology used nowadays, which never cease to amaze the reader. Eminent mathematician proves that: Jesus Christ was born in 1153 and crucified in 1186 The Old Testament refers to mediaeval events. Apocalypse was written after 1486. Does this sound uncanny? This version of events is substantiated by hard facts and logic - validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources - to a greater extent than everything you may have read and heard about history before. The dominating historical discourse in its current state was essentially crafted in the XVI century from a rather contradictory jumble of sources such as innumerable copies of ancient Latin and Greek manuscripts whose originals had vanished in the Dark Ages and the allegedly irrefutable proof offered by late mediaeval astronomers, resting upon the power of ecclesial authorities. Nearly all of its components are blatantly untrue! For some of us, it shall possibly be quite disturbing to see the magnificent edifice of classical history to turn into an ominous simulacrum brooding over the snake pit of mediaeval politics. Twice so, in fact: the first seeing the legendary millenarian dust on the ancient marble turn into a mere layer of dirt - one that meticulous unprejudiced research can eventually remove. The second, and greater, attack of unease comes with the awareness of just how many areas of human knowledge still trust the three elephants of the consensual chronology to support them. Nothing can remedy that except for an individual chronological revolution happening in the minds of a large enough number of people.
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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03
Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.
Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19
Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.
Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09
There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.
For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.
Very Interesting.......2007-03-07
It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.
History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10
Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.
I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.
Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.
Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.
I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.
This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.
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Real Estate Finance: Modern Structures, Techniques and Tools (Finance and Capital Markets)
Fred Acker , and
Baden U'Ren
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Real estate finance has changed dramatically in the last decade.The growth of securitisation, a seemingly infinite variety of derivative products, the deregulation of financial markets and the resurgence of REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) have brought dramatic changes to the tools and structures used to finance commercial real estate.Acker describes modern and traditional approaches to structuring real estate finance to accommodate today's ownership structures and the trend towards partnerships and participations between developers, investors and financiers.Tools, techniques, cases and commentaries are included to illustrate the situations, problems and solutions facing financiers.There is also a section devoted to credit analysis and risk assessment plus divergent approaches to EBITDA and Free Cash Flow.
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Best in Class.......2004-06-12
This book is phenominal. It may be a little distracting at first for some U.S. readers dealing with pounds instead of dollars or IPD instead on NCREIF, but there is no other book out there that integrates real estate, financial theory, and the capital markets in a clear manner like this book does. The book also provides an excellent presentation of appraisal smoothing and its impact on real estate returns and and the construction of real estate indices.
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Regulation of Trading Systems on Financial Markets
Jean-Baptiste Zufferey
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Profound changes in the financial markets have caused many lawmakers to modernise their legislation. This work provides a fundamental analysis of the questions raised by the laws ruling trading systems. In doing so, it defines such terms as + stock exchange, + analogous system, + protection of investors, and + protection of the market function and offers answers to questions such as + What trading rules do the financial intermediaries (banks) have to observe? + What objectives should be pursued by lawmakers? + What role is to be left to competition? + What should be left to self-regulation? and + How should problems arising from conflicts of regulation be solved? The authors have synthesised their research results into 28 successive themes. This work takes both a critical and comparative approach, looking in particular at Anglo-Saxon, Continental, and European legislation. Regulation of Trading Systems on Financial Markets provides a comparative analysis of each subject covered, including the advantages and disadvantages that exist in the diverse legal solutions envisaged, as well as the current state of the various controversies in the existing doctrine.
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Title: Capital Market Deals Shake Up Ins. Sector.
Author: Lee Ann Gjertsen
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on April 21, 1997. The length of the article is 1478 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Financial analysts will not dismiss the possibility of an increasing role for capital-market alternatives to traditional insurance. Conning & Co VP Claude Fongemie suggested that asset-backed securities for primary insurance, in addition to reinsurance, are feasible. Standard & Poor's Insurance Rating Div managing director Alan Levin noted that investment banks have gotten involved in insurance securitization deals.
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Title: Capital markets ins. heyday yet to come. (alternatives to traditional insurance)
Author: Susanne Sclafane
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National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 21, 1997
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 15, 1996. The length of the article is 1055 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the supplier: Capital-market participation helped save the catastrophe insurance market following natural disasters in 1992 and 1994, but the growth of such participation has slowed. Lehman Brothers VP Peter Wade noted that in mid-1993, market conditions were perfect for the development of reinsurance-oriented financial instruments, but those conditions have changed.
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Title: Capital mkts. in reinsurance seen slowing down.(U.S. Reinsurance Report)
Author: Joe Niedzielski
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From the supplier: The use of capital market products by insurance companies to pass risks on to investors faces an uncertain future, according to the chief executive of a company which has benefited from that strategy. Arkwright Mutual Insurance Co. CEO William J. Poutsiaka said that although the Arkwright CSN Trust which issued notes worth $100 million was a great help to his company, some companies now rely too heavily on similar products. Recent insurance industry offerings have had difficulty attracting investors.
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Title: Insurers at capital mkt. crossroads. (use of capital market instruments by insurance and reinsurance industry)
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From the supplier: Marsh & McLennan Cos (M&M) has created a business unit that will consolidate the company's capital markets expertise and provide capital market solutions to insurers, reinsurers and insureds. Administratively the unit will be part of Marsh & McLennan Securities Corp. Ernest M. Asaff, former head of CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Corp, will head the new unit and become M&M Securities' president and CEO.
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Title: M&M forms special capital markets unit. (unit within Marsh & McLennan Securities Corp.)
Author: Lee Ann Gjertsen
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TECHNOLOGY STIMULATES CAPITAL MARKET CHANGES.(real estate industry): An article from: Journal of Property Management
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Title: TECHNOLOGY STIMULATES CAPITAL MARKET CHANGES.(real estate industry)
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