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...David Y. Thomas Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Banking in the Territory of Florida. By David Y. Thomas, Professor of History in the University of Arkansas. In 1822 William P. Duval, United Statesjudge in Past Florida, became governor of the Territory, vice Andrew Jackson...

...B. U. Ratchford Copyright © 1934 by Duke University Press 1934 THE PROGRESS OF BANKING REFORM B. U. RATCHFORD I DURING the past four years the banking system of the United States has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. For more than a decade the country has suffered from...

... The South Atlantic Quarterly The Aldrich Plan of Banking Reform Edwin W. Kemmerer,* Professor of Economics and Finance in Cornell University To most of us a million dollars appears to be a very substantial sum of money; multiply that sum by 450,000 and you have ap­ proximately the amount of business donein...

...Clyde Olin Fisher Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 CHANCE IN THE HISTORY OF MONEY AND BANKING CLYDE OLIN FISHER DURING the summer of 1929 the Federal Reserve Bank­ ing system came in for scathing criticism on the part of Mr. Durant and others who objected to the pressure...

...R. S. Smith Copyright © 1930 by Duke University Press 1930 REPARATIONS AND THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS R. S. SMITH Duke University BISMARCK, viewing the economic disturbances induced by the payment of the French indemnity, is reputed to have said, Next time I shall take good care...

...B. U. Ratchford The Bank of England: A History . 2 Vols. By Clapham Sir John . New York : The Macmillan Company , 1945 . Pp. x , 305 ; v , 460 . $7.50 per set. Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 Book Reviews 447 democratic theory, and de Huszar has furnished...

...R. M. Johnston Copyright © 1917 by Duke University Press 1917 The Open-Market Operations of the Federal Reserve Banks R. M. Johnston Graduate College, Princeton University While the federal reserve banks are primarily bankers banks, and their dealings are chiefly with their member banks...

...Allan H. Gilbert Milton’s Imagery . By Banks Theodore Howard . New York : Columbia University Press , 1950 . Pp. xiv , 260 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1951 by Duke University Press 1951 Book Reviews IJI Milton s Imagery. By Theodore Howard Banks. New York: Co­ lumbia University...

...Robert H. Woody Fighting Politician: Major General N. P. Banks . By Harrington Fred Harvey . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 1948 . Pp. ix , 301 . $3.50 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 309 A Leonardo da Vinci of his own time...

...Margaret Davis Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 PRIMITIVES OF THE CAROLINA BANKS* MARGARET DAVIS T was the middlin one of twenty children confided the A retired, gossipy old captain from Hatteras. Still rugged and hale, he had journeyed to Sheriff Vic Meekins office...

... discussion of capitalist risk rationality and the role of banks in manipulating this logic. Here the essay draws on Hyman Minsky’s work, which contains a problematic of knowledge, time, and uncertainty that is more interesting than typically recognized by post-Keynesian scholars and provides insight...

... processes of financialization involve an ever-tighter entanglement between the fortunes of high finance and the everyday life of consumer borrowing and indebtedness. This article focuses on the phenomenon of shadow money—money issued outside the traditional boundaries of the New Deal banking system...

... had kept the system going: central bank and finance ministry created rents, banks appropriated rents, politicians were sharing rents, diaspora remittances kept rent-creation going, and foreign governments were tolerating or even underwriting the mechanism. This rentier coalition has now fallen apart...

... homeland security border checkpoint between the United States, Canada, and the Mohawk Nation, titled The Third Bank of the River , draws on the Guswentah or Two Row Wampum underscoring the problematic yet ongoing assertion of Haudenosaunee sovereignty. A link is made between the work of these artists...

... civil society, Abraham argues that there are clear analogues between Palestinian and Jewish suffering. After completing a theoretical survey of the arguments informing defenses of, and apologies for, Israel's occupation of the West Bank and destruction of Gaza, Abraham turns to the ways in which...

... in Latin America and the United States, underlining their importance in the regeneration of the social fabric and the collectivization of resistance to banks, nongovernmental organizations, and debt collectors. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References Alidou Ousseina (director...

...Cédric Parizot This article relies on an ethnographic study of formal and informal chains of mediation triggered by administrative procedures that Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have to follow to obtain a permit of entry into Israel. By studying the networks these interactions structure...

... and the tar sands specifically. We continue with an examination of the link between the banking sector and resource extraction in Canada, a history of financing arrangements for the first major pipelines built across Indigenous territories claimed by colonizers, and the basics of pipeline financing today...

.... As part of that political process, in May 2017, the feminist movement convened a mobilization, with the slogan “We Want Ourselves Alive, Free, and Debt Free” in the doorways of the Central Bank to denounce the process of massive indebtedness of domestic economies that occurred in parallel to the taking...

... on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River in Edmonton’s River Valley, the largest urban greenspace in North America, this solar project has evoked divergent, sometimes unanticipated responses as stakeholders speculate about what futures are possible and preferable. The article examines the possibilities...