Privateers of the Americas

Privateers of the Americas
Author: David Head (Historian)
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0820344001

Head examines raids on Spanish shipping conducted from the United States during the early 1800s. Because privateering further complicated international dealings during the already tumultuous Age of Revolution, this study offers a new perspective on the diplomatic and Atlantic history of the early American republic.

Government Guarantees

Government Guarantees
Author: Timothy Irwin
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368591

The book considers when governments should give guarantees to private investors. After describing the history of guarantees, and the challenges the politics and psychology create for good decisions, the book sets out a principles for allocating risk (and therefore guarantees), techniques for valuing guarantees, and rules to encourage good decisions.

The Framing of the Constitution of the United States

The Framing of the Constitution of the United States
Author: Max Farrand
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1913
Genre: History
ISBN:

An account of the Federal Convention presenting an analysis of the conditions, the convictions, and the men who framed the Constitution of the United States.