A number of major blockades, including the Continental System in the Napoleonic Wars, the War of 1812, the American Civil War, and World Wars I and II, in addition to the increased use of peacetime blockades and sanctions with the hope of ...

In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century.

This book is a study of the capital transfers to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and, for the latter decades of that period, of the transfers from the United States to the rest of the worldMparticularly Canada, ...

This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism.

This study examines the impact of British capital flows on the evolution of capital markets in Argentina, Australia, Canada, and the United States over the years 1870 to 1914.

Abstract: A surge in orders during the stock market boom of the late 1920s collided against the constraint created by the fixed number of brokers on the New York Stock Exchange.

Recent statistics indicate that only 23% of America's youth are capable of meeting the intellectual, physical and ethical standards to serve in the military. Concurrently, this millennial generation also reflects a shifting U.S. culture.