Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates 0804798443, 9780804798440

It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Ada

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Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwiłł Estates
0804798443, 9780804798440

This book examines the economic roles played by Jews on the estates owned by the powerful Radziwiłł dynasty in the eight

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Alfred Thayer Mahan's nineteenth-century classic, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, has long occupied a cent

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A provocative discussion of the potentially adverse consequences of increased national power in the context of internati

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Michel Foucault is one of the most preeminent theorists of power, yet the relationship between his militant activities a

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Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish

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