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- All the Powers of Earth / bygd Sidney BlumenthalCall Number: BluPublication Date: New York: Simon & Schuster, xxii, p.Description: After a period of depression that he would ever find his way to greatness, Lincoln takes on the most powerful demagogue in the country, Stephen Douglas, in the debates for a senate seat. He sidelines the frontrunner William Seward, a former governor and senator for New York, to cinch the new Republican Party's nomination. All the Powers of Earth is the political story of all time. Lincoln achieves the presidency by force of strategy, of political savvy and determination. This is Abraham Lincoln, who indisputably becomes the greatest president and moral leader in the nation's history. But he must first build a new political party, brilliantly state the anti-slavery case and overcome shattering defeat to win the presidency. (publ.)
- Barnum: An American Life / by Robert WilsonCall Number: WilPubli
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A magisterial account of the rise of capitalism
Eric Hobsbawm's magnificent treatment of the crucial years is a penetrating analysis of the rise of capitalism and the consolidation of bourgeois culture. In the s a new word entered the economic and political vocabulary of the world: 'capitalism'. The global triumph of capitalism is the major theme of history in the decades after The extension of capitalist economy to four corners of the globe, the mounting concentration of wealth, the migration of men, the domination of Europe and European culture made the third quarter of the nineteenth century a watershed. This is a history not only of Europe but of the world.
Eric Hobsbawm's intention is not to summarise facts, but to draw facts together into a historical synthesis, to 'make sense of' the period, and to trace the roots of the present world back to it. He integrates economics with political and intellectual developments in this objective yet original account•
J. Lyons and Co.
British food and lodging conglomerate
J. Lyons & Co. was a British restaurant chain store, food manufacturing, and hotel conglomerate founded in by namn Lyons and his brothers in law, Isidore and Montague Gluckstein. Lyons' first teashop opened in Piccadilly, London in , and from they developed into a chain of teashops, with the firm becoming a staple of the High Street in the UK. At its peak the chain numbered around cafes.[1] The teashops provided for tea and coffee, with food choices consisting of hot dishes and sweets, cold dishes and sweets, and buns, cakes and rolls.
Making their first cakes and pastries in , several Lyons cake products are still available on grocers' shelves, including Lyons' treacle tart, Lyons' Bakewell tart, Lyons' Battenberg, and Lyons' trifle sponges, which are sold by Premier Foods. The company is also known for its pioneering use of computers in the office.
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