Ian Klaus: 2 books
by Ian Klaus
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
In the spring of 2005, twenty-five-year-old Rhodes Scholar Ian Klaus took a semester-long appointment at Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Officially he was there to lecture on American history and to teach English. Unofficially he was there because...
Forging Capitalism
Rogues, Swindlers, Frauds, and the Rise of Modern Finance
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Vice is endemic to Western capitalism, according to this fascinating, wildly entertaining, often startling history of modern finance. Ian Klaus’s Forging Capitalism demonstrates how international financial affairs in the nineteenth century were conducted not only by gentlemen as a noble pursuit but...