Economic History – alle Bücher, CDs und LPs, Seite 9

Jason Jackson
Traders, Speculators, and Captains of Industry

Foreign capital can catalyze economic growth in developing countries but can also be a vehicle for extraction. Jason Jackson shows how Indian officials have navigated this terrain, developing moral discou…

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Ulf Brunnbauer, Philipp Ther, Piotr Filipkowski, Andrew Hodges
In the Storms of Transformation

Through a case study of two remarkable shipyards, In the Storms of Transformation offers a new perspective on the shift from socialism to market capitalism in Central and Eastern Europe.

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Justene Hill Edwards
Savings and Trust

In the years immediately after the Civil War, tens of thousands of former slaves deposited millions of dollars into the Freedman's Bank. African Americans envisioned this new bank as a launching pad for e…

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Seth Rockman
Plantation Goods

A Pulitzer Prize finalist in History, this eye-opening rethinking of nineteenth-century American history reveals the interdependence of the Northern industrial economy and Southern slave labor.The industr…

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Harry Cross
Undoing a Revolution

Reveals how international finance has kept its grip in post-independence Sudan.

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Richard N Langlois
The Corporation and the Twentieth Century

A definitive reframing of the economic, institutional, and intellectual history of the managerial eraThe twentieth century was the managerial century in the United States. An organizational transformation…

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José-Modesto Diago Ortega
The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution

The Battle for Control of the Brass and Instruments Business in the French Industrial Revolution narrates and analyzes the largest judicial battle in culture and industrial property in nineteenth century …

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Raghuram G Rajan, Rohit Lamba
Breaking the Mold

The new path for economic development that India must createThe whole world has a stake in India's future, and that future hinges on whether India can develop its economy and deliver for its population---…

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David McWilliams
The History of Money

In this fresh, eye-opening global history, economist David McWilliams charts the relationship between humans and money-from clay tablets in Mesopotamia to cryptocurrency in Silicon Valley.The story of hum…

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Timothy Brook
The Price of Collapse

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empiresIn 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attri…

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Neil Lee
Innovation for the Masses

An engaging, solutions-oriented look at how cities and nations can better foster innovation and equality.From San Francisco to Shanghai, many of the world's most innovative places are highly unequal, with…

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Adam Lebor
Tower of Basel

"An absorbing and thorough examination" of the Bank for International Settlements, "one of the world's most important yet opaque institutions" (Reuters)The Bank for International Settl…

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Mark Joseph O'Connell
Canadian Fashion Economies

A rich and vital re-examination of Canadian cultural and commercial history, told through key fashion objects from First Nations, colonial settlers, and contemporary Canadian culture.

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Joseph Zeira
The Israeli Economy

An authoritative economic history of Israel from its founding to the presentIn 1922, there were ninety thousand Jews in Palestine, a small country in a poor and volatile region. Today, Israel has a popula…

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Elijah Doro
Plunder for Profit

"Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debun…

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Allan Greer
Canada in the Age of Rum

Awash in a sea of rum describes the years between the 1670s and the 1830s in the colonies that would later become Canada. Millions of litres of the sugar-based liquor were imported every year to supply a …

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Martin Daunton
The Economic Government of the World

Foreign Affairs Best Books of the Year (2023)An epic history of the people and institutions that have built the global economy since the Great Depression. In this vivid landmark history, the distinguished…

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Mark Pennington
Foucault and Liberal Political Economy

This book argues that the ideas of Michel Foucault, often considered the most influential 'post-modernist' thinker, are compatible with an important strain of liberal thought that values open markets, pol…

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