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By:Dietmar Rothermund
Published on 2002-11-01 by Routledge
ISBN 9781134879458
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Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the development of agriculture, industry and currency in a political and historical context.
Download Economic Growth and the Ending of the Transatlantic Slave Trade PDF/eBook
By:David Eltis
Published on 1987-06-11 by Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780195364811
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This watershed study is the first to consider in concrete terms the consequences of Britain's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade. Why did Britain pull out of the slave trade just when it was becoming important for the world economy and the demand for labor around the world was high? Caught between the incentives offered by the world economy for continuing trade at full tilt and the ideological and political pressures from its domestic abolitionist movement, Britain chose to withdraw, believing, in part, that freed slaves would work for low pay which in turn would lead to greater and cheaper products. In a provocative new thesis, historian David Eltis here contends that this move did not bolster the British economy; rather, it vastly hindered economic expansion as the empire's control of the slave trade and its great reliance on slave labor had played a major role in its rise to world economic dominance. Thus, for sixty years after Britain pulled out, the slave economies of Africa and the Americas flourished and these powers became the dominant exporters in many markets formerly controlled by Britain. Addressing still-volatile issues arising from the clash between economic and ideological goals, this global study illustrates how British abolitionism changed the tide of economic and human history on three continents.
Download The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America, 1492-1810 PDF/eBook
By:John Robert Fisher
Published on 1997 by Liverpool University Press
ISBN 9780853235521
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This book examines economic relations between Spain and Spanish America in the colonial period, and their implications for the economic structures of both parties from the beginning of Spanish imperialism until the outbreak of the Spanish-American revolutions for Independence. Originally published in Spanish in 1992, the text has been fully revised for this first English edition.
Download Europe At the Seaside PDF/eBook
By:Luciano Segreto,Carles Manera,Manfred Pohl
Published on 2009-04-30 by Berghahn Books
ISBN 9781845459116
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Mass tourism is one of the most striking developments in postwar western societies, involving economic, social, cultural, and anthropological factors. For many countries it has become a significant, if not the primary, source of income for the resident population. The Mediterranean basin, which has long been a very popular destination, is explored here in the first study to scrutinize the region as a whole and over a long period of time. In particular, it investigates the area's economic and social networks directly involved in tourism, which includes examining the most popular spots that attract tourists and the crucial actors, such as hotel entrepreneurs, travel agencies, charter companies, and companies developing seaside resort networks. This important volume presents a fascinating picture of the economics of tourism in one of the world's most visited destinations.
Download An Economic History of India PDF/eBook
By:Dietmar Rothermund
Published on 2002-11-01 by Routledge
ISBN 9781134879458
Synopsis
Much has been written on the Indian economy but this is the first major attempt to present India's economic history as a continuous process, and to place the development of agriculture, industry and currency in a political and historical context.
Download An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire PDF/eBook
By:Halil Inalcik
Published on 1997-05-01 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521574563
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A major contribution to Ottoman history, now published in paperback in two volumes.
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By:Dāwid Qûšnêr
Published on 1986 by BRILL
ISBN 9789004077928
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Download Exploitation, Resettlement, Mass Murder PDF/eBook
By:Alex J. Kay
Published on 2006 by Berghahn Books
ISBN 9781845451868
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Convinced before the onset of Operation |Barbarossa| in June 1941 of both the ease, with which the Red Army would be defeated and the likelihood that the Soviet Union would collapse, the Nazi regime envisaged an occupation policy which would result in the political, reorganization of the occupied USSR. This study traces these developments.
Download The Cambridge Economic History of Europe from the Decline of the Roman Empire: Volume 2, Trade and Industry in the Middle Ages PDF/eBook
By:Edward Miller,Cynthia Postan,M. M. Postan
Published on 1987-08-28 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN 9780521087094
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The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, first published in 1952, was a survey by an international group of specialist scholars covering trade and industry in pre-Roman, Roman and Byzantine Europe, the medieval trade of northern and southern Europe, and the histories of medieval woollen manufacture, mining and metallurgy, and building in stone. This second edition, in addition to revising most chapters and the bibliographies appended to them, also fills gaps which arose from the wartime and post-war circumstances in which the first edition was written. New chapters provide accounts of the trade and industry of eastern Europe, of medieval Europe's trade with Asia and Africa, and of medieval coinage and currency. Taken with volumes I and III of the series, this volume is designed to complete a comprehensive review of the economic history of medieval Europe as a whole. It was planned by the late Sir Michael Postan, and was largely completed under his editorship.
Download The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China PDF/eBook
By:Susan L. Shirk
Published on 1993-08-05 by Univ of California Press
ISBN 9780520912212
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In the past decade, China was able to carry out economic reform without political reform, while the Soviet Union attempted the opposite strategy. How did China succeed at economic market reform without changing communist rule? Susan Shirk shows that Chinese communist political institutions are more flexible and less centralized than their Soviet counterparts were. Shirk pioneers a rational choice institutional approach to analyze policy-making in a non-democratic authoritarian country and to explain the history of Chinese market reforms from 1979 to the present. Drawing on extensive interviews with high-level Chinese officials, she pieces together detailed histories of economic reform policy decisions and shows how the political logic of Chinese communist institutions shaped those decisions. Combining theoretical ambition with the flavor of on-the-ground policy-making in Beijing, this book is a major contribution to the study of reform in China and other communist countries.
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By:International Labour Office
Published on 1998 by International Labour Organization
ISBN 9789221095224
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This book includes case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand, showing prostitution's well organized and highly diversified economic bases, and explaining why it is difficult for policymakers and legislators to define a clear legal stance on adult prostitution, or to implement effective social programs.
Download Economic Voting PDF/eBook
By:Han Dorussen,Michaell Taylor
Published on 2002 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9780415254335
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Economic voting is a phenomenon that political scientists and economists can hardly overlook. There is ample evidence for a strong link between economic conditions and government popularity. However, not everything is that simple and this edited collection focuses on 'the comparative puzzle' of economic voting. Economic Voting emphasises the importance of comparative research design and argues that the psychology of the economic voter model needs to be developed further.
Download The Social & Economic History of the Roman Empire PDF/eBook
By:Michael Ivanovitch Rostovtzeff
Published on 1926 by Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 9780819621641
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Download A Political and Economic Dictionary of East Asia PDF/eBook
By:James Hoare,Susan Pares
Published on 2005 by Psychology Press
ISBN 9781857432589
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A definitive guide to the economics and politics of East Asia, this title provides clear definitions detailing terms, concepts, names and organizations used in relation to current economic or political affairs in the region. Cross-referenced up-to-date entries define, explain and supply relevant background information on countries, regions, ethnic groups, political parties, international organizations, business, policies and disputes. Countries covered include: The People's Republic of China (including entries on Hong Kong and Macao), Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Republic of Korea, Mongolia and Taiwan.
Download A Source Book for Medieval Economic History PDF/eBook
By:Roy C. Cave,Herbert H. Coulson
Published on 1965 by Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 9780819601452
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Download Roman Villas in Central Italy PDF/eBook
By:Annalisa Marzano
Published on 2007 by BRILL
ISBN 9789004160378
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Drawing on documentary sources and archaeological evidence this book offers a socio-economic history of elite villas in Roman Central Italy and brings a new perspective to the debate on the slave-based villa system and the crisis of Italian villas in the imperial period.
Download The Fur Trade in Canada PDF/eBook
By:Harold Innis
Published on 2017-06-22 by University of Toronto Press
ISBN 9781487516840
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At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence. Innis has long been regarded as one of Canada's foremost historians, and in The Fur Trade in Canada he presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern colonial and European needs; and transportation history in the case of the displacement of the canoe by the York boat. Political history appears in Innis's examination of the nature of French-British rivalry and the American Revolution; and business history is represented in his detailed account of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies and the industry that played so vital a role in the expansion of Canada. In his introduction to this new edition, Arthur J. Ray argues that The Fur Trade in Canada is the most definitive economic history and geography of the country ever produced. Innis's revolutionary conclusion - that Canada was created because of its geography, not in spite of it - is a captivating idea but also an enigmatic proposition in light of the powerful decentralizing forces that threaten the nation today. Ray presents the history of the book and concludes that |Innis's great book remains essential reading for the study of Canada.|
Download Men of Capital PDF/eBook
By:Sherene Seikaly
Published on 2015-11-18 by Stanford University Press
ISBN 9780804796729
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Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine and Palestinians in the larger world of Arab thought and social life, moving attention away from the limiting debates of Zionist–Palestinian conflict. Reading Palestinian business periodicals, records, and correspondence, Sherene Seikaly reveals how capital accumulation was central to the conception of the ideal |social man.| Here we meet a diverse set of characters—the man of capital, the frugal wife, the law-abiding Bedouin, the unemployed youth, and the abundant farmer—in new spaces like the black market, cafes and cinemas, and the idyllic Arab home. Seikaly also traces how British colonial institutions and policies regulated wartime austerity regimes, mapping the shortages of basic goods—such as the vegetable crisis of 1940—to the broader material disparities among Palestinians and European Jews. Ultimately, she shows that the economic is as central to social management as the political, and that an exclusive focus on national claims and conflicts hides the more complex changes of social life in Palestine.
Download A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece PDF/eBook
By:Fariba Zarinebaf,John Bennet,Jack L. Davis
Published on 2005 by ASCSA
ISBN 9780876615348
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The CD-ROM contains a facsimile edition of pages 78-101 of TT880, a cadaster of the kaza of Anavarin, dating to 1716. It also contains copies of all photographs, maps, and drawings published in the book, grouped by the chapter or appendix in which they appear. Where possible, color images are provided, and all drawings may be enlarged for closer inspection. All images are copyrighted by the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, http://www.ascsa.edu.gr.
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By:Grace-Edward Galabuzi
Published on 2006 by Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 9781551302652
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Canada's Economic Apartheid calls attention to the growing racialization of the gap between rich and poor, which, despite the dire implications for Canadian society, is proceeding with minimal public and policy attention. This book challenges some common myths about the economic performance of Canada's racialized communities. These myths are used to deflect public concern and to mask the growing social crisis. Dr. Galabuzi points to the role of historical patterns of systemic racial discrimination as essential in understanding the persistent over-representation of racialized groups in low paying occupations. While Canada embraces globalization and romanticizes cultural diversity, there are persistent expressions of xenophobia and racial marginalization that suggest a continuing political and cultural attachment to the concept of a white, settled society. Canada's racialized groups are set to become one-fifth of the national population in the early 21st century, yet they continue to confront racial discrimination. Despite comparable average educational attainment, the labour market experience of these marginalized groups is one of barriers to access, limited mobility, and discrimination in the workplace. The social crisis to come is documented in Galabuzi's challenging book.
