The Post-Colonial Society (American University Studies Series 21: Regional Studies, #14)
by Mohamed H Abucar
Rebecca L. Spang, who revolutionized our understanding of the restaurant, has written a new history of money. It is also a new history of the French Revolution, with economics at its heart. In her telling, radicalization was driven by an ever-widening gap between political ideals-including "freedom of money"-and the harsh realities of daily life.
Japan and the Challenge of Europe 1992 (Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Japan)
by Kenjiro Ishikawa
The spotlight is on the 1992 programme for the creation of a single European market and its consequences for the relationship between Japan and Europe. Drawing on an impressively wide range of data, the author carefully examines the agenda for adjustment. First published in 1990, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.
Growth and Business Cycles (Stockholm Studies in Economic History, v. 37)
by Camilla Josephson
Community activists were delighted with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, but they came to realize that it would take more than the word of law to bring about real change. This book gives voice to the activists who took it upon themselves to agitate for increased investment by financial institutions in their local communities. They tell of their struggles to get banks, mortgage companies and others to rethink their lending policies. Their stories, drawn from experiences in Chicago,...
British Economy, 1870-1939
by Professor Derek H. Aldcroft and Harry W. Richardson
Coup d'Oeil Sur La Situation Financière de la France À l'Avènement de la République
by Paul-G
A dramatic historical narrative of the man who stole the secret of tea from China In 1848, the British East India Company, having lost its monopoly on the tea trade, engaged Robert Fortune, a Scottish gardener, botanist, and plant hunter, to make a clandestine trip into the interior of China territory forbidden to foreigners to steal the closely guarded secrets of tea horticulture and manufacturing. "For All the Tea in China" is the remarkable account of Fortune's journeys into China a thrillin...
RURHE 06 Growth and Stagnation in European Historical Agriculture (Rural History in Europe, #6)
The 2005 Economic and Product Market Databook for Hamilton, Canada
by Philip M. Parker
Embedded in an historical account of the development of U.S. capitalism up to the present day, this book gives the reader a thorough description of the major aspects of the U.S. economy, as well as a theoretical understanding of the overall economy. A particular focus of this book is how free markets work in capitalism and the interrelationship between markets and the government. Of particular interest in the current economic situation is the question of what can the government do to get the ec...
Curious Correlations - Party Politics and Economics (Curious Correlations, #1)
by Jan S Raymond
World Change and World Security
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Routledge Classics) (Counterpoint S.)
by Max Weber
A brilliant book which studies the psychological conditions which made possible the development of capitalist civilization. The book analyzes the connection between the spread of Calvinism and a new attitude toward the pursuit of wealth in post-Reformation Europe and England, and attitude which permitted, encouraged-even sanctified-the human quest for prosperity.
Peasant Economic Development within the English Manorial System
by J.A. Raftis
A study of the role of the peasant in the medieval economy, which challenges the view that peasants were serfs at the mercy of their lords.
Changing Economy in Indonesia (Changing Economy in Indonesia)
Unemployment, monetary and fiscal policy, and the merits and drawbacks of free markets were a few of the issues the journalist and public philosopher Walter Lippmann explained to the public during the Depression, when professional economists skilled at translating concepts for a lay audience were not yet on the scene, as Craufurd Goodwin shows.