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Economic history
Paperback. Concerned with the origins of capitalism and the conditions that accompanied its birth, this work argues that capitalism is more than an economic system: it is a culture that affects not just the material but also the social, familial and even spiritual bases of existence. Num Pages: 272 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; JPF; KCA; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631165576
- ISBN
- 9780631165576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.85
€ 29.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. Examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization. This title applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization - above all in the Great Depression - to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. Num Pages: 336 pages, 7 figures. BIC Classification: KCB; KCL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 113 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674066182
- ISBN
- 9780674066182
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.97
€ 35.99
€ 30.97
Hardcover. This set includes works by a number of major writers on corporate governance in the late 19th century. The books presented here capture that debate in all its variety, and the views of their authors continue to resonate in the early 21st century after the downfall of Enron and WorldCom. Editor(s): Witzel, Morgen. Num Pages: 2400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; KCZ; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 229. Weight in Grams: 3901.
- Publisher
- Thoemmes Continuum
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843710899
- ISBN
- 9781843710899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 1,123.86€ 1,008.89
€ 1,123.86
€ 1,008.89
Hardback. Focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s, the book views economic developments historically, explaining how the main motors of change work and how we can discern their effects in the world today. The book explains how structural imbalances, policy mistakes, and excesses led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Series: Blackwell History of the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; 3JJPR; 3JMC; KCL; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405183444
- ISBN
- 9781405183444
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.68
€ 110.68
Paperback. Focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s, the book views economic developments historically, explaining how the main motors of change work and how we can discern their effects in the world today. The book explains how structural imbalances, policy mistakes, and excesses led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010. Series: Blackwell History of the Contemporary World. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: 3JJP; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405183437
- ISBN
- 9781405183437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.47
€ 42.47
Paperback. Showing us the strangeness, and fragility, of our everyday lives, this book includes a chapter that analyzes how the rise and fall of social trust explain the unsustainable boom in the global economy and the financial crisis that succeeded it. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised edition with a New foreword by Daniel C.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691146461
- ISBN
- 9780691146461
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.47
€ 37.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. Argues that the concept of employee ownership has deep roots extending back to the political and economic vision of America's founders. The authors discuss the founding generation's ideas about personal economic independence, explain how we have strayed from those ideas, and proposes practical solutions for bringing employment practices back. Num Pages: 304 pages, 4 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: KCZ; KJVW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300209334
- ISBN
- 9780300209334
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Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.94
€ 23.99
€ 17.94
Hardcover. Andrea Gabor recounts the development of modern business through the lives, times and ideas of the great thinkers -- people such as Peter Drucker, W. Edwards Deming, Alfred Sloan, Abraham Maslow -- who defined the art and science of business. Num Pages: 398 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: BGB; KCA; KCS; KCZ; KJU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 398
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780471492474
- ISBN
- 9780471492474
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.90
€ 63.90
Paperback. Volume 2 of a definitive two-volume reference exploring the spread and impact of capitalism across the world. Editor(s): Neal, Larry; Williamson, Jeffrey G. Num Pages: 577 pages, 26 b/w illus. 14 tables. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; KCS; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 27. Weight in Grams: 912.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107583351
- ISBN
- 9781107583351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.09
€ 46.09
Paperback. Surveying Europe's economic history since 1870, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework. Series: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. Num Pages: 484 pages, 3 maps 102 tables. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; KCZ. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 23. Weight in Grams: 982. Series: The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe. 486 pages, 3 maps 102 tables. Surveying Europe's economic history since 1870, this textbook sets European economic development within a pan-European framework. Cateogry: (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD; KCZ. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 23. Weight: 946.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Number of pages
- 486
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780521708395
- ISBN
- 9780521708395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.35
€ 47.35
Paperback. Offering a comprehensive social history of the Bon Marche, the Parisian department store that was the largest in the world before 1914, this title explores the bourgeois identities, ambitions, and anxieties that the emporia so vividly dramatized. Num Pages: 304 pages, 37 illus. BIC Classification: 3JH; 3JJ; HBTB; JFSC; KCZ; KNP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 141 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691034942
- ISBN
- 9780691034942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 42.44
€ 53.24
€ 42.44
Hardback. On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. Examining the Canal's influence on Panama, the United States, and the world, this title chronicles the economic and political history of the Canal. Num Pages: 440 pages, 1 halftone. 30 line illus. 48 tables. 6 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCPC; HBT; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 32. Weight in Grams: 768.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691147383
- ISBN
- 9780691147383
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 36.16
€ 49.99
€ 36.16
Paperback. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, this book shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New in Paper
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691162379
- ISBN
- 9780691162379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.86
€ 24.99
€ 18.86
Hardback. Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, the author shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. Num Pages: 464 pages, 32 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; JPS; KCLF; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 850.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149097
- ISBN
- 9780691149097
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.86
€ 33.99
€ 24.86
Paperback. Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those of Egypt and the Near East. This book asks whether the differences between accounts of these regions reflect real economic differences. Editor(s): Manning, J. G.; Morris, Ian. Series: Social Science History. Num Pages: 304 pages, 6 tables, 24 figures. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBG; HBLA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804757553
- ISBN
- 9780804757553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.93
€ 33.99
€ 30.93
Paperback. Provides an alternative overview of the 18th-century British economy. Recent macroeconomic history has presented a male industrial revolution as the general experience, but new textiles and metal industries were primarily employers of women. This edition covers these industries. Num Pages: 352 pages, 17 line drawings, 18 figures, 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; KCB; KCZ; KND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2 Rev ed
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415069359
- ISBN
- 9780415069359
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.02
€ 57.02
Hardback. Alongside unprecedented improvements in longevity and material well-being, the twentieth century saw the rise of fascism and communism and a second world war followed by a cold war. Governments with market economies won the battle against these competing systems by combining growth and efficiency with greater equality of opportunity and outcome. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 maps, 3 graphs, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBG; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674062177
- ISBN
- 9780674062177
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.13
€ 47.99
€ 40.13
Paperback. Hobsbawm's brilliant history, beautifully repackaged as an Abacus History Great Num Pages: 416 pages, Section: 16, B&W. BIC Classification: 3JH; HBG; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349104805
- ISBN
- 9780349104805
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Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Third
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634487
- ISBN
- 9780691634487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.95€ 98.09
€ 128.95
€ 98.09
Paperback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 158 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- Third edition with a New foreword by Robert M. So
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691605517
- ISBN
- 9780691605517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.24€ 42.46
€ 53.24
€ 42.46
Paperback. A model of clarity.. It provides absolutely essential reference material for the dress historian and archaeologist, for the early textile specialist, and those interested in the tools and equipment used. TOOL AND TRADES HISTORY SOCIETY NEWSLETTER (Linda Woolley, curator of early and medieval textiles and dress, V&A Museum) Series: Medieval Finds from Excavations in London. Num Pages: 252 pages, 239, 16 colour, 132 black and white, 91 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBTB; KCZ; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 184 x 17. Weight in Grams: 732.
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 252
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843832393
- ISBN
- 9781843832393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.01
€ 35.99
€ 31.01
Hardback. This volume deals with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor from slavery and serfdom in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and points to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change. Editor(s): Engerman, Stanley L. Series: The Making of Modern Freedom Series. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; 1KJ; JHBL; KCF; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 710.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 364
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735216
- ISBN
- 9780804735216
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.06
€ 92.06
Paperback. Drawing on three detailed case studies the sewing machine, a glass bottle blowing factory, and the cyanide process for gold and silver refining, this book explores a central paradox of economic growth in nineteenth-century Mexico. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 line drawings, 18 b/w images, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; HBJK; HBTK; KCZ; TBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520284906
- ISBN
- 9780520284906
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.27
€ 40.99
€ 29.27
Paperback. A radical critique of a new phase of capitalism grounded in corporate power and its exploitation of technological creativity Num Pages: 230 pages, figures. BIC Classification: KCD; KCZ; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439900437
- ISBN
- 9781439900437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.11
€ 37.99
€ 34.11