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Economic history
paperback. Argues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies - especially the rural economy of Tuscany. This title shows how sectoral relations are crucial to transitions to capitalism and how capitalist development can also contract markets. Series: Politics, History, & Social Change. Num Pages: 288 pages, 15 tables, 1 map, 3 line art. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9781592136193
- ISBN
- 9781592136193
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 37.02
€ 37.99
€ 37.02
Hardcover. Few events in the history of humanity rival the Industrial Revolution. This title offers an account of how dramatic changes in institutions - the formal and informal rules that govern a society - resulted from the unprecedented economic development that took place during the Industrial Revolution. Series: Markets and Governments in Economic History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 line drawings, 1 table. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLL; KCZ; KN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 531.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226014746
- ISBN
- 9780226014746
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.62
€ 35.99
€ 28.62
Paperback. An attempt to gauge the impact of Chile's neo-liberal reform policies and of the Chilean "economic miracle" on various groups of workers Editor(s): Winn, Peter A. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KLSH; 3JJP; JFC; KCF; KCZ; KNXB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 644.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333210
- ISBN
- 9780822333210
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 33.31
€ 33.99
€ 33.31
Paperback. Records of prices span the entire range of history, from medieval grain prices to modern statistics. Going beyond the economic data, this text gives a history of the people of the Western world: the economic patterns they lived in, and the politics, culture and society they created as a result. Num Pages: 552 pages, tables, graphs, and maps. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JHBC; KCC; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 35. Weight in Grams: 846.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195121216
- ISBN
- 9780195121216
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 32.64
€ 36.99
€ 32.64
Paperback. Presents a social history of long-haul trucking that explores the contentious politics of free-market capitalism in post-World War II America. This book challenges the popular notion of "red state" conservatism as a devil's bargain between culturally conservative rural workers and economically conservative demagogues in the Republican Party. Series: Politics and Society in Modern America. Num Pages: 320 pages, 5 halftones. 12 tables. 10 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; KCD; KCZ; KNGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691160924
- ISBN
- 9780691160924
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Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.29
€ 25.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. Combining skilful economic, political and social analysis, this text provides a fascinating insight into the decline of the Soviet Union. Series: Postwar World. Num Pages: 296 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW3; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780582299580
- ISBN
- 9780582299580
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Condition: New
€ 65.82
€ 65.82
hardcover. Studying the years from 1880 to 1930, this text traces the origins, evolution and implications of the fruit industry in California, the creation of America's first industrial countryside and its repercussions. The text examines the growers' corporations and their political influence. Num Pages: 302 pages, 9 b/w illustrations and 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KNAC; KNDF; RN; TV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 302
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520211728
- ISBN
- 9780520211728
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Condition: New
€ 62.64€ 48.20
€ 62.64
€ 48.20
Paperback. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674006980
- ISBN
- 9780674006980
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Condition: New
€ 47.99€ 40.01
€ 47.99
€ 40.01
hardcover. A survey of governmental industrial policy in Britain from 1900 to 1990, revealing both the macroeconomic context of such policy and the microeconomic effects. Dr Tomlinson is a reputable scholar of government policy over this period, and this book illuminates both the formation of policy, and the capacity of each government to fulfil its aims. Num Pages: 470 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; KCC; KCZ; KFFD; KN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 144 x 33. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 470
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780198287490
- ISBN
- 9780198287490
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Condition: New
€ 92.49
€ 92.49
paperback. A comprehensive account of British economic policy since 1900, covering both macro and micro issues. Offers both a coherent analysis and a clear narrative description of policy-making through the century. Series: Clarendon Paperbacks. Num Pages: 392 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; HBJD1; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780198287742
- ISBN
- 9780198287742
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Condition: New
€ 64.10
€ 64.10
hardcover. Offers a reassessment of the haphazard and regionally diverse process of state formation and market integration in early modern Spain, showing how local and regional agency paradoxically led to legitimate governance but economic backwardness. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 line illus. 16 tables. 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3JD; 3JF; KCG; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 244 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780691144849
- ISBN
- 9780691144849
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Condition: New
€ 62.99€ 20.21
€ 62.99
€ 20.21
paperback. A re-issue of this classic study of President Roosevelt's adminstrative policy toward monopoly during the period of the New Deal, updated with a new introduction by the author. Num Pages: 525 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLW; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 525
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- V9780823216093
- ISBN
- 9780823216093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 45.34
€ 46.99
€ 45.34
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
€ 56.56
€ 56.56
hardcover. This book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; KCZ; KND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804729987
- ISBN
- 9780804729987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.05
€ 92.05
Farming to Halves: The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from ...
Griffiths, Elizabeth, Overton, Mark
Hardcover. Farming to halves is the English version of sharefarming, a system of letting land familiar in Europe and the New World, but thought to never have existed in England. This book reveals its hidden history in England, overturning traditional accounts of the relationship between landlords and tenants in the course of English Agrarian development. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; KCZ; KFFR; KNAC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 222 x 164 x 21. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230202238
- ISBN
- 9780230202238
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.74
€ 62.74
Hardcover. This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world. Num Pages: 304 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 3JH; HBJF; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 515.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230205987
- ISBN
- 9780230205987
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.92
€ 62.92
Modernism and Public Reform in Late Imperial Russia: Rural Professiona...
Gerasimov, Ilya, Gerasimov, Ilya V.
Hardcover. This book is a comprehensive reconstruction of the successful attempt by rural professionals in late imperial Russia to engage peasants in a common public sphere. Covers a range of aspects, from personal income and the dynamics of the job market to ideological conflicts and psychological transformation. Based on hundreds of individual life stories. Num Pages: 335 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD; HBLW; JFSC; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 147 x 1. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230229471
- ISBN
- 9780230229471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.41
€ 120.41
Hardcover. This book examines the banking crisis of July/August 2007 and its ensuing after-effects in 2008-2009: economic crisis, credit crunch, massive recapitalization of some banks and nationalization of other banks. The author offers his views on the factors which led to this global financial catastrophe and how it could have been avoided. Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Num Pages: 281 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: KCX; KCZ; KFFK; KNST. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230233461
- ISBN
- 9780230233461
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.43
€ 119.43
Hardcover. This is the first book to put together Asia and the developed world in the subprime crisis context and to combine macro and micro analysis to draw lessons from it. The crisis has valuable lessons for the dergulation of China's insurance industry, which is seen as the 'goldmine' in the future of global financial development. Num Pages: 144 pages, 53, 51 charts, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1F; KCX; KCZ; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 13. Weight in Grams: 288. Lifting the Veil on the Financial Tsunami. 144 pages, 53, 51 charts, 2 black & white tables. This is the first book to put together Asia and the developed world in the subprime crisis context and to combine macro and micro analysis to draw lessons from it. The crisis has valuable lessons for the dergulation of China's insurance industry, which is seen as the 'goldmine' in the future of global financial development. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; KCX; KCZ; KFF. Dimension: 222 x 136 x 13. Weight: 288.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230236196
- ISBN
- 9780230236196
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 61.72
€ 61.72
Paperback. This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCF; KCZ; KJW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230238930
- ISBN
- 9780230238930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.59
€ 94.59