Histories of Economic Life – serie
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Desert Edens
Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety
Inbunden, 2022
393 kr
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How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale …
Local History of Global Capital
Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta
Inbunden, 2018
547 kr
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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the …
Pirates and Publishers
A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
Inbunden, 2019
449 kr
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A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of …
Velvet Empire
French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Av David Todd
Inbunden, 2021
449 kr
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How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global …
Empires of Vice
The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
Av Diana S. Kim
Inbunden, 2020
449 kr
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A history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast AsiaDuring the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from …
People's Constitution
The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
Av Rohit De
Inbunden, 2018
644 kr
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It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and …
Promise and Peril of Credit
What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society
Inbunden, 2019
494 kr
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How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and …
Making It Count
Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China
Inbunden, 2020
668 kr
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A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The …
Red Meat Republic
A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
Inbunden, 2019
254 kr
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How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly …
Crowd in the Early Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2024
360 kr
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The importance of collective behavior in early medieval EuropeBy the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in …
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy
The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Inbunden, 2019
449 kr
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The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of …
Third Path
Corporatism in Brazil and Portugal
Inbunden, 2024
379 kr
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How Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism and communism Following the Great Depression, as the world searched for new economic models, Brazil and Portugal experimented with corporatism as a “third path” between laissez-faire capitalism …
Empires of Vice
The Rise of Opium Prohibition across Southeast Asia
Av Diana S. Kim
Häftad, 2021
272 kr
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A history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast AsiaDuring the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also derived moral authority from …
Making It Count
Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China
Häftad, 2022
370 kr
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A history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People’s Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new People’s Republic of China was how much they did not know. The …
Local History of Global Capital
Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta
Häftad, 2020
638 kr
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Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the …
Pirates and Publishers
A Social History of Copyright in Modern China
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
Lägg i varukorg
A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the unknown social and cultural history of copyright in China from the 1890s through the 1950s, a time of …
Sorting Out the Mixed Economy
The Rise and Fall of Welfare and Developmental States in the Americas
Häftad, 2021
326 kr
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The untold story of how welfare and development programs in the United States and Latin America produced the instruments of their own destructionIn the years after 1945, a flood of U.S. advisors swept into Latin America with dreams of building a new economic order and lifting the Third World out of …
Toward a Free Economy
Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India
Inbunden, 2023
432 kr
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The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, …
Velvet Empire
French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century
Av David Todd
Häftad, 2023
290 kr
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How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global …
Worldly Afterlives
Tracing Family Trails Between India and Empire
Inbunden, 2025
317 kr
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The hidden histories of empire, told through the haunted afterlives of colonial migrationsIndian migrants provided the labor that enabled the British Empire to gain control over a quarter of the world’s population and territory. In the mid-1800s, the British government began building an elaborate …
Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution
Inbunden, 2024
379 kr
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A history that reframes the Bolsheviks’ unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia’s governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval sparked waves of dispossession that rapidly …
Red Meat Republic
A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America
Häftad, 2020
322 kr
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How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food systemBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly …
People's Constitution
The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic
Av Rohit De
Häftad, 2020
668 kr
Lägg i varukorg
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by elite consensus, has had little influence on India’s greater population. Drawing upon the previously unexplored records of the Supreme Court of India, A People’s Constitution upends this narrative and …
Distant Shores
Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Inbunden, 2021
449 kr
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A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this …
Distant Shores
Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier
Häftad, 2023
290 kr
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A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this …
Promise and Peril of Credit
What a Forgotten Legend about Jews and Finance Tells Us about the Making of European Commercial Society
Häftad, 2021
370 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalismThe Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and …
Desert Edens
Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety
Häftad, 2024
264 kr
Lägg i varukorg
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale …
No Return
Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Av Rowan Dorin
Inbunden, 2023
476 kr
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A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval EuropeWinner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationBeginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs …
No Return
Jews, Christian Usurers, and the Spread of Mass Expulsion in Medieval Europe
Av Rowan Dorin
Häftad, 2025
317 kr
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A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval EuropeWinner of the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical AssociationBeginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs …
Toward a Free Economy
Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India
Häftad, 2026
272 kr
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The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independenceNeoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, …
