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The Politics of the World-Economy
The States, the Movements and the Civilizations
Häftad, 1984
435 kr
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In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books The Modern World-System and The Capitalist World-Economy. Whereas those books centred …
Slavery in the American Mountain South
Av Wilma A. Dunaway, Maurice Aymard m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
586 kr
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Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that a region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small …
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation
Av Wilma A. Dunaway, Maurice Aymard
Häftad, 2003
502 kr
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In The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Wilma Dunaway calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. She contends that US slavery studies have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and export zones and exaggeration of slave agency. Using data on …
Merchants, Companies and Trade
Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era
Av Sushil Chaudhury, Michel Morineau
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of …
Mexican Agriculture 1521-1630
Transformation of the Mode of Production
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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`The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of Spanish rule on Mexican society and agriculture, in …
Dutch Capital and World Capitalism
Capitalisme hollondais et capitalisme mondial
Häftad, 2008
720 kr
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Throughout the seventeenth century, Holland was the unrivalled centre of world trade and banking. This economic success fascinated contemporaries, and questions about it still exercise historians today. Is it appropriate to view the economic position of the Dutch during this period in terms of …
Traditional Romanian Village Communities
The Transition from the Communal to the Capitalist Mode of Production in the Danube Region
Häftad, 2008
619 kr
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Professor Henri Stahl is one of Eastern Europe's leading authorities on peasant societies. For over thirty years he has studied peasant village communities in Romania, both in the field and from wide-ranging documentary sources. This book, one of Professor Stahl's major works, is based on this …
Incroyables Gazettes et Fabuleux Métaux
Les Retours des Trésors Américains d'Après les Gazettes Hollandaises (XVI-XVII Siècles)
Häftad, 2008
871 kr
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The discovery of America was followed by the discovery of her silver and gold. Year after year these precious metals were mined and sent to Spain and to Portugal and from there throughout the world. From the beginning of the sixteenth century, historians and economists have accorded great …
Fascism in Popular Memory
The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class
Häftad, 2009
426 kr
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This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920, which are combined with sources such as police reports, documentary films and judicial documents. The interviewees recount their visions of life, of history, and of …
Tunisian Peasants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied. She analyses the nomadic tribes and the sedentary peasants, discussing their …
The Definition of a Peripheral Economy: Turkey 1923-1929
Häftad, 2009
586 kr
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The period of Turkish history from the foundation of the Republic in 1923 to the depression in 1929 was characterised by a minimum of state intervention in the economy. This book, which illuminates the ways in which the forces of world capitalism acted upon and structured the peripheral formation …
The Golden Age of the Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911-1937
Häftad, 2009
687 kr
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Favoured by the exceptional economic circumstances of the First World War and the immediate post-war years, Chinese entrepreneurs made their mark by modernising and establishing themselves as a business bourgeoisie. Focusing upon Shanghai, this study explores the astonishing growth of Western-style …
Economic Life in Ottoman Europe
Taxation, trade and the struggle for land, 1600-1800
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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Of the various monopolies exercised by the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe, the most lasting in its effects was their monopoly over information. The scanty knowledge that outsiders had of this area improved only in the nineteenth century as, one after …
Aspects of International Socialism, 1871-1914
Essays by Georges Haupt
Häftad, 2011
574 kr
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Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most important essays, centred around three major, …
Industiarlization before Industiarlization
Av Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick m. fl.
Häftad, 1982
594 kr
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Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization', …
The New International Division of Labour
Structural Unemployment in Industrialised Countries and Industrialisation in Developing Countries
Av Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs m. fl.
Häftad, 1981
667 kr
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The main thesis of this study is that the world economy is undergoing a profound structural change that is forcing companies to reorganize their production on a global scale. This is being brought about both through the relocation of production to new industrial sites, increasingly in the …
The Capitalist World-Economy
Av Immanuel Wallerstein, Maurice Aymard m. fl.
Häftad, 1979
439 kr
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In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system. …
Domestic Strategies
Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800
Av Stuart Woolf
Inbunden, 1991
1610 kr
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Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social sciences in recent years have stimulated a new …
Geopolitics and Geoculture
Essays on the Changing World-System
Av Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein
Häftad, 1991
439 kr
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This is the third volume of Immanuel Wallerstein's essays to appear in Studies in Modern Capitalism, following the immensely successful collections The Politics of the World Economy and The Capitalist World Economy. Written between 1982 and 1989, these pieces offer Wallerstein's perspective on the …
Creating and Transforming Households
The Constraints of the World-Economy
Av Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein
Inbunden, 1992
1844 kr
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This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', …
Creating and Transforming Households
The Constraints of the World-Economy
Av Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
619 kr
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This book, first published in 1992, seeks an explanation of the pattern of sharp discrepancy of wage levels across the world-economy for work of comparable productivity. It explores how far such differences can be explained by the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units', …
World of Possibilities
Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
Av Charles F. Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin
Inbunden, 1997
1863 kr
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This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of the great strategic choices they faced than …
China and Historical Capitalism
Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Av Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue
Häftad, 2002
586 kr
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This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was portrayed as unique to Europe and as an organic …
The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy
Häftad, 2004
677 kr
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This collection of essays represents a departure from the traditional perspective, recently questioned by many scholars, from which Ottoman history is usually written. Central to the establishment of Western domination over the 'East' is the writing of its history in terms of Western hegemony, …
Merchants, Companies and Trade
Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era
Av Sushil Chaudhury, Michel Morineau
Inbunden, 1999
1912 kr
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Written by well-known scholars, this book raises pertinent questions and takes up alternate perspectives on the growth and development of international trade between Europe and Asia, especially India, in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Through a comparative and comprehensive study of …
China and Historical Capitalism
Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
Av Timothy Brook, Gregory Blue
Inbunden, 1999
1828 kr
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This book addresses the historical relationship that has arisen between the concept of capitalism and the idea of China. Formulated by European intellectuals in order to identify the social formation in which they found themselves, capitalism was portrayed as unique to Europe and as an organic …
Slavery in the American Mountain South
Av Wilma A. Dunaway, Maurice Aymard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
804 kr
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Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She argues that a region was not buffered from the political, economic, and social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density and small …
The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation
Inbunden, 2003
1005 kr
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In The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Wilma Dunaway calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. She contends that US slavery studies have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and export zones and exaggeration of slave agency. Using data on …
Domestic Strategies
Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800
Av Stuart Woolf
Häftad, 2003
586 kr
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Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social sciences in recent years have stimulated a new …
World of Possibilities
Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
Av Charles F. Sabel, Jonathan Zeitlin
Häftad, 2002
820 kr
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This book retells the history of Western industrialization, revealing possibilities unexplored in the nineteenth century, variants of which have come to transform present day economies. It shows that economic actors have historically been more aware of the great strategic choices they faced than …
