Télécharger le livre :  Farmland, Farming and Food in the National Economy of China, 1947 – 2020
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This book presents a concise yet detailed analysis of China’s agricultural economy and food security in historical perspective. The book begins with an overview of China’s socialist economic transition and Deng Xiaoping’s reforms, with an emphasis on agricultural...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-11-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838
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Economic history has always emphasized the importance of long-distance trade in the emergence of modern financial markets, yet almost nothing is known about the Manila trade. This book offers the first reconstruction of the capital market of Manila using new archival...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-10-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Development of the Hotel and Tourism Industry in the Twentieth Century
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This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europe’s tourism economy during the 20th century. The book brings together ten contributions focused on the same period, 1900-1970, to offer comparative perspectives from across...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-12-20
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Monumental London
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This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy. Each of the seven ages of the city from the Roman to the modern, are portrayed through their monumental buildings, concentrating in particular on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-10-26
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of India's Economic Development: 5000BC to 2022AD, Volume I
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This book, the first of two volumes, explores India’s economic development from 5000BC through to the India’s independence period from 1947AD to 2022AD. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-10-14
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Reassessing the Moral Economy
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This book examines the concept of moral economy originally established by E.P. Thompson, focusing on the impact of religious norms on economic practice. With each chapter discussing a different empirical case study, the interrelations of the economy and religion are...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-10-06
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Behind the Iron Curtain
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This edited volume offers a systematic exploration of the relations between Western and Eastern scientists during the Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history. Introducing famous as well as almost forgotten scholars who...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-09-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Crises and Transformation in the Mediterranean World
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This edited collection presents an economic history of Catalonia and its economic crises, from Roman times to the political difficulties of the present day. It considers how the strong identity of the Catalan people has been reinforced in critical episodes such as the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-08-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Brazilian Crops in the Global Market
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This book comprehensively examines the development of Brazilian agriculture by focusing on the crops which evolved from national products to international commodities on a massive scale. It traces the transformation of Brazil from a country with low-yield levels in 1950...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-08-16
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Hustlers, Traitors, Patriots and Politicians
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This book offers a novel explanation of the transformation of London’s transport from a free market to a public corporation rooted in social and political legitimacy rather than economic rationality. To become a single corporation London Transport first had to gain a...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-08-04
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Support Systems in Rural Italy
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This book examines the development of social support systems in the Modern age in the rural areas of the city-states of Northern Italy.This investigation achieves two main purposes: first, it allows researchers to understand the role occupied concretely by welfare and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-02
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transformation of Maritime Professions
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This book deals with the economic impact of technological changes and the rise of passenger shipping on social relations on board and ashore in European shipping industries between c.1850 and 2000.  The changes in motive power, communication techniques and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-04-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Imperial Mode of China
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Utilising Marxian, Weberian, and institutionalist approaches, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the nature of Chinese economic history: the ‘imperial mode’ of China. The book aims to innovatively apply a cohesive historical materialist...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-03-07
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s–2010s
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This book comprehensively investigates the position of China’s working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective. It argues the case that, far from the illusion during the Maoist period that a new...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-19
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Danish Capitalism in the 20th Century
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This book outlines the origins of Danish Capitalism and prosperity, from a poor and devastated minor state in the 19th century to a consolidated universal mixed economy welfare state at the end of the 20th century. The book argues that firm-based innovation drove Danish...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-10-21
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Scandinavia and South America—A Tale of Two Capitalisms
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This book takes a comparative approach to economic history to offer ways to increase our understanding of the divergence between South America and Scandinavia. In particular, the book aims to deepen our understanding of why the two groups of countries have set out on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-10-17
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  International Business in Australia before World War One
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This book challenges conventional wisdom by revealing an extensive and heterogeneous community of foreign businesses in Australia before 1914. Multinational enterprise arrived predominantly from Britain, but other sender nations included the USA, France, Germany, New...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-29
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Migration in Historical Perspective
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This edited collection focuses on migrant women and their families, aiming to study their migration patterns in a historical and gendered perspective from early modernity to contemporary times, and to reassess the role and the nature of their commitment in migration...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-09-01
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Pandemics, Economics and Inequality
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This Pivot book provides a framework for understanding the economic and potentially unequal effects of pandemics, focusing closely on the Spanish Flu. It provides an in-depth analysis of the different effects of the Spanish Flu on the economy from unequal mortality to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-06-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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Télécharger le livre :  Socialism with a Human Face
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East Germany’s economic history is typically told as a story of the unravelling of an inherently flawed system. Yet, while the system’s inefficiency is undeniable, its economic history was much richer than its comparatively poor economic performance suggests. For many...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2022-03-31
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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