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Aspects Of International Socialism, 1871â€“1914 - Essays By Georges Haupt

by Georges Haupt

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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 themes.
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Economic Life In Ottoman Europe - Taxation, Trade And The Struggle For Land, 1600â€“1800

by Bruce Mcgowan

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 Little was known about the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe until well into the twentieth century. In this 1982 book, Bruce McGowan presents material concerning this neglected area. His painstaking study of Ottoman records provides convincing analyses of economic, fiscal and demographic questions fundamental to our understanding of the region.
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The African-American Family In Slavery And Emancipation

by Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University) Dunaway

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 Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the slave family have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and exaggeration of slave agency. Using population trends and slave narratives, she identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Incroyables Gazettes Et Fabuleux Metaux - Les Retours Des Tresors Americains D'Apres Les Gazettes Hollandaises (Xviâ€“Xvii Siecles)

by Michael Morineau

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 The discovery of America was followed by the discovery of her silver and gold. Morineau, writing in his native French, has finally located mining statistics for these precious metals and his reconstruction of actual movements has led him to question many widely accepted hypotheses and concepts.
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The New International Division Of Labour - Structural Unemployment In Industrialised Countries And Industrialisation In Developing Countries

by Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs e Otto Kreye

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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 reorganise their production on a global scale.
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Tunisian Peasants In The Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

by Lucette Valensi

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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.
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The Definition Of A Peripheral Economy: Turkey 1923â€“1929

by Caglar Keyder

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 This book, which illuminates the ways in which the forces of world capitalism acted upon and structured the peripheral formation of the Turkish economy in this period, provides a clear case study in the relationship of dependent economies to the capitalist world-system.
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Fascism In Popular Memory - The Cultural Experience Of The Turin Working Class

by Luisa Passerini

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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.
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The Golden Age Of The Chinese Bourgeoisie 1911â€“1937

by Marie-Claire Bergere

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 Focusing upon Shanghai, this study explores the astonishing growth of Western-style industry, commerce and banking during the Republic's first decade.
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Traditional Romanian Village Communities - The Transition From The Communal To The Capitalist Mode Of Production In The Danube Region

by Henri H. Stahl

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 The book is a study of the evolution of Romanian peasant society from the thirteenth century to the present, focusing particularly on the village communities of Wallachia and Moldavia, in which until quite recently communal villages still existed.
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Merchants, Companies And Trade - Europe And Asia In The Early Modern Era

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 This study challenges conventional views about aspects of trade between the Europe and Asia, such as the inferiority of Asian traders and the decline in overland trade. The explicitly comparative essays demonstrate that this period is characterized more by competition than by collaboration between Europe and Asia.
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Geopolitics And Geoculture - Essays On The Changing World-System

by Immanuel Maurice (Yale University, Connecticut) Wallerstein e Immanuel Wallerstein

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 Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period. The book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant "geoculture": the cultural framework within which the world-system operates.
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World Of Possibilities - Flexibility And Mass Production In Western Industrialization

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 A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, World of Possibilities highlights the plurality of forms of successful industrial organization, past and present, throughout the Western world.
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The Capitalist World-Economy

by Immanuel (State University Of New York, Binghamton) Wallerstein e Immanuel Wallerstein

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 Focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery.
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The Politics Of The World-Economy - The States, The Movements And The Civilizations

by Immanuel (State University Of New York, Binghamton) Wallerstein e Immanuel Wallerstein

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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".
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The Ottoman Empire And The World-Economy

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 This book contrasts sharply with conventional studies of the Ottoman Empire that focus on political military, and cultural institutions. Following a series of general theoretical discussions about Ottoman social structure, the contributors turn to case studies directed either to theoretical problems or to 'facts' which suggest new avenues of conceptualisation.
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Domestic Strategies - Work And Family In France And Italy, 1600â€“1800

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 Domestic Strategies, first published in 1991, offers a reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of labouring families towards the organisation of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe.
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World Of Possibilities - Flexibility And Mass Production In Western Industrialization

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 A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, World of Possibilities highlights the plurality of forms of successful industrial organization, past and present, throughout the Western world.
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China And Historical Capitalism - Genealogies Of Sinological Knowledge

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 Viewed through the lens of capitalist development, China appears as a failed version of the West. This volume seeks to identify this distortion and correct it through a series of essays from leading scholars in the field, and is an important contribution to the development of theories of world history.
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Creating And Transforming Households - The Constraints Of The World-Economy

by Immanuel (State University Of New York, Binghamton) Wallerstein, Immanuel Wallerstein e Joan (University Of Vermont) Smith

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 This book, first published in 1992, examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units'.
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The African-American Family In Slavery And Emancipation

by Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University) Dunaway

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 Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the slave family have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and exaggeration of slave agency. Using population trends and slave narratives, she identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families during the Civil War and Reconstruction.
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Slavery In The American Mountain South

by Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University) Dunaway

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 Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She draws on a vast array of primary sources to argue that a region was not buffered from the social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density.
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Slavery In The American Mountain South

by Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute And State University) Dunaway

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 Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She draws on a vast array of primary sources to argue that a region was not buffered from the social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density.
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China And Historical Capitalism - Genealogies Of Sinological Knowledge

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 Viewed through the lens of capitalist development, China appears as a failed version of the West. This volume seeks to identify this distortion and correct it through a series of essays from leading scholars in the field, and is an important contribution to the development of theories of world history.
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