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Private Entrepreneurship And European Imperialism - Dutch Entrepreneurs In The Scramble For Africa, 1830s-1910s

by Gijs Dreijer

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 mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Distinguishing between a state-based â€˜Partition ofâ€™ and an actor-based â€˜Scramble forâ€™ Africa, the book illustrates this process by tracking the entrepreneurial strategy of a group of Dutch entrepreneurs in the Scramble, at a time when the Dutch state itself largely withdrew from the African continent.
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Bankminded - Banks As Intimate Agents Of Everyday Life In Welfare State Sweden

by Orsi Husz

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 Taking welfare state Sweden as its setting, the book identifies key cultural challenges and shows how banks and finance companies made inroads into the workplace, the family, spaces of consumption and the world of social movements while also taking on tasks typically associated with state authorities.
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Religious Tourism And The Italian Economy, 1870â€”1950 - The Development Of Catholic Pilgrimages As A Mass Phenomenon

by Giovanni Gregorini, Luciano Maffi e Riccardo Semeraro

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 mso-bidi-font-family: 'Generis Sans Pro';">This book addresses a little-studied area of the history of tourism, religious tourism, and pilgrimage and introduces a comprehensive economic analysis of their development from elite pursuits to a mass phenomenon.
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The Political Economy Of Indiaâ€™S Economic Development: 5000bc To 2024ad, Volume Ii - The Gupta Empire To An Independent India And Beyond

by Sangaralingam Ramesh

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 This book, the second of two volumes, explores Indiaâ€™s economic development from the Gupta Empire (400AD) through to modern day India. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century.
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The Institutions Of Land Property Rights In China - Transformation And Development, 1560â€“1950

by Denggao Long e Xiang Chi

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 The book introduces the work of two key scholars working in Chinese economic history and land property history, synthesizing existing research with important new findings. The book traces the evolving nature of Chinese land property rights over time, discussing changing influences and contexts.
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Family Farmers, Land Reforms And Political Action - An Alternative Economic History Of Interwar Europe

by James Simpson

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 This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression.
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China'S Labour Market, 1950â€“2050 - The Role Of Family Planning In Demographic And Income Transitions

by Jane Du

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 This book presents an in-depth examination of Chinaâ€™s population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market.
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The Neapolitan Creative Economy - The Growth Of The Music Market And Creative Sector In Naples, 17thâ€“19th Centuries

by Rossella Del Prete

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 This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.
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The Neapolitan Creative Economy - The Growth Of The Music Market And Creative Sector In Naples, 17thâ€“19th Centuries

by Rossella Del Prete

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 This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.
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Irish Nation Building - Government, Business And Power, 1922-1958

by Emmet Oliver

~~145,09€~~ 130,58€ 10% OFF

 This book examines the early decades of economic nation building in Ireland. It draws on a large amount of previously unstudied archival material to construct a novel contribution to Irish business and economic history that focuses on government relations, business power and wider dynamics of power in a decolonising context.The book adopts a different approach to the early decades of Irish independence, decentering the typical focus on party political developments, Church-state relations and Anglo-Irish relations. Instead, the book explores the role of Irish businesses and services and their engagement with the governing elites of the time. More than just offering a general survey of Irish businesses in the early years of independence, the chapters of this book illuminate and analyse the ‘commanding heights’ of the economy, the Marxist term for the core distribution channels of capital and labour. In particular, the book focuses on four key strategic sectors - banking, insurance, shipping and rail - to analyse the tensions between the new Irish nationalist political elite and embedded business interests from the pre-independence era, how these led to the transformation of the Irish economic model by the late 1950s, and its gradual integration into a newly globalising world economy. This book will be essential reading for students and researchers of economic and business history, and Irish history and independence broadly.
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Housework, Consumption And Female Labour In Japan, 1600-1940 - Understanding The Role Of Unpaid Work In Determining Living Standards

by Penelope Francks

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 This book illuminates the largely neglected contribution of unpaid, primarily female household labour to economic production and living standards in Japan from the early modern period to the eve of World War Two.The difficulties involved in measuring time devoted to housework and other forms of household labour in the past have meant that most attempts to assess the process of industrialisation have failed to recognise the ways in which such labour is essential to the sustainability and welfare of the population. In this context, Japan presents a significant example of a historical case of industrialisation occurring within an economy that continued to be dominated by the institution of the household. This short study argues that this must have led to a particularly significant underestimation of Japanese living standards in the past, with implications for comparative and global analysis, and to neglect of the key role of women in the historical economy. Providing a nuanced yet concise analysis, this book will be valuable reading for scholars of economic history and feminist economics, as well as introducing important comparative angles for researchers in Japanese studies and gender studies more widely.
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Farmland, Farming And Food In The National Economy Of China, 1947 - 2020 - A Framework For Understanding China’S Agricultural Track Record And Food Security

by Jane Du

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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 economy and food production, before discussing China’s food industry and security in more recent years.Combining accessible qualitative interpretations with a rich data set, the author analyses the transitions and evolving policies in China’s agricultural production and shows how these are essential for understanding contemporary food security challenges in the country. Covering topics including food imports and supply, dietary changes, international trade policies and other geopolitical factors impacting food security, the book presents new insights into the interplay between domestic and international systems. Bridging gaps between historical understanding and contemporary policy relevance, this book will be useful reading for researchers in varied disciplines including economic history, agricultural economics, China’s economy, and economic development.
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Institutions Of Land Property Rights In China - Transformation And Development, 1560-1950

by Denggao Long e Xiang Chi

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 The book introduces the work of two key scholars working in Chinese economic history and land property history, synthesizing existing research with important new findings. The book traces the evolving nature of Chinese land property rights over time, discussing changing influences and contexts.
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Capital Market Of Manila And The Pacific Trade, 1668-1838 - Institutions And Trade During The First Globalization

by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 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 sources that have never been used in the economic history of Pacific trade.The book explains how trade between Asia and Spanish America across the Pacific, which lasted for 250 years (1571 - 1815) was financed from the city of Manila.The book analyses the political economy and institutional structures of the Manila capital market in the context of the global silver trade, as well as addressing key similarities and differences with European trade routes and differing approaches to colonialism and commerce in Asian waters. It traces how the Manila capital market emerged in a bottom-up process with a redistributive aspect that tied the interests of citizens with the fortunes of trade, using institutions familiar to the public like legacy funds, brotherhoods and lay religious orders to pool liquidity, originate working capital, and internalise the risk of loss at sea. It challenges the notion that there is a normative model for the development of capital markets and introduces an industrial organisation analysis to the broader structure of Early Modern trade in the Spanish Empire. Sitting at the intersection of economic and financial history, global history, imperial history and political economy, this book will be a cutting-edge and valuable resource for a broad range of scholars.
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Reframing Italian Economic History, 1861-2021 - Creative Destruction And The Italian Society

by Nicola Rossi

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book surveys the development of the Italian economy over the 150 years since unification, integrating economic analysis with an economic and social history of Italian society. The book challenges several key assumptions about the growth of the Italian economy, including the notion that Italy has ‘caught up’ with its main Western partners and arguing that in long-run perspective the Italian economy has performed disappointingly. In particular, the book highlights how the role of cultural values, beliefs and preferences are just as important as institutions and institutional change in explaining the trajectory of the economy, arguing that a widespread ‘growth-averse’ culture exists in Italian society that diverges from the dominant market paradigms of the Western world. Rather than treating the twenty years after WWII - the period of rapid growth known as Italy’s ‘economic miracle’ years - as an indicator of Italy’s success, the author analyses these years as an anomaly where capitalist processes like creative destruction and innovism were briefly permitted to flourish. The book draws out key questions, for example exploring why institutional reforms have not led to sustained rates of growth, and why other markers of quality of life have improved in Italy while economic performance has remained slow. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars of economics and economic history, as well as non-specialist readers looking for a comprehensive understanding of Italian socio-economic conditions since the country''s unification.
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Modern Economic History Of Emerging Markets (1950-2020) - Dirigisme, Globalization And Disruption

by Ahmet Akarli

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book offers a comprehensive economic history of emerging market economies post-WWII and identifies a complex web of sustainability problems that face the EMEs going forward. It seeks to present a truly global perspective on the development of EMEs and the long-term trends that have brought EMEs to a critical economic juncture.The first section of the book charts how EMEs became tightly integrated into the global economy at rapid pace, analysing economic achievements as well as imbalances and sustainability issues that have been generated over time. It considers how EMEs have withstood episodes of complex structural transitions and financial shocks, and offers comparative perspectives on patterns of dispersion within the EME landscape from the end of WWII to the present. The second part of the book seeks to understand how EMEs might cope with the volatility brought about by a new ‘age of disruption’ defined by major structural challenges to the neo-liberal economic order. It considers which EMEs are best positioned to respond to issues of economic inequality, financial excess, technological disruption and climate change, what a global historical understanding of the EMEs can offer to policymakers, and the impact on the EME investment landscape. This book will be of interest to a broad audience including researchers of economic history and political economy, as well as policymakers, investment professionals, and the general reader interested in global economic development.
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The Transformation Of Maritime Professions - Old And New Jobs In European Shipping Industries, 1850â€“2000

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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.
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Social Support Systems In Rural Italy - The Modern Age Regional States Of The Northern Peninsula

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 The book brings together perspectives from different fields of research ranging from economic and political history to the study of the history of ecclesiastical institutions, as well as integrating recent research on the anthropological value of welfare actions and the use of multiple historical sources.
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Family Farmers, Land Reforms And Political Action - An Alternative Economic History Of Interwar Europe

by James Simpson

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book examines how European farmers responded to the economic and political challenges created by the First World War and the Great Depression.
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Political Economy Of India'S Economic Development: 5000bc To 2024ad, Volume Ii - The Gupta Empire To An Independent India And Beyond

by Sangaralingam Ramesh

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book, the second of two volumes, explores Indiaâ€™s economic development from the Gupta Empire (400AD) through to modern day India. The specific characteristics of economic development in India are examined to help determine development paths India can pursue to create sustainable development in the 21st century.
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Neapolitan Creative Economy - The Growth Of The Music Market And Creative Sector In Naples, 17th-19th Centuries

by Rossella Del Prete

~~145,74€~~ 131,17€ 10% OFF

 This book is a valuable resource to a broad range of readers, including those working in economic history, tourism history, the history of music and theatre, Italian social history and more.
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Calming The Storms - The Carry Trade, The Banking School And British Financial Crises Since 1825

by Charles Read

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 This book exposes, for the first time in modern scholarship, the role that the rise of the Carry Trade played in British financial crises between 1825 and 1866, how in reaction the Bank of England improved its management of monetary policy after 1866 and how those lessons have been forgotten since the 1970s.
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China'S Labour Market, 1950â€“2050 - The Role Of Family Planning In Demographic And Income Transitions

by Jane Du

~~54,06€~~ 48,65€ 10% OFF

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 This book presents an in-depth examination of Chinaâ€™s population control policies from their establishment to the present and explores the developing implications of these policies on the Chinese labour market.
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The Development Of The Hotel And Tourism Industry In The Twentieth Century - Comparative Perspectives From Western Europe, 1900â€“1970

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 This edited collection explores the pivotal role of the hotel industry in building Western Europeâ€™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 the region including Italy, Switzerland, France, Spain and Britain.
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