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Maritime Metropolis - London And Its Port, 1780â€“1914

de Sarah (University Of Greenwich) Palmer

~~43,26€~~ 38,93€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 Sarah Palmer's authoritative work is the first to treat the history of London and its port as one subject. She brings together a range of material rarely considered together to demonstrate both the economic importance of international and domestic sea-borne trade and the unique urban geography it created.
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Philip Ii Of Spain And The Power Of Money - Between Parliament And Bankers

de Carlos (Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid) Alvarez-Nogal e Christophe (Boston University) Chamley

~~148,71€~~ 133,84€ 10% IMEDIATO

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 This study examines the financial foundations of Philip II's Spanish empire. Drawing on new archival sources and applying a political economy approach, it highlights how Castile's implicit constitution limited Philip's fiscal power and how he used financial crises with Genoese bankers as strategic tools to counter resistance from the Cortes.
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Imperial Borderlands - Institutions And Legacies Of The Habsburg Military Frontier

de Bogdan G. (John Cabot University, Rome) Popescu

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 What are the institutions which govern border spaces and how do they impact long-term economic development? The book focuses on the Habsburg frontier and provides a new framework for understanding how states force borderland dwellers to help accomplish the state's objectives and the long-term repercussions for access to public goods.
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Capital Shortage - Credit And Indian Economic Development, 1920â€“1960

de Maanik (Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands) Nath

120,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A study of capital shortage and widespread poverty in colonial and postcolonial India. Connecting environmental, institutional and political economic theories to history, Maanik Nath offers new insights on why credit was scarce, and how this scarcity affected development patterns in the Global South.
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Fiscal Capacity And The Colonial State In Asia And Africa, C.1850â€“1960

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.
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Sovereignty Without Power - Liberia In The Age Of Empires, 1822â€“1980

de Leigh A. (London School Of Economics And Political Science) Gardner

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Sovereignty without Power provides the first quantitative and comparative economic history of Liberia and contributes to debates in economic and political history. Liberia's economic history over two centuries shows the challenges and opportunities of sovereignty for independent states around the world during the age of empires.
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The Economic Consequences Of The War - West Germany'S Growth Miracle After 1945

de Tamas (Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan) Vonyo

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 For many, Germany's post-war economic power was based on liberal market reforms and the Marshall Plan. This book disputes this old myth. Quantitative evidence shows instead how the re-emergence of Germany as a leading industrial power was founded in the Second World War itself and the conditions it left behind.
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Why Democracy Failed - The Agrarian Origins Of The Spanish Civil War

de James (Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid) Simpson e Juan (Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid) Carmona

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War tackles the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. James Simpson and Juan Carmona explore the interconnections between economic growth, state capacity, rural social mobility and the creation of mass competitive political parties.
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Why Democracy Failed - The Agrarian Origins Of The Spanish Civil War

de James (Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid) Simpson e Juan (Universidad Carlos Iii De Madrid) Carmona

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This distinctive new history of the origins of the Spanish Civil War tackles the highly-debated issue of why it was that Spain's democratic Second Republic failed. James Simpson and Juan Carmona explore the interconnections between economic growth, state capacity, rural social mobility and the creation of mass competitive political parties.
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Fiscal Capacity And The Colonial State In Asia And Africa, C.1850-1960

33,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.
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Fiscal Capacity And The Colonial State In Asia And Africa, C.1850â€“1960

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

portes grátis

 Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.
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Price Of Bread - Regulating The Market In The Dutch Republic

de Jan de Vries

58,30€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread prices. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.
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Lion'S Share - Inequality And The Rise Of The Fiscal State In Preindustrial Europe

de Guido Alfani e Matteo Di Tullio

58,30€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. It connects the rise of the fiscal-military state to increases in economic inequality in the early modern period, while also adding to contemporary debates about the disparity of wealth.
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The Price Of Bread - Regulating The Market In The Dutch Republic

de Jan (University Of California, Berkeley) De Vries

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread prices. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.
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The Lion'S Share - Inequality And The Rise Of The Fiscal State In Preindustrial Europe

de Guido (Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan) Alfani e Matteo (Universita Degli Studi Di Pavia, Italy) Di Tullio

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the most in-depth analysis of inequality and social polarization ever attempted for a preindustrial society. It connects the rise of the fiscal-military state to increases in economic inequality in the early modern period, while also adding to contemporary debates about the disparity of wealth.
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Banking In Crisis - The Rise And Fall Of British Banking Stability, 1800 To The Present

de John D. Turner

38,43€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability over two hundred years, shedding new light on why banking systems crash and on the factors underpinning banking stability.
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Economic Development In Early Modern France - The Privilege Of Liberty, 1650â€“1820

de Jeff (Manhattan College, New York) Horn

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Focusing on the relationship between privilege and liberty, this is a major reinterpretation of economic development in early modern France. It sheds new light on early industrialization, the achievements of Louis XIV, the economics of the Enlightenment, the origins of the French Revolution and comparative economic development.
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Trade And Institutions In The Medieval Mediterranean - The Geniza Merchants And Their Business World

de Jessica L. (University Of Pennsylvania) Goldberg

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The business world of the eleventh-century Geniza merchants, or 'Maghribi traders', is central to debates about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. This book maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and explores the foundations of later European economic dominance.
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Banking In Crisis - The Rise And Fall Of British Banking Stability, 1800 To The Present

de John D. (Queen'S University Belfast) Turner

110,85€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability over two hundred years, shedding new light on why banking systems crash and on the factors underpinning banking stability.
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Banking In Crisis - The Rise And Fall Of British Banking Stability, 1800 To The Present

de John D. (Queen'S University Belfast) Turner

39,20€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Can the lessons of the past help us to prevent another banking collapse in the future? This is the first full account of the rise and fall of British banking stability over two hundred years, shedding new light on why banking systems crash and on the factors underpinning banking stability.
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The Institutional Framework Of Russian Serfdom

de Tracy (California Institute Of Technology) Dennison

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Russian rural history has long been based on a 'Peasant Myth', originating with nineteenth-century Romantics and still accepted by many historians today. This book looks beyond the myth to show how a vivid and colourful Russian society really looked from below before the 1861 abolition of serfdom.
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Making The Market - Victorian Origins Of Corporate Capitalism

de Paul (Dr, London School Of Economics And Political Science) Johnson

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This innovative study analyses the origin of capitalist institutions such as limited companies, shares and stock markets, revealing how and why they were constructed. It explores the moral, economic and legal assumptions that supported this formal institutional structure, and which continue to shape the corporate economy of today.
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Private And Public Enterprise In Europe - Energy, Telecommunications And Transport, 1830â€“1990

de Robert (University Of Manchester) Millward

171,69€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe. It examines the role played by private and public enterprise in their construction and operation from the arrival of the railways in the 1830s to the eve of privatisation in the 1980s.
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Markets And Measurements In Nineteenth-Century Britain

de Aashish (Lecturer In Economic History, University Of Manchester) Velkar

133,84€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An economic and social history of measurements in nineteenth-century British markets, showing how social conventions shaped local practices and economic institutions. This book uncovers how metrology alone failed to make 'measurements' reliable, and discusses the importance of localised practices based on political and social values in shaping trust in measurements.
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