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Third Ways : How Bulgarian Greens, Swedish Housewives, and Beer-Swilling Englishmen Created Family-Centered Economies--And Why They
Allan C. Carlson
Hardcover - $39.95
Innovation as a Social Process
W. Bernard Carlson
Paperback - $103.95
Elihu Thomson was a major American inventor of electric light and power systems. A contemporary of Thomas Edison, Thomson performed the engineering and design work necessary to make electric lighting a common product. From the 1880s to the 1930s, Tho ...
Between Heaven and Modernity : Reconstructing Suzhou, 1895-1937
Peter J. Carroll
Hardcover - $134.95
“ In this engrossing cultural history, Peter Carroll has taken on quite a few sacred cows from venerable historians who imagined an eternal Suzhou to the founder of Chinese architectural history. Other scholars have critiqued nationalistic hist ...
Finance and Financiers in European History 1880-1960
Youssef Cassis
Paperback - $128.95
A highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880-1960.
A Nation Transformed by Information : How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
Jr. Chandler
Paperback - $113.95
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of th ...
Big Business and the Wealth of Nations
Jr. Chandler
Paperback - $92.95
Written in nontechnical terms, this book explains how the dynamics of big business have influenced national and international economies. A path-breaking study, it provides the first systematic treatment of big business in advanced, emerging, and cent ...
Bad Samaritans : The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism
Ha-Joon Chang
Hardcover - $42.95
Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World Is Flat" orthodoxy of Thomas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international t ...
Kicking Away the Ladder : Development Strategy in Historical Perspective
Ha-Joon Chang
Paperback - $51.95
How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative new study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain "good policies" and "good institutions," seen today as necessary ...
Merchant Enterprise in Britain : From the Industrial Revolution to World War I
Stanley Chapman
Paperback - $96.95
Studies of the British Industrial Revolution and of the Victorian period of economic and social development have until very recently concentrated on British industries and industrial regions, while commerce and finance, and particularly that of Londo ...
