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University of British Columbia Press Investing in Place Economic Renewal in Northern
Book SynopsisA compelling exploration of place-based development as a timely, pragmatic approach to renewing rural and small-town economies in northern British Columbia.Table of ContentsPart 1: Introduction1 Introduction: Foundations for Renewal2 Northern British Columbia: General Processes3 The Whole Community ApproachPart 2: Creating a Space-Based Economy4 Province Building5 Restructuring and Response6 Struggles in TransitionPart 3: Moving to a Place-based Economy7 An Economy of Place8 Mobilizing for Change9 DirectionsPart 4: Conclusion10 On Intervention: Constructing a Northern Place11 Conclusion: Renewal for Rural and Small-Town Northern BCNotes; Works Cited; Index
£26.99
Cornell University Press Fair Shares Unions Pay and Politics in Sweden
Book SynopsisConflict between labor and capital reflects the competitive and conflict-laden relations within the working class itself, Peter Swenson maintains. Fair Shares examines the internal conflicts of organized labor regarding distribution of wages in order to explain both union leaders' market-structuring objectives in the "political economy", and...Trade Review"Fair Shares is an excellent book which will make a significant impact on our understanding of industrial and organized class relations in Sweden and Germany, as well as on comparative theory." -- Peter Lange, Duke Universtiy
£67.15
Cornell University Press The Familial State Ruling Families and Merchant
Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly...Trade ReviewSeldom have two hundred pages displayed such ambitious goals and achieved them with such a remarkable fluency. Julia Adams examines state formation and familial institutions in three early modern European countries: the Netherlands, France, and England. In so doing, she restores the Dutch experience to the centrality that it commanded in the seventeenth century. The book also suggests to national historians and historical sociologists that a narrow focus just cannot answer the big questions posed by the very histories so ubiquitously practiced by the current generation of one-nation historians. Comfortable being both genuinely comparative and firmly grounded in her own field, historical sociology, Adams further argues that the old categories deployed by historical analysis—state structures, class, religion, and patronage—cannot address the complexity of power without also addressing gender—more precisely, patrimony—as a force of immense historical significance.... This is a book that should now become required reading in every graduate seminar in early modern European history. It challenges us all to think outside the box that is the history of the nation, and it rewards such thinking with fresh insight into issues of gender, class, and state formation. It is a triumph. -- Margaret C. Jacob * Journal of Modern History *
£45.00
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Cornell University Press An Anatomy of Trade in Medieval Writing
Book SynopsisEconomics, in our modern sense of the term, was not a discipline in the Middle Ages, although the history of economic thought is often written as though it were. Lianna Farber restores the core economic concept of trade to its medieval contexts...Trade ReviewFarber demonstrates a firm grasp of the texts and the issues involved, deconstructing the expositions in a deft manner and delving into how the medieval mind construed economic activity. * Economic History Review *Painstakingly alive to the nuances of the texts she describes, Farmer admirably realizes the difficult goal she sets out to attain in her book: to describe accurately how writers understood trade during a time when the category of the 'economic' was nonexistent. This sensible, jargon-free, and evenhanded study makes an impressive contribution both to literary criticism and to the history of ideas. * Studies in the Age of Chaucer *
£48.60
Cornell University Press Governing Finance
Book SynopsisThe international financial community blamed the Asian crisis of 19971998 on deep failures of domestic financial governance. To avoid similar crises in the future, this community adopted and promoted a set of international best practice standards of financial governance. The G7 asked specialized public and private sector bodies to set international standards, and tasked the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank with their global dissemination. Non-Western countries were thereby encouraged to emulate Western practices in banking and securities supervision, corporate governance, financial disclosure, and policy transparency.In Governing Finance, Andrew Walter explains why Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailandkey targets and test cases of this international standards projectwere placed under intense pressure to transform their domestic financial governance. Walter finds that the depth of the economic crisis, and more enduring aspects of Asian capitalism, such aTrade Review"Walter does excellent work laying out the politico-economic dynamic by which governments navigate between the regulatory neoliberals and domestic pressure groups. One of his conclusions is that this push and pull results in compliance regimes that are highly variable and not likely to converge quickly, if at all, with the stated (and ever changing) ideal of Western-oriented multilateral agencies and Western governments."—Choice"Global finance can be a lightning rod for crisis and economic collapse. Some of the world's most powerful policymakers believe they can manage these risks by promoting `international standards.' Andrew Walter's rigorous book demonstrates why they might be wrong. It is a must-read for students, scholars, and practitioners of global finance and regulation."—Ngaire Woods, Oxford University and author of The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and their Borrowers"Nearly everyone expected the Asian Crisis to foster massive reforms—but it did not. Walter brilliantly illuminates why 'mock compliance' with international financial standards took precedence over substantive change."—Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics"Andrew Walter's book highlights important differences between the appearance and substance of financial governance reforms in Asia. He also makes a valuable contribution to explaining how power and interest shape differential reform outcomes by placing domestic political forces at the heart of his analysis."—Garry Rodan, Director, Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University"Andrew Walter's Governing Finance introduces to the field of international financial regulation the extremely useful concept of 'mock compliance.' International financial markets are not so constraining that governments in developing countries don't pretend to comply with international regulations and standards. To the question of why international investors don't punish such governments with capital flight, Walter points out that international investors may be satisfied with mock compliance as long as they believe the government can and will bail out the local companies should the need arise. This book combines keen insight with a detailed account of international regulatory compliance—or lack thereof—in Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea."—Frances McCall Rosenbluth, Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, Yale University
£37.80
Cornell University Press Americas First Great Depression
Book SynopsisFor a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America''s First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837.As Roberts shows, the two decades that preceded the Panic had marked a democratic surge in the United States. However, the nation''s commitment to democracy was tested severely during this crisis. Foreign lenders questioned whether American politicians could make the unpopular decisions needed on spending and taxing. State and local officials struggled to put down riots and rebellion. A few wondered whether this was the end of America''s democratic experiment.RobTrade ReviewAmerica's First Great Depressionis an engaging book that could spark classroom debate on a number of important topics: internal improvements, the changing role of state governments, Anglo-American relations, immigration, urbanization, Jacksonian democracy, the Bank War, tariff issues, and the federal role in regulating the economy, slavery, and westward expansion. Roberts does a particularly fine job of placing this period of US history within a global perspective. As it is only 216 pages of text, this reviewer will assign this book in his Early US History survey class. -- Dave Bush * The Historian *Alasdair Roberts has written a thoughtful and timely book about how Americans in the past responded to global economic and political forces beyond their control. Roberts masterfully reinterprets the period for historians, but his goal is not primarily historical. Political scientists, policymakers, and citizens have much to learn from the economic crisis following 1837. -- Johann N. Neem * Political Science Quarterly *By recasting the Panic of 1837 as the start of the 'First Great Depression,' this book offers a clear attempt at creating a ‘usable past’ that can help modern citizens understand how our current unsettling economic landscape is not the first one Americans have been forced to navigate. -- Sean Patrick Adams * The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *For the first 50 years after achieving independence, Americans had every reason to believe theirs to be the most fortunate of nations. Then came the Panic of 1837, which caused a hopelessness rendered worse by the optimism that had preceded it and resulted in a crisis that lasted until 1848.... Alasdair Roberts reveals how this disaster led to epochal shifts in policy and culture, and his lively narrative and commitment to character ensure that the human cost is never out of sight. Roberts is especially keen to demonstrate how this mid-19th century ordeal relates to America's current woes. The 'hard times' of the 1830s led to financial ruin for state governments, a near-cessation of federal aid, and an outbreak of violent protests in many major cities. * Publishers Weekly *Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression.... Parallels to the country's current economic recession are clear throughout the text, and Roberts makes explicit comparisons in his conclusion. This timely book will be of great use not just to students of economic history but also to readers who wish to find historical precedent for today's uncertain, turbulent times. * Library Journal *Roberts makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of nineteenth-century economic downturns and their impact upon American society. He succeeds in showing that the Panic had a significant ripple effect through American society and that these historical examples can serve as useful references as Americans deliberate how best to recover from the damage caused by the 'Panic of 2008.' Importantly, Roberts illustrates how a severe economic downturn impacts a society well beyond just the world of finance. We should hope that America's First Great Depression will be a catalyst for further examination of nineteenth-century business cycles and economic downturns. * Essays in Economic and Business History *Roberts provides a striking picture of the decade's economic woes, drawing extensively on contemporary commentaries from both sides of the Atlantic and informed by a vivid sense of American geography...The author of a damning critique of the Bush White House, as well as books on government secrecy and on the architecture of neoliberal regulation, he is not an economist but a scholar of public administration. A principal aim of America’s First Great Depression is to assess the political outcomes of the economic turmoil, at both domestic and international level: what were its effects on the nascent party system, on tensions between states’ rights, federal efficacy and executive power, on territorial expansionism? -- Tom Mertes * New Left Review *Roberts's book is based on careful archival research that is quite uncommon in the study of public administration anywhere.... He dubbed his method the macrodynamics of administrative development, which is somewhat visible in Leonard White's four-volume administrative history and, more important, acknowledges the need of attention for both human agency and institutional context.... The book is well written and in my view an attractive example of how administrative history informs the present. * American Review of Public Administration *The parallels between pre-industrial America's 1837 financial crisis and that of our own time are particularly strong. The beauty of Roberts’s book is that the reader can see the entire arc of the crisis, from beginning to end, in a historical context.... Roberts nicely combines narrative history with analysis. His book is accessible to both the expert and the novice in economic history. Highly recommended. -- Daniel Littman * Forefront *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Back to the Future1. Boom and Bust Hard times Gauging the losses The bubble The collapse2. The States' Crisis Defaulting on state debts Disgrace in Europe Shackling the states3. The Federal Government's Crisis Gridlock in Washington The fraying national compact Losing the arms race Reconciling with the superpower4. Law and Order Rebellion in Rhode Island The anti- rent war Cannon fire in Philadelphia Building civic armies5. The End of the Crisis A proxy war in Mexico RedemptionConclusion: Freedom, Order, and Economic CrisisNote on Method and Acknowledgments Notes Index
£33.25
Cornell University Press The Familial State
Book SynopsisThe seventeenth century was called the Dutch Golden Age. Over the course of eighty years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe''s dominant power. Eventually, though, Dutch hegemony collapsed as quickly as it had risen. In The Familial State, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland''s great families played in this dramatic history. She charts how family patriarchswho were at the time both state-builders and merchant capitalistsshaped the first great wave of European colonialism, which in turn influenced European political development in innovative ways.On the basis of massive archival work, Adams arrives at a profoundly gendered reading of the family/power structure of the Dutch elite and their companies, in particular the VOC or Dutch East India Company. In the United Provinces, she finds the first example of the power structure that would dominate the transitional states of early modern Europethe familial state. ThisTrade ReviewSeldom have two hundred pages displayed such ambitious goals and achieved them with such a remarkable fluency. Julia Adams examines state formation and familial institutions in three early modern European countries: the Netherlands, France, and England. In so doing, she restores the Dutch experience to the centrality that it commanded in the seventeenth century. The book also suggests to national historians and historical sociologists that a narrow focus just cannot answer the big questions posed by the very histories so ubiquitously practiced by the current generation of one-nation historians. Comfortable being both genuinely comparative and firmly grounded in her own field, historical sociology, Adams further argues that the old categories deployed by historical analysis—state structures, class, religion, and patronage—cannot address the complexity of power without also addressing gender—more precisely, patrimony—as a force of immense historical significance.... This is a book that should now become required reading in every graduate seminar in early modern European history. It challenges us all to think outside the box that is the history of the nation, and it rewards such thinking with fresh insight into issues of gender, class, and state formation. It is a triumph. -- Margaret C. Jacob * Journal of Modern History *
£21.59
Cornell University Press The International Origins of the Federal Reserve
Book SynopsisThe argument in this book is of very great interest for understanding current battles over financial institutions around the world. And it is of great interest to students of institutional creation and design more broadly."—Political Science QuarterlyTrade ReviewA valuable book that opens a new perspective on the origins of the nation's most powerful financial institution. * Journal of American History *According to Broz, opportunities for the U.S. to become an international financial center constituted a major motive in the formation of the Federal Reserve System. * Choice *Essential reading in upper-division and graduate courses on money and banking and political economy. Broz has contributed an important and, until now, neglected element to the explanation of the origins of the Federal Reserve. * Perspectives on Political Science *If you have an interest in central bank theory, get this book. If you have an interest in macroeconomic history, get this book. If you have an interest in the origin and evolution of political institutions, get this book. Lawrence Broz presents an original and thought-provoking account of the origins of the Federal Reserve System that is a must read for students of central bank theory, history, and policy analysis.... Broz sheds new light on the 'origins' issue.... The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System is as close as possible to an academic 'can't-put-it-down' book. For those whose interest is sparked by the title, you will not be disappointed by this highly readable and original work. * Journal of Economic History *This fine book does, as promised, explain the emergence of central banking in the United States. That's value enough, but beyond that, the book provides leverage for handling an important collective action problem in the rationalist account of the creation of institutions.... The functionalism in efficiency explanations of institutions has always been a weakness, for it cannot explain the micro-incentives needed for action. Broz's approach provides a key conceptual road map out of that bind. The argument is of very great interest for understanding current battles over financial institutions around the world. And it is of great interest to students of institutional creation and design more broadly. * Political Science Quarterly *
£29.75
Cornell University Press Americas First Great Depression
Book SynopsisFor a while, it seemed impossible to lose money on real estate. But then the bubble burst. The financial sector was paralyzed and the economy contracted. State and federal governments struggled to pay their domestic and foreign creditors. Washington was incapable of decisive action. The country seethed with political and social unrest. In America''s First Great Depression, Alasdair Roberts describes how the United States dealt with the economic and political crisis that followed the Panic of 1837.As Roberts shows, the two decades that preceded the Panic had marked a democratic surge in the United States. However, the nation''s commitment to democracy was tested severely during this crisis. Foreign lenders questioned whether American politicians could make the unpopular decisions needed on spending and taxing. State and local officials struggled to put down riots and rebellion. A few wondered whether this was the end of America''s democratic experiment.RobTrade ReviewAmerica's First Great Depressionis an engaging book that could spark classroom debate on a number of important topics: internal improvements, the changing role of state governments, Anglo-American relations, immigration, urbanization, Jacksonian democracy, the Bank War, tariff issues, and the federal role in regulating the economy, slavery, and westward expansion. Roberts does a particularly fine job of placing this period of US history within a global perspective. As it is only 216 pages of text, this reviewer will assign this book in his Early US History survey class. -- Dave Bush * The Historian *Alasdair Roberts has written a thoughtful and timely book about how Americans in the past responded to global economic and political forces beyond their control. Roberts masterfully reinterprets the period for historians, but his goal is not primarily historical. Political scientists, policymakers, and citizens have much to learn from the economic crisis following 1837. -- Johann N. Neem * Political Science Quarterly *By recasting the Panic of 1837 as the start of the 'First Great Depression,' this book offers a clear attempt at creating a ‘usable past’ that can help modern citizens understand how our current unsettling economic landscape is not the first one Americans have been forced to navigate. -- Sean Patrick Adams * The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *For the first 50 years after achieving independence, Americans had every reason to believe theirs to be the most fortunate of nations. Then came the Panic of 1837, which caused a hopelessness rendered worse by the optimism that had preceded it and resulted in a crisis that lasted until 1848.... Alasdair Roberts reveals how this disaster led to epochal shifts in policy and culture, and his lively narrative and commitment to character ensure that the human cost is never out of sight. Roberts is especially keen to demonstrate how this mid-19th century ordeal relates to America's current woes. The 'hard times' of the 1830s led to financial ruin for state governments, a near-cessation of federal aid, and an outbreak of violent protests in many major cities. * Publishers Weekly *Roberts examines the financial, political, and social upheavals that occurred in the United States in the decade following the Panic of 1837, which he calls the First Great Depression.... Parallels to the country's current economic recession are clear throughout the text, and Roberts makes explicit comparisons in his conclusion. This timely book will be of great use not just to students of economic history but also to readers who wish to find historical precedent for today's uncertain, turbulent times. * Library Journal *Roberts makes a valuable contribution to the scholarship of nineteenth-century economic downturns and their impact upon American society. He succeeds in showing that the Panic had a significant ripple effect through American society and that these historical examples can serve as useful references as Americans deliberate how best to recover from the damage caused by the 'Panic of 2008.' Importantly, Roberts illustrates how a severe economic downturn impacts a society well beyond just the world of finance. We should hope that America's First Great Depression will be a catalyst for further examination of nineteenth-century business cycles and economic downturns. * Essays in Economic and Business History *Roberts provides a striking picture of the decade's economic woes, drawing extensively on contemporary commentaries from both sides of the Atlantic and informed by a vivid sense of American geography...The author of a damning critique of the Bush White House, as well as books on government secrecy and on the architecture of neoliberal regulation, he is not an economist but a scholar of public administration. A principal aim of America’s First Great Depression is to assess the political outcomes of the economic turmoil, at both domestic and international level: what were its effects on the nascent party system, on tensions between states’ rights, federal efficacy and executive power, on territorial expansionism? -- Tom Mertes * New Left Review *Roberts's book is based on careful archival research that is quite uncommon in the study of public administration anywhere.... He dubbed his method the macrodynamics of administrative development, which is somewhat visible in Leonard White's four-volume administrative history and, more important, acknowledges the need of attention for both human agency and institutional context.... The book is well written and in my view an attractive example of how administrative history informs the present. * American Review of Public Administration *The parallels between pre-industrial America's 1837 financial crisis and that of our own time are particularly strong. The beauty of Roberts’s book is that the reader can see the entire arc of the crisis, from beginning to end, in a historical context.... Roberts nicely combines narrative history with analysis. His book is accessible to both the expert and the novice in economic history. Highly recommended. -- Daniel Littman * Forefront *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Back to the Future1. Boom and Bust Hard times Gauging the losses The bubble The collapse2. The States' Crisis Defaulting on state debts Disgrace in Europe Shackling the states3. The Federal Government's Crisis Gridlock in Washington The fraying national compact Losing the arms race Reconciling with the superpower4. Law and Order Rebellion in Rhode Island The anti- rent war Cannon fire in Philadelphia Building civic armies5. The End of the Crisis A proxy war in Mexico RedemptionConclusion: Freedom, Order, and Economic CrisisNote on Method and Acknowledgments Notes Index
£18.99
Cornell University Press Consumer Society in American History
Book SynopsisThis volume offers the most comprehensive and incisive exploration of American consumer history to date, spanning the four centuries from the colonial era to the present.Trade ReviewThe anthology presents a highly engaging sample of divergent viewpoints.... The strengths of the anthology are in the analytical breadth of its essays.. * History: Reviews of New Books *The book mixes the agenda-setting works of established historians and cultural critics... with case studies provided by younger scholars... and historians not usually associated with works on consumption... as well as statements made on the nature of consumerism by journalists and activists.... Glickman has provided a group of essays potentially more representative of future explorations into consumer society.... His book will be an extremely useful introduction to the current research on consumer history. * Business History *This thoughtful and solidly documented collection looks at consumption with an eye both to the past and to the world... Comprising 24 excellently chosen selections... the book enables the reader to see both how consumption changed over time, and how the analysis of consumption has changed over time. * Labor History *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Born to Shop? Consumer History and American History - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMANPart I. Frameworks and Definitions 1. Consumer - RAYMOND WILLIAMS 2. Consuming Goods and the Good of Consuming - COLIN CAMPBELL 3. Consumer Society - JEAN BAUDRILLARD 4. What Is an Economy For? - JAMES FALLOWS 5. An Environmentalist's Perspective on Consumer Society - ALAN DURNINGPart II. Roots of American Consumer Society 6. The First Consumer Revolution - JAMES AXTELL 7. Narrative of Commercial Life: Consumption, Ideology, and Community on the Eve of the American Revolution - T. H. BREEN 8. Consumption in Early Modern Social Thought - JOYCE APPLEBYPart III. Class, Gender, and Modernity, 1880-1940 9. Encountering Mass Culture at the Grassroots: The Experience of Chicago Workers in the 1920s - LIZABETH COHEN 10. Familiar Sounds of Change: Music and the Growth of Mass Culture - GEORGE SANCHEZ 11. From Scarcity to Abundance: The Immigrant as Consumer - ANDREW HEINZE 12. Consuming Brotherhood: Men's Culture, Style and Recreation as Consumer Culture, 1880-1930 - MARK A. SWIENCICKI 13. "Don't Buy Where You Can't Work" - CHERYL GREENBERGPart IV. Consumerism Since World War II 14. The 'Work' Ethic and 'Leisure' Activity: The Hot Rod in Post-War America - H. F. MOORHOUSE 15. The Commodity Gap: Consumerism and the Modern Home - ELAINE TYLER MAY 16. The Revolution Will be Marketed: American Corporations and Black Consumers During the 1960s - ROBERT E. WEEMS, JR. 17. All Work and No Play. It Doesn't Pay - JULIET B. SCHOR 18. When High Wage Jobs Are Gone, Who Will Buy What We Make? - KIM MOODY 19. The Green Consumer - JOHN ELKINGTON, JULIA HAILES, AND JOEL MAKOWERPart V. Critiques and Celebrations 20. Delectable Materialism: Second Thoughts on Consumer Culture - MICHAEL SCHUDSON 21. The Tyranny of Choice - STEVEN WALDMAN 22. The Pleasures of Eating - WENDELL BERRY Coming Up for Air: Consumer Culture in Historical Perspective - JEAN-CHRISTOPHE AGNEWBibliographic Essay - LAWRENCE B. GLICKMAN Contributors Index
£28.49
Cornell University Press The New Empire
Book SynopsisThis classic work, by the distinguished historian Walter LaFeber, presents his widely influential argument that economic causes were the primary forces propelling America to world power in the nineteenth century. Cornell University Press is proud to...Trade Review"In this Beveridge Award-winning study, Walter LaFeber . . . probes beneath the apparently quiet surface of late nineteenth-century American diplomacy, undisturbed by major wars and undistinguished by important statements of policy. He finds those who shaped American diplomacy believed expanding foreign markets were the cure for recurring depressions. . . . In thoroughly documenting economic pressure on American foreign policy of the late nineteenth century, the author has illuminated a shadowy corner of the national experience. . . . The theory that America was thrust by events into a position of world power it never sought and was unprepared to discharge must now be re-examined. Also brought into question is the thesis that American policymakers have depended for direction on the uncertain compass of utopian idealism."—American Historical Review
£18.99
Cornell University Press The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis
Book SynopsisIn the summer of 1997, a tidal wave of economic problems swept across Asia. Currencies plummeted, banks failed, GNP stagnated, unemployment soared, and exports stalled. In short, the vaunted "Asian Economic Miracle" became the "Asian Economic...Trade ReviewPempel has put together an outstanding volume that will be of interest to academics with an interest in the region, crisis managment, or the complex interconnections that explain so many commercial events. This volume should have an impact on academic thinking, and it should have that impact for a long time... This is a volume worth reading, and worth reading carefully. * Asia Pacific Journal of Management *The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis is a must read for anyone interested in the national, regional, and global dimensions of the Asian economic crisis.... It has far-reaching comparative implications beyond... Asia.... Indeed, major economic crisis is nothing new to Latin America, and the former Soviet states have many lessons to learn, particularly as they navigate the rocky waters of the dual transition to democracy and a market-based economy. * Journal of East Asian Studies *The thoughts of the finest political analysts from both within and without East Asia are collected in this outstanding volume... The contributors emphasize nuance and detail over parsimony of explanation. * Journal of Asian Studies *The volume edited by Pempel is likely to become a key reference point for future scholarship on the political economy of crisis in Asia and beyond. * International Affairs *This collection of works, edited by T.J.Pempel, comprising contributions from a host of political analysts with expertise on the region, is essential to any reader of the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s. Moreover, following an international relations approach, this text offers a more comprehensive evaluation of the events in the region than what is provided by conventional readings of the crisis, which pertain mainly from a neoliberal viewpoint. * Review of Radical Political Economics *
£27.20
Cornell University Press The Vanishing Hectare Property and Value in
Book SynopsisIn most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores...Trade ReviewVerdery's 30 years of fieldwork research in Romania supplied the groundwork for The Vanishing Hectare, enabling her to offer some alternative versions of the changes in rural life and reasons behind the supposedly irrational behavior of rural people.... Her account is not so much of the laws and administrative paraphernalia that established private ownership but rather of the broader social and economic conditions that make for what the author terms 'effective ownership.' -- Andrew Cartwright * Anthropological Quarterly *Verdery's conclusions are bleak. She vividly describes how the efforts of individuals she depicts as conscientious, energetic, highly intelligent, and very charming all founder in the face of widening price scissors production costs and market returns.... The Vanishing Hectare showcases the value of long-term fieldwork—anthropology's core methodology—to illuminate the real-world consequences of wishful thinking, and deserves particular attention from scholars and practitioners concerned to understand the kinds of regime change formerly known as transition. -- Keith Brown * Slavic Review *Where the poet William Blake saw a world in a grain of sand, Ms. Verdery finds global collisions of values and culture in the manner that Aurel Vlaicu, a small Transylvanian town nestled at the foot of the Western Carpathian Mountains, privatized its landholdings after Romania's 1989 revolution.... Verdery often leavens her work with entertaining anecdotes.... Her intimate knowledge of the town proved useful when she delved into local corruption and ill feeling. Her larger critique of Western misprisions never dulls her eye for local failures. -- Richard Byrne * Chronicle of Higher Education *
£32.30
Johns Hopkins University Press From the American System to Mass Production
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe history of technology at its very best. It is also a volume which has a great deal to interest the business historian... A superb study replete with new insights and eqully valuable in its parts as in their sum... This is an exciting book which deserves the highest praise. Business History David Hounshell's history of the evolution of American production methods has few rivals: in execution of the theme it has none... Both the armchair historian and the specialist in the history of technology will find this a highly readable and most informative work. ScienceTable of ContentsFigures and TablesForewordAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. The American System of Manufacures in the Antebellum PeriodChapter 2. The Sewing Machine and the American System of ManufacturesChapter 3. Mass Production in American Woodworking Industries: A Case StudyChapter 4. The McCormick Reaper Works and American Manufacturing Technology in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 5. From the American System toward Mass Production: The Bicycle Industry in the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 6. The Ford Motor Company and the Rise of Mass Production in AmericaChapter 7. Cul-de-sac: The Limits of Fordism and the Coming of "Flexible Mass Production"Chapter 8. The Ethos of Mass Production and Its CriticsAppendix 1. The Evolution of the Expression The American System of ManufacturesAppendix 2. Singer Sewing Machine Artificial AnalysisNotesBibliographyIndex
£38.56
MY - University of Toronto Press The Workers Revolt in Canada 19171925
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Stanford University Press Crafting the Third World Theorizing
Book SynopsisThis innovative study compares the history of economic ideas and ideologies in Rumania and Brazil--and more broadly, those in East Central Europe and Latin America--in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
£26.99
Stanford University Press Erie Lackawanna Death of an American Railroad
Book SynopsisThis text examines the history of one of America's most famous railroads, the Erie, and its successor after 1960, the Erie Lackawanna. It covers the period between the Erie's fourth bankruptcy in the late 1930s, and its final liquidation in 1976.Trade ReviewThis important work is based on a mass of new material uncovered by the author, notably extensive oral histories. He skillfully integrates this new information into the story of the Erie Lackawanna's lingering death, filling in a good many gaps and bringing the importance of personalities in the corporate world into play. In the process, he explains the plight of all eastern railroads. Since Grant writes with clarity and flow, the book is a 'good read.'"—James A. Ward, University of Tennessee"Written in a style that pulls the reader along like a Tom Clancy novel, this book offers a management-level view of the failed struggles of two major railroads to survive. Because this was such a crucial era in American railroading, Grant's account offers a useful vantage point from which to view all North American railroads during that period. ... This is an account that pulls no punches."—Railfan and Railroad"The definitive history of the Erie Lackawanna."—Library Journal"Not merely a pleasure to read, this is an outstanding study of the railroad industry. ... Grant clearly describes the realities within which railroads operate and to which they must respond."—ChoiceTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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Stanford University Press One Industry Two Chinas Silk Filatures and
Book SynopsisThis book is a detailed study of the modern silk industry in a county in the Yangzi delta. It reopens and restructures the grand debate on Chinese economic development, combining quantitative analysis of both industry and agriculture with study of how local politics, class, culture, and gender also shaped the modern Chinese economy.Trade Review"Bell has taken immense pains to provide the detailed factual evidence for a chronic economic tragedy." -- Canadian Journal of History"This book should set new standards for local historical research and for studies of political/economic development in China. It is not just an important contribution to a field of study but a landmark of sorts. . . . With her careful organization and engaging style, Bell succeeds in presenting an extremely complex subject with remarkable clarity." -- Jerry Dennerline * Amherst College *"With this book Lynda Bell contributes a major piece to our understanding of China's modern economic history. The core of the book is a detailed description of the evolution of the sillk industry in central China between the late 19th century and the mid-20th century. . . . Specialists in Chinese economic and social history will want to add this book to their personal libraries. It would also serve as an excellent material for graduate or advanced undergraduate students because of its comprehensive analysis and Bell's clearly explained utilization of a wide variety of historical sources." -- The China Quarterly"Bell treats her subject with remarkable clarity, neatly steering her discussion between the optimistic and the pessimistic approaches taken by many previous commentators on economic development during the period covered by her book. . . . [This] is a work of impressive scholarship, eminently readable, and of value to anyone interested in the history of Chinese industrial development and the silk industry in particular." -- Enterprise & SocietyTable of ContentsNote on Wuxi county's administrative boundaries, commerical districts, and size Weights, measures and exchange rates 1. introduction: a tale of two Chinas 2. Markets and power in the late imperial era 3. Why Wuxi? merchant competition and the changing contours of Yangzi Delta Silk Production 4. Public sphere or private interest? Defending the Wuxi cocoon trade 5. Investors at risk in the Wuxi filature industry 6. Women in sericulture, or how gendered labor (re-)shaped peasant-family production 7. Imparting modernity: women and the politics of silk-industry reform 8. Success at last? Bourgeois practice and state intervention under the nationalists 9. Conclusion: peasants, industry, and the state Appendices Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Character list Index.
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Stanford University Press Fruitless Trees
Book SynopsisFor the most part, Brazil''s forests were not harvested, but annihilated, and relatively little was extracted for the benefit of Brazilians, a tragedy perhaps worse than deforestation alone. Fruitless Trees aims to make sense of what at first glance appears to be the senseless destruction of Brazil''s incomparable timber.The forests have always been Brazil''s most striking natural resource, and the Portuguese colonists anticipated enormous returns from its harvest, since Brazilian timber was more abundant and superior in quality to anything known in Europe, North America, or even Portugal''s East Indian possessions. This work investigates the relationship between Portugal''s colonial forest policies and the successes of the colonial venture, showing how forest law shaped the fortunes of the timber sector and promoted or obstructed colonial development. Timber was the steel, oil, coal, and plastic of the early modern period, and the effectiveness of its extraction affecTrade Review"Miller's fascinating and original comparative study of the colonial Brazilian timber industry . . . is an important contribution to the almost virgin field of Brazilian environmental history in the colonial period." -- Luso-Brazilian Review"[An] impressive collection of original documents and economic sources. . . ." -- Environmental HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The colonial landscape: timber, forests, and soils 2. Forest policy with Portuguese roots 3. Brazil's timber in the Atlantic basin 4. The tropical woodsman 5. Ax, ox, and sawmill: techniques and technology 6. Cabotage and transatlantic shipping 7. Shipbuilding and tropical timber Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index.
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Stanford University Press Terms of Labor Slavery Serfdom and Free Labor
Book SynopsisThis volume deals with the general issues of the causes and consequences of the rise of so-called free labor from slavery and serfdom in Europe, the United States, and the Caribbean over the past four to five centuries, and points to the many complications and paradoxical aspects of this change.Table of ContentsIntroduction Stanley L. Engerman 1. Slavery and freedom in the early modern world David Eltis 2. Free labor vs. slave labor: the British and Caribbean cases Seymour Drescher 3. After serfdom: Russian emancipation in comparative perspective Peter Kolchin 4. From autonomy to abundance: changing beliefs about the free labour system in nineteenth-century America Leon Fink 5. Changing legal conceptions of free labor Robert J. Steinfeld 6. Race, labor and gender in the languages of antebellum social protest David Roediger 7. 'We did not separate man and wife, but all had to work': freedom and dependence in the aftermath of slave emancipation Amy Dru Stanley 8. Free labor, law and American trade unionism David Brody 9. Social mobility, free labor, and the American dream Clayne Pope Notes Index.
£63.00
Stanford University Press The Mexican Economy 18701930
Book SynopsisStudying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth.Trade Review"This group of essays employs innovative methods, utilizes new sources, and reaches a variety of important conclusions about the Mexican economy during the Porfirian and revolutionary eras. It is a significant addition to the growing body of scholarship on the period."—The Americas
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Stanford University Press The Mexican Economy 18701930
Book SynopsisStudying the interaction of political and economic institutions in Mexico during the period of 1870-1930, this book shows how institutional change can foment economic growth.Trade Review"This group of essays employs innovative methods, utilizes new sources, and reaches a variety of important conclusions about the Mexican economy during the Porfirian and revolutionary eras. It is a significant addition to the growing body of scholarship on the period."—The Americas
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Stanford University Press Contract and Property in Early Modern China
Book SynopsisProviding a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly on contract and property, in Qing and Republican history, this volume provides case studies to explicate how these institutions worked, while situating them firmly in their broader social context.Trade Review“...the eleven papers in this volume present a fascinating range of case studies and historical details on the role of contracts and property rights in Chinese conomic transactions...”— EH.NET“This book is essential reading for scholars and graduate students interested in Chinese legal, social, and economic history.”—History: Reviews of New Books"...this volume in its detailed study of contracts in early modern China is a timely contribution for anyone interested in China's policy and economic development today."—Canadian Journal of Law and SocietyTable of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS List of Tables and Figures Introduction Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan Ocko, Robert Gardella Part One: Contract and the Establishment of Property Rights Chapter 1 A Critique of Rights of Property in Pre-War China Madeleine Zelin Chapter 2 Writs of Passage in Late Imperial China: The Documentation of Practical Understandings in Minong, Taiwan Myron Cohen Chapter 3 Litigation, Legitimacy, and Lethal Violence: Why County Courts Failed to Prevent Violent Disputes over Property in Eighteenth-century China Thomas Buoye Chapter 4 Property, Taxes, and State Protection of Rights Anne Osborne Chapter 5 The Status of Contracts in Nineteenth-Century Chinese Courts Mark Allee Chapter 6 The Missing Metaphor: Applying Western Legal Scholarship the Study of Contract and Property in Early Modern China Jonathan Ocko Part Two: Contract and the Practice of Business Chapter 7 Supplemental Payment in Urban Property contracts in mid to late Qing Shanghai Feng Shaoting Chapter 8 Managing Multiple Ownership at the Zigong Saltyard Madeleine Zelin Chapter 9 Custom, The Code, and Legal Practice: The Contracts of Changlu Salt Merchants in Late Imperial China Man Bun Kwan Chapter 10 Companies in Debt Financial Arrangements in the Textile Industry in the Lower Yangzi Delta, 1895{-}1937 Tomoko Shiroyama Chapter 11 Contracting Business Partnerships in Late Qing and Republican China: Paradigms and Patterns Robert Gardella Glossary Bibliography List of Contributors Index Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Contracts China History, Right of property China History
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Stanford University Press Republic of Capital
Book SynopsisThis is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, the volume explores Atlantic world transformations in the 18th and 19th centuries.Trade Review"The impressive explanations of liberalism, commercial realism, and how a new commercial code was enacted provide new insights into Argentine economic and political history. Adelman has provided a model by which to study philosophical and material backgrounds to other such codes enacted in the nineteenth century." -- The Historian"This ambitious work considers an often overlooked issue in the historiography of Latin America: how new and unstable states undertook to create and protect property rights. . . . This is an excellent work that will be of immense value not only to scholars of Argentine history, but to anyone who is interested in the history of ideas or the impact of laws and political institutions on economic change." -- Latin American Studies"This is an excellent work that will be of immense value not only to scholars of Argentine history, but also to anyone who is interested in the history of ideas or the impact of laws and political institutions on economic change." -- Latin American Studies"This is an ambitious work that approaches from a new and original vantage point an unusually vast historical landscape. It is a first-rate contribution that brings significant enrichment to the field, and should exert an important influence on its future development." -- Tulio Halperin-Donghi, University of California * Berkeley *"Republic of Capital is an engaging, well-researched, and important contribution to our understanding of the political, intellectual, and legal changes that occurred in the Buenos Aires region from the late eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century, with a brief afterword on twentieth-century developments." -- Canadian Journal of History"This book by Jeremy Adelman takes us on a marvelous journey from late colonialism through decolonization." -- American Historical Review"The combination of Adelman's persuasive argumentation and analysis makes this work an exceptional contribution to our understanding of nation building." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsContents 1 SECTION I: 2 3 4 SECTION II: 5 6 7 SECTION III: 8 9 10 11
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Stanford University Press Spectacular Speculation
Book SynopsisA history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation between 1870 and 1930, this book looks at how speculation was represented in popular discourse and analyzes the discursive struggles turning it into a legitimate economic practice.Trade Review"The history of how society came to view, describe, and understand economic speculation remains critically relevant today, when speculation played a pivotal role in the 2008 housing market crash and the fallout that is still ongoing. Spectacular Speculation is therefore a welcome and highly recommended addition to world history and economic studies shelves."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review"We are still living in the shadow of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, whose origins and aftermath will doubtless continue to interest scholars and the general public for generations to come. The thorough historical analysis carried out by Professor Stäheli, a unique and vital addition to the history and sociology of finance, not only illuminates the past; it gives us a new perspective on our present and future."—Christian De Cock, University of Essex"Spectacular Speculation is a stunningly original and perhaps disturbing account of euphoria and hysteria in world financial markets. Urs Stäheli masterfully links together sociology, history and finance."—Werner DeBondt, DePaul University
£98.60
Stanford University Press Spectacular Speculation
Book SynopsisA history and sociological analysis of the semantics of speculation between 1870 and 1930, this book looks at how speculation was represented in popular discourse and analyzes the discursive struggles turning it into a legitimate economic practice.Trade Review"The history of how society came to view, describe, and understand economic speculation remains critically relevant today, when speculation played a pivotal role in the 2008 housing market crash and the fallout that is still ongoing. Spectacular Speculation is therefore a welcome and highly recommended addition to world history and economic studies shelves."—James A. Cox, Midwest Book Review"We are still living in the shadow of the 2007-2009 financial crisis, whose origins and aftermath will doubtless continue to interest scholars and the general public for generations to come. The thorough historical analysis carried out by Professor Stäheli, a unique and vital addition to the history and sociology of finance, not only illuminates the past; it gives us a new perspective on our present and future."—Christian De Cock, University of Essex"Spectacular Speculation is a stunningly original and perhaps disturbing account of euphoria and hysteria in world financial markets. Urs Stäheli masterfully links together sociology, history and finance."—Werner DeBondt, DePaul University
£25.19
Stanford University Press Law and LongTerm Economic Change
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Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£91.80
Stanford University Press Invention and Reinvention
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Invention & Reinvention: The Evolution of San Diego's Innovation Economy is a fascinating story of regeneration. Using a social history perspective over different periods, it offers a wonderful case study of urban reinvention and hence is a must-read for any economic geographer who studies regions, technology development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and evolutionary geography."—Shiri M. Breznitz, Economic Geography"Throughout my career in public office, I was conscious of the need for a good history about the dynamic south west corner of our state. Mary Walshok and Abe Shragge have captured a century and a half of San Diego history in a book that will ring true for anyone who has been engaged in its political and economic evolution over the last fifty years."—Pete Wilson, Former California State Assemblyman, Mayor of San Diego, U.S. Senator, and Governor of California"Sociologist Mary Walshok and historian Abraham Shragge show their readers that San Diego truly is a city of invention and innovation . . . It is a very worthwhile read for an economic historian, for it provides a thorough introduction to the city's economic history . . . [Invention and Reinvention] forces the reader to think about why San Diego's experience has been so different from U.S. cities that have not done well over the past half century."—Fred Smith, EH.Net: The Economic History Network"This is an important, pioneering book that contributes to our unique understanding of how one place, San Diego, has achieved what most places want: the capacity to evolve and meet the challenges of a constantly changing global economic environment. Walshok and Shragge help us understand why some places thrive while others wither."—David B. Audretsch, Indiana University and Author of The Entrepreneurial Society"The San Diego region has long deserved a really comprehensive history of how its economy emerged from a primarily military and defense contracting town into one of the leading innovation regions in America. This book describes that journey and contains a number of insights that will be extremely useful to other regions that are trying to reinvent themselves."—Richard Florida, Author of The Rise of the Creative Class, Director, Martin Prosperity Institute, University of Toronto and the Creative Class Group"San Diego has a unique history in terms of its long relationship with the federal government, and especially the military, which this book captures superbly. Especially relevant is the discussion of the role that the research institutions on the Torrey Pines Mesa played in the transformation of the region's economy. A wonderfully engaging book for anyone interested in trying to realize the social and economic benefits of basic research."—Richard C. Atkinson, President Emeritus, University of California and Director, National Science Foundation 1977–1980"Having been an early faculty member at the UCSD School of Medicine, a founder of Hybritech, and an investor in many of San Diego's biotech companies, I am impressed with how well this book captures the dynamics shaping San Diego's emergence as a world class science hub."—Ivor Royston, Founding Managing Partner, Forward Ventures and Founder, Hybritech"As a third generation Californian, with deep roots in the San Diego region, I am delighted to see a book that focuses on the distinctive character of the San Diego economy and its evolution. Walshok and Shragge have made a significant contribution to San Diego and California history."—Malin Burnham, Vice Chairman, Cushman & Wakefield, Board Member, Sanford/Burnham Medical Research Institute, and Co-Chair, Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine"In this economic history, Walshok and Shragge give this a different spin by emphasizing San Diego's civic culture, its spirit of collaboration, and civic values. Focusing on civic leaders, scientists, and business entrepreneurs, they tell a story of almost unimpeded achievement . . . Recommended."—R. A. Beauregard, CHOICE
£22.49
Stanford University Press Markets in the Name of Socialism
Book SynopsisChallenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.Trade Review"This is a daring and well-researched book of breathtaking scope. The author has delved into no less than 100 years of transnational economic discussions that span several continents and politico-economic systems in at least 4-5 languages, drawing on published sources, primary archival materials, and on numerous interviews conducted over a 14 year period. The book presents a bold, counter-intuitive, and original thesis that is destined to attract a lot of attention. Neo-liberalism, it argues, is not simply the enemy, inverse, and grave-digger of socialism; in fact, it is a parasite that originated in the debate with, about, and within socialism." -- Gil Eyal * Columbia University, and author of The Origins of Post-Communist Elites: From the Prague Spring to the Breakup of Czechoslovakia *"In this tour de force, Johanna Bockman studies the history of economics to extricate neoclassical theory and market institutions from their identification with capitalism, and in so doing opens up the future to the possibility of all sorts of market socialisms. A must-read." -- Michael Burawoy, University of California * Berkeley *"Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism: The Left-Wing Origins of Neoliberalism, describes the origins of neoliberalism from a unique perspective that has hardly been explored so far, namely, the contribution of Eastern European economists to the articulation and implementation of neoclassical economic theories . . . The book provides an important sociological perspective on the intellectual developments in Eastern Europe during the Communist era . . . [T]he book is a major contribution to our understanding of the translation of neoclassical economics both to socialism and to neoliberalism, and as such is a particularly important addition to the field." -- Nitsan Chorev * Contemporary Sociology *"[H]er research offers an important historical complement to recent attempt to revisit the conventional wisdom about neoclassical methodology, socialist politics, and market economics." -- Tim Barker * Dissent *"Johanna Bockman's book, Markets in the Name of Socialism, seeks to chip away at [the] conventional wisdoms [about neoliberalism, the postsocialist transitions, and the economics profession, which calcified after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989]. To do so, she takes her readers on a historically and geographically ambitious worldwide tour of the history of economic thought . . . This elegantly written book reveals a compelling vision in which markets are not, as in the orthodox Marxist view, a Trojan horse for the social hierarchies of capitalism, but a variety of human interaction compatible with many different social systems." -- Sarah Babb * American Journal of Sociology *"This book makes a brilliant argument that is of great interest to anybody who wonders about the political impact of economic theory—in the nature of different forms of socialism, in the interpretation of the East European transformation since 1989, and in the future fundamentals of policy." -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer * Brown University and author of Usable Theory: Analytic Tools for Social and Political Research *"Sociologist Johanna Bockman's much-awaited book is undoubtedly an instant classic. Her argument about the left-wing origins of neoliberalism goes against the grain of most theories about neoliberal globalization and postsocialist transformations in Europe. As such, it is a must-read for scholars studying these processes in whatever region of the world. . . With its clear prose, this is relational and transnational history at its best, and this work will undoubtedly shape scholarship for decades to come." -- Zsuzsa Gille * Slavic Review *"Johanna Bockman's Markets in the Name of Socialism offers a refreshing take on a fairly well-trodden question: the relationship between economics and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century . . . One of its central strengths is its historically and internationally grounded delineation of the boundary between neoclassicism and neoliberalism . . . Bockman offers a useful corrective to unipolar notions of economic knowledge as developing mainly in the West while Eastern European and Soviet economics, subordinated to Marxist ideology, stagnated . . . Bockman's work is an important step toward thinking outside of neoliberalism's self-presentation by undermining the problematic dichotomies upon which its has ben built—socialism versus capitalism, states versus markets . . . Markets in the Name of Socialism remains an important work that is necessary reading for anyone interested in neoliberalism, economics and the intersection between the two." -- Stephanie Lee Mudge * Social Forces *"Markets in the Name of Socialism shows that there are important lacunae in the study of neoliberalism as a world-scale ideology. . . A richly detailed and well-argued book that should interest PEWS scholars as it opens up new areas of research in neoliberalism as a 'structure of knowledge' within the world-system. In all, Bockman's book offers both an important insight into the history and workings of neoliberalism and a spur to further research." -- Robert MacPherson * Political Economy of the World-System (PEWS) News *
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Stanford University Press Bubbles and Crashes
Book SynopsisFinancial market bubbles are recurring, often painful, reminders of the costs and benefits of capitalism. While many books have studied financial manias and crises, most fail to compare times of turmoil with times of stability. In Bubbles and Crashes, Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch give us new insights into the causes of speculative booms and busts. They identify a class of assetsmajor technological innovationsthat can, but does not necessarily, produce bubbles. This methodological twist is essential: Only by comparing similar events that sometimes lead to booms and busts can we ascertain the root causes of bubbles. Using a sample of eighty-eight technologies spanning 150 years, Goldfarb and Kirsch find that four factors play a key role in these episodes: the degree of uncertainty surrounding a particular innovation, the attentive presence of novice investors, the opportunity to directly invest in companies that specialize in the technology, and whether or not a technology is a gooTrade Review"Goldfarb and Kirsch possess a keen understanding of the history of technological innovation and the evolution and implementation of new technologies and their respective impact on society. Their work sheds light on causal factors that were not previously well understood with respect to technological innovation and the underlying dynamics which lead innovation to spawn speculative bubbles. Bubbles and Crashes provides important insights for both investors and policy makers to recognize bubbles and implement policies to minimize their impact."—Jonathan Rosenberg, Senior Vice President, Alphabet"A fascinating account of how and when new technologies lead to exuberant asset prices. Anyone who thinks about innovation and financial markets will enjoy this book."—Jonathan Levin, Stanford Graduate School of Business"Strongly grounding their work in historical evidence, Goldfarb and Kirsch advance our understanding of how technological innovations sometimes do, and sometimes don't, lead to financial bubbles. They move the discussion of bubbles and crashes away from journalism and toward science. Investors and finance professionals along with financial regulators and policy makers need to absorb the lessons of this provocative analysis."—Richard Sylla, New York University"What an engaging book! Why do booms and busts happen during the deployment of some technologies and not others? The work looks deeply at many memorable episodes of new technologies – electric lighting, vulcanized rubber, insulin, telephony, radio and television, electronic commerce, and much more. The authors bring accessible and penetrating insight to the economics, and illustrate with rich examples. It is a joy to read the stories and analysis. Highly recommended!"—Shane Greenstein, Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School"When is a technology boom actually a bubble? In Bubbles and Crashes authors Goldfarb and Kirsch deliver a nuanced guide to answering this question. Based on the careful examination of 88 important innovations—ranging from the electric light to the World Wide Web—they demonstrate the importance of pure-play investment opportunities, naive investors, and powerful narratives in allowing runaway speculation that overwhelms the moderating forces of imitation, entry, and competition. This is must reading for anyone interested in how new technologies develop, how they are perceived when they first occur, and how some generate clear bubbles."—Richard Rumelt, Professor Emeritus, UCLA Anderson"Goldfarb and Kirsch provide an interesting take on some factors that facilitate the development and bursting of bubbles in technology industries...Readers may particularly appreciate the discussion on competition and policy...Practitioners, graduate students, and researchers may benefit by reading this book. Highly recommended."––S. R. Sisodiya, CHOICETable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Bubbles and Non-Bubbles Across Time 2. Uncertainty and Narratives 3. Novices, Naïfs, and Biases 4. When Are There Not Bubbles? 5. Recent and Future Bubbles 6. Policy Implications
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John Wiley & Sons When Cimarron Meant Wild
Book SynopsisJust how wild was the Cimarron country in the late 1800s? And what were the consequences for the region and for those caught up in the conflict? The answers, pursued through this remarkable work, enhance our understanding of cultural and economic struggle in the American West.Trade Review“All the elements of the settlement of the American West are here in David Caffey’s carefully researched story of the Maxwell Land Grant and the various groups and people who sought to make all, or even a small piece, of it their own at the end of the nineteenth century: cattlemen, miners, Mexican settlers who came earlier, American settlers who came later, the Jicarilla Apache and Southern Ute people who had called the region home for hundreds of years, corrupt politicians, the Santa Fe Ring, hired gunmen, and absentee corporate landlords. All of them created a volatile mix that erupted over the largest private landholding in the United States. Caffey elucidates on how the ingenious use of American land laws and policies coalesced with the American dream of land ownership to provide the rationale for settling and “civilizing” the wild territory of Cimarron."—Veronica E. Velarde Tiller, author of The Jicarilla Apache Tribe: A History, 1846–1970"An engaging and readable retelling of the Colfax County War and the troubles over the settling of the Maxwell Land Grant in northeastern New Mexico and southern Colorado. Through the lens of extrajudicial violence, David Caffey explores how local ranchers, farmers, and miners took the law into their own hands in order to seek justice and settle old scores."—MarÍa E. Montoya, author of Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Problem of Land in the American West
£27.50
Louisiana State University Press Confederate Political Economy
Book SynopsisArgues that the Confederate nation was an expedient corporatist state - a society that required all sectors of the economy to work for the national interest, as defined by a partnership of industrial leaders and a dominant government.
£36.86
Louisiana State University Press Industrial Development and Manufacturing in the
Book SynopsisEngages a wide variety of sources - including United States census data, which many historians have underutilized when gauging economic growth in the prewar South - to show how industrial development in the region has been systematically minimized by scholars.
£35.06
LSU Press Grand Emporium Mercantile Monster
Book SynopsisFocusing on the crucial period of 1820 to 1860, this volume examines the strong economic bonds between the antebellum plantation South and the burgeoning city of New York that resulted from the highly lucrative trade in cotton.
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University of Pennsylvania Press A New Nation of Goods
Book SynopsisIn the middle of the nineteenth century, middle-class Americans embraced a new culture of domestic consumption, one that centered on chairs and clocks as well as family portraits and books. How did that new world of goods, represented by Victorian parlors filled with overstuffed furniture and daguerreotype portraits, come into being? A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture. As a whole, the book proposes an innovative analysis of early nineteenth-century industrialization and the development of a middle-class consumer culture. It relies on many of the objects beloved by decorative arts scholars and collectors to evoke the vitality of village craft production and culture in the decades after the War of InTrade Review"A magnificent effort. A New Nation of Goods effectively merges commerce and culture as twinned engines that promoted the democratization of knowledge and the commercialization of the countryside. The range of material things covered in this book is impressive, from paintings to prints, from clocks to chairs, from sideboards to daguerreotypes, to mention but a few." * Robert Blair St. George, University of Pennsylvania *"A New Nation of Goods has much to recommend it. Interdisciplinary, the work leverages a wealth of sources, from probate inventories and census records to patent applications and auction catalogs. It . . . asks us to reconsider many of our long-standing assumptions about the diffusion of culture in rural communities and the relative pace and influence of market activity." * Journal of the Early Republic *
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University of Pennsylvania Press The Long Gilded Age
Book SynopsisFrom the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such as railroads, coal, and steel. The still-growing nation established economic, political, and cultural entanglements with forces overseas. Local strikes in manufacturing, urban transit, and construction placed labor issues front and center in political campaigns, legislative corridors, church pulpits, and newspapers of the era.The Long Gilded Age considers the interlocking roles of politics, labor, and internationalism in the ideologies and institutions that emerged at the turn of the twentieth century. Presenting a new twist on central themes of American labor and working-class history, Leon Fink examines how the American conceptualization of free labor played out in iconic industrial strikes, and how freedom in the workTrade Review"[The Long Gilded Age] reflects the author's long consideration and detailed knowledge of foundational developments in United States capitalism and culture during the final decades of the nineteenth century." * Enterprise & Society *"Leon Fink shakes up understandings of U.S. history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-his Long Gilded Age-with unique attention to and global perspective on the contradictions of free labor ideology, the resolution of labor disputes in an age of epic strikes, and the youth culture of American socialism. The Long Gilded Age is ready-made for pitched discussion, as it speaks trenchantly to our own times." * Walter Licht, University of Pennsylvania *"A splendid historical analysis of how, in light of what we know about the world in the early twenty-first century, we might reconsider the history of that forty-year era of industrial conflict and tepid reform that the author labels the Long Gilded Age." * Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The American Ideology Chapter 2. Great Strikes Revisited Chapter 3. The University and Industrial Reform Chapter 4. Labor's Search for Legitimacy Chapter 5. Coming of Age in Internationalist Times Epilogue Notes Index Acknowledgments
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MT - University of Pennsylvania Press Destructive Creation
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Destructive Creation should be mandatory reading for historians of World War II, and for military historians in general. . . . Its compelling, well-substantiated arguments about the origins (and chronology) of American conservatism will be of interest to political historians. Scholars of business and/or technology, meanwhile, will have much to learn from Wilson's nuanced analysis of the unexpectedly fraught relationship between the public agencies and private firms that produced America's 'arsenal of democracy.' This is also a timely book, relevant to current debates about the privatization of military operations, security, and policing." * American Historical Review *"A masterful history of the World War II mobilization effort. Deeply researched, this book synthesizes, military, business, and political history in a well-written account of a war that is often oversimplified. Wilson's account should inform future histories of World War II-and perhaps reignite debates over the relative merits of public versus private enterprise." * Journal of Military History *"It is an extraordinarily valuable and careful monograph that explains what works, and why we believe untrue stories about effective mobilization for war, and other crises." * Business History Review *"Mark R. Wilson has made an outstanding contribution to the historical debate about U.S. industrial mobilization in World War II. Destructive Creation focuses on the substantial but largely ignored public sector contribution to the industrial war effort and argues that overemphasizing the role of the private sector and the relative neglect of the public sector in the historical literature has distorted our understanding of that wartime production miracle." * Journal of American History *"Destructive Creation is essential reading for economic historians interested in WWII and for learning the lessons of history most relevant to ongoing debates over the military-industrial complex of the twenty-first century." * Journal of Economic History *"Wilson's book is hard hitting, but balanced, detailed without being pedantic, and eminently stimulating." * Defense Acquisition Research Journal *"Destructive Creation is a probing account of the World War II mobilization effort that sheds new light on the sources of big business hostility to government regulation. As Mark Wilson demonstrates in absorbing detail, it was the very success of the wartime state that generated such a furious business backlash. This is revisionist history in the most provocative and illuminating sense." * Nelson Lichtenstein, University of California, Santa Barbara *"An outstanding reinterpretation of the role of business in the war effort, this volume is a must read for anyone who wants to understand World War II and the world of private contractors that has come to define our modern military." * Meg Jacobs, author of Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America *"Destructive Creation is a truly important, impressive, and extraordinary history of the mobilization of the United States' economy during the Second World War, with a number of fascinating implications for our understanding of the interactions between business, politics, and American society. Mark R. Wilson makes a compelling case for placing the relationship between the military and business at the center of how we think about modern American history." * Jason Scott Smith, University of New Mexico *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Shadows of the Great War Chapter 2. Building the Arsenal Chapter 3. War Stories Chapter 4. One Tough Customer Chapter 5. Of Strikes and Seizures Chapter 6. Reconversions Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press From Main Street to Mall The Rise and Fall of the
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Howard's book is essential reading. . . . From Main Street to Mall makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of retailing and of business more broadly in the U.S." * American Historical Review *"From Main Street to Mall is an important, insightful, and informative work that succeeds in charting and analysing the rise and fall of the department store and how this process was mediated by interactions between the department store industry, other business interests, local and national politics, and wider long-term changes in American society. This [could] serve as the standard U.S. reference work on this sector for many years." * Economic History Review *"Howard's book is a highly valuable complement to the current body of literature on department stores . . . Rather than acquiescing to the commonly accepted inevitability of market forces leading to the decline of department stores, Howard traces the various private and public actors and political processes that have consciously contributed to their decline." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"From Main Street to Mall is a welcome and excellent addition to the literature on mass retailing in the United States." * Business History Review *"From Main Street to Mall succeeds admirably in providing a rich history of the US department store, synthesising various perspectives-social, economic and political-to produce a highly readable account of its development and decline." * Consumption Markets & Culture *"From Main Street to Mall offers sharp analysis of American retailing from a new vantage point, advancing our understanding of the department store beyond Macy's and Marshall Field's. Historians of consumer culture have always known of smaller stores in smaller cities, but nobody paid attention to them until Vicki Howard. A significant contribution." * Susan Strasser, author of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market *"Combining deep historical research and vivid description, Vicki Howard lucidly explains how, when, and why the department store came to dominate American commercial culture and how the democratization of consumption, changing public policy, and the forces of globalization contributed to its transformation and demise. A must-read for researchers of American consumer culture and for anyone who loves to shop." * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, author of The Color Revolution *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Palace of Consumption Chapter 2. Creating an Industry Chapter 3. Modernizing Main Street Chapter 4. A New Deal for Department Stores Chapter 5. An Essential Industry in Wartime Chapter 6. The Race for the Suburbs Chapter 7. The Postwar Discount Revolution Chapter 8. The Death of the Department Store Epilogue. Remembering Downtown Department Stores Notes Index Acknowledgments
£25.19
University of Pennsylvania Press Sick Economies
Book SynopsisSick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing.Trade Review"In this important book Harris explores the early modern discourse of mercantilism, tracing its merger with the discourse of bodily illness." * Choice *"Harris has successfully argued a decidedly unique angle of interpretation. What may have initially struck the reader as an impossibly broad scope of inquiry is revealed, through rigorous textual analysis, as an intriguing interdisciplinary perspective that will certainly impact subsequent scholarship." * Comitatus *"This book offers great insight into the Renaissance discourses of the body, the emergence of mercantile theory, and early modern drama." * Seventeenth-Century News *Table of Contents1. The Asian Flu; Or, The Pathological Drama of National Economy 2. Syphilis and Trade: Thomas Starkey, Thomas Smith, The Comedy of Errors 3. Taint and Usury: Gerard Malynes, The Dutch Church Libel, The Merchant of Venice 4. Canker/Serpego and Value: Gerard Malynes, Troilus and Cressida 5. Plague and Transmigration: Timothy Bright, Thomas Milles, Volpone 6. Hepatitis/Castration and Treasure: Edward Misselden, Gerard Malynes, The Fair Maid of the West, The Renegado 7. Consumption and Consumption: Thomas Mun, The Roaring Girl 8. Afterword: Anthrax, Cyberworms, and the New Ethereal Economy Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£56.10
University of Pennsylvania Press Capitalism by Gaslight
Book SynopsisA compelling history of nineteenth-century economic, social, and cultural life, Capitalism by Gaslight explores the blurred boundary between legitimate and illegitimate economic activity, describing the dealings of prostitutes, dealers in dirty books and used goods, mock auctioneers, illegal slavers, and other entrepreneurs.Trade Review"A valuable addition to the rapidly growing literature on the history of capitalism in the United States." * Gary Kornblith, Oberlin College *"This engagingly presented volume is a truly important contribution to the economic and cultural history of the nineteenth century and to the history of capitalism." * Rosanne Currarino, Queens University *Table of ContentsIntroduction—Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson Chapter 1. The Loomis Gang's Market Revolution—Will B. Mackintosh Chapter 2. The Promiscuous Economy: Cultural and Commercial Geographies of Secondhand in the Antebellum City—Robert J. Gamble Chapter 3. The Era of Shinplasters: Making Sense of Unregulated Paper Money—Joshua R. Greenberg Chapter 4. The Rag Race: Jewish Secondhand Clothing Dealers in England and America—Adam Mendelsohn Chapter 5. Lickspittles and Land Sharks: The Immigrant Exploitation Business in Antebellum New York—Brendan P. O'Malley Chapter 6. "The World Is But One Vast Mock Auction": Fraud and Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century America—Corey Goettsch Chapter 7. Underground on the High Seas: Commerce, Character, and Complicity in the Illegal Slave Trade—Craig B. Hollander Chapter 8. "Some Rascally Business": Thieving Slaves, Unscrupulous Whites, and Charleston's Illicit Waterfront Trade—Michael D. Thompson Chapter 9. Selling Sex and Intimacy in the City: The Changing Business of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore—Katie M. Hemphill Chapter 10. Economies of Print in the Nineteenth-Century City—Paul Erickson Chapter 11. Back Number Budd: An African American Pioneer in the Old Newspaper and Information Management Business—Ellen Gruber Garvey Conclusion—Brian P. Luskey and Wendy A. Woloson Notes Index List of Contributors Acknowledgments
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press Building the Empire State
Book SynopsisFocusing on the state of New York, home to the first American banks, utilities, canals, and transportation infrastructure projects, Building the Empire State examines the origins of American capitalism by tracing how and why business corporations were first introduced into the economy of the early republic.Trade Review"In Building the Empire State, Brian Murphy deftly revisits the founding of New York State, in the process revising our understanding of how the political economy of the early republic operated in practice. Rather than a strict separation between the public obligations of the state and the private interests of for-profit corporations, Murphy finds a much more integrated, reciprocal relationship that organically emerged from the experiences of the late colonial and Revolutionary periods. His fresh approach and sophisticated argument make a significant contribution to several fields, including political history, business history, and the history of capitalism more broadly." * Sharon Murphy, Providence College *Table of ContentsNote on Banking Terms Introduction. Strength in Structure Chapter 1. "The Most Dangerous and Effectual Engine of Power" Chapter 2. "An Enlarged American Scale" Chapter 3. "A Very Convenient Instrument" Chapter 4. "To Occupy All Points" Chapter 5. "If We Must Have War or a Canal, I Am in Favor of the Canal" Conclusion. Corporate Political Economy Notes Index Acknowledgments
£48.60
University of Pennsylvania Press From Main Street to Mall
Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with archival photos, this comprehensive study of the American department store industry traces the changing economic and political contexts that brought about the decline of downtown shopping districts and the rise of big-box stores and suburban malls.Trade Review"Howard's book is essential reading. . . . From Main Street to Mall makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of retailing and of business more broadly in the U.S." * American Historical Review *"From Main Street to Mall is an important, insightful, and informative work that succeeds in charting and analysing the rise and fall of the department store and how this process was mediated by interactions between the department store industry, other business interests, local and national politics, and wider long-term changes in American society. This [could] serve as the standard U.S. reference work on this sector for many years." * Economic History Review *"Howard's book is a highly valuable complement to the current body of literature on department stores . . . Rather than acquiescing to the commonly accepted inevitability of market forces leading to the decline of department stores, Howard traces the various private and public actors and political processes that have consciously contributed to their decline." * Journal of Urban Affairs *"From Main Street to Mall is a welcome and excellent addition to the literature on mass retailing in the United States." * Business History Review *"From Main Street to Mall succeeds admirably in providing a rich history of the US department store, synthesising various perspectives-social, economic and political-to produce a highly readable account of its development and decline." * Consumption Markets & Culture *"From Main Street to Mall offers sharp analysis of American retailing from a new vantage point, advancing our understanding of the department store beyond Macy's and Marshall Field's. Historians of consumer culture have always known of smaller stores in smaller cities, but nobody paid attention to them until Vicki Howard. A significant contribution." * Susan Strasser, author of Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market *"Combining deep historical research and vivid description, Vicki Howard lucidly explains how, when, and why the department store came to dominate American commercial culture and how the democratization of consumption, changing public policy, and the forces of globalization contributed to its transformation and demise. A must-read for researchers of American consumer culture and for anyone who loves to shop." * Regina Lee Blaszczyk, author of The Color Revolution *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Palace of Consumption Chapter 2. Creating an Industry Chapter 3. Modernizing Main Street Chapter 4. A New Deal for Department Stores Chapter 5. An Essential Industry in Wartime Chapter 6. The Race for the Suburbs Chapter 7. The Postwar Discount Revolution Chapter 8. The Death of the Department Store Epilogue. Remembering Downtown Department Stores Notes Index Acknowledgments
£70.55
University of Pennsylvania Press Purchasing Power
Book SynopsisHow has the ability of Jews to amass and wield power, within both Jewish and non-Jewish society, influenced and been influenced by their economic activity? Purchasing Power answers this question by examining the nexus between money and power in modern Jewish history. It does so, in its first section, by presenting a series of case studies of the ways in which the economic choices made by Jewish businessmen could bring them wealth and influence. The second section focuses on transnational Jewish philanthropic and economic networks. The discussions there reveal how the wielding of power by Jewish organizations on the world stage could shape not only Jewish society but also the international arena.In this way, the contributors to this volume reposition economics as central to our understanding of the Jewish experience from early modern Rome to contemporary America. Its importance for the creation of the State of Israel is also examined. As the editors write: The study of cTrade Review"A rich collection of essays, Purchasing Power offers a wide range of innovative methodological and historiographical perspectives on Jewish economic life from the early to late modern period. The audacity of the collection is apparent in the time span it covers-from early modern Rome to the Soviet Jewry movement in 1960s-1980s America-alongside its engagement with crucial questions that 're-position economics in our understanding of the modern Jewish experience.'" * Studies in Contemporary Jewry *"Long neglected or politicized, the study of Jewish economic life at the onset of modernity has now emerged as a growing field of interest. This rich collection of essays offers a valuable addition to the existing literature and will stimulate further debates." * Francesca Trivellato, Yale University *"This is a volume that historians of early modern and late modern Jewry, as well as those with an interest in the history of commerce and of transnational political and philanthropic networks, will want to consult." * Jerry Z. Muller, The Catholic University of America *
£62.90
University of Pennsylvania Press Market Rules
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rose utilizes a sure grasp of regulatory issues, a command of interdisciplinary literature, the fruits of deep archival research, and the ability to craft political narratives and biographical sketches. Market Rules is, without doubt, the best book we have on the history of the regulation of commercial banking from the 1960s to 1999." * The Journal of American History *"Mark Rose has written a lively and lucid account of banking and financial history over the past half century, laying out the grand ambitions and rivalries of leading bankers and policymakers like Walter Wriston, Donald T. Regan, and Sandy Weill-and the changing strategies for delivering economic growth led by presidents Kennedy, Reagan, and Obama. Market Rules relates the history of today's massive multipurpose banks, the 2008 crisis, and its aftermath to broader trends in American society and life from the 1960s to the present. It is a great achievement." * Walter Friedman, Harvard Business School *"Compared to half a century ago, America has many fewer and much larger banks. Mark Rose's engaging study shows that this was far from a market outcome. It was a product of bank politics: entrepreneurial bankers persuaded U.S. presidents and regulators that ever-larger, less regulated 'supermarket' banks were more efficient, more stable, and thus more growth-promoting. The actual outcome-financial crisis, the Great Recession, and slower growth-lead Rose to suggest that, in banking, political clout trumped economic efficiency." * Richard Sylla, New York University *"Mark Rose's engaging study follows a group of men, who, over successive presidential administrations, helped transform the landscape of American banking in the late twentieth century. Rose makes a compelling argument that the history of American banking is a fundamentally political one. In its focus on politics and people at the center of banking, Market Rules offers a unique voice." * Susie Pak, St. John's University *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction. Politics and the Markets They Made PART I. LAWMAKERS AND REGULATORS Chapter 1. Deregulation Before Deregulation: John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and James Saxon Chapter 2. Supermarket Banks: Richard Nixon and Donald Regan PART II. BANKERS IN POLITICS Chapter 3. Rescuing Banks Through Growth: Walter Wriston and Citicorp Chapter 4. A Marine in Banker's Clothing: Hugh McColl and North Carolina National Bank PART III. NEW REGIMES FOR BANKERS Chapter 5. Full-Service Banks: Bill Clinton and Sandy Weill Chapter 6. God's Work in Finance: Ken Lewis, Charles Prince, Richard Fuld, and Henry Paulson Chapter 7. Reregulating the Regulators: Barack Obama and Timothy Geithner Epilogue. Another Round of Bank Politics Notes Index Acknowledgments
£31.50
University of Pennsylvania Press Colonial Ecology Atlantic Economy Transforming
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Colonial Ecology, Atlantic Economy is an insightful, topical, and nuanced work that proves successful in its project. Roberts makes a strong case for cis-Atlantic frameworks, showing how the choices and actions of individuals on a local level can influence larger regional and global processes. It is a welcome contribution to the fields of environmental history, economic history, Native American history, and the history of the Atlantic World." * American Indian Quarterly *"A fine contribution to the resurgent field of early American environmental history. Strother E. Roberts deftly integrates Atlantic and continental approaches, and his materialist emphasis nicely complements recent works on early New England's environmental history that focus on cultural representations." * James Rice, Tufts University *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Conflicts, Choices, and Change Chapter 1. Hunting Beaver: The Postdiluvian World of Fur Trade Chapter 2. Raising Crops: Feeding the Market Chapter 3. Gathering Firewood: Scarcity Amid Abundance Chapter 4. Felling Timber: Profits and Politics Chapter 5. Keeping Livestock: A Commerce in Beasts Domestic and Wild Epilogue. A New Era in the Life of the River Notes Index Acknowledgments
£35.10
