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Cambridge University Press Growing Public Volume 1 The Story Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Geographies of England The NorthSouth Divide Material and Imagined 37 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 37
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Cambridge University Press Poverty Progress and Population
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Cambridge University Press AngloChinese Encounters since 1800 War Trade Science and Governance
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Cambridge University Press William Stanley Jevons and the Making of Modern Economics
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Cambridge University Press Building HighTech Clusters
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Cambridge University Press Colorectal Cancer Contemporary Issues in Cancer Imaging
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Cambridge University Press Transforming English Rural Society The Verneys and the Claydons 16001820 40 Cambridge Studies in Population Economy and Society in Past Time Series Number 40
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Cambridge University Press The Reluctant Economist
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Cambridge University Press The Big End of Town Big Business and Corporate Leadership in TwentiethCentury Australia
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Cambridge University Press Rebuilding Germany
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Cambridge University Press The Peasants of Ottobeuren 14871726
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Cambridge University Press Private and Public Enterprise in Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Seleukid Royal Economy
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Cambridge University Press Deflation
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Cambridge University Press The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
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Cambridge University Press The Grain Market in the Roman Empire
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Cambridge University Press Hamiltons Paradox
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Cambridge University Press Ricardos Macroeconomics
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Cambridge University Press Central Bank Cooperation at the Bank for International Settlements 19301973
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Cambridge University Press Working Women in English Society 13001620
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Cambridge University Press The Green and the Brown
Book SynopsisThis study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. It describes how the German conservation movement came to cooperate with the Nazi regime and uncovers the complex lines between the conservation movement and the Nazis on both an ideological and a practical level.Trade Review"This is a book we very much need. Frank Uekoetter brings together a wealth of material and original argument in accessible form. His examples are vivid, and he effectively challenges many misconceptions about nature conservation in the Third Reich. Wide-ranging in scope and clear-eyed in its judgments, this thoughtful and elegantly constructed book deserves a wide readership." -David Blackbourn, Harvard University"Frank Uekötter's engaging and nuanced study of conservation under the Nazi regime demolishes recent claims that contemporary environmentalism in Germany can be traced back to the Third Reich. Although conservationists willingly cooperated with the Nazi state and appealed to leading Nazis, such as Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler, to pursue their goals, neither conservationist ideology nor environmental legislation held much influence in a regime hell-bent on rearmament and Lebensraum. By highlighting conservationists' tactical accommodations to Nazism and their unwillingness to confront the enormity of Nazi racism and imperialism, however, Uekötter underscores the real lesson for contemporary environmentalists: the moral and political success of their goals depends on the care and clear-sightedness with which they build political alliances." -Shelley Baranowski, University of Akron"Frank Uekoetter's The Green and the Brown is the latest and, in many ways, the best contribution to this burgeoning field. ... Well researched and cogently argued, this book should be read by environmental historians and Third Reich historians alike, and most especially by scholars in search of new and innovative research projects in these fields." -Mark Cioc, Central European History"The Green and the Brown is a compelling overview of the complex and contradictory history of German conservationist movements under the Nazi regime.... an important and accessible contribution to scholarship on Nazi Germany and warrants a wide readership." -Environment & History"Frank Uekoetter demonstrates... why a study of nature protection in the Third Reich remains vital. Drawing upon a variety of national, provincial, and city archives, he shows that nature protectionists were opportunists, attracted mainly to the Nazi regime because it seemed to offer more systematic preservation of natural areas.... Dr. Uekoetter must be given credit for writing an accessible and revealing work on a provocative topic." -Charles Closmann, Department of History, University of North Florida, H-Environment"This concise, well-written book would serve as a useful introduction to the topic for both graduate and undergraduate students..." -Jeffrey K. Wilson, Univeristy of New Orleans, German Studies Review"[T]his book offers the most specifically focused analysis of the cooperation between the various segments of the conservation community and the National Socialist hierarchy, along with the serious implications of this union, implications that extend far beyond ecology. In this volume, Uekoetter draws effectively on a wealth of primary and secondary sources to provide a gestalt of the conservation movement's relationship to Nazism prior to and during the war, as well as its perception of its own behavior in the conflict's aftermath... [His] volume argues for and provides a nuanced exploration of the important part played by the conservation movement in the history of Nazi Germany." -H-German"Uekoetter's work offers an important and well-documented corrective to recent discussions that suggest that there was a "green wing" in the Nazi Party...Uekoetter's reserch has relevance for debates within community advocacy groups and social movements as well as within academia" -Canadian Journal of History"...a much-needed synthesis of the history and historiography of Nazi conservation, a subject which has received growing scholarly attention in the past decade." -Thomas Lekan, European History QuarterlyTable of Contents1. The Nazis and the environment: a relevant topic?; 2. Ideas: diverse roots and a common cause; 3. Institutions: working towards the Führer; 4. Conservation at work: four case studies; 5. On the paper trail: the everyday business of conservation; 6. Changes in the land; 7. Continuity and silence: conservation after 1945; 8. Lessons.
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of the Global Company
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Cambridge University Press The Byzantine Economy
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Cambridge University Press Money in Ptolemaic Egypt
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Cambridge University Press The Roman Bazaar
Book SynopsisIt has long been held that conditions in the Roman economy resembled those found in early modern Europe. In this intriguing study, Peter Bang interrogates this claim and argues that Roman trade and markets could more accurately be compared to those of the Mughal Empire in India.Trade Review"Bang's well-researched and clearly written (and much-warranted) investigation will prove valuable to anyone interested in the comparative history of premodern empires and economies. Bang is surely right to claim the need for more studies of comparable ancient structures rather than more comparisons between ancient and modern ones. His is a first big step in the right direction." The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Brent D. Shaw, Princeton University"This is an extremely rich and stimulating book..." --American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsProlegomena; Part I. The Roman Empire and the Comparative Study of Pre-Industrial Society: 1. Beyond the ancient economy? Trade in the Roman empire and the problem of comparative history; 2. An agrarian empire between market and tribute - situating interregional trade in the Roman empire; Part II. Imperial Bazaar: 3. A rough trading world - opaque, volatile and discontinuously connected markets; 4. A thin line - portorium, protection and predation; 5. Community - cult, courts, credit and collaboration in the bazaar; Epilegomena: taking stock - the world of goods.
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Cambridge University Press Byzantine Jewry in the Mediterranean Economy
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Cambridge University Press Americas Economic Way of War
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Cambridge University Press Banking on Global Markets
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Cambridge University Press Market Services and the Productivity Race 18502000
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Cambridge University Press The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective New Approaches to Economic and Social History
Book SynopsisWhy did the industrial revolution take place in eighteenth-century Britain and not elsewhere in Europe or Asia? In this convincing new account Robert Allen argues that the British industrial revolution was a successful response to the global economy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He shows that in Britain wages were high and capital and energy cheap in comparison to other countries in Europe and Asia. As a result, the breakthrough technologies of the industrial revolution - the steam engine, the cotton mill, and the substitution of coal for wood in metal production - were uniquely profitable to invent and use in Britain. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain also fostered industrial development since more people could afford schooling and apprenticeships. It was only when British engineers made these new technologies more cost-effective during the nineteenth century that the industrial revolution would spread around the world.Trade Review'Robert Allen has for decades been one of the broadest-ranging and most imaginative scholars in economic history. In this highly original and superbly-researched book, he has set new standards for the study of one of the most critical episodes of human history, the British Industrial Revolution. A must-read for scholars ranging from eighteenth-century history to the economics of modern growth.' Joel Mokyr, author of The Gifts of Athena and The Enlightened Economy'This important book should be required reading for anyone seeking to understand the origins of the industrial revolution. It puts technological change centre stage and places success in invention firmly in the context of economic incentives and business realities that made 18th-century Britain different. This is a stellar demonstration of how subtle economic analysis informed by detailed historical knowledge can provide a persuasive new interpretation of a defining moment in world economic history.' Nicholas Crafts, Professor of Economic History, University of Warwick'Bob Allen has written, in his usual transparent style, a brilliant book on two of the main questions of economics (or economic history): why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Great Britain, and why did it cause a fundamental break in long term economic development. He argues convincingly that relative prices - high nominal and real wages, and low energy costs - were fundamental in inducing British entrepreneurs and inventors to search for technological solutions that would be labour saving and energy (and capital) using, and that the same relative prices explain why this search process was successful on the British Isles, and much less so on the European Continent. He also demonstrates that, once this process of creative destruction was set in motion, the efficiency of the technologies increased so sharply, that they became highly competitive in different environments - and therefore, after 1820, began to revolutionize the world economy. One of the main strengths of the book is the intimate knowledge the author has acquired of both the technological processes involved, and the economics of industrialization - it is based on a perfect marriage between technological insights and economic analysis.' Jan Luiten van Zanden, author of The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution'Robert Allen's analysis will delight many economists, for he deals in measurable factors such as wages and prices … This is a beautifully written book, the language as clear as a brook and with the same tumbling energy.' The Economist'… the smartest thing I have read in at least a year.' Professor J. Bradford DeLong, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley'Robert C. Allen's The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective shows that it is still possible to say something new and important on this most crowded of topics, and to do so with lucidity.' Linda Colley, The Times Literary Supplement'… stunningly good study of the Industrial Revolution … The book is well written and is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the origins of industrial change in the eighteenth century.' Historical Association'This is the book you should use to teach the Industrial Revolution.' Journal of Economic History'The relationship between shari'a and politics is obviously complex. Feldman's book provides an excellent starting point for a subject notoriously difficult and little understood. Feldman gives us a good place to start from, from, for it runs counter to most Western thinking on the subject.' The European LegacyTable of Contents1. The Industrial Revolution and the pre-industrial economy; Part I: 2. The high wage economy of pre-industrial Britain; 3. The agricultural revolution; 4. The cheap energy economy; 5. Why England succeeded; Part II: 6. Why was the Industrial Revolution British?; 7. The steam engine; 8. Cotton; 9. Coke smelting; 10. Inventors, enlightenment, and human capital; 11. From industrial revolution to modern economic growth.
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Cambridge University Press The Currency of Socialism Money and Political Culture in East Germany Publications of the German Historical Institute
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Cambridge University Press Taxing Corporate Income in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press The Japanese Consumer An Alternative Economic History of Modern Japan
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Cambridge University Press The Decline of Sterling
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of the New Deal
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Cambridge University Press An Economic and Social History of Later Medieval Europe 10001500
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Cambridge University Press Food Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
Book SynopsisUntil the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses new empirical research to present a fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work than has previously existed.Trade Review'This is certainly the most original and significant investigation of the living standards and working patterns of rural labourers in early modern England to appear for decades. It radically revises some previous assumptions, subtly nuances others, and raises new questions …' Keith Wrightson, Yale University'This excellent new study, based on impressive empirical research and inventive analysis, affords unprecedented insight on the working lives and standards of living of labouring people in early modern England. This book sheds important new light on consumption, agricultural improvement, and the 'industrious revolution' that predated industrialisation, and will prove indispensable to our assessment of the contribution of the labouring population to, as well as their experience of, economic change during a critical period of growth.' Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow'With this volume Craig Muldrew advances our understanding of living standards, industriousness, and the working lives of men, women, and children in rural England.' Journal of British Studies'Craig Muldrew's Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness … paints a picture of a moderately prosperous, hard-working population of wage earners, who made a decent living outside of the crisis periods of 1595–1630 and the late eighteenth century. The book has a lot to offer social and cultural historians, with a detailed examination of ordinary people's diet, of families' multiple sources of income, and of the material culture of the home.' Jane Whittle, History Workshop JournalTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. What did the poor eat?; 3. Calories consumed by the poor; 4. Labourers' household goods; 5. Work and household earnings; 6. Agricultural labour and the industrious revolution; 7. 'Honest' and 'industrious' labourers?; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Guilds Innovation and the European Economy 1400 1800
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Commercializing Innovation
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Cambridge University Press New Perspectives on the Late Victorian Economy
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Cambridge University Press The Business Community of SeventeenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press After the Famine
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Cambridge University Press The Brandy Trade Under the Ancien Regime
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Cambridge University Press Moving Money
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Cambridge University Press British Technology and European Industrialization
Book SynopsisKristine Bruland looks at the Norwegian experience to show how a technological infrastructure was created, and suggests that much of this was due to the efforts of British machine makers who from the mid 1840s vigorously sought foreign markets for the new technology of the industrial revolution.Table of ContentsList of tables; List of figures; Preface; Map showing location of firms; 1. Technology and European growth; 2. The historiography of European industrialization; 3. Britain and Norway, 1800–1845: two transitions; 4. Acquisition of technologies by the Norwegian textile firms; 5. Flows of technological information; 6. British textile engineering and the Norwegian textile industry; 7. British agents of Norwegian enterprises; 8. British workers and the transfer of technology to Norway; 9. Interrelations among Norwegian firms; 10. The European dimension; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Productivity and Performance in the Paper Industry
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Cambridge University Press The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain 1920 1950
Book SynopsisIn this 1995 study of the causes of nationalisation, experts in British industrial history analyse the public ownership debates, and explain how the Labour governments of 194551 believed that the public ownership of certain major industries would be economically beneficial.Trade Review'… an admirable collection of papers on the political and economic background to nationalisation.' The Financial TimesTable of ContentsPart I. Government and Industry 1920–50: 1. Industrial organisation and economic factors in nationalisation Robert Millward; 2. Labour, the Conservatives and nationalisation John Singleton; Part II. Case Studies of Industry Organisation, Performance and Nationalisation: 3. The coal industry: images and realities on the road to nationalisation David Greasley; 4. The changing role of government in British civil air transport 1919–49 Peter Lyth; 5. The motor vehicle industry Sue Bowden; 6. The railway companies and the nationalisation issue 1920–50 Gerald Crompton; 7. The motives for gas nationalisation; practicality or ideology John F. Wilson; 8. Public ownership and the British arms industry 1920–50 David Edgerton; 9. The water industry 1900–51: a failure of public policy? John A. Hassan; 10. Debating the nationalisation of the cotton industry, 1918–50 John Singleton; Part III. Government and the Process of Industrial Change in the 1940s: 11. 'The thin edge of the wedge?': nationalisation and industrial structure during the Second World War Peter Howlett; 12. The political economy of nationalisation: the electricity industry Martin Chick; 13. Partners and enemies: the government's decision to nationalise steel 1944–48 Ruggiero Ranieri; Part IV. Review and Conclusions: 14. The ownership of British industry in the post-war era: an explanation Robert Millward and John Singleton; Index.
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