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Johns Hopkins University Press Beatlemania
Book SynopsisRefreshing and insightful, Beatlemania offers a deeper understanding the days of the Fab Four and the band's long-term effects on the business and culture of pop music.Trade ReviewAny interested in either the Beatles of the undercurrents of the music industry as a whole will find this a thought-provoking discussion especially suitable for college-level music collections strong in popular music! Midwest Book Review [Beatlemania] is well-written, clearly argued, presents a different interpretation of a much-studied topic, and places the story into the broader historical context. -- Douglas Karsner Essays in Economic and Business HistoryTable of ContentsPreface1. The Record2. Beatlemania3. Liverpool4. The Promised Land5. Skiffle6. Rock'n'roll Comes to Britain7. The Look8. The Fans9. Convergence10. Technology11. In the Recording Studio12. The Beatles and the SixtiesNotesIndex
£27.93
Johns Hopkins University Press Reimagining Business History
Book SynopsisHow can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, Reimagining Business History offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.Trade ReviewReimagining Business History belongs in American history and business collections alike and provides new approaches to understanding the evolution of companies, corporate strategies, and resources. Midwest Book Review An important and provocative book, not only in terms of business history but also in terms of the wider discipline, as the authors' plea for greater interaction with other historians. -- Joe Martin American Historical Review I really hope that business historians will read this book, because it is apt to open new roads and strengthen the discipline in such a way as to make of it a more assertive component of the larger field of "Economic History," which cannot be left only to macro-econometricians. -- Vera Zamagni EH.NetTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Traps: Practices Business Historians Would Do Well to Avoid1. Misplaced Concreteness2. Not Recognizing That the State Is Always "In"3. Periodization as a (Necessary) Constraint4. Privileging the Firm5. Retrospective Rationalization6. Searching for a New Dominant Paradigm7. Scientism8. Taking Discourse at Face Value and Numbers for Granted9. Taking the United States (or the West) as Normal and Normative10. The Rush to the RecentPart II: Opportunities: Thematic Domains1. Artifacts2. Creation and Creativity3. Complexity4. Improvisation5. Microbusiness6. The Military and War7. Nonprofits and Quasi Enterprises8. Public-Private Boundaries9. Reflexivity10. Ritual and Symbolic Practices11. The Centrality of Failure12. Varieties of UncertaintyPart III: Prospects: Promising Themes in Developing Literatures1. Deconstructing Property2. Fraud and Fakery3. From Empires to Emergent Nations4. Gender5. Professional Services6. Projects7. Reassessing Classic Themes8. Standards9. The Subaltern10. Transnational Exchanges11. Trust, Cooperation, and NetworksPart IV: Resources: Generative Concepts and Frameworks1. Assumptions2. Communities of Practice3. Flows4. Follow the Actors5. Futures Past6. Memory7. Modernity8. Risks9. Spatiality10. TimeAfterwordAuthor IndexSubject Index
£45.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Reimagining Business History
Book SynopsisHow can this field develop in an age of global markets, growing information technology, and diminishing resources? A transnational collaboration between two senior scholars, Reimagining Business History offers direction in forty-four short, pithy essays.Trade ReviewReimagining Business History belongs in American history and business collections alike and provides new approaches to understanding the evolution of companies, corporate strategies, and resources. Midwest Book Review An important and provocative book, not only in terms of business history but also in terms of the wider discipline, as the authors' plea for greater interaction with other historians. -- Joe Martin American Historical Review I really hope that business historians will read this book, because it is apt to open new roads and strengthen the discipline in such a way as to make of it a more assertive component of the larger field of "Economic History," which cannot be left only to macro-econometricians. -- Vera Zamagni EH.NetTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I: Traps: Practices Business Historians Would Do Well to Avoid1. Misplaced Concreteness2. Not Recognizing That the State Is Always "In"3. Periodization as a (Necessary) Constraint4. Privileging the Firm5. Retrospective Rationalization6. Searching for a New Dominant Paradigm7. Scientism8. Taking Discourse at Face Value and Numbers for Granted9. Taking the United States (or the West) as Normal and Normative10. The Rush to the RecentPart II: Opportunities: Thematic Domains1. Artifacts2. Creation and Creativity3. Complexity4. Improvisation5. Microbusiness6. The Military and War7. Nonprofits and Quasi Enterprises8. Public-Private Boundaries9. Reflexivity10. Ritual and Symbolic Practices11. The Centrality of Failure12. Varieties of UncertaintyPart III: Prospects: Promising Themes in Developing Literatures1. Deconstructing Property2. Fraud and Fakery3. From Empires to Emergent Nations4. Gender5. Professional Services6. Projects7. Reassessing Classic Themes8. Standards9. The Subaltern10. Transnational Exchanges11. Trust, Cooperation, and NetworksPart IV: Resources: Generative Concepts and Frameworks1. Assumptions2. Communities of Practice3. Flows4. Follow the Actors5. Futures Past6. Memory7. Modernity8. Risks9. Spatiality10. TimeAfterwordAuthor IndexSubject Index
£29.71
Johns Hopkins University Press Refrigeration Nation
Book SynopsisRees shows that how we obtain and preserve perishable food is related to our changing relationship with the natural world.Trade ReviewA smart and illuminating book that will be of great interest to anyone engaged with either the history of technology or the history of food. American Historical Review Rees has written an entertaining, well-narrated, and well-researched book about building one root infrastructure of modern food systems. He brings this infrastructure to the foreground of U.S. history, and hopefully the book will reach a broad readership, both within history departments and a public with an interest in the intersections of the histories of food, business, and technology. Business History Refrigeration Nation is a well-written and useful book for both scholars and students... Rees presents a well-developed account of the importance of American enterprise and innovation in the national and global marketplace. History: Reviews of New Books A fascinating book. Heritage Radio Refrigeration Nation is a valuable, well-researched study, but it also suggests the need for more work on a subject that at first seems mundane and taken for granted but, upon greater inspection, is really quite fascinating and compelling. Journal of American Culture Jonathan Rees provides us a good history of the ice industry, cold chains, cold storage, refrigerated transport, and mechanical refrigeration in this valuable book. Biz India Magazine [Rees] delves into the very infrastructure of ice-making, chronicling the engineering feats, describing the machinery of temperature control, and a particularly appealing exploration of human ingenuity that has made refrigerated food the norm in American homes. Food, Culture, and Society Nowhere else can one find such rich information on everything from ice boxes to home freezers to refrigerated container ships... A most welcome contribution to our understanding of how Americans came to expect cold drinks, unpickled produce, and unsalted meats as a matter of course. -- Shane Hamilton Agricultural History Nowhere else can one find such rich information on everything from ice boxes to home freezers to refrigerated container ships... A most welcome contribution to our understanding of how Americans came to expect cold drinks, unpickled produce, and unsalted meats as a matter of course. Agricultural HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Inventing the Cold Chain2. The Long Wait for Mechanical Refrigeration3. The Decline of the Natural Ice Industry4. Refrigerated Transport Near and Far5. The Pleasures and Perils of Cold Storage6. "Who Ever Heard of an American without an Icebox?"7. The Early Days of Electric Household Refrigeration8. The Completion of the Modern Cold ChainConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
£41.50
Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
£43.00
Johns Hopkins University Press Plantation Kingdom
Book SynopsisWritten for scholars and students alike, Plantation Kingdom is an accessible and fascinating study.Trade ReviewA concise presentation of some of the best recent scholarship in agricultural history...Environmental historians will find the book useful as an introduction to southern agricultural history, exploring the economic, political, and environmental factors that influenced plantation agriculture. H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction by Richard FollettThe Road to Commodity Hell: The Rise and Fall of the First American Rice IndustryCotton and the US South: A Short HistoryThe Rise and Fall of American SugarTobacco's Commodity RouteConclusionNotesGuide to Further ReadingIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in
Book SynopsisAn important examination of the foundational American ideal of economic equalityand how we lost it.Winner of the Missouri Conference on History Book Award for 2021The United States has some of the highest levels of both wealth and income inequality in the world. Although modern-day Americans are increasingly concerned about this growing inequality, many nonetheless believe that the country was founded on a person''s right to acquire and control property. But in The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America, 16001870, Daniel R. Mandell argues that, in fact, the United States was originally deeply influenced by the belief that maintaining a rough or relative equality of wealth is essential to the cultivation of a successful republican government.Mandell explores the origins and evolution of this ideal. He shows how, during the Revolutionary War, concerns about economic equality helped drive wage and price controls, while after its end Americans Trade ReviewMandell successfully recovers the often obscured legacy of economic equality and moral economy that emerged from the English Civil War, as it informed debates about proper republican polity during the American Revolution . . . Highly recommended.—ChoiceWidening economic inequality has been one of the most striking and significant problems facing the United States during the past half-century . . . Mandell's useful book belongs on the reading lists of the scholars, elected officials, and others who will be engaged with figuring out a path ahead.—Journal of Interdisciplinary HistorySpecialists and researchers will find Mandell's sophisticated and insightful analysis deeply engaging, yet the book's writing is so clear that it could be assigned to advanced undergraduates. The fact that economic inequality is one of the great issues of the twenty-first century makes Lost Tradition especially timely and important.—Journal of the Early RepublicMandell usefully recovers the many and varied attempts to forge a link between economic and political equality in American culture from colonial times to the Reconstruction era, and he reminds readers that there have been numerous cries for greater economic justice since.—Rowena Olegario, University of Oxford, Journal of British StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. English OriginsChapter 2. Indians and Anglo-American EgalitarianismChapter 3. Revolutionary Ideologies and RegulationsChapter 4. Wealth and Power in the Early RepublicChapter 5. Raising Republican ChildrenChapter 6. Clashes over America's Political EconomyChapter 7. Separating Property and Polity Chapter 8. Reviving the TraditionChapter 9. Reconstruction and the Rejection of Economic EqualityEpilogueNotesIndex
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Rowman & Littlefield The United States and the Global Economy
Book SynopsisFinancial collapse. Global recession. The revival of free-market policies. Massive and increasing inequalities. Housing bubbles and record foreclosures. Severe strain in the European Union. Emergence of China and other major players on the international economic scene. Every day, media outlets bombard us with news and possible explanations for the financial, economic, and political crises. In The United States and the Global Economy, Frederick S. Weaver gives readers a concise introduction to the patterns of change in international financial and trade regimes since World War II in order to clarify recent global economic turmoil. Weaver has compiled a clear chronology of major events in the international economy to show how they have reflected and shaped changes in the domestic economy of the United States. Although U.S. dominance over the world economy is not as complete as it once was, U.S. domestic economic processes continue to have profound effects on global economic affairs. TheTrade ReviewWeaver provides a clear, concise, and easily-digestible description of key moments in US economic history and the economic concepts that underpin these events. His work is a boon to all undergraduates struggling through a course in international political economy and to those teaching them. -- Alexandra Guisinger, University of Notre DameHistory matters so we repeat it when we should and don't when we shouldn't. Weaver has done a great service by providing an accessible guide to recent US economic history (and its political drivers) in global context. -- Kevin Gallagher, Boston UniversityWeaver’s book makes a contribution to public understanding of a complex subject. It offers an alternative interpretation to the doctrinaire writings of some mainstream economists who celebrate the benefits of free trade, wealth creation, and consumer gains while downplaying the costs of dislocations, volatility, and instability. * H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online *To quickly get up to speed on today's global economy and its impact on the US, this interdisciplinary book is a good place to start. Its wide-ranging "Selected Readings and Websites" list will also help readers pursue specific topics of interest. Over the last 60 years, numerous international developments have affected the US's role in the global economy, and this volume focuses on how these events have shaped the US economy. Weaver (emer., Hampshire College) explains and analyzes the effects on the US of the emergence of the EU, OPEC policies, the Soviet Union's collapse, China's rise as the export superpower, and economic successes in South Korea, India, Brazil, and Southeast Asia. He examines the causes and consequences of the global crisis from the perspective of developed and developing countries, covering important themes such as the role of income distribution during this crisis; the global nature of the crisis; the systematic failure of the global financial systems; inadequacy of global governance institutions; and challenges presented by financial innovation. To make the book more accessible, Weaver provides readers with the vocabulary of key elements of international economic analysis and their interactions. A good supplement for international studies courses. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduate through professional audiences as well as general readers. * CHOICE *Explores the patterns of change in the international economy since World War II, focusing on the ways in which international events, issues, and relationships reflected and shaped changes to the U.S.economy. * Journal of Economic Literature *Weaver’s narrative of how the international economic order has changed since the end of the Second World War is often compelling and informative. The book is well paced and an easy read, giving readers without background knowledge in economic or international affairs a good starting point to understand the rapid changes in the international economy. Weaver has the ability to seamlessly define and discuss the sometimes confusing jargon of international economics and provides throughout the book helpful side notes that add to the narrative but do not unnecessarily distract the reader from the book’s core insights. * E-International Relations *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: The Twentieth Century Quest for a Stable International Economy Chapter 2: The U.S. Domestic Economy and the International Scene, 1945 to 1970s Chapter 3: U.S. Political Shifts and beyond Bretton Woods, 1970s to 1980s Chapter 4: The New International Economy and the Dissolution of U.S. Modern Times, 1970s to 1990s Chapter 5: The Triumph of Free-Market Global Capitalism, 1990s to 2007 Chapter 6: The Twenty-First Century Quest for a Stable International Economy Selected Readings
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Cromwell
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Arcadia Publishing Seattles Coal Legacy Images of America
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Campbell County Past and Present
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Kentuckys Lost Bourbon Distilleries
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Arcadia Publishing San Antonios Historic Market Square Images of
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Arcadia Publishing Freeport Through the Years
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Arcadia Publishing Thomas Drews South Shore
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Arcadia Publishing Manchesters Shoe Industry
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Simon & Schuster Balance The Economics of Great Powers from
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PublicAffairs How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor
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PublicAffairs It's Better Than It Looks: Reasons for Optimism
Book SynopsisIs civilization teetering on the edge of a cliff? Or are we just climbing higher than ever? Most people who read the news would tell you that 2017 is one of the worst years in recent memory. We''re facing a series of deeply troubling, even existential problems: fascism, terrorism, environmental collapse, racial and economic inequality, and more. Yet this narrative misses something important: by almost every meaningful measure, the modern world is better than it ever has been. In the United States, disease, crime, discrimination, and most forms of pollution are in long-term decline, while longevity and education keep rising and economic indicators are better than in any past generation. Worldwide, malnutrition and extreme poverty are at historic lows, and the risk of dying by war or violence is the lowest in human history. It''s not a coincidence that we''re confused -- our perspectives on the world are blurred by the rise of social media, the machinations of politicians, and our own biases. Meanwhile, political reforms like the Clean Air Act and technological innovations like the hybridization of wheat have saved huge numbers of lives. In that optimistic spirit, Easterbrook offers specific policy reforms to address climate change, inequality, and other problems, and reminds us that there is real hope in conquering such challenges. In an age of discord and fear-mongering, It''s Better Than It Looks will profoundly change your perspective on who we are, where we''re headed, and what we''re capable of.
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Purdue University Press Doing Business in America: A Jewish History
Book SynopsisAmerican and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American culture and development, and patterns of immigrant Jewish exploration of business opportunities reflect internal, communal, Jewish-cultural structures and their relationship to the larger non-Jewish world. As such, they see the subject rightly as a vital and underexplored area of study. Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, rises to the challenge of taking on the long-unspoken taboo subject, comprising leading scholars and exploring an array of key topics in this important and growing area of research.Table of Contents FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1, American Jewish Business: At the Street Level, by Hasia R. Diner CHAPTER 2, Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade, by Allan M. Amanik CHAPTER 3, Jewish Immigrant Bankers, New York Real Estate, and American Finance, 1870–1914, by Rebecca Kobrin CHAPTER 4, Far Away Moses & Company: An Ottoman Jewish Business between Istanbul and the United States, by Julia Phillips Cohen CHAPTER 5, The Roots of Jewish Concentration in the American Popular Music Business, 1890–1945, by Jonathan Karp CHAPTER 6, "Sometimes It Is Like I Am Sitting on a Volcano": Retailers, Diplomats, and the Refugee Crisis, 1933–1945, by Niki C. Lefebvre CHAPTER 7, Max Moses Heller: Patron Saint of Greenville's Renaissance, by Diane Vecchio CHAPTER 8, "A Just and Righteous Man": Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit, by Matt Garcia ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Silvertown: The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook
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Autonomedia The Violence of Financial Capitalism: Volume 2
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Temple University Press,U.S. Organizing Access To Capital: Advocacy And The
Book SynopsisCommunity activists were delighted with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, but they came to realize that it would take more than the word of law to bring about real change. This book gives voice to the activists who took it upon themselves to agitate for increased investment by financial institutions in their local communities. They tell of their struggles to get banks, mortgage companies and others to rethink their lending policies. Their stories, drawn from experiences in Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, and other cities around the country, offer insight into the way our political/economic system really works.Trade Review"Public advocacy is the anvil of democracy. This book documents how the traditional exercise of protest, demonstration, contention and community action has been central to changing the discriminatory financial practices of savings and loans, banks, insurance companies and governments. It is a wonderful primer about democracy at its best."—John McKnight, Professor, Director of Community Studies, Institute For Policy Studies, Northwestern University"This book provides new insight into the community-based challenges of institutional discrimination in neighborhoods. It explores the relationships between race and capital and highlights the rewards of long-term persistent struggle. It contains lessons to be learned by both advocates and financial institutions and reminds us that we must be ever watchful and alert to practices that may erode our hard-fought success."—Shanna Smith, President and CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance"A powerful book demonstrating community activism did not die in the 60's, but is vibrant and effective across the U.S. today!"—Joe R. Feagin, Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida, and author of The New Urban Paradigm and, with Karyn McKinney, The Many Costs of Racism"Moreso than any other scholar, Gregory Squires' work consistently and superbly calls our attention to the continuing processes of racial discrimination in the housing market. This volume is no exception. Arguing that 'advocacy and accomplishment are pieces of the same mosaic,' the authors in this volume provide concrete examples of how credit was obtained for poor communities in Boston, the Bronx, Chicago, North Carolina, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh and overviews of how national organizations can and do help in this process. In the quarter century since the Fair Housing Act was passed, many have remarked at how much more subtle discrimination is, but none have revealed the complexity of the processes that lead to it and the solutions required as well as this book."—Nancy Denton, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Albany"[A] breath of fresh air in an abundance of urban analysis that too often sacrifices accuracy to objectivity...this is an inspiring and enriching volume."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Rough Road To Reinvestment – Gregory D. Squires2. Where The Hell Did Billions of Dollars for Reinvestment Come From? – Joe Mariano3. Giving Back To The Future: Citizen Involvement and Community Stabilization in Milwaukee – William R. Tisdale and Carla J. Wertheim4. Taking It to the Courts: Litigation and the Reform of Financial Institutions – John P. Relman5. From Living Rooms to Board Rooms: Sustainable Homeownership Deals With Banks and Insurers in Boston – Thomas Callahan6. A Citywide Strategy: The Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group – Stanley A. Lowe and John T. Metzger7. Filling the Half-Empty Glass: The Role of Community Advocacy in Redefining the Public Responsibilities of Government-Sponsored Housing Enterprises – Allen J. Fishbein8. Fighting Predatory Lending from the Ground up: An Issue of Economic Justice – Maude Hurd and Steven Kest9. Community Reinvestment in a Globalizing World: To Hold Banks Accountable, from the Bronx to Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Basel – Matthew Lee10. Research, Advocacy, and Community Reinvestment – Malcolm Bush and Daniel Immergluck11. The Essential Role of Activism in Community Reinvestment – John Taylor and Josh Silver12. Protest, Progress, and the Politics of Reinvestment – Peter Dreier13. Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? – Gregory D. SquiresAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Organizing Access To Capital: Advocacy And The
Book SynopsisCommunity activists were delighted with the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act, but they came to realize that it would take more than the word of law to bring about real change. This book gives voice to the activists who took it upon themselves to agitate for increased investment by financial institutions in their local communities. They tell of their struggles to get banks, mortgage companies and others to rethink their lending policies. Their stories, drawn from experiences in Chicago, New York, Milwaukee, Boston, Pittsburgh, and other cities around the country, offer insight into the way our political/economic system really works.Trade Review"Public advocacy is the anvil of democracy. This book documents how the traditional exercise of protest, demonstration, contention and community action has been central to changing the discriminatory financial practices of savings and loans, banks, insurance companies and governments. It is a wonderful primer about democracy at its best."—John McKnight, Professor, Director of Community Studies, Institute For Policy Studies, Northwestern University"This book provides new insight into the community-based challenges of institutional discrimination in neighborhoods. It explores the relationships between race and capital and highlights the rewards of long-term persistent struggle. It contains lessons to be learned by both advocates and financial institutions and reminds us that we must be ever watchful and alert to practices that may erode our hard-fought success."—Shanna Smith, President and CEO, National Fair Housing Alliance"A powerful book demonstrating community activism did not die in the 60's, but is vibrant and effective across the U.S. today!"—Joe R. Feagin, Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida, and author of The New Urban Paradigm and, with Karyn McKinney, The Many Costs of Racism"Moreso than any other scholar, Gregory Squires' work consistently and superbly calls our attention to the continuing processes of racial discrimination in the housing market. This volume is no exception. Arguing that 'advocacy and accomplishment are pieces of the same mosaic,' the authors in this volume provide concrete examples of how credit was obtained for poor communities in Boston, the Bronx, Chicago, North Carolina, Milwaukee, and Pittsburgh and overviews of how national organizations can and do help in this process. In the quarter century since the Fair Housing Act was passed, many have remarked at how much more subtle discrimination is, but none have revealed the complexity of the processes that lead to it and the solutions required as well as this book."—Nancy Denton, Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Albany"[A] breath of fresh air in an abundance of urban analysis that too often sacrifices accuracy to objectivity...this is an inspiring and enriching volume."—Contemporary SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Rough Road To Reinvestment – Gregory D. Squires2. Where The Hell Did Billions of Dollars for Reinvestment Come From? – Joe Mariano3. Giving Back To The Future: Citizen Involvement and Community Stabilization in Milwaukee – William R. Tisdale and Carla J. Wertheim4. Taking It to the Courts: Litigation and the Reform of Financial Institutions – John P. Relman5. From Living Rooms to Board Rooms: Sustainable Homeownership Deals With Banks and Insurers in Boston – Thomas Callahan6. A Citywide Strategy: The Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group – Stanley A. Lowe and John T. Metzger7. Filling the Half-Empty Glass: The Role of Community Advocacy in Redefining the Public Responsibilities of Government-Sponsored Housing Enterprises – Allen J. Fishbein8. Fighting Predatory Lending from the Ground up: An Issue of Economic Justice – Maude Hurd and Steven Kest9. Community Reinvestment in a Globalizing World: To Hold Banks Accountable, from the Bronx to Buenos Aires, Beijing, and Basel – Matthew Lee10. Research, Advocacy, and Community Reinvestment – Malcolm Bush and Daniel Immergluck11. The Essential Role of Activism in Community Reinvestment – John Taylor and Josh Silver12. Protest, Progress, and the Politics of Reinvestment – Peter Dreier13. Epilogue: Where Do We Go From Here? – Gregory D. SquiresAbout the ContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Undevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and
Book SynopsisArgues that the expansion of the Florentine economic market in the fifteenth century helped to undo the development of markets of other economies slowing down the economic development of northern Italy overallTrade Review"Emigh has written a very important book that will have a big impact on historical sociology. Based on first-rate research and innovative methods of analysis, she offers an incisive review of previous theories of the transition to capitalism, and shows how the dynamism and efficiencies of urban markets serve to undermine rural markets." Richard Lachmann, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany "This excellent book is the culmination and synthesis of years of building-block studies by this author... The Undevelopment of Capitalism is an important book, destined to become a classic." - Journal of Interdisciplinary History "This rich and carefully argued book should shape the future study of Italian economic development and also provide a model for, and justification of, the analysis of sectoral relations in other times and places." - Journal of Comparative SociologyTable of Contents1. Capitalism and Tuscany: Investigating the Past; 2. Tuscany as a Negative Case of Transition to Capitalism; 3. Linking Sectors and Markets; 4. Smallholding: The Circulation of Property; 5. Urban Involvement in Agriculture; 6. Sharecropping: The Consolidation of Property; 7. Comparing Productivity, Income, and Indebtedness; 8. Conclusions
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Templeton Foundation Press,U.S. Franklin's Thrift: The Lost History of an
Book Synopsis Americans today often think of thrift as a negative value—a miserly hoarding of resources and a denial of pleasure. Even more telling, many Americans don’t even think of thrift at all anymore. Franklin’s Thrift challenges this state of mind by recovering the rich history of thrift as a quintessentially American virtue. The contributors to this volume trace how the idea and practice of thrift have been a vital part of the American vision of economic freedom and social abundance. For Benjamin Franklin, who personified and promoted the idea, thrift meant working productively, consuming wisely, saving proportionally, and giving generously. Franklin’s thrift became the cornerstone of a new kind of secular faith in the ordinary person’s capacity to shape his lot and fortune in life. Later chapters document how thrift moved into new domains in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It became the animating idea behind social movements to promote children’s school savings, create mutual savings banks and credit unions for working men and women, establish a federal savings bond program, and galvanize the nation to conserve resources during two world wars. Historians, enthusiasts of Americana or traditional American virtues, and anyone interested in resolving our society’s current financial woes will find much to treasure in this diverse collection, with topics ranging from the inspirational lessons we can learn from the film It’s a Wonderful Life to a history of the roles played by mutual savings banks, credit unions, and thrift stores in America’s national thrift movement. It also includes actual policy recommendations for our present situation. Table of Contents Introduction / ix David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Part One: Franklin’s Thrift: The Creation of an American Value 1. Franklin’s Way to Wealth / 3 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Part Two: Thrift after Franklin: Institutions and Movements 2. U.S. Mutual Savings Banks and the “Savings Bank Idea”: The Virtue of Thrift as an Institutional Value / 29 Sorcha Brophy-Warren 3. Thrift for a New Century: Public Discussions about Thrift in the 1910s and 1920s / 57 Sara Butler Nardo 4. A Century of Thrift Shops / 97 Alison Humes 5. I n Savings We Trust: Credit Unions and Thrift / 127 Clifford N. Rosenthal Part Three: For a New Thrift: Meeting the Twenty-First Century Challenge 6. Confronting the American Debt Culture / 145 Barbara Dafoe Whitehead 7. Crafting Policies to Encourage Thrift in Contemporary America / 165 Alex Roberts 8. Private Enterprise’s Role in Increasing Savings / 187 Ronald T. Wilcox Conclusion / 207 David Blankenhorn, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, and Sorcha Brophy-Warren Notes / 211 Contributors / 243 Index / 247
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University of New Orleans Press Industrial Development Urbanization: A New Theory
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ISI Books A Humane Economy: The Social Framework of the
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PublicAffairs Sabotage: The Hidden Nature of Finance
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Chicago Review Press The American Slave Coast: A History of the
Book SynopsisThe American Slave Coast tells the horrific story of how the slavery business in the United States made the reproductive labor of “breeding women” essential to the expansion of the nation. The book shows how slaves’ children, and their children’s children, were human savings accounts that were the basis of money and credit. This was so deeply embedded in the economy of the slave states that it could only be decommissioned by Emancipation, achieved through the bloodiest war in the history of the United States. The American Slave Coast is an alternative history of the United States that presents the slavery business, as well as familiar historical figures and events, in a revealing new light.
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University of Massachusetts Press The World of Credit in Colonial Massachusetts:
Book SynopsisOccasionally scholars discover lost primary sources that change our understanding of a place or period. James Richards’s day book is such a find. This 325- year- old ledger had been passed down through generations of a New England family and was stored in a pillowcase in a dusty attic when it was handed to the historian James E. Wadsworth.For years, James Richards, a prosperous and typical colonial farmer, tracked nearly five thousand transactions, involving more than six hundred individuals and stretching from Charlestown to Barnstable. Richards and his neighbors were bound together in a heterogeneous economy, reliant on networks of credit, barter, and sometimes cash. Richards practiced mixed husbandry farming, shipped goods by cart and by sloop, and produced and sold malt, salt, wool, and timber. The day book also reveals significant social details of Richards and his household, including his diverse trading partners, his extensive family connections, an Indian slave girl, and a well- dressed female servant. Available in both print and electronic editions, fully transcribed, annotated, and introduced by the editor, this record of economic life reinforces and challenges our understanding of colonial America.Trade Review“This valuable annotated transcription of a Weymouth farmer’s trade with family, neighbors, and regional and cosmopolitan contacts provides rich raw material for analysis and offers the potential for insights into midcolonial familial, economic, and social relations, farm and household production and consumption, material culture, and strategies for family and community sustenance and betterment.” — Mary Babson Fuhrer, author of Crisis of Community: The Trials and Transformation of a New England Town, 1815– 1848, winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize
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Paths International Ltd The Opening Up and Development of Ports in China
Book SynopsisThis book summarizes the opening up of ports and the development process of China in different periods, which since as far away as the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, include ancient times, modern times and contemporary periods, a history of about 3000 years. It reveals that under the joint action of internal and external forces since modern times, the opening up of ports in China has expanded from coastal areas to border and inland areas along the echelon, the development of ports’ opening up and foreign economy and trade has profoundly affected the process of Chinese modernization. And it also reveals that the Chinese nation which since modern times began had endured so much for so long, has been through hardship and adversity but has achieved a tremendous transformation—it has stood up, grown rich, and become strong. The port is the strategic port for China to realize interconnections with neighbouring countries and the countries along the Belt and Road, and occupies an important strategic position in the process of constructing a new pattern of opening up to the world and a new pattern of new era in China. Ports are an essential part of the Belt and Road, and this book provides a detailed description of the role of ports in the Belt and Road Initiative. From the time of the founding of New China to the 21st century, the development of the port represents the symbol of China's economic prosperity and is also a critical window for China's reform and opening up. 2018 is the 40th anniversary of reform and opening up, the development of the port and reform and opening up are closely linked, this book conforms to the current trend of domestic economic development theme. Through the perspective of the opening up and development of the ports in the past 3000 years in China, this book has seen the time changing and practice process of civilization and progress, glory and decline, seeking and fighting, struggling and rise for thousands of years, telling our readers a long history with a large horizon and long span across time and space. This book focuses on the theory, practice, experience and enlightenment of ports’ opening up and development in China. Through making a panoramic display of history, reality, and the future, it will help further promote the top-level design and the basic-level practice exploration of port work, continuously improve the level of modern governance in ports management, conscientiously strengthen path confidence, theoretical confidence, system confidence, culture confidence, vigorously make new ground in pursuing opening up on all fronts, and unswervingly forge ahead along the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics.Table of Contents Chapter One Introduction Chapter Two Open ports of ancient China and their development Chapter Three The open ports, foreign trade and their development during Qing dynasty and modern China Chapter Four Contemporary China’s open port and its development: 1949-1978 Chapter Five Open port and its development of contemporary China: 1979-2015 Chapter Six The opening mechanism and management system of China’s open ports Chapter Seven The theory, practice, experience and enlightenment of the open development of China’s ports Reference
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Paths International Ltd The Historical Analysis of China's State Capital
Book SynopsisThis title investigates the changes and characteristics of China's state capital in the past two thousand years according to the historical order, and probes into China's national conditions and the status, role and evolution trend of state capital. It is the first monograph devoted to understanding China's capital's long history, from the period of ancient agricultural civilization to the evolution of the state-owned economy, analysing the different roles of state capital in different socio-economic forms and under different political regimes. The book makes use of Marxist historical materialism to analyse the source and historical status of China's national conditions and socialism with Chinese characteristics from the perspective of state-owned economy.
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