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Taylor & Francis Ltd Arab Cities in the Ottoman Period
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Taylor & Francis Production of Locality in the Early Modern and
Book SynopsisThis book is a microhistory study of village settlements in early modern Northwest Italy that aims to expand the notion of place to include the process of producing a locality; that is, the production of native local subjects through practices, rituals and other forms of collective action.Undertaking a micro-analytical approach, the book examines the customs and practices associated with typically fragmented and polycentric Italian village settlements to analyze the territorial tensions between various segments of a village and its neighbors. The microspatial analysis reveals how these tensions are the expressions of conflictual relationships between lay, ecclesiastical and charitable bodies culminating in a culture of fragmentation that impacts local economic and political practices. The book also traces how the production of locality survived throughout the nineenth and twentieth century and is still observed today. In this light, the study of practices and policies Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I Matrices1. Community Building: Brotherhoods, Bodies and Municipalities2. The Eucharist and the Generation of Space3. Separate LandsPart II From Law to Culture4. Transit5. Possession and Fiscality6. Vindication and OblivionPart III After the Flood7. Tourism and Civic Uses8. Production of Locality TodayConclusions
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Taylor & Francis Histories of Architecture Education in the United
Book SynopsisHistories of Architecture Education in the United States is an edited collection focused on the professional evolution, experimental and enduring pedagogical approaches, and leading institutions of American architecture education. Beginning with the emergence of architecture as a profession in Philadelphia and ending with the early work, but unfinished international effort, of making room for women and people of color in positions of leadership in the field, this collection offers an important history of architecture education relevant to audiences both within and outside of the United States. Other themes include the relationship of professional organizations to educational institutions; the legacy of late nineteenth-century design concepts; the role of architectural history; educational changes and trans-Atlantic intellectual exchanges after WWII and the Cold War; the rise of the city and urban design in the architectâs consciousness; student protests and challenges to tradTable of ContentsPart 1: Institutions 1. The Philadelphia Way of Making Architects: The Birth and Birthplace of American Architecture Education 2. The Architect at Mid-Century: The AIA and Architecture Education, 1857 and 1957 3. Redefining Rome’s Lessons: Architects at the American Academy 4. French Connections: Learning from Penn Part 2: Counter-Institutions 5. Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois: Their Legacies in Architecture Education at Historically Black Colleges and Universities 6. Between Colonial Nostalgia and Modern Aspirations: The University of Puerto Rico School of Architecture as a Pedagogical Experiment 7. Radical Empathy in the Teaching of Bruce Goff and the “American School” of Architects 8. A Postmodern School of Architecture: Education at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 9. Signs and Wonders: John Hejduk and the Re-Enchantment of Architecture at The Cooper Union 10. Feminism and Architecture: The Women’s School of Planning and Architecture Part 3: Constituting the Discipline, Pushing Its Boundaries 11. Cultivating the Sense of Beauty: Denman Waldo Ross and the Teaching of Pure Design 12. From Constancy to Change: Sigfried Giedion and the Shifting Role of History in Architecture Education 13. The Question of Humanism: Architecture “in Service of Life” at North Carolina State College, 1948-1952 14. The Politics of the Creative Mind: Educating Architects at M.I.T. after 1945 15. The Oregon Conspiracy: John Reynolds and the Politics of Environmental Control Part 4: Architecture Goes Beyond Itself 16. The “Social Planning Movement”: Architecture and Planning at the University of Pennsylvania 17. The School and the City: Urban Design at Cornell in the 1960s and ’70s 18. Architecture Education as a Social Art: Social Science at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design 19. Toppling the “Cinderblock in the Sky”: “Negative” Architecture Education at Columbia University in the 1960s 20. From Student to Educator: The Personal Letters and Critical Discourse of Denise Scott Brown
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reimagining Industrial Sites
Book SynopsisThe discourse around derelict, former industrial and military sites has grown in recent years. This interest is not only theoretical, and landscape professionals are taking new approaches to the design and development of these sites. This book examines the varied ways in which the histories and qualities of these derelict sites are reimagined in the transformed landscape and considers how such approaches can reveal the dramatic changes that have been wrought on these places over a relatively short time scale. It discusses these issues with reference to eleven sites from the UK, Germany, the USA, Australia and China, focusing specifically on how designers incorporate evidence of landscape change, both cultural and natural. There has been little research into how these developed landscapes are perceived by visitors and local residents. This book examines how the tangible material traces of pastness are interpreted by the visitor and the impact of the intangible elTrade Review"The complex legacy of post-industrial and military landscapes presents ecological challenges across the world today, requiring close scrutiny and imaginative responses. Catherine Heatherington’s fine-grained exploration of the successful recuperation of the former gun-ranges at Rainham Marshes near London, along with other case studies, provides essential insights into how best to approach this new landscape condition. The book provides an invaluable resource for those who now manage such derelict and neglected sites and, ultimately, for the wider public - for whom they are the new landscapes of leisure and environmental renewal." Ken Worpole, Emeritus Professor, Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University, UKTable of ContentsPreamble1. Introduction 2. The qualities of derelict, underused and neglected sites 3. Eleven landscapes and their qualities 4. Designing to reveal change ‘Musing on the tracks – the first interlude 5. Perceptions of material and spatial qualities in developed sites ‘Temporalities at Orford Ness’ – the second interlude 6. Perceptions of temporal qualities in developed sites ‘My memories at Bentwaters’ - the third interlude 7. Perceptions of the qualities and their impact on memories 8. Implications for practice 9. Managing change
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Segregation Integration Assimilation
Book SynopsisThere is a widespread concern today with the role and experiences of ethnic and religious minorities, and their potential for conflict and harmony with ''host communities'' and with each other, especially in towns. Interest in historical aspects of these phenomena is growing rapidly, not least in studies of the long and complex history of the towns of Central and Eastern Europe. Most such studies focus on particular places or on particular groups, but this volume offers a broader view covering the period from the tenth to the sixteenth century and regions from Germany to Dalmatia and from Epirus to Livonia, with an emphasis on the territory of medieval Hungary. The focus is on the changing nature of identity, perception and legal status of groups, on relations within and between them, and on the ways in which these elements were affected by the external political regimes and ideologies to which the towns were subjected. Many of the places examined were notable for the complexity of tTable of ContentsContents: Preface; Introduction: segregation, zoning and assimilation in medieval towns, Derek Keene; Various ethnic and religious groups in medieval German towns? Some evidence and reflections, Felicitas Schmieder; Russians in Livonian towns in the 13th and 14th centuries, Anti Selart; '... propter disparitatem linguae et religionis pares ipsis non esse': 'minority' communities in medieval and early modern Lviv, Olha Kozubska-Andrusiv; Foreign ethnic groups in the towns of Southern Hungary in the Middle Ages, Istvan Petrovics; Buda: the multi-ethnic capital of medieval Hungary, Andras Vegh; Late medieval ethnic structures in the inland towns of present-day Slovenia, Boris Golec; Gradation of differences: ethnic and religious minorities in medieval Dubrovnik, Zdenka Janekovic-Romer; Minorities and foreigners in Bulgarian medieval towns in the 12th to 14th centuries: literary and archaeological fragments, Kazimir Popkonstantinov and Rossina Kostova; Nobiles, cives et popolari: 4 towns under the rule of Carlo I Tocco (c.1375-1429), Nada Zecevic; The towns of medieval Hungary in the reports of contemporary travellers, Balazs Nagy; Crown, gown and town: zones of royal, ecclesiastical and civic interaction in medieval Buda and Visegrad, Jozsef Laszlovszky; Integration through language. The multilingual character of late medieval Hungarian towns, Katalin Szende; The visual image of the 'other' in medieval urban space: patterns and constructions, Gerhard Jaritz; Index.
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Taylor & Francis The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the
Book SynopsisChallenging current perspectives of urbanisation, The Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience explores how our towns and cities have shaped and been shaped by cultural, spatial and gendered influences. This volume discusses gender in an urban context in European, North American and colonial towns from the fourteenth to the twentieth century, casting new light on the development of medieval and modern settlements across the globe.Organised into six thematic parts covering economy, space, civic identity, material culture, emotions and the colonial world, this book comprises 36 chapters by key scholars in the field. It covers a wide range of topics, from women and citizenship in medieval York to gender and tradition in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South African cities, reframing our understanding of the role of gender in constructing the spaces and places that form our urban environment.Interdisciplinary and transnational in scope, thisTrade Review'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'In a rich super-collection of 36 essays plus introductions, this Routledge History Handbook offers exciting fare for readers of diverse geographical and temporal interests. Sweeping across Europe, including several of its less familiar northern domains, and reaching out to some of its distant colonies, the anthology spans six centuries. Fruitful coherence and lots of striking fresh insights emerge from the sustained focus on a novel intersection of two themes: gender, both as ideas and in persons, and urban experiences and spaces.'Elizabeth S. Cohen, York University, Canada 'Simonton ... presents an exciting body of work that simultaneously offers broad overviews and detailed microâ-studies.'Jennifer Aston, The Economic History Review'Overall, the Handbook is a vast and empirically rich collection of essays, which is a valuable resource for researchers, and will undoubtedly be informative for both scholarship and teaching. Students interested in gender, urban history and their relationship will also find much here, and will particularly benefit from the helpful advice for further reading included at the end of the book. The collection makes an outstanding contribution to our understanding of the gendering of urban experiences, spaces, and places, and what ultimately resonates throughout the volume is the exciting range and variety of current work on gender in an urban context.'Laura Harrison, Women's History ReviewTable of ContentsGender and the Urban Experience – Introduction PART I Economy, Circulations and Exchanges – Introduction Anne Montenach1 Patterns of Transmission and Urban Experience – When Gender Matters Anna Bellavitis2 Women, Gender and Credit in Early Modern Western European Towns Cathryn Spence3 Toleration, Liberty and Privileges – Gender and Commerce in Eighteenth-century European Towns Deborah Simonton4 Gender and Business during the Industrial Revolution Hannah Barker5 Poverty, Family Economies and Survival Strategies in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries – A Gender ApproachMontserrat Carbonell-Esteller6 Gendered Experiences of Work and Migration in Western Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Manuela MartiniPART II Space, Place and Environment – Introduction Elaine Chalus7 Male Servants, Identity and Urban Space in Eighteenth-Century England Amanda Flather8 Mapping the Spaces of Seduction– Morality, Gender and the City inEarly Nineteenth-Century Britain Katie Barclay9 Painting the Town – Portrayals of Change in Urban Riversides, London and the Thames, a Case Study Kemille S. Moore10 Modernity and Madrid – The Gendered Urban Geography of Carmen de Burgos’ La rampa Rebecca M. Bender11 Home, Urban Space and Gendered Practices in Mid-Seventeenth-Century Turku Riitta Laitinen12 The Gendered Geography of Violence in Bologna, Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries Sanne Muurling and Marion PluskotaPART III Civic Identity and Political Culture – Introduction Nina Javette Koefoed13 Women and Citizenship in Later Medieval York Sarah Rees Jones14 Civic Identity, ‘Juvenile’ Status and Gender in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century Italian TownsEleonora Canepari15 ‘We Had a Row on the Politics of the Day’ – Gender and Political Sociability of the Elites in Stockholm, c. 1770–1800 My Hellsing16 Gender, Philanthropy and Civic Identities in Edinburgh, 1795–1830 Jane Rendall17 Negotiating Respectable Citizenship – Homosexual Emancipation Struggles in Early Twentieth-Century Copenhagen Niels Nyegaard18 Voting as an Act of Estate or Voting as an Act of Class? – Voting Women in Swedish Towns, c. 1720–1920 Åsa Karlsson SjögrenPART IV Material Culture in Gendered Urban Settings – Introduction Marjo Kaartinen19 Gender, Material Culture and Urban Experience in Early Modern Rome Renata Ago20 The Changing Objects of Civic Devotion – Gender, Politics and Votive Commissions in a Late Medieval Dalmatian ConfraternityAna Marinković21 Caring and Healing – Women, Bodies and Materiality in Nineteenth-Century French Cities Anne Carol22 Architectural Language and Mistranslations – A Comparative Global Approach to Women’s Urban Spaces Despina Stratigakos23 Shoes and the City – Shoes and their Sphere of Influence in Colonial America, 1740–1789 Kimberly Alexander24 Gendering the Automobile – Men, Women and the Car in Helsinki, 1900–1930 Teija Försti PART V Intimacy and Emotion – Introduction Katie Barclay25 Shaping London Merchant Identities – Emotions, Reputation and Power in the Court of Chancery Merridee L. Bailey26 Love Thy Neighbour? – The Gendered, Emotional and Spatial Production of Charity and Poverty in Sixteenth-Century France Susan Broomhall27 The Emotional Life of Boys in Eighteenth-Century Mexico CitySonya Lipsett-Rivera28 Emotions, Gender and the Body – The Case of Nineteenth-Century German Spa Towns Heikki Lempa29 Feeling Modern on the Russian Street – From Desire to Despair Mark D. Steinberg30 Risk! Pleasure! Affirmation! – Navigating Queer Urban Spaces in Twentieth-Century ScotlandJeff MeekPART VI The Colonial Town – Introduction Nigel Worden31 A Gendered History of Colonial Spanish American Cities and Towns, 1500s–1800 Leo J. Garofalo32 Gender in Batavia – Asian City, European Company TownJean Gelman Taylor33 Cities at Sea – Gender and Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century British Colonial City, Philadelphia, Kingston, Madras and Calcutta Clare A. Lyons34 Gender, Race and the Spatiality of the Colonial Town in India Mary Hancock35 Gender and Urban Experience in Nineteenth-Century Australasian Towns Penny Russell36 South African Cities, Gender and Inventions of Tradition in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Vivian Bickford-Smith
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Transformation of a Peasant Economy:
Book SynopsisThe market town has been dismissed as an incompletely formed urban community; in fact it was the primary urban unit in pre-industrial England. This study places the market town at the centre of the transformation of early-modern England, both catalysing changes in agriculture and experiencing, in a distinctive fashion, the urbanisation that was to occur a century or more later in the great industrial and commercial centres of Europe. In the two centuries after 1500 the rural economy changed from a pattern of subsistence to 'improved' farming. The first great enclosures took place during this time, but the economic base for this revolution was the growth of local trading, centred on markets and local communications networks. This redistribution of produce, provisions and information was the motor of specialisation and hence modernisation. The strength of this study is in its detailed research into this process in one representative locality, and the sensitive extrapolation of local experiences on to the national and European scale. By integrating in one book the themes of rural transformation and early urbanisation this account of one typical midland market town demonstrates the continuing vigour of the discipline of local history.Table of ContentsContents: Introduction; Urban and rural communities; Population and poverty; The farming economy; The town economy; Town and village; The peasant economy transformed; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Firms Networks and Business Values The British and American Cotton Industries since 1750 8 Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Opting for Oil
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Cambridge University Press Allianz and the German Insurance Business 19331945
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Cambridge University Press Traditional Industry in the Economy of Colonial India
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Cambridge University Press Peasants Politicians and Producers
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Cambridge University Press The Provincial Book Trade in EighteenthCentury England
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Cambridge University Press Science and Innovation
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Cambridge University Press The British Brewing Industry 1830 1980
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Cambridge University Press Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields 1871 1890
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Cambridge University Press Masters Unions and Men
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Cambridge University Press Peasant Farming in Muscovy
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Cambridge University Press Coal and Tobacco
Book SynopsisIn Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west Cumberland economy, and the Lowther's entrepreneurial role, to reveal the vital importance of the coal industry. Dr Beckett's major study is based on the Lowther papers, and reveals the crucial family involvement in these events.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The Lowthers: land owning-entrepreneurs; 2. Coal: Monopoly and competition; 3. Coal: the structure of trade and industry; 4. The expansion of trade; 5. The development of industry; 6. Communications; 7. Creating new towns: Urban growth; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Land and Labour in Latin America Essays on the Development of Agrarian Capitalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 26 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 26
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Cambridge University Press Enterprise and Technology The German and British Steel Industries 18651895 The German and British Steel Industries 18971914
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of Oil
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Cambridge University Press Market Services and the Productivity Race 1850 2000
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Trade Unions Their Development in the 1970s 32 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 32
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Cambridge University Press Heroes of Invention
Book SynopsisThis innovative study investigates why inventors rose to heroic stature and popular acclaim in Victorian Britain. Christine MacLeod argues that inventors became figureheads of various nineteenth-century factions who deployed their heroic reputation, not least to challenge the aristocracy's hold on power and the militaristic national identity that bolstered it.Trade Review'[MacLeod's] book is a masterpiece of history.' Nuncius: Journal of the History of Science'In this interesting and valuable book, Christine MacLeod has chosen the inventor to reflect on British national identity, an individual she describes as an improbable hero. [She] has written an illuminating account of the way in which culture, economics, and politics converged to give to the inventor a brief hegemonic interlude.' Richard A. Cosgrove, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; List of illustrations; 1. Introduction: inventors and other heroes; 2. The new Prometheus; 3. The inventor's progress; 4. The apotheosis of James Watt; 5. Watt, inventor of the Industrial Revolution; 6. 'What's Watt?' The radical critique; 7. The technological pantheon; 8. Heroes of the Pax Britannica; 9. Debating the patent system; 10. The workers' heroes; 11. Maintaining the industrial spirit; 12. Science and the disappearing inventor; Epilogue. The Victorian legacy; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cotton The Fabric that Made the Modern World
Book SynopsisToday's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new world manufacturing powerhouses. However, this is not a new phenomenon: until the industrial revolution, Asia manufactured great quantities of colourful printed cottons that were sold to places as far afield as Japan, West Africa and Europe. Cotton explores this earlier globalised economy and its transformation after 1750 as cotton led the way in the industrialisation of Europe. By the early nineteenth century, India, China and the Ottoman Empire switched from world producers to buyers of European cotton textiles, a position that they retained for over two hundred years. This is a fascinating and insightful story which ranges from Asian and European technologies and African slavery to cotton plantations in the Americas and consumer desires across the globe.Trade Review'… a remarkable volume full of insight and originality … Riello deserves a wide audience and the book will be of interest to a readership well beyond the audience for world economic history, including cultural and social history, the histories of art, design, fashion and, of course, textiles themselves.' Reviews in History (history.ac.uk/reviews)'Mr Riello's meticulous approach and scholarly prose make for a dense work but one that is wide-ranging, beautifully nuanced and often surprising. Like its namesake, Cotton deserves a wide circulation.' The Wall Street Journal'Reveals much about globalisation …' Financial Times'This is a brilliant study of two periods of globalization, centered and driven first by twelfth- to seventeenth-century Indian production of cotton textiles, and second by the gradual triumph of Europe, particularly Britain, beginning in the eighteenth century. Essential.' B. Weinstein, Choice'… strikingly broad in coverage and even bolder in the sweep of its claims, geographical, chronological and methodological … [a] rich and elaborate work.' Eric Jones, EH.Net'Giorgio Riello's important and ambitious study on cotton overlaps a bit with books in the commodity history genre, but it is incontrovertibly more. The author's primary aim is not merely to fill a gap but rather to contribute to our understanding of nothing less than the origins of modern economic growth and development. This short review can only hint at the wealth of important data and insights (not to mention the stunning illustrations) to be found in this book.' Peter A. Coclanis, Journal of Southern History'This is a beautiful book, packed with dozens of rich photographs of cotton fabric and contemporary paintings … Riello preserves a level of nuance and contingency rare in global histories. He has written an insightful economic history of cotton that should find a wide reading among economic historians and historians of the Atlantic world.' Andrew C. Baker, The South Carolina Historical MagazineTable of Contents1. Introduction: cotton textiles and global history; Part I. The First Cotton Revolution – A Centrifugal System, c.1000–1500: 2. Selling to the world: India and the old cotton system; 3. 'Wool growing on wild trees' – the global reach of cotton; 4. The world's best – cotton manufacturing and the advantage of India; Part II. Learning and Connecting – Making Cottons Global, c.1500–1750: 5. The Indian apprenticeship – Europeans trading in Indian cottons; 6. New consuming habits – how cotton entered European houses and wardrobes; 7. From Asia to America – cottons in the Atlantic world; 8. Learning and substituting – printing textiles in Europe; Part III. The Second Cotton Revolution – A Centripetal System, c.1750–2000: 9. Cotton, slavery and plantations in the New World; 10. Competing with India – cotton and European industrialisation; 11. 'The wolf in sheep's clothing' – the potential of cotton; 12. Global outcomes – the West and the new cotton system; 13. Conclusion – from system to system, from divergence to convergence.
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Cambridge University Press Robert Estienne Royal Printer
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Cambridge University Press British Railways 194873 A Business History
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1986, this is a business history of the first twenty-five years of nationalised railways in Britain. Commissioned by the British Railways Board and based on the Board's extensive archives, it fully analyses the dynamics of nationalised industry management and the complexities of the vital relationship with government.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; List of charts, figures and maps; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; List of abbreviations; Chronology; 1. Introduction: nationalisation; Part I. the British Transport Commission and the Railway Executive, 1948–53: 2. Organisation; 3. Investment; 4. Revenue costs and labour relations; Part II. The British Transport Commission 1953–62: 5. The new railway organisation; 6. Deficits, markets and closures; 7. Wages, unions and productivity; 8. The Modernisation Plan and investment; Part III. The British Railways board, 1963–73: 9. The 'Beeching Revolution': organisation and reorganisation; 10. Financial performance and rationalisation; 11. Markets, pricing and commercial strategy; 12. Investment, labour relations and productivity; 13. Conclusion; Part IV. Statistical Appendices; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Peasants Politicians and Producers The Organisation of Agriculture in France since 1918 14 Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press Science and Innovation
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation
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Cambridge University Press The Genesis of Industrial America 18701920
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Cambridge University Press The Struggle for Control of the Modern Corporation
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Cambridge University Press The Return of the Guilds Towards a Global History of the Guilds in Preindustrial Times 16 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 16
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Cambridge University Press Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Christopher Plantin and Engraved Book Illustrations in SixteenthCentury Europe
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Cambridge University Press The Ecology of Oil
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Cambridge University Press Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century
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Cambridge University Press Heroes of Invention
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Cambridge University Press Global Electrification
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Cambridge University Press Guilds Innovation and the European Economy 1400 1800
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Cambridge University Press Making a New Deal
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Boeing from Technological
Book SynopsisOrganizations rise or fall based on misreading of external signals as well as internal factors ? strong or weak management, leadership and governance, proactive or reactive benchmarks of innovation and performance. This Element addresses the commercial aerospace sector the case study of Boeing Corporation. Boeing and Airbus illustrate the dynamics of competitive rivalry, the shifting attention span of senior leaders. Beset by internal dysfunctions, product delays and certification challenges, Boeing has a negative net worth, and perverse executive incentives, financial engineering values, and governance dysfunctions when confronting the changes facing the main customers, the airline industry. Boeing trails its European rival in market share, R&D investments, and diverse product line based on seat size, pricing, and distance. This case study provides an opportunity to suggest new research directions on governance and managing truly complex organizations.
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Cambridge University Press The Transformation of Boeing from Technological Leadership to Financial Engineering and Decline
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The University of Chicago Press Selling Power Economics Policy and Electric
Book SynopsisWe remember Thomas Edison as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb, but he deserves credit for something much larger, an even more singular invention that profoundly changed the way the world works: the modern electric utility industry. Edison's light bulb was the first to work within a system where a utility generated electricity and distributed it to customers for lighting. The story of how electric utilities went within one generation from prototype to an indispensable part of most Americans' lives is a story about the relationships between political and technological change. John L. Neufeld offers a comprehensive historical treatment of the economics that shaped electric utilities. Compared with most industries, the organization of the electric utility industry is not and cannot be economically efficient. Most industries are kept by law in a state of fair competition, but the capital necessary to start an electric company generators, transmission and distribution systems, and
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The University of Chicago Press Ogborn M Indian Ink
Book SynopsisExploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, this work examines the East India Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It also uncovers the intellectual and political legacies of early modern trade and empire.
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University of Washington Press Picturing India People Places and the World of
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W. W. Norton & Company Railroaded The Transcontinentals and the Making
Book SynopsisA Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize "A powerful book, crowded with telling details and shrewd observations." —Michael Kazin, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"Required reading for anyone interested in the history of American railroading…This is an exciting story and well told." -- John Steele Gordon - Wall Street Journal"A model of narrative skill and [an] insightful reinterpretation of the Gilded Age. It is easily the best business history I have read." -- Donald Worster - Slate"A scathing and wonderful new book. [Railroaded] will entertain and outrage readers." -- Buzzy Jackson - Boston Globe"An acute analysis that in failure came success and in many ways the map of the nation." -- Scott Martelle - Washington Post"Imaginative, iconoclastic, immensely informative and mordantly funny." -- Glenn C. Altschuler - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette"A different and provocative view of the role of the transcontinentals in developing the American West. Railroaded will no doubt spark lively debate and become required reading for those seeking an insightful and recast history of the transcontinental railroad saga." -- Walter R. Borneman - San Francisco Chronicle"Richard White is one of those rare historians with an unfailing ability to transform any topic he writes about, no matter how familiar that topic might seem. In Railroaded, he tells the story of the western transcontinentals as it has never been told before, with insights that speak as much to our own time as to the nineteenth-century era he explores with such wit and intelligence." -- William Cronon, author of Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West"When it comes to the American West, there is no other writer like Richard White, a serious scholar with a highly original take on familiar subjects and elegant prose besides. His subject, the making of the transcontinental railroads, is perhaps the pivotal story of the West, but it’s not the one we know from movies and myth. It’s about the birth of all those things that most trouble us nowadays, a genesis story in which the serpent in Eden is the railroad itself writhing across the continent." -- Rebecca Solnit, author of Orwell's Roses"This brilliant book will forever change our understanding of the great railroad projects of nineteenth-century America." -- William Deverell, director, Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West"Excellent big-picture, popularly written history of the Howard Zinn mold, backed by a mountain of research and statistics." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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