Introduction, the fields of play -- The origins of baseball and soccer leagues -- How soccer spread around the world … to know about world soccer and the world needs to know about American baseball …

Uses world history, the Soviet experience, and economic analysis to demonstrate why Russian nostalgia for empire could … unexpected becomes the rule -- The political economy of external shocks -- Deteriorating conditions for foreign trade: political … soviet economy -- The hard currency crisis -- Economic and political liberalization against the background of the hard …

political economy of Anglo-American imperial relations -- Anglo-Irish commercial relations, Two letters on the trade of Ireland …