Chapter 1: Introduction. Women’s work in the Netherlands and Java, 1830-1940 -- Chapter 2: An exceptional empire? Dutch colonialism in comparative perspective -- Chapter 3: Industrious women in an imperial economy: The Cultivation System and its consequences -- Chapter 4: Industrialisation,...

Chapter 1: Introduction to the First Socialization Debate -- Chapter 2: The First Socialization Debate of 1918 -- Chapter 3: From Financial Capital to Organized Capitalism -- Chapter 4: Visions of Socialization and Political Reality -- Chapter 5: Different Views of Socialization Strategies in...

Die Soziale Marktwirtschaft war nach dem 2. Weltkrieg die Grundlage für den Wirtschaftsaufschwung und das Wirtschaftswunder in Deutschland. Sie ist heute als Wirtschaftsmodell weltweit anerkannt und erfolgreich. 70 Jahre später ist die Welt jedoch eine andere. Globalisierung, Digitalisierung,...

1. The Organization of Terror and Murder -- 2. The Modern Theory of Bureaucracy -- 3. Bureaucratic Competition in the Third Reich -- 4. Vertical Trust Networks in the Nazi Bureaucracy -- 5. Horizontal Trust Networks in the Nazi Bureaucracy -- 6. Coercion and Vertical Trust in the Nazi...

With the life story of Shibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931), one of the most important financiers and industrialists in modern Japanese history, as its narrative focal point, this book explores the challenges of importing modern business enterprises to Japan, where the pursuit of profit was considered...

This book is devoted to analyzing contemporary capitalism both in Japan and in the world economy by using the theoretical framework of the French régulation theory and by revisiting the theory of civil society in postwar Japan. The Japanese theory of civil society proposed unique thinking about...

This book surveys Poland’s move from being a post-feudal, backward, peripheral country to being a modern, capitalist, European state: from the partition of the commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania to the abolishment of ‘second serfdom’; late industrialization to state socialism;...

This book describes and evaluates how institutional innovation and technological innovation have impacted on humanity from pre-historical times to modern times, and how societies have been transformed in history. The author interrogates the relationship between innovation and civilisation --...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Research design -- Chapter 2: Historical context -- Chapter 3: Capital and colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6: The rate of return on investment in Africa -- Chapter 7:...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Kamakura Period (1185AD-1333AD) -- 3. The Muromachi Period (1333AD-1568AD) & Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568AD-1600AD) -- 4. The Tokugawa Period (1600AD-1868AD) -- 5. The Meiji Period (1868AD-1912AD) -- 6. The Taisho Period (1912AD-1926AD) -- 7. The Showa Period...