Quinlan we have two gifted historians, writing at the peak of their powers, about one of world history's most fascinating ….' ---Marcus Rediker, author of The Slave Ship: A Human History 'The book makes a major contribution to understanding the world …

Great Interruption -- Chapter 6. Transition and Triad -- Chapter 7. Cooperation vs. Competition in a World of Adversarial … standard in 1982, they structure relations between the system’s centre and the rest of the world so that others can catch up to … point now. As we are moving from a US-dominated world economy towards a multi-polar configuration, we will also see the …

of income taxation since World War II; the turn toward value added taxation; the relationship between tax reform and the …

World - the Saga of Native Indians -- 5. Slavery in the New World - The Saga of Black Africans -- 6. Indentured Servitude … - The Saga of the Indians and the Chinese -- 7. Temporary Cross-Border Mobility Since World War I -- 8. Cross-Border Labor …-immigrant sentiments as well as restrictive measures in the developed world and outlining inexorable forces that are likely to propel …

Nature of the Atlantic World Marketplace: Female Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth-Century American Lowcountry -- 7. On Their … Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial New Zealand and Australia -- 8. In the Business of Piracy … perspective, moving beyond European and trans-Atlantic frameworks to include many other corners of the world. The women in these …