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Slavery, Freedom and Business Endeavor : The Reforging of Western Civilization and the Transformation of Everyday Life
Bowden, Bradley - 2022
Chapter 1: Introduction Civilization and Lived Experience -- Part 1: The Quests that Created a New Western Civilization (and Destroyed Others): Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 2: The 3-Cs: Crops, Climate, Calories -- Chapter 3: Crops and the Shaping of Civilizations -- Chapter 4: Climate:...
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Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Pretel, David - 2018
This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called European periphery and...
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An Introduction to Latin American Economics : Understanding Theory Through History
McKinney, Scott - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.
Chapter 1. The Land They Found -- Chapter 2. Adapting to a New World -- Chapter 3. Colonial Latin America -- Chapter 4 …. The First Century of Independence -- Chapter 5. Industrialization -- Chapter 6. Alternatives -- Chapter 7. The Commodity … concepts include theories such as Dutch Disease and Dependency Theory, policies such as import-substituting industrialization …
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Historical Statistics of Korea
Cha, Myung Soo (ed.); Kim, Nak Nyeon (ed.); Park, Ki-Joo (ed.) - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
1 Environment and Geography (Myung Soo Cha, Junseok Hwang, and Heejin Park) -- 2 Population (Myung Soo Cha and Heejin Park) -- 3 Labor Force and Employment (Yitaek Park) -- 4 Wages (Myung Soo Cha, Junseok Hwang, and Wooyoun Lee) -- 5 Education (Sun Go and Ki-Joo Park) -- 6 Health (Suk Chul Hong)...
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Westernization Movement and Early Thought of Modernization in China : Pragmatism and Changes in Society, 1860s–1900s
Zhou, Jianbo - 2022 - 1st ed. 2022.
Part 1 Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Change of Time and the Formation of the Westernization Thought -- Chapter 2. The Guiding Principle of Westernization Movement.-Chapter 3. The Development Strategies of the Self-Strengthening Modernization -- Chapter 4. Social Reformative Thought of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012875523
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Poland From Partitions to EU Accession : A Modern Economic History, 1772–2004
Koryś, Piotr - 2018
industrialization to state socialism; post-partition fragmentation to post-Second World War westward dislocation; and from the … Consolidation from Above and the Fragmentation of the State (1795-1830) -- Chapter 5: On the Peripheries of the Modern Western World …: Polish lands during World War II (1939-1945) -- Chapter 10: Communist Modernization?: Economic Development of Poland between …
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Regional Inequality in Spain : 1860-2015
Diez-Minguela, Alfonso; Martinez-Galarraga, Julio; … - 2018
economic history, world economic history and globalization at the Universities of València and Barcelona, Spain. His broad …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396999
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Accelerating Economic Growth : Lessons From 200,000 Years of Technological Progress and Human Development
Growiec, Jakub - 2022
What made it possible for the human species to conquer the world, build a global digital economy, and still want more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013365070
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Scandinavia and South America - A Tale of Two Capitalisms : Essays on Comparative Developments in Trade, Industrialisation and Inequality since 1850
Álvarez, Jorge (ed.); Prado, Svante (ed.) - 2022
1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado -- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia -- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth -- 3. Foreign trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414560
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Standard of Living : Essays on Economics, History, and Religion in Honor of John E. Murray
Gray, Patrick (ed.); Hall, Joshua C. (ed.);  … - 2022
apprentices -- Family Allocation Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century -- Child Labor and Industrialization in Early Republican …
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