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Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy : New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975
Hall, David - 2017
This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...
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Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History : Volume 1
Hall, Joshua (ed.); Witcher, Marcus (ed.) - 2018
This book - the first of two volumes- looks at episodes in American economic history from a public choice perspective. Each chapter discusses citizens, special interests, and government officials responding to economic incentives in both markets and politics. In doing so, the book provides fresh...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397385
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The Liberation of the Serfs : The Economics of Unfree Labor
Backhaus, Jürgen G. - 2012
-- 4.Some Short Thoughts on “The Economics of Slavery”Thomas Straubhaar -- 5.Emancipation of the peasantry in Lower … that Ely Whitney had invented the Cotton Gin in 1793 and already then made slavery in cotton production literally … superfluous. While there have been several books on the economics of American slavery, few studies have examined this issue in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014015927
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Botswana – A Modern Economic History : An African Diamond in the Rough
Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta - 2018
“Many people have tried to draw lessons from Botswana’s apparent economic success, and linked it to unique features of the country’s history. In this book, Bolt and Hillbom have used detailed historical research to tell the story of that success, and suggest that it is perhaps not so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397312
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Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire
Sawai, Minoru (ed.) - 2016
Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part Ⅰ: Problems of Economic Development in the Japanese Empire -- Chapter 2 The Formation of Capitalism in East Asia -- Chapter 3 The Shifting Axis of Specialization within the Japanese Empire: A Study of Railway Distribution of Cereals in Colonial Korea -- Chapter 4...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019880
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Rethinking Imperialism : A Study of Capitalist Rule
Milios, John; Sotiropoulos, Dimitris P. - 2009
This book aims at presenting and assessing imperialism as a theoretical concept. It aims to provide a comprehensive evaluation, focusing specifically on the tension between Marx's theoretical system of the Critique of Political Economy and the theories of capitalist expansion and domination.
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The Story of Indian Manufacturing : Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947)
Seth, Vijay K. - 2018
This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing. Two important historical events significantly influenced the course of Indian manufacturing from the 15th century AD. The first was the arrival of European merchants via sea route...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396515
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British Imperialism and the Making of Colonial Currency Systems
Narsey, Wadan Lal - 2016
Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398024
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A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I : Four Paths to an Industrialized World
McNabb, David E. - 2016
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396697
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The Singularity of Western Innovation : The Language Nexus
Dudley, Leonard - 2017
This book highlights the contribution of language standardization to the economic rise of the West between 1600 and 1860. Previous studies have been unable to explain why during this period almost all industrial innovation was confined to small areas around the main cultural centers of three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397309