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This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics, going beyond the usual West/non-West dichotomy. The “regional trade zone of modern Asia” was debated in the 1980s. Since then, Japanese historians of the...
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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
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This book challenges the notion that economic crises are modern phenomena through its exploration of the tumultuous ‘credit-crunch’ of the later Middle Ages. It illustrates clearly how influences such as the Black Death, inter-European warfare, climate change and a bullion famine occasioned...
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“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...
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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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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...
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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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1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations …This monograph aims to analyze the economic and business history of colonial India from a corporate perspective by … causes of colonial India’s industrial growth, in addition to two renowned perspectives focusing on government economic policy …
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traditional flexible manufacturing in India and how they played a vital role in the pattern of growth of the Indian manufacturing … India inherited at the time of independence. It is a valuable resource for students of history, economic history, business … Flexible Manufacturing and the East India Company -- Chapter 5 Structure of Organization and Nature of Corporate Governance of …
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China and India’s reciprocal demands and potential conflicts in the Indian Ocean. It also addresses the relations between … Indo-Pacific Ocean -- Achievements and Challenges of India’s ‘Great Power’ Dream -- Indian Ocean and China’s Economic …
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