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Geschichtsrevisionismus und Krieg : "The World Turned Upside Down" - Die Welt stand Kopf
Roth, Karl-Heinz
The World Turned Upside Down" Die Welt stand Kopf: Mit dieser Metapher charakterisierte der Historiker Christopher Hill in den 1970er Jahren jenes emanzipatorische Aufbegehren, das in der englischen Revolution mit seinen radikalen Forderungen nach sozialer, wirtschaftlicher, politischer und...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005850555
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War and Wealth: Economic Opportunity Before and After the Civil War, 1850-1870
Jaworski, Taylor - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This study uses two samples of linked adult males to examine wealth accumulation by region and occupation between 1850 and 1870. Consistent with past research, the findings here show that wealth accumulation was substantial in the South in the 1850s and stagnant in the 1860s. The findings also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870494
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The War Puzzle: Contradictory Effects of International Conflicts on Stock Markets
Brune, Amelie; Hens, Thorsten; Rieger, Marc Oliver; … - National Centre of Competence in Research - Financial … - 2011
We study a number of large international military conflicts sinceWorld War II where we establish a news analysis as a proxy for theestimated likelihood that the conflict will result in a war. We findthat in cases when there is a pre-war phase, an increase in the warlikelihood tends to decrease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486848
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The Effects of World War II onEconomic and Health Outcomes across Europe
Kesternich, Iris; Siflinger, Bettina; Smith, James P.; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the long-run effects of World War II on socio-economic status(SES) and health of older individuals in Europe. Physical and psychological childhood eventsare important predictors for labor market and health outcomes in adult life, but studies thatquantify these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486872
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Imperialism, Globalization, and the Soap/Suds Industry in Republican China (1912-37): The Case of Unilever and the Chinese Consumer
Zurndorfer, Harriet T. - Rijksuniversiteit <Leiden> - 2006
One of the most contentious issues in Chinese history has been the assessment of foreign involvement in the Chinese economy since the end of the nineteenth century. Following Allen and Donnithorne's 1954 publication Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development which claimed the limited...
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Japanese Imperialism in Global Resource History
Sugihara, Kaoru - 2004
’s)industrialisation, and how it eventually came to underpin the courseof Japanese imperialism and aggression in the 1930s.The Western impact on … development of mines andplantations. In this story imperialism functioned as an institutionaldevice to ensure trade and capital … specifically British position of imperialism offree trade, see Gallagher and Robinson 1953). Modern politicalideas and legal …
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Imperialism, Globalization, and Public Finance: The Case of Late Qing China
Zurndorfer, Harriet T. - Rijksuniversiteit <Leiden> / Vakgroep Economische Vakken - 2004
This paper reviews recent revisionist studies of imperialism that demonstrate the complexities behind the late Qing … role of globalization adds another dimension to understanding how imperialism engaged late Qing China's public finance …
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Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischer Wirtschafts-und Gesellschaftspolitik – Der Beitrag JonElsters
Pies, Ingo - Universität <Halle, Saale> / Lehrstuhl für … - 2007
Jon Elster gehört zu den profiliertesten Sozialwissenschaftlern der internationalen‚scientific community’. Der vorliegende Beitrag entwickelt eine Lesart für sein bisher vorliegendes Gesamtwerk: In einem ersten Schritt wird Elsters Kritik an funktionalistischen Fehlschlüssen in den...
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Die Katastrophen-Versicherung in Spanien
Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas von - 1997
Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht das System der Katastrophenversicherung in Spanien untersucht und mit dem …
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