The book summarizes the reports of 14 speakers of the conference "Latvian industry before and after regaining independence" on December 13, 2013: scientists, historians, factory managers and civil servants about what industry was actually like during the USSR and what and why happened after the...

"The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence...