(conference paper: American Society for Public Administration, 58th National Conference, Philadelphia, July 26-30, 1997)Traditional models of urban economic development focus on regions. For example, States and localities are usually seen as being in competition with one another within a region...

Chapter 1: Practicing Interdisciplinary Economic History -- Chapter 2: Understanding the Anthropocene.-Chapter 3: “1800”.-Chapter 4: “Political Economy”: The making of a North/South planet -- Chapter 5: Self, Socialisation, Organisation, Culture -- Chapter 6: “1848”.-Chapter 7:...