"Through the histories of English trading companies -- the Levant Company, the East India Company, and the Royal African Company -- this book shows how non-European peoples in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, West Africa, and Western India used their control over these companies to shape the...

"Focusing on the great population movement of British emigrants before 1914, this book provides a new perspective on the relationship between empire and globalisation. It shows how distinct structures of economic opportunity developed around the people who settled across a wider British World...

The road to capitalism -- Accountability, corruption, and the privatization of Alima -- Niche marketing and the production of flexible bodies -- Quality control, discipline, and the remaking of persons -- Ideas of kin and home on the shop floor -- Power and postsocialism.

In den Wirtschaftsstrukturen der Industrieländer vollzieht sich seit den neunziger Jahren ein tiefgreifender Umbruch. Veränderungen des globalen Faktorangebots, dynamische Entwicklungen in den internationalen Marktstrukturen, das Entstehen weltweiter Produktionsnetzwerke und technologische...

Not so long ago the nation-state seemed to be on its deathbed, condemned to irrelevance by the forces of globalization and technology. Now it is back with a vengeance, propelled by a groundswell of populists around the world. In Straight Talk on Trade, Dani Rodrik, an early and outspoken critic...