"As Europe rebuilt after the devastation of the Second World War, the former colonies of the major imperial powers … competing forces led to conflicts and shifting alliances around the postwar world. Turbulent Empires surveys the major polities … world, the sudden collapse of the commodities supercycle, and the continuing challenge of inequality. By the second decade …

-style antitrust as unsuited to their cultures and institutions. After World War II, however, governments in these nations, as well as … opposing to supporting antitrust? Addressing this question, this book throws new light on the struggle over liberal capitalism … during the Great Depression and World War II, the postwar Allied occupations of Japan and Germany, the reaction against …

what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory he … turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and … Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical …