Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- 1. Community-Based, "Catch-All" Organizing on New York's Lower East Side -- 2. Getting beyond Racial, Ethnic, Religious, and Skill-Based Divisions -- 3. "Like a Scab over an Infected Sore":...

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Founded in 1924 as the World Power Conference, the World Energy Council (WEC) was the first international organization to confront the global issues raised by fuel and power. From the age of empire through the Cold War to the present climate crisis, WEC has continued to serve as an international...

"Dans les décennies d'après-guerre, des milliers de kilomètres de routes et d'autoroutes sortent de terre pour soutenir l'intensification du trafic et relier, à travers les paysages agricoles remembrés, les métropoles aux zones industrielles, ports, aéroports, centrales électriques et...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Commodity Chains in Theory and in Latin American History -- 1 The Spanish-American Silver Peso: Export Commodity and Global Money of the Ancien Regime, 1550-1800 -- 2 Indigo Commodity Chains in the Spanish and British Empires, 1560-1860 -- 3 Mexican...