This book provides the most detailed and complete picture of workers' protest in China to date. It locates their position within the context of Chinese political history and the role played by Chinese workers in radical political movements

Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most important social structures of accumulation. Successive chapters explore a range of topics including labour, capital, and the state. The author's conclusion challenges the notion that liberalisation releases the...

An international board of contributors underline the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans, and suggest how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change

Ireland appears to be in the throes of a remarkable process of social and economic change. This text scrutinizes the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the deceptively simple metaphor of the "Celtic Tiger

Since the earliest of times, human beings have endeavored to uncover the causes of prosperity. History is the best tool that society possesses for identifying and analyzing the factors that contribute to economic growth; yet economic statistics that lend

This benchmark volume addresses the debate over the effects of early industrialization on standards of living during the decades before the Civil War. Its contributors demonstrate that the aggregate antebellum economy was growing faster than any other large economy had grown before. Despite the...

In recent decades the American economy has experienced the worst peace-time inflation in its history and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. These circumstances have prompted renewed interest in the concept of business cycles, which Joseph Schumpeter suggested are "like the...

In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away, and today the gap is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in...

Issawi's study, the first comprehensive history of the Fertile Crescent during the 19th century, provides an in-depth analysis of the economic life of the region currently encompassing Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, and a small part of Turkey

CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: Looking Forward into History -- I: International Relations and Foreign Affairs -- 1. How Tough Are Times in the Third World? -- 2. Do We Really Need All These Immigrants? -- 3. Do Imperial Powers Get Rich Off Their Colonies? -- 4. How Military...