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The Box : How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Levinson, Marc - 2016 - Second edition with a new chapter by the author

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade...

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The Long Divergence : How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East

Kuran, Timur - 2011

Biographical note: KuranTimur: Timur Kuran is professor of economics and political science and the Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. He is the author of "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism" (Princeton).

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Essays on the Great Depression

Bernanke, Ben S. - 2000

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links...

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A short history of film

Dixon, Wheeler W.; Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey - 2018 - Third edition.

With more than 250 images, new information on international cinema--especially Polish, Chinese, Russian, Canadian, and Iranian filmmakers--an expanded section on African-American filmmakers, updated discussions of new works by major American directors, and a new section on the rise of comic book...

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Christlich Demokratische Union : Beiträge und Positionen zur Geschichte der CDU

Lammert, Norbert (ed.) - 2020 - Erste Auflage

Geschichte und stellte bis heute über fünfzig Jahre lang den deutschen Kanzler bzw. die Kanzlerin. Die Essays im vorliegenden … Sammelband widmen sich der Geschichte der CDU aus ganz verschiedenen, mitunter kontroversen Blickwinkeln und von divergierenden … Standpunkten aus. Dabei geht es nicht nur um ihre historischen Rolle in der deutschen Geschichte – ebenso werden ihre politisch …

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Russland auf dem Wege zur Katastrophe : Tagebücher des Großfürsten Andrej und des Kriegsministers Poliwanow, Briefe der Großfürsten an den Zaren

Frantz, Gunther (ed.); … - 1926 - 1. Aufl.

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Der Ursprung des Christentums : eine historische Untersuchung

Kautsky, Karl - 1926 - 14. Auflage

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A History of Global Capitalism : Feuding Elites and Imperial Expansion

Bhattacharyya, Sambit - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.

Capitalism and Elite Feud: A Short Introduction -- PART I: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- A Unified Theory of Rent, Elite Feuds and Imperial Expansion -- PART II: RENT, ELITE FEUDS AND IMPERIAL EXPANSION IN EARLY MODERN AND MODERN EUROPE -- Atlanticism, the Slave Trade and Westward Expansion of...

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Samuel Pufendorf and the Emergence of Economics as a Social Science

Backhaus, Jurgen G. (ed.); Chaloupek, Günther (ed.); … - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

This book discusses Samuel Pufendorf and his contributions to the development of the European Enlightenment and the emergence of economics as a social science. Born in 1632 in Saxony, Pufendorf wrote widely on natural law, ethics, jurisprudence, and political economy and was one of the most...

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Bills of Union : Money, Empire and Ambitions in the Mid-Eighteenth Century British Atlantic

Graham, Aaron - 2021 - 1st ed. 2021.

This book brings together for the first time more than half a dozen proposals, including several which have never been studied before, to show how thinkers on empire drew on monetary thought and banking theory to address the financial, political and constitutional challenges of empire in the...

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