"The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets,...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Editors' Introduction: Science, Technology, and Innovation Go Global -- An Overview of the Book -- Efforts and Ambitions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part I Global Trends -- Chapter 1 The Convergence...

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Graphs, and Maps -- Abbreviations Used in the Text -- Introduction -- 1. The Oil Palm in Africa -- 2. Early Encounters and Exchanges -- 3. From "Legitimate Commerce" to the "Scramble for Africa" -- 4. Oil Palms and the Industrial Revolution -- 5. Machines in...

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Epigraph -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Organization -- 3. Business model -- 4. Managing money -- 5. Stars and scandals -- 6. Purpose and sustainability -- 7. Regulations and responsibilities...

The Routledge Handbook of the History of Global Economic Thought offers the first comprehensive overview of the long-run history of economic thought from a truly international perspective. Although globalization has facilitated the spread of ideas between nations, the history of economics has...