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This provides an accessible and concise history of British radio and television. It looks at the nature and evolution …
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This title presents a collection of documents relating to the monetary history of gold from the 17th century up to the …
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Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and...
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This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle … empirical reconstructions of the lifeways of peoples long rendered silent in the writing of history. …
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Is This America? -- Chapter 1 Tents, Trailers, and Shack Towns: Mobilizing the Southern Home Front, 1939-1942 -- Chapter 2 "Empty Sermons": Race and Economic Mobility on the Southern Home Front, 1940-1942 -- Chapter 3 "On the Train and...
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Interpreting Naval History at Museums and Historic Sites demonstrates the broad appeal of naval themed commemoration …
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When the Third World fell behind -- The first global century up to 1913 -- Biggest Third World terms of trade boom ever? -- The economics of Third World growth engines and dutch diseases -- Measuring third world de-industrialization and Dutch disease -- An Asian de-industrialization illustration...
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The history of the People's Republic of China can be classified into two distinctive periods: Mao's China (1949 … further reform of Chinese accounting. Contents: Brief History of Accounting in China up to 1949; Accounting in Mao's China …Intro -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Brief History of Accounting in China up to 1949 …
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Francis I's ties with the Ottoman Empire marked the birth of court-sponsored Orientalism in France. Under Louis XIV, French society was transformed by cross-cultural contacts with the Ottomans, India, Persia, China, Siam and the Americas. The consumption of silk, cotton cloth, spices, coffee,...
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