Название: Technology and the making of The Netherlands ISBN: 0262013622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262013628 Издательство: MIT Press Рейтинг: Цена: 1731.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание:
An account of the trajectory of modernization through technology in the Netherlands.
This study offers both an account of twentieth-century technology in the Netherlands and a view of Dutch history through the lens of technology. It describes the trajectory of modernization through technology in certain characteristically Dutch contexts -- including the omnipresence of water, the pervasiveness of urbanization coupled with a high-tech agricultural sector, and the legacy of colonialism -- but at the same time makes it clear that Dutch struggles over technology choices, infrastructure development, mass production, and the role of government are comparable to the experience of any Western industrialized country.
The book, which synthesizes findings originally presented in a series of seven volumes published in the Netherlands, uses the idea of contested modernization as an overarching concept through which to understand Dutch technological history. The modernizers of Dutch society -- including engineers, management consultants, architects, and others--did not always agree on how to modernize; moreover, the unruliness of specific practices often derailed or redirected implementation. Tensions between top-down and bottom-up modernization, and between scale-enlargement and more flexible arrangements of mutual coordination and cooperation shaped Dutch history.
The chapters examine such topics as attempts to create an industrial nation, materially connected through infrastructure; the conflicts that came with the arrival of mass production and the emergence of a consumer society; and land-use planning in a low-lying country.
Автор: Wigen, Ka?Ren, Название: The Making Of A Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 ISBN: 0520084209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520084209 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 8395.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contending that Japan`s industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Its focus is the Ina Valley, the gateway to Japan`s mountainous interior.
Автор: Berkeley Название: Italy in the Making 1815 to 1846 ISBN: 0521159156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521159159 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Mr Berkeley was in touch with some of the best living authorities on the subject of the Risorgimento. From various sources, he and his wife have built up a composite picture of the movement for nationality and independence which shows how Italy gradually became an independent nation.
Описание: In this volume, a group of distinguished historians revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, the contributors raise penetrating questions and challenge readers` understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.
Автор: Mehrotra Название: Making the Modern American Fiscal State ISBN: 1107619734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107619739 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.
Описание: This 1971 book reviews and criticises the widely accepted hypothesis that the decline of the inland bill of exchange in Britain in the nineteenth century was largely due to the process of bank amalgamation. This book will be useful for other researchers in this field.
Автор: Dyer David Название: Steel`s: A Forgotten Stock Market Scandal from the 1920`s ISBN: 0815610122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815610120 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A fascinating look at the rise and fall of L.R. Steel`s five and dime stores, a chain of 255 stores across America and Canada in the early 1920s, and the financial decisions which led to the fall and how this scandal related to and ultimately eclipses in scope the original Ponzi scheme.
Автор: Falkenhayner Nicole Название: Making the British Muslim ISBN: 1137374942 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137374943 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 15372.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tracing representations of the Rushdie affair from 1989 to 2009, this study establishes a genealogy of how British Muslims appeared on the public scene and how an imaginary and politics of this subject position developed.
Автор: Dorey Peter Название: Policy Making in Britain ISBN: 1849208484 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781849208482 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 6810.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Covering the 2010 British election and key current issues and debates, this Second Edition takes an empirical approach to introduce students to the theory of and developments in British policy-making.
Описание: Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, this book shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D Roosevelt`s Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival.
Автор: Weyland Название: Making Waves ISBN: 1107622786 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107622784 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4277.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This wide-ranging study examines the three main waves of contention against autocratic rulers in Europe and Latin America: the revolutions of 1848, the protests stimulated by the Russian Revolution of 1917, and the efforts to unseat Latin America`s military dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.
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