Описание: The most significant debate in global economic history over the past twenty years has dealt with the Great Divergence, the economic gap between different parts of the world. Thus far, this debate has focused on China, India and north-western Europe, particularly Great Britain. This book shifts the focus to ask how Japan became the only non-western county that managed, at least partially, to modernize its economy and start to industrialize in the 19th century.
Using a range of empirical data, Peer Vries analyses the role of the state in Japan’s economic growth from the Meiji Restoration to World War II, and asks whether Japan’s economic success can be attributed to the rise of state power. Asserting that the state’s involvement was fundamental in Japan’s economic ‘catching up’, he demonstrates how this was built on legacies from the previous Tokugawa period. In this book, Vries deepens our understanding of the Great Divergence in global history by re-examining how Japan developed and modernized against the odds.
Автор: Richard A. Hawkins Название: A Pacific Industry: The History of Pineapple Canning in Hawaii ISBN: 1350163511 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350163515 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 5226.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Hawaiian pineapple industry emerged in the late nineteenth century as part of an attempt to diversify the Hawaiian economy from dependence on sugar cane as its only staple industry. Here, economic historian Richard A. Hawkins presents a definitive history of an industry from its modest beginnings to its emergence as a major contributor to the American industrial narrative. He traces the rise and fall of the corporate giants who dominated the global canning world for much of the twentieth century. Drawing from a host of familiar economic models and an unparalleled body of research, Hawkins analyses the entrepreneurial development and twentieth-century migration of the pineapple canning industry in Hawaii. The result is not only a comprehensive history, but also a unique story of American innovation and ingenuity amid the rising tides of globalization.
Few would dispute that many Western industrial democracies undertook extensive deregulation in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet this narrative, in its most familiar form, depends upon several historiographical assumptions that bely the complexities and pitfalls of studying the recent past. Across thirteen case studies, the contributors to this volume investigate this “deregulatory moment” from a variety of historical perspectives, including transnational, comparative, pan-European, and national approaches. Collectively, they challenge an interpretive framework that treats individual decades in isolation and ignores broader trends that extend to the end of the Second World War.
Описание: This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was `organized` or `artificial`, and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere.
Автор: Trebilcock, Clive Название: Industrialisation of the Continental Powers 1780-1914, The ISBN: 0582491207 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582491205 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 13014.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution. It will be of interest to academic economic historians and practitioners of neighbouring subjects such as economists, historians, historical geographers, and of course their students.
Описание: This book links the world of finance directly to the fate of the cotton and textile industry, long a metaphor for the rise and fall of Britain as a manufacturing economy, for the first time.
Автор: Lopez Galviz Название: Cities, Railways, Modernities ISBN: 0367110873 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367110871 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Cities, Railways, Modernities presents the transformation of 19th-century London and Paris in the light of the futures that metropolitan railways engendered. Highlighting a wide range of past futures and routes not taken, the book reconsiders what the notion of modernity has to offer to understand urban change in modern cities.
Описание: This book takes the reader back to the era of industrialisation during the time of apartheid in South Africa, particularly in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape. Butterworth is a microcosm of the industrialisation policy of the apartheid government. Rural towns and townships were centres of economic development where black entrepreneurs were empowered to take over businesses that were started by white industrialists who were funded by government.
Butterworth makes a juxtaposition between the apartheid economic policy and job creation initiatives and those of the current democratic government which fails to stimulate the economy to create jobs for majority of South Africans. Those industrial sites are currently lying dormant as white elephants and have eventually closed down. Despite apartheid being a crime against humanity and also exploitative in paying lower wages especially to women, it had sound economic policies that created jobs for thousands of people via industrialisation. Therefore, there are valuable lessons that the democratic government can learn from the apartheid administration as far as job creation is concerned.
However, corruption is the biggest enemy of development and available funding does not filter down to entrepreneurs as it is diverted and looted by politicians via patronage. Economic development and job creation should not just be a prerogative of government alone; the private sector needs to invest in black businesses instead of investing in what politicians call 'white monopoly capital'. Equally, banks also need to participate positively by eradicating stringent requirements in issuing loans to black entrepreneurs to stimulate economic activity.
Описание: This book concludes The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia, an authoritative account of the Soviet Union`s industrial transformation between 1929 and 1939. During that time, Soviet society was repeatedly mobilised against internal and external enemies, and the economy provided one of the main arenas for the struggle.
Описание: Part journalism history, part biography, and part democratic chronicle, The Insider offers a deeply researched portrayal of how Willard Kiplinger not only developed a widely read newsletter that launched a business publishing empire but also how he forged a new role for the journalist as political actor.
Описание: The Consulate of Bilbao is a study framed between the peninsular consular histories, from the appearance of the first consulates in the Crown of Aragon during the late Middle Ages until the Bourbon reforms of the eighteenth century.
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