Author: Vittorio Valli File Type: pdf This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history. Professor Ugo Panizza,The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland This illuminating book offers a compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the nineteenth century to the initial period of the Trump administration. Valli maps three stages in this period of US economic history first, the economic and demographic consequences of the frontier second, the Fordist model of growth and third, the attempt to build an economic empire through economic and financial globalization, military and political power and rapid technological progress. Examining pivotal moments from the Wall Street Crash and the World Wars to the recent Great Recession, Obamacare and Trumps electoral promises and first controversial decisions, this book is essential reading for all those interested in American economic power and its future. **From the Back Cover This is essential reading for anybody interested in global history. Professor Ugo Panizza, The Graduate Institute of Geneva, Switzerland This illuminating book offers a compact survey and new interpretation of trends and policies in the US economy from the end of the nineteenth century to the initial period of the Trump administration. Valli maps three stages in this period of US economic history first, the economic and demographic consequences of the frontier second, the Fordist model of growth and third, the attempt to build an economic empire through economic and financial globalization, military and political power and rapid technological progress. Examining pivotal moments from the Wall Street Crash and the World Wars to the recent Great Recession, Obamacare and Trumps electoral promises and first controversial decisions, this book is essential reading for all those interested in American economic power and its future. Vittorio Valli is Emeritus Professor at the University of Turin and has taught at Bocconi University and at the University of Padua, all in Italy. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto, Japan Seoul National University, South Korea University of Nice, France and Visiting Scholar at Brown University and the University of California (Berkeley), USA. He was the first president of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems and the European Association of Comparative Economic Studies. He was also co-editor of the European Journal of Comparative Economics. About the Author Vittorio Valliis Emeritus Professor at the University of Turin and has taught at Bocconi University and at the University of Padua, all in Italy. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto, Japan Seoul National University, South Korea University of Nice, France and Visiting Scholar at Brown University and the University of California (Berkeley), USA. He was the first president of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems and the European Association of Comparative Economic Studies. He was also co-editor of theEuropean Journal of Comparative Economics. ul l*lul
Author: Roger Ariew
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Descartes is perhaps most closely associated with the title, the Father of Modern Philosophy. Generations of students have been introduced to the study of philosophy through a consideration of his Meditations on First Philosophy. His contributions to natural science is shown by the fact that his physics, as promulgated by the Cartesians, played a central role in the debates after his death over Isaac Newtons theory of gravitation. Descartes also made major contributions to the field of analytic geometry we still speak today of Cartesian coordinates and the Cartesian product. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy covers the history through a chronology, an introductory essay, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on various concepts in Descartes philosophy, science, and mathematics, as well as biographical entries about the intellectual setting for Descartes philosophy and its reception, both with Cartesians and anti-Cartesians. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Descartes.
Author: David S. Landes
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Whether hailed as heroes or cast as threats to social order, entrepreneurs--and their innovations--have had an enormous influence on the growth and prosperity of nations. The Invention of Enterprise gathers together, for the first time, leading economic historians to explore the entrepreneurs role in society from antiquity to the present. Addressing social and institutional influences from a historical context, each chapter examines entrepreneurship during a particular period and in an important geographic location.The book chronicles the sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and Colonial India and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovative activity in Europe and the United States, from the medieval period to today. In considering the critical contributions of entrepreneurship, the authors discuss why entrepreneurial activities are not always productive and may even sabotage prosperity. They examine the institutions and restrictions that have enabled or impeded innovation, and the incentives for the adoption and dissemination of inventions. They also describe the wide variations in global entrepreneurial activity during different historical periods and the similarities in development, as well as entrepreneurships role in economic growth. The book is filled with past examples and events that provide lessons for promoting and successfully pursuing contemporary entrepreneurship as a means of contributing to the welfare of society.The Invention of Enterprise lays out a definitive picture for all who seek an understanding of innovations central place in our world.**
Author: Julia Waters
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On 12 March 2018, Mauritius celebrated fifty years as an independent nation amidst much fanfare. Yet behind the nations official image of multicultural unity in diversity lurk deep socio-economic inequalities and inter-ethnic tensions that are insistently critiqued in its literature. Against this backdrop, this book analyses how the idea of belonging - a sense of attachment to, and identification with, a place or people - is problematised in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. The island-nations complex history and the multi-ethnic composition of its modern-day population mean that belonging is a central but fraught issue in both reality and fiction. Waters explores how diverse forms of affirmative, affective belonging intersect with, and are frequently inhibited by, exclusionary politics of belonging at communal, national or international levels. Using an eclectic theoretical approach to the central concept of belonging, Waters offers in-depth textual analyses of novels by leading Mauritian writers Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza. Despite their thematic and formal diversity, these novels are shown to be characterised by a common rejection of dominant discourses of ethnic, diasporic affiliation and by a common commitment to the ongoing, future-orientated project of Mauritian nationhood. As such, this book offers an original insight into the dynamics of belonging and exclusion in diverse, multi-ethnic societies.
Author: Philip Collins
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling students and researchers to read the works for themselves.This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.Visit our eBookstore at www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writers work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeares plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austens novels.The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an authors reputation.Each volume contains an introduction to the writers published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects.The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Author: Guido Stempel
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This comprehensive reference covers all aspects of politics and votingfrom elections and campaigns, to major political figures and parties, to the role of media and major activist groups. Includes 220 alphabetically arranged entries on American voting and related topics Features maps and tables that provide insights into American voting trends in the 21st century Covers the evolution of the legal right to vote Traces the changing population of the United States and its impact on voting **Review An excellent starting point for readers and researchers looking for a general introduction about contemporary U.S. political campaigning and voting. - Library Journal A useful reference for students first getting introduced to American politics. - Booklist About the Author Guido H. Stempel III is a distinguished professor emeritus of journalism and cofounder of the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. Thomas K. Hargrove is cofounder of the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University. He is a former White House correspondent for the Scripps Howard News Service.
Author: Matthew D. O'Hara
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Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. OHara describes how religious thought and practice shaped Mexicos popular politics. As he shows, religion facilitated the emergence of new social categories and modes of belonging in which individualsinitially subjects of the Spanish crown, but later citizens and other residents of republican Mexicofound both significant opportunities for improving their place in society and major constraints on their ways of thinking and behaving. OHara focuses on interactions between church authorities and parishioners from the late-colonial era into the early-national period, first in Mexico City and later in the surrounding countryside. Paying particular attention to disputes regarding caste status, the category of Indian, and the ownership of property, he demonstrates that religious collectivities from neighborhood parishes to informal devotions served as complex but effective means of political organization for plebeians and peasants. At the same time, longstanding religious practices and ideas made colonial social identities linger into the decades following independence, well after republican leaders formally abolished the caste system that classified individuals according to racial and ethnic criteria. These institutional and cultural legacies would be profound, since they raised fundamental questions about political inclusion and exclusion precisely when Mexico was trying to envision and realize new forms of political community. The modes of belonging and organizing created by colonialism provided openings for popular mobilization, but they were always stalked by their origins as tools of hierarchy and marginalization. **