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  • - Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
     
    706,-

    A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, World of Possibilities highlights the plurality of forms of successful industrial organization, past and present, throughout the Western world.

  • - Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
     
    1 416,-

    Viewed through the lens of capitalist development, China appears as a failed version of the West. This volume seeks to identify this distortion and correct it through a series of essays from leading scholars in the field, and is an important contribution to the development of theories of world history.

  • - Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800
     
    1 296,-

    Domestic Strategies, first published in 1991, offers a reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of labouring families towards the organisation of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe.

  • - Taxation, trade and the struggle for land, 1600-1800
    av Bruce McGowan
    500,-

    Little was known about the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe until well into the twentieth century. In this 1982 book, Bruce McGowan presents material concerning this neglected area. His painstaking study of Ottoman records provides convincing analyses of economic, fiscal and demographic questions fundamental to our understanding of the region.

  • - Flexibility and Mass Production in Western Industrialization
     
    1 806,-

    A bold and original reinterpretation of Western industrialization from the eighteenth century to the 1990s, World of Possibilities highlights the plurality of forms of successful industrial organization, past and present, throughout the Western world.

  • - The Transition from the Communal to the Capitalist Mode of Production in the Danube Region
    av Henri H. Stahl
    530,-

    The book is a study of the evolution of Romanian peasant society from the thirteenth century to the present, focusing particularly on the village communities of Wallachia and Moldavia, in which until quite recently communal villages still existed.

  • av Peter Kriedte, Hans Medick & Jurgen Schlumbohm
    600,-

    Beginning in the late Middle Ages, and accelerating in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, there developed in many rural regions of Europe a domestic industry, mass-producing craft goods for distant markets. This book presents an analysis of this 'industrialization before industrialization'.

  • - Les Retours des Tresors Americains d'Apres les Gazettes Hollandaises (XVI-XVII Siecles)
    av Michael Morineau
    736,-

    The discovery of America was followed by the discovery of her silver and gold. Morineau, writing in his native French, has finally located mining statistics for these precious metals and his reconstruction of actual movements has led him to question many widely accepted hypotheses and concepts.

  • - Structural Unemployment in Industrialised Countries and Industrialisation in Developing Countries
    av Folker Frobel
    586,-

    The main thesis of this study is that the world economy is undergoing a profound structural change that is forcing companies to reorganise their production on a global scale.

  • - Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era
     
    506,-

    This study challenges conventional views about aspects of trade between the Europe and Asia, such as the inferiority of Asian traders and the decline in overland trade. The explicitly comparative essays demonstrate that this period is characterized more by competition than by collaboration between Europe and Asia.

  • - Work and Family in France and Italy, 1600-1800
     
    500,-

    Domestic Strategies, first published in 1991, offers a reading of the historical sources in order to understand the social relations and strategies of labouring families towards the organisation of productive processes and institutional arrangements in early modern Europe.

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    690,-

    This book contrasts sharply with conventional studies of the Ottoman Empire that focus on political military, and cultural institutions. Following a series of general theoretical discussions about Ottoman social structure, the contributors turn to case studies directed either to theoretical problems or to 'facts' which suggest new avenues of conceptualisation.

  • av Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Dunaway
    410 - 816,-

    Wilma Dunaway contends that studies of the slave family have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and exaggeration of slave agency. Using population trends and slave narratives, she identifies several profit-maximizing strategies that owners implemented to disrupt and endanger African-American families during the Civil War and Reconstruction.

  • av Caglar Keyder
    500,-

    This book, which illuminates the ways in which the forces of world capitalism acted upon and structured the peripheral formation of the Turkish economy in this period, provides a clear case study in the relationship of dependent economies to the capitalist world-system.

  • av Wilma A. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) Dunaway
    500 - 696,-

    Wilma Dunaway breaks new ground by focusing on slave experiences on small plantations in the Upper South. She draws on a vast array of primary sources to argue that a region was not buffered from the social impacts of enslavement simply because it was characterized by low black population density.

  • - The Constraints of the World-Economy
    av Joan Smith & Immanuel Wallerstein
    530 - 1 486,-

    This book, first published in 1992, examines the intimate link between the micro-structures of households and the structures of the world-economy at a global level. It seeks to explain differences in wage levels for work of comparable productivity by examining the different structures of households as 'income-pooling units'.

  • - Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
     
    656,-

    Viewed through the lens of capitalist development, China appears as a failed version of the West. This volume seeks to identify this distortion and correct it through a series of essays from leading scholars in the field, and is an important contribution to the development of theories of world history.

  • - Europe and Asia in the Early Modern Era
     
    1 486,-

    This study challenges conventional views about aspects of trade between the Europe and Asia, such as the inferiority of Asian traders and the decline in overland trade. The explicitly comparative essays demonstrate that this period is characterized more by competition than by collaboration between Europe and Asia.

  • - Essays on the Changing World-System
    av Immanuel Maurice (Yale University Wallerstein
    386,-

    Written between 1982 and 1989, this collection contains the author's perspective on the events of this period. The book also charts the development of a challenge to the dominant "geoculture": the cultural framework within which the world-system operates.

  • av Marie-Claire Bergere
    586,-

    Focusing upon Shanghai, this study explores the astonishing growth of Western-style industry, commerce and banking during the Republic's first decade.

  • - The Cultural Experience of the Turin Working Class
    av Luisa Passerini
    610,-

    This book is based on the oral life histories of about 70 men and women workers, born between the end of the last century and 1920.

  • - Essays by Georges Haupt
    av Georges Haupt
    500,-

    Prior to his death in 1978 Georges Haupt enjoyed a considerable reputation as a scholar of European socialism, but much of his best work was scattered in small periodicals. This 1986 volume brings together in translation a selection of some of his most important essays, centred around three major themes.

  • - The States, the Movements and the Civilizations
    av Immanuel Wallerstein
    360,-

    In these essays, written (with one exception) between 1978 and 1982, Immanuel Wallerstein elaborates on the political and theoretical implications of the world-systems perspective outlined in his celebrated books "The Modern World-System" and "The Capitalist World-Economy".

  • av Lucette Valensi
    586,-

    An historian of the Annales school, Lucette Valensi blends the methods of history and anthropology to portray the Tunisian countryside in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which has been previously little-studied.

  • - Transformation of the Mode of Production
    av Andre Gunder Frank
    476,-

    `The conquerors wanted Indian labour, the crown Indian subjects, the friars Indian souls.' Thus the importance of the natives of Mexico to their Spanish conquerors has been described. In this book Andre Gunder Frank examines the dramatic impact of Spanish rule on Mexican society and agriculture, in terms of the demands of world capitalist development.

  • av Immanuel Wallerstein
    386,-

    Focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery.

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