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  • Tiny Engines of Abundance

    A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression

    di Jim Handy ...
    Serie eBook 7 - Critical Development Studies
    This book provides a historical and comparative perspective of peasant productivity using case studies portraying the extraordinary efficiency with which English cottagers, Jamaican ex-slaves, Guatemalan Mayan campesinos, Nigerian hill farmers and Kerala hut dwellers obtained bountiful and diversified harvests from small parcels of land, provisioning for their families and often local markets. ... Altre info

    16,99 €

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  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    di Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Altre info

    10,91 €

  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty

    di James A. Robinson, Daron Acemoglu, Random House - New York ...
    Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2012.Why are some nations more prosperous than others? Why Nations Fail sets out to answer this question, with a compelling and elegantly argued new theory: that it is not down to climate, geography or culture, but because of institutions. Drawing on an extraordinary range of contemporary and historical examples, ... Altre info

    11,64 €

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    di Robert C. Allen ...
    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Altre info

    7,13 €

  • Progress

    Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future

    di Johan Norberg ...
    A Book of the Year for The Economist and the ObserverOur world seems to be collapsing. The daily news cycle reports the deterioration: divisive politics across the Western world, racism, poverty, war, inequality, hunger. While politicians, journalists and activists from all sides talk about the damage done, Johan Norberg offers an illuminating and heartening analysis of just how far we have come ... Altre info

    9,01 €

  • The New Age of Empire

    How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World

    di Kehinde Andrews ...
    ***"*Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voice walking in a proud tradition of Black radical criticism and action" Akala*"*An uncompromising account of the roots of racism today" Kimberlé Crenshaw"This clear-eyed analysis insists upon the revolutionary acts of freedom we will need to break out of these systems of violence" Ibram X. KendiThe New Age of Empire takes us back to the beginning of the European ... Altre info

    10,99 €

  • Empire of Cotton

    A New History of Global Capitalism

    di Sven Beckert ...
    WINNER OF THE 2015 BANCROFT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2015 PHILIP TAFT PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 CUNDHILL PRIZE IN HISTORICAL LITERATUREEconomist BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015'A masterpiece of the historian's craft' The NationFor about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's mos... ... Altre info

    10,99 €

  • The Industrial Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    di Robert C. Allen ...
    Serie series Very Short Introductions
    The 'Industrial Revolution' was a pivotal point in British history that occurred between the mid-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries and led to far reaching transformations of society. With the advent of revolutionary manufacturing technology productivity boomed. Machines were used to spin and weave cloth, steam engines were used to provide reliable power, and industry was fed by the ... Altre info

    7,13 €

  • The World of Sugar

    How the Sweet Stuff Transformed Our Politics, Health, and Environment over 2,000 Years

    di Ulbe Bosma ...
    “An extraordinary achievement.” —David Edgerton, Literary Review“A remarkably researched, comprehensive, and indispensable book for everyone who wishes to understand how sugar and the sugar industry have shaped the world in which we live.” —Gary Taubes, author of The Case Against SugarFor most of history, humans did without refined sugar. Then, suddenly, it was everywhere. How did sugar find its ... Altre info

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  • A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

    A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

    di Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore ...
    Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ... Altre info

    8,10 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    di Mike Davis ...
    Serie series The Essential Mike Davis
    Examining a series of El Ni�o-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India ... Altre info

    8,10 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The Caribbean

    A History of the Region and Its Peoples

    Rivisto da Stephan Palmié, Francisco A. Scarano ...
    An "illuminating" survey of Caribbean history from pre-Columbian times to the twenty-first century ( Los Angeles Times).Combining fertile soils, vital trade routes, and a coveted strategic location, the islands and surrounding continental lowlands of the Caribbean were one of Europe's earliest and most desirable colonial frontiers. The region was colonized over the course of five centuries by a ... Altre info

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