The extent and irreversibility of US decline is becoming ever more obvious as America loses war after war and as one industry after another loses its technological edge. Lachmann explains why the United States will not be able to sustain its global dominance. He contrasts America's relatively brief period of hegemony with the Netherlands' similarly short primacy and Britain's far longer era of leadership.Decline in all those cases was not inevitable and did not respond to global ca...

Here, Richard Lachmann offers a new answer to an old question: Why did capitalism develop in some parts of early modern Europe but not in others? Finding neither a single cause nor an essentialist unfolding of a state or capitalist system, Lachmann describes the highly contingent development of various polities and economies. He identifies, in particular, conflict among feudal elites--landlords, clerics, kings, and officeholders--as the dynamic which perpetuated manorial economies in some ...

Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of appropriate methodologies to address ongoing debates across a range of subfields.This innovative book explores what sociologists gain by treating temporality seriously, what we learn from placing social relations and events...

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia.Richard Lachmann traces the contested and historically contingent struggles by which subjects began to see the...

Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change through the empowerment of working people and the strengthening of democracy. In this view, the cris...

Catastrophic climate change overshadows the present and the future. Wrenching economic transformations have devastated workers and hollowed out communities. However, those fighting for jobs and those fighting for the planet have often been at odds. Does the world face two separate crises, environmental and economic? The promise of the Green New Deal is to tackle the threat of climate change through the empowerment of working people and the strengthening of democracy. In this view, the cris...

While many analysts emphasize Trump’s uniqueness, he can also be viewed as a symptom of a deeper systemic crisis. This collection examines the roots, impacts, and future prospects of Trumpism as well as the possibilities for combatting it.Chapters analyze the role of racism and xenophobia, evangelical religion, and elite support in enabling Trump’s political ascent, demonstrating how both his demagogic style and his policies draw from the historic repertoire of the Right. The autho...

Sometimes you want to read in German. Sometimes you want to read in English.There’s a great option: bilingual books!Bilingual, or dual-language books, are books in which text appears side-by-side in both the target language and English. These are some of the German books to enjoy since you can practice your German without being in over your head.Plus, there are plenty of different types of bilingual books, so there’s something out there for any learner at any level. Yo...

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Die Anthologie "Die besten Abenteuerromane für den Lese-Urlaub" vereint über 40 Klassiker der Abenteuerliteratur, die den Leser auf eine Reise durch die Zeit und um die Welt entführen. Die Bandbreite der Stile reicht von epischen Erzählungen bis hin zu spannenden Kurzgeschichten, die durch ihre zeitlose Anziehungskraft bestechen. Diese Sammlung hebt herausragende Werke wie Edgar Allan Poes mystisch-unheilvolle Geschichten, Mark Twains humorvolle Entdeckungen, und die exotischen Schauplätze...

Diese Sammlung wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert: Wir Seezigeuner (Robert Kraft) 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer (Jules Verne) Der Graf von Monte Christo (Alexandre Dumas) Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Das Tal des Grauens (Arthur Conan Doyle) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Der Schatz im Silbersee (Karl May) Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde (Jules Verne) Die geheimnisvolle Insel (Jules Verne) Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (Jules Verne) Der letzte M...

Dieses eBook: "Die spannendsten Abenteuerromane aller Zeiten (Illustrierte Ausgabe)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Inhalt: 20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer (Jules Verne) Der Graf von Monte Christo (Alexandre Dumas) Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Wir Seezigeuner (Robert Kraft) Das Tal des Grauens (Arthur Conan Doyle) Moby Dick (Herman Melville) Die Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde (Jules Verne) Die geheimnis...