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Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Brewing Industry in England 1700-1830 written by Peter Mathias and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1959 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415266726
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The First Industrial Nation written by Peter Mathias and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The industrial revolution of Britain is recognized today as a model for industrialization all over the world. Now with a new introduction by the author, this book is widely renowned as a classic text for students of this key period.
Author : Peter Mathias
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136464395
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals) written by Peter Mathias and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are his principal scholarly concern. This series of essays is divided into two groups. The first group of essays focuses upon general themes such as the 'uniqueness' in Europe of the industrial revolution, capital formation, taxation, the growth of skills, science and technical change, leisure and wages, and diagnoses of poverty. In the second section, Professor Mathias focuses on the social structure in the eighteenth century, considering the industrialization of brewing, coinage, agriculture and the drink industries, advances in public health and the armed forces, British and American public finance in the War of Independence, Dr Johnson and the business world.
Author : Agota Kristof
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802135063
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Notebook written by Agota Kristof and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kristof's postmodern saga begins with The Notebook, in which the brothers are children, lost in a country torn apart by conflict, who must learn every trick of evil and cruelty merely to survive.
Author : Peter Earle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520068261
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)
Download or read book The Making of the English Middle Class written by Peter Earle and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first major study of a neglected yet extremely significant subject: the London middle classes in the period between 1660 and 1730, a period in which they created a society and economy that can be seen with hindsight to have ushered in the modern world. Using a wealth of material from contemporary sources--including wills, business papers, inventories, marriage contracts, divorce hearings, and the writings of Daniel Defoe and Samuel Pepys--Peter Earle presents a fully rounded picture of the "middling sort of people," getting to the hearts of their lives as men and women struggling for success in the biggest, richest, and most middle-class city in contemporary Europe. He examines in fascinating and convincing detail the business life of Londoners, from apprenticeship through the problems and potential rewards of different occupational groups, going on to look at middle-class family, social, political and material life--from relationships with spouses, children, servants, and neighbors, to food and clothes and furniture, to sickness, death, and burial. Stimulating, scholarly, and constantly illuminating, this book is an important and impressive contribution to English social history.
Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612194206
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Debt written by David Graeber and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods—that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like “guilt,” “sin,” and “redemption”) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.
Author : Samuel Otter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974193X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Author : Thomas Langan
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826260977
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Surviving the Age of Virtual Reality written by Thomas Langan and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Langan (philosophy, U. of Toronto) is concerned that the virtual world people have created has made everyday decisions difficult because it does not conform to common sense. He investigates this life that people are caught up in. If virtual reality is in fact reality, what is the act of being within the context of virtual reality? And how can a system be established system for distinguishing truth from fiction?Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Atle Wold
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474406688
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Scotland and the French Revolutionary War, 1792-1802 written by Atle Wold and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the British government's supporters in Scotland in the 1790s, one thing was paramount: they were fighting French principles in any shape or form they might take. Whether this meant defeating the influence of French revolutionary ideas in Scotland, or defeating the military menace of the French republic, they were determined to stand firm in their support of the British state.This book charts the Scottish contribution to, both the war effort of the 1790s, and the British governments struggles to defeat political radicalism at home; lasting from the first outbreak of political disturbances in Scotland in 1792, until the French revolutionary war came to an end in 1802. In this, the Scots made their very distinct mark in terms of recruitment for armed service, demonstrations of loyalty, and prosecutions against political radicals in the law courts but, perhaps less so, in terms of their financial contributions . The government of Scotland was further integrated into the British state in a structural sense over the course of the decade, yet retained many distinctly Scottish features none the less and on the whole the 1790s comes across as a time when the Scots found little difficulty in seeing themselves as both British and Scottish.
Author : Robin Blackburn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1789600855
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)
Download or read book The Making of New World Slavery written by Robin Blackburn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of plantation slavery. The baroque state sought-successfully-to feed upon this commerce and-with markedly less success-to regulate slavery and racial relations. To illustrate this thesis, Blackburn examines the deployment of slaves in the colonial possessions of the Portuguese, the Spanish, the Dutch, the English and the French. Plantation slavery is shown to have emerged from the impulses of civil society, not from the strategies of individual states. Robin Blackburn argues that the organization of slave plantations placed the West on a destructive path to modernity and that greatly preferable alternatives were both proposed and rejected. Finally, he shows that the surge of Atlantic trade, predicated on the murderous toil of the plantations, made a decisive contribution to both the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West.
Author : Patrick Spread
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317303318
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of Economies written by Patrick Spread and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history. The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Both support-bargaining and money-bargaining are situation-related - people determine their interests and actions by reference to their present circumstances. This gives the bargaining system a natural evolutionary dynamic. Societies evolve from situation to situation. Historical change follows this evolutionary course. A central chapter of the book applies the new theory in a re-evaluation of the industrial revolution in Britain, showing how specialist money-bargaining agencies, in the form of companies, evolved profitable formats and displaced landowners as the leading sources of employment and economic necessities. Companies took advantage of the evolution of technology to establish effective formats. The book also seeks to establish how it came about that a ‘mainstream’ theory was developed that is so wildly at odds with the observable features of economic history and economic exchange. Theory-making is described as a process of ‘intellectual support-bargaining’ in which theory is shaped to the interests of its makers. The work of major classical and neoclassical economists is contested as incompatible with the idea of an evolving money-bargaining system. The book reviews attempts to derive an evolutionary economic theory from Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Neoclassical economic theory has had enormous influence on the governance of societies, principally through its theoretical endorsement of the benefits of ‘free markets’. An evolutionary account of economic processes should change the basis of debate. The theory presented here will be of interest immediately to all economists, whether evolutionary, heterodox or neoclassical. It will facilitate the work of economic historians, who complain that current theory gives no guidance for their historical investigations. Beyond the confines of professional theory-making, many will find it a revelatory response to questions that have hitherto gone unanswered.
Author : P.J. Cain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317873521
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book British Imperialism written by P.J. Cain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A milestone in the understanding of British history and imperialism, and truly global in its reach, this magisterial account received numerous accolades from reviewers in its first edition. The first to coin the phrase "gentlemanly capitalism", Cain and Hopkins make the strong and provocative argument that it is impossible to understand the nature and evolution of British imperialism without taking account of the peculiarities of her economic development. In particular, the growth of the financial sector - and above all, the City of London - played a crucial role in shaping the course of British history and Britain's relations overseas. Now with a substantive new introduction and a conclusion, the scope of the original account has been widened to include an innovative discussion of globalization.
Author : Malcolm F. Purinton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350324396
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Globalization in a Glass written by Malcolm F. Purinton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of Pilsner beer from its inception in 1842 clearly shows the changes wrought by globalization in an age of empire. Its rise was dependent not only on technological innovations and faster supply chains, but also on the increased connectedness of the world and the political and economic structures of empire. Drawing upon a wide range of archival sources from Europe, the Americas, and Sub-Saharan Africa, this study traces the spread of industrial beer brewing in Europe from the late 18th to the early 20th century to show how a single beer style became the global favourite through advances in science, business and imperial power. In highlighting the evolution of consumer tastes through changing hierarchical relationships between the British metropole and colonies, as well as the evolution of business organizations and practices, Globalization in a Glass contributes to ongoing debates about globalization, empire, and trade. It argues that, despite the might and power of the British Empire as a colonizing force, the effects of globalization, imperial trade networks, and colonial migration led to the domination of the most popular Continental European style of beer, the Pilsner, over British-style ales.
Author : George Reeser Prowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1398 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Biographical written by George Reeser Prowell and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 1398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Hannah
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349030511
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Management Strategy and Business Development written by Leslie Hannah and published by Springer. This book was released on 1976-06-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Bell Mitchell
Publisher : Рипол Классик
ISBN 13 : 5883670229
Total Pages : 957 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (836 download)
Download or read book History of Stearns County, Minnesota written by William Bell Mitchell and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 957 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florian Schui
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206240
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Austerity written by Florian Schui and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAusterity is at the center of political debates today. Its defenders praise it as a panacea that will prepare the ground for future growth and stability. Critics insist it will precipitate a vicious cycle of economic decline, possibly leading to political collapse. But the notion that abstinence from consumption brings benefits to states, societies, or individuals is hardly new. This book puts the debates of our own day in perspective by exploring the long history of austerity—a popular idea that lives on despite a track record of dismal failure. Florian Schui shows that arguments in favor of austerity were—and are today—mainly based on moral and political considerations, rather than on economic analysis. Unexpectedly, it is the critics of austerity who have framed their arguments in the language of economics. Schui finds that austerity has failed intellectually and in economic terms every time it has been attempted. He examines thinkers who have influenced our ideas about abstinence from Aristotle through such modern economic thinkers as Smith, Marx, Veblen, Weber, Hayek, and Keynes, as well as the motives behind specific twentieth-century austerity efforts. The persistence of the concept cannot be explained from an economic perspective, Schui concludes, but only from the persuasive appeal of the moral and political ideas linked to it./div
