wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Slavery: Oxford Readers
ISBN: 9780192893024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections, varying from one paragraph to several pages in length, the volume ranges widely, from international slave...
This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the econ...
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203,19 zł |
Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History
ISBN: 9780415771191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications. The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment... The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control an... |
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280,58 zł |
Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions
ISBN: 9781107009554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. This variation is driven by differences in major institutions suffrage, education, tax policy, land and immigration policy, and banking and financial organizations. These factors, in...
This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences i...
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424,80 zł |
Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth: Volume 51
ISBN: 9780226209296 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 900 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."-Samuel Bostaph, "Southern Economic Journal"
These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national prod...
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382,94 zł |
The Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
ISBN: 9780804735216 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor--the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others--are of great significance for understanding the past and the emergence of the modern world. For long periods, much of the world's labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only...
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor--...
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363,79 zł |
Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History
ISBN: 9780415321266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Relevant to many fields including institutional economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and social psychology, this text handles the thorny issue of property rights and ethno-nationality.
Relevant to many fields including institutional economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and social psychology, this text handles the tho...
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961,44 zł |
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
ISBN: 9780195120912 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from a ncient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of e mpirical research and theoretical discussion of the subject over the p ast thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom an d illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topic s such as concubinage, eunuchs, occupational mobility.
Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from a ncient ti...
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560,19 zł |
Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. II
ISBN: 9780393027921 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at the conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom.
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery wi...
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265,59 zł |
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
ISBN: 9780521553087 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume 3 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Its chapters trace the century's major events, notably the Great Depression and the two world wars, as well as its long-term trends, such as changing technology, the rise of the corporate economy, and the development of labor law. The book also discusses agriculture, population, labor markets, and urban and regional structural changes.
Volume 3 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Its chapters trace the century's m...
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867,91 zł |
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
ISBN: 9780521553070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 1008 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume 2 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Five main themes frame the economic changes described in the volume: the migration of labor and capital from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas; westward expansion; slavery and its aftermath; the process of industrialization; and the social consequences of economic growth that led to fundamental changes in the role of government. Other topics include inequality, population, labor, agriculture, entrepreneurship, transportation, banking and finance, business law, and...
Volume 2 surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the nineteenth century. Five main themes frame the econom...
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867,91 zł |
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, Ad 1804-Ad 2016
ISBN: 9780521840699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe.
In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe...
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705,43 zł |
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, Ad 500-Ad 1420
ISBN: 9780521840675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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626,65 zł |
Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
ISBN: 9780521147415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Examines financial economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century.
Examines financial economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States since the seventeenth century.
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243,66 zł |
The Cambridge Economic History of the United States
ISBN: 9780521394420 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume surveys the economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean, and of the early United States, from early settlement by Europeans to the end of the eighteenth century. The book includes chapters on the economic history of Native Americans (to 1860), and also on the European and African backgrounds to colonization. Subsequent chapters cover the settlement and growth of the colonies; British mercantilist policies and the American colonies; and the American Revolution, the Constitution, and economic developments through 1800.
This volume surveys the economic history of British North America, including Canada and the Caribbean, and of the early United States, from early sett...
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867,91 zł |