wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
ISBN: 9780521524100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--and critical--chapter in the social history of the U.S.: the rise of an American bourgeoisie. The Monied Metropolis is the first comprehensive history of New York's economic elite, the most powerful group in nineteenth-century America. Beckert explains how a small and diverse group of New Yorkers came to wield unprecedented economic, social, and political power from 1850 to the turn of the twentieth century. He reveals the central role of the...
Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--...
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160,35 zł |
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
ISBN: 9780375713965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how these forces ushered in the world of modern capitalism, including the vast wealth and disturbing inequalities that are with us today.In a remarkably brief period, European entrepreneurs and powerful politicians recast the world's most significant manufacturing... WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award The empire of cotto... |
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87,36 zł |
American Capitalism: New Histories
ISBN: 9780231185240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, and raucous commodities trade to its world-spanning multinationals, its massive factories, and the centripetal power of New York in the world of finance, America has shaped political economy for two centuries and more. But an understanding of "capitalism" is as elusive as it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic...
The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave plantations, and raucous commodities...
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193,31 zł |
The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896
ISBN: 9780521790390 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 514 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--and critical--chapter in the social history of the U.S.: the rise of an American bourgeoisie. The Monied Metropolis is the first comprehensive history of New York's economic elite, the most powerful group in nineteenth-century America. Beckert explains how a small and diverse group of New Yorkers came to wield unprecedented economic, social, and political power from 1850 to the turn of the twentieth century. He reveals the central role of the...
Tracing the shifting fortunes and changing character of New York City's economic elite over half a century, Sven Beckert brings to light a neglected--...
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498,40 zł |
Empire of Cotton: A New History of Global Capitalism
ISBN: 9780141979984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business. This book tells the history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is also a case history of how the world works.
For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business. This book tells the ...
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77,56 zł |
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities
ISBN: 9781421419404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later--after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets--America's plantations... In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew througho... |
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102,18 zł |
Plantation Kingdom: The American South and Its Global Commodities
ISBN: 9781421419398 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew throughout a vast farming empire that stretched from Maryland to Texas. Four million enslaved African Americans toiled the fields, producing global commodities that enriched the most powerful class of slaveholders the world had ever known. But fifty years later--after emancipation demolished the plantation-labor system, Asian competition flooded world markets with cheap raw materials, and free trade eliminated protected markets--America's plantations... In 1850, America's plantation economy reigned supreme. U.S. cotton dominated world markets, and American rice, sugarcane, and tobacco grew througho... |
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237,49 zł |
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
ISBN: 9780812224177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It tells the history of slavery as a story of national, even global, economic importance and investigates the role of enslaved Americans in the building of the modern world.
Slavery's Capitalism explores the role of slavery in the development of the U.S. economy during the first decades of the nineteenth century. It tells ...
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162,66 zł |
Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World
ISBN: 9781350036345 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global history in different world regions. Divided into three distinct but tightly interweaved sections, the book's chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review... In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despi... |
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141,61 zł |
Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development
ISBN: 9780812248418 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to editors Sven Beckert and Seth Rockman, the issue is not whether slavery itself was or was not capitalist but, rather, the impossibility of understanding the nation's spectacular pattern of... During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation... |
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477,47 zł |
Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World
ISBN: 9781350036352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global history in different world regions. Divided into three distinct but tightly interweaved sections, the book's chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review... In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despi... |
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472,22 zł |