Kategoria BISAC: History >> Modern - 21st Century

John Maynard Keynes is arguably the most important and influential economist of the twentieth century, and stands alongside Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of the most famous economic thinkers of all time. Keynes's radical reassessment of the accepted principles of economics led to new ways of thinking about how to deal with financial crises and economic depressions, and encouraged governments to increase levels of state investment to create economic growth.

This historical biography shows how Keynes was more than an academic theorist and how his policy proposals had a...

The Routledge Companion to Film History is an indispensable guide for anyone studying film history for the first time. The approach taken presents a substantial and readable overview of the field and provides students with a tool of reference that will be valuable throughout their studies.

The volume is divided into two parts. The first is a set of eleven essays that approaches film history around the following themes:

• History of the moving image
• Film as art and popular culture
• Production process

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John Pilger looks at five countries, each of which has had a long struggle for freedom, and in each the people, having shed blood and dreams, are still waiting. He talks about Afghanistan, Iraq, South Africa, Palestine, and the island of Diego Garcia, giving a voice to the people living through these momentous times.

Drawing on case studies from around the world, a trans-national perspective allows the authors to look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship.

Drawing on case studies from around the world, a trans-national perspective allows the authors to look at the genealogy of the modern consumer and the development of consumer cultures, from the porcelain trade and consumption in Britain and China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, to post Second World War developments in America and Japan, and the contemporary consumer politics of cosmopolitan citizenship.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Moderne Geschichte, Note: 1,0, Universitat Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Am 25. Januar 2011 gingen in Agypten Tausende Demonstranten auf die Straen. Auf ihren Plakaten forderten sie "Revolution und Freiheit." Dort stand auch: "Tunesien ist die Losung." Und sie riefen: "Mubarak - geh, geh, wir wollen Dich nicht ." Doch wie konnte es in Agypten so schnell so weit kommen? Zwar hatte es in den vergangenen Jahren immer wieder Demonstrationen gegeben, doch hatte das autokratische Regime bis zum 25. Januar immer die...

Since the end of the Cold War era, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state s monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the United States, its allies, and the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation.
"Failed States and Fragile Societies" considers the phenomenon of state failure and asks how the international community might better detect signs of state decay at an early stage and devise...

Central Asia and the Caucasus are of immense geopolitical importance for the US and Russia, but neither power has successfully established regional hegemony. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the states of the Caspian region began to develop their oil and gas reserves, and as a result their importance on the international stage is increasing rapidly. Considering the impact of events such as 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iran, alongside issues including national security, energy policies and American ambitions to limit Russian influence, Christopher Bluth explains why the...

A l'ere postcoloniale, les litteratures de la migration et de l'exil se sont considerablement developpees dans les pays de la Mediterranee qui ont connu, sous des formes diverses, le colonialisme, les guerres d'independance, puis la decolonisation. Espace-mouvement autour de trois aires culturelles, la chretiente, le monde orthodoxe et la oumma musulmane, la Mediterranee a connu nombre d'affrontements, de heurts et de bouleversements identitaires. Au-dela de la crainte et de la mefiance nees de cette histoire, il existe une capacite d'invention renouvelee manifestee par les textes des...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Weltgeschichte - Moderne Geschichte, Note: 1,7, Freie Universitat Berlin, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit soll einen Zugang zum Wirken der fruhen Komintern in den sich neu formierenden kommunistischen Parteien in den nach Unabhangigkeit strebenden asiatischen Landern China und Indonesien bieten. Speziell wird auf die programmatischen Unterschiede der Ideologien und die Anpassung (Sinisierung) der bolschewistischen Revolutionstheorie eingangen, die sich spater in staatliche Doktrinen verwandelten und die Geschicke...

The 21st Century's China/Africa economic train has left the station. Few Europeans and Americans are consciously privileged to watch it go by much less get on board. This action packed economic affair is happening under the radar as the West, mostly stuck in delusional indifference, slumbers in ignorance. "Africa needs a business mentor and China is the ideal choice," Prizgar argues. "Both have suffered and been humiliated by foreign occupiers, and the Chinese are intensely aware that a few decades ago they were in the same economic hellhole as today's Africa. China's win-win philosophy...

Winner of the 2011 Strega Prize, this blend of essay, social criticism, and memoir is a striking portrait of the effects of globalization on Italy's declining economy.
Starting from his family's textile factory in Prato, Tuscany, Edoardo Nesi examines the recent shifts in Italy's manufacturing industry. Only one generation ago, Prato was a thriving industrial center that prided itself on craftsmanship and quality. But during the last decade, cheaply made goods--produced overseas or in Italy by poorly paid immigrants--saturated the market, making it impossible for Italian companies to keep...