Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries write by Les Harding. This book was released on 1998. Dead Countries of the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Centuries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Organized as a series of entries for each dead country, and arranged alphabetically under fifteen broad geographical headings, provides wonderfully detailed summaries of the history of the dead countries that fill in gaps and expose the hidden histories of many geographic locations throughout the world.
Firms as Political Entities
Firms as Political Entities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Firms as Political Entities write by Isabelle Ferreras. This book was released on 2017-10-25. Firms as Political Entities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aimed at political sciences students and teachers, Ferreras presents the new idea of 'economic bicameralism' to redefine firms as political entities.
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss
Between Mass Death and Individual Loss - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Mass Death and Individual Loss write by Alon Confino. This book was released on 2008. Between Mass Death and Individual Loss available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "This volume explores the tension between mass death and individual loss by linking long-term patterns of mourning, burial, and grief with the short-term cataclysmic violence unleashed by two world wars. How various "cultures of death" shaped the broader historical relationship between the living and the dead in modern Germany is the main concern of this book. It contributes to a history of death in Germany that does not begin and end with the Third Reich."--BOOK JACKET.
Postcards
Postcards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Postcards write by Lydia Pyne. This book was released on 2021-10-13. Postcards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A global exploration of postcards as artifacts at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. Postcards are usually associated with banal holiday pleasantries, but they are made possible by sophisticated industries and institutions, from printers to postal services. When they were invented, postcards established what is now taken for granted in modern times: the ability to send and receive messages around the world easily and inexpensively. Fundamentally they are about creating personal connections—links between people, places, and beliefs. Lydia Pyne examines postcards on a global scale, to understand them as artifacts that are at the intersection of history, science, technology, art, and culture. In doing so, she shows how postcards were the first global social network and also, here in the twenty-first century, how postcards are not yet extinct.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Capital in the Twenty-First Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital in the Twenty-First Century write by Thomas Piketty. This book was released on 2017-08-14. Capital in the Twenty-First Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for lack of adequate data and clear guiding theories. In this work the author analyzes a unique collection of data from twenty countries, ranging as far back as the eighteenth century, to uncover key economic and social patterns. His findings transform debate and set the agenda for the next generation of thought about wealth and inequality. He shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II. The main driver of inequality--the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth--today threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values if political action is not taken. But economic trends are not acts of God. Political action has curbed dangerous inequalities in the past, the author says, and may do so again. This original work reorients our understanding of economic history and confronts us with sobering lessons for today.
