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The second volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides
an authoritative reference on the spread and impact of capitalism
across the world, and the varieties of responses to it. Employing a
wide geographical coverage and strong comparative outlook, a team
of leading scholars explore the global consequences that capitalism
has had for industry, agriculture, and trade, along with the
reactions by governments, firms, and markets. The authors consider
how World War I halted the initial spread of capitalism, but global
capitalism arose again by the close of the twentieth century. They
explore how the responses of labor movements, compounded by the
reactions by political regimes, whether defensive or proactive, led
to diverse military and welfare consequences. Beneficial results
eventually emerged, but the rise and spread of capitalism has not
been easy or smooth. This definitive volume will have widespread
appeal amongst historians, economists, and political scientists.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Unpacks the benefits of using technology in education, answering
the question, "How can technology free teachers from time and
effort devoted to routine matters to instead assume roles that are
potentially more satisfying and supportive of their students'
learning?" Renowned educators McDiarmid and Zhao explore a timely
and critical issue, discussing how technology can revolutionize
education in ways that will better position students for an
uncertain future. The latest book in the well-known Routledge
Leading Change series edited by Andy Hargreaves and Pak Tee Ng.
This volume of papers from the Eighth World Congress deals with
changes in proportions and growth rates of sectors of the economy
in relation to economic development. It includes a survey of
theories of sectoral balance and studies of structural
transformation in the Kuznets tradition but with richer
economometric models and data on more than 100 countries over
several decades. There are in-depth country analyses of India,
Korea and Nigeria and for Eastern Europe, the GDR and Hungary. In
the last part of the volume the link between agriculture and
industry is studied in terms of the importance of rural non-farm
activities, the effectiveness of balanced growth and of an
agriculture-led development strategy. A wide range of data is
examined with one chapter focusing particularly on Japan. Jeffrey
Williamson has also written "Modelling Growth Economics in
Equilibrium and Disequilibrium" with A.Kelley and "Did British
Capitalism Breed Inequality". Amongst his other publications,
Vadiraj Panchamukhi has written "Trade Policies in India: A Case
Study of Karnataka, Capital Formation and Output in the Third
World" and "Planning, Development and World Economic Order".
Unpacks the benefits of using technology in education, answering
the question, "How can technology free teachers from time and
effort devoted to routine matters to instead assume roles that are
potentially more satisfying and supportive of their students'
learning?" Renowned educators McDiarmid and Zhao explore a timely
and critical issue, discussing how technology can revolutionize
education in ways that will better position students for an
uncertain future. The latest book in the well-known Routledge
Leading Change series edited by Andy Hargreaves and Pak Tee Ng.
First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Two of the world's leading economists, Philippe Aghion (a theorist) and Jeffrey Williamson (an economic historian), jointly question the conventional wisdom on inequality and growth, and address its inability to explain recent economic experience. Aghion assesses the effects of inequality on growth, and asks whether inequality matters: is excessive inequality bad for growth, and is it possible to reconcile aggregate findings with microeconomic theories of incentives? Jeffrey Williamson then discusses the Kuznets hypothesis, and focuses on the causes of wage and income inequality in developed economies.
Coping with City Growth assesses Britain's handling of city growth
during the First Industrial Revolution by combining the tools used
by Third World analysts with the archival attention and eclectic
style of the economic historian. What emerges is an exciting and
provocative accounts that have long occupied problem development
economists: urban unemployment, underemployment, and the alleged
failure of city labour markets to absorb the flood of rural
emigrants; the persistent influx of newcomers, which makes it
difficult for municipal planners to improve the quality of social
overhead; the crowding of migrants into densely packed urban slums
with few, if any, social services; and rising density and city size
which augment pollution while lowering the quality of the urban
environment.
Contents: Part I. Introduction 1. Globalizaton challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean. Sevket Pamuk and Jeffrey G. Williamson Part II. Long Run Growth: A Comparative Assessment 2. How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia. Jaime Reis 3. Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean 1500-1940. Jeffrey G. Williamson 4. European economic development: The core and the Southern periphery 1870-1910 James Foreman-Peck and Pedro Lains Part III. Long Run Growth: Country Studies 5. Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia 1880-1910 Ahmed Akarli 6. The choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared 1830-1860. Joan Ramon Roses Part IV. Trade, Transport and Domestic Production in the Century Before WWII 7. Specialization in the international market for olive oil before WWII. Ramon Ramon-Munoz 8. International competition and the developoment of the dried fruit industry 1880-1930. Jose Morilla-Critz, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode 9. International shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime center 1870-1910. Gelina Harlaftis and Vassilis Kardasis Part V. Pre-1914 Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth 10. Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in late 19th century. Giovanni Federico and Kevin H. O'Rourke 11. What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before WWII? A comparison with Italy. Blanca Sanchez-Alonso Part VI: Interwar Policy Choices and the Political Economy of Growth 12. Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience. Sevket Pamuk 13. Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism. Tarik Yousef Part VII Twentieth Century Palestine 14. Economic growth and external trade in mandatory Palestine: a special Mediterranean case. Jacob Metzer
The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a
comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its
earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient
Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised
Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical
coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of
authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman and Asian
civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the
Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of
modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the
various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the
eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states
in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how
British mercantilism led to European imitations and American
successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.
Between 1850 and 1914 about 55 million Europeans migrated to the New World including North and South America, and Australia. This movement marked a profound shift in global population and economic activity. The authors describe this phenomenon and analyse the effects that underlie it.
The Third Reich is a succinct, comprehensive examination of the
major debates surrounding this crucial period in modern German
history. The character and operation of the Nazi state, and of its
global consequences, have been discussed and disputed since 1933.
David G. Williamson's Seminar Studies text, now in its fifth
edition, provides students with a lucid introduction to the Third
Reich and highlights the relevant research, scholarship and
controversies. The new edition has been expanded to give increased
coverage to such topics as: ethnic cleansing in Poland and Russia,
the role of the Wehrmacht, the Holocaust, attitudes of ordinary
Germans to the Third Reich, the German opposition, Nazi foreign
policy and the German economy. Accompanied by a wide range of
primary sources, a timeline, maps and a glossary, The Third Reich
remains the best available introduction to this short-lived but
enormously impactful period in world history.
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic
evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the
uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While
other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth,
Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income--and
the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic
experience. America has been exceptional in its rising inequality
after an egalitarian start, but not in its long-run growth. America
had already achieved world income leadership by 1700, not just in
the twentieth century as is commonly thought. Long before
independence, American colonists enjoyed higher living standards
than Britain--and America's income advantage today is no greater
than it was three hundred years ago. But that advantage was lost
during the Revolution, lost again during the Civil War, and lost a
third time during the Great Depression, though it was regained
after each crisis. In addition, Lindert and Williamson show how
income inequality among Americans rose steeply in two great
waves--from 1774 to 1860 and from the 1970s to today--rising more
than in any other wealthy nation in the world. Unequal Gains also
demonstrates how the widening income gaps have always touched every
social group, from the richest to the poorest. The book sheds
critical light on the forces that shaped American income history,
and situates that history in a broad global context. Economic
writing at its most stimulating, Unequal Gains provides a vitally
needed perspective on who has benefited most from American growth,
and why.
This essential text provides a clear and engaging introduction to
the history of modern Germany. The updated and expanded new edition
now takes the story back to 1789 and brings it right up to the
present day, adopting a controversy-led approach throughout. Visual
evidence, maps, documents and key event boxes support the text and
aid learning.
In this study, Jeffrey G. Williamson examines the political economy
of immigration backlash and immigration policy in two global
centuries. The first, between 1820 and World War I, was a proglobal
environment, characterized by booming trade, labor, and capital
markets. It was followed by an antiglobal and autarchic retreat
between 1914 and 1950. Williamson finds that the second global
century has moved to reclaim world integration in trade and capital
markets, but immigration policy in high-wage countries has not
tried to reclaim an open stance.
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The Secret History (Paperback)
Procopius; Edited by Peter Sarris; Translated by G. Williamson
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A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the
Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of
Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's
reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very
different - and dangerous - history to be published only once its
author was safely in his grave. The Secret History portrays the
'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and
tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the
brilliant general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming
wife Antonina. Magnificently hyperbolic and highly opinionated, The
Secret History is a work of explosive energy, depicting holy
Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.
‘It is God, then, God Himself who is bringing with the Romans fire to purge the Temple and is blotting out the city, brimful of corruption’ Josephus’ account of a war marked by treachery and atrocity is a superbly detailed and evocative record of the Jewish rebellion against Rome between AD 66 and 70. Originally a rebel leader, Josephus changed sides after he was captured to become a Rome-appointed negotiator, and so was uniquely placed to observe these turbulent events, from the siege of Jerusalem to the final heroic resistance and mass suicides at Masada. His account provides much of what we know about the history of the Jews under Roman rule, with vivid portraits of such key figures as the Emperor Vespasian and Herod the Great. Often self-justifying and divided in its loyalties, The Jewish War nevertheless remains one of the most immediate accounts of war, its heroism and its horrors, ever written. G. A. Williamson’s translation makes this complex work accessible to the general reader, while E. Mary Smallwood’s revisions bring the benefits of more recent advances in scholarship, making this the definitive edition.
An irascible, brilliant man, trained as an economist, Karl
Helfferich became one of Wilhelmine Germany's leading financiers in
the years after 1905. During World War I, he held a series of
important Reich offices and, after 1918, became a leading
right-wing politician in the Weimar Republic. As creator of the
basic plan to stabilize the mark in 1923, he played a major role in
ending the catastrophic postwar inflation. John Williamson's
biography of Helfferich thus reflects German controversies over the
crucial political, economic, and social issues of the era
1895-1924: e.g., industrialization, colonial development, the
Bagdad Railway and imperialism, unrestricted submarine warfare,
wartime political reform, war aims, and postwar financial and
foreign policy. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
A clear, readable translation of the ten books of Bishop Eusebius’s Ecclesiastical History—the only surviving record of the Church during its crucial first three hundred years—this edition recounts the martyrdoms, heresies, schisms, and proceedings that led to Nicaea and other great church councils.
Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic
evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the
uneven progress of America from colonial times to today. While
other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth,
Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income--and
the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic
experience. America has been exceptional in its rising inequality
after an egalitarian start, but not in its long-run growth. America
had already achieved world income leadership by 1700, not just in
the twentieth century as is commonly thought. Long before
independence, American colonists enjoyed higher living standards
than Britain--and America's income advantage today is no greater
than it was three hundred years ago. But that advantage was lost
during the Revolution, lost again during the Civil War, and lost a
third time during the Great Depression, though it was regained
after each crisis. In addition, Lindert and Williamson show how
income inequality among Americans rose steeply in two great
waves--from 1774 to 1860 and from the 1970s to today--rising more
than in any other wealthy nation in the world. Unequal Gains also
demonstrates how the widening income gaps have always touched every
social group, from the richest to the poorest. The book sheds
critical light on the forces that shaped American income history,
and situates that history in a broad global context. Economic
writing at its most stimulating, Unequal Gains provides a vitally
needed perspective on who has benefited most from American growth,
and why.
An irascible, brilliant man, trained as an economist, Karl
Helfferich became one of Wilhelmine Germany's leading financiers in
the years after 1905. During World War I, he held a series of
important Reich offices and, after 1918, became a leading
right-wing politician in the Weimar Republic. As creator of the
basic plan to stabilize the mark in 1923, he played a major role in
ending the catastrophic postwar inflation. John Williamson's
biography of Helfferich thus reflects German controversies over the
crucial political, economic, and social issues of the era
1895-1924: e.g., industrialization, colonial development, the
Bagdad Railway and imperialism, unrestricted submarine warfare,
wartime political reform, war aims, and postwar financial and
foreign policy. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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