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Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources (Paperback, Concise Second Edition): Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources (Paperback, Concise Second Edition)
Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, …
R2,290 Discovery Miles 22 900 Out of stock

The most global text for world history is also unmatched in drawing connections and comparisons across time and place. With a new compact format, engaging design and built-in reader, this edition improves accessibility while strengthening history skill development. Expanded coverage of environmental history, new interactive History Skills Tutorials, a new Interactive Instructor's Guide and InQuizitive, Norton's award-winning adaptive learning tool, support a state of the art learning experience.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition): Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition)
Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, …
R2,471 Discovery Miles 24 710 Out of stock

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

Inventing the Third World - In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South (Hardcover): Jeremy Adelman, Gyan Prakash Inventing the Third World - In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global South (Hardcover)
Jeremy Adelman, Gyan Prakash
R2,791 Discovery Miles 27 910 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This open access book explores the ways in which the global south reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. The end of the Second World War and the eclipse of empires brought a wave of efforts to reimagine the future world order. When nation states emerging from colonial rule met at Bandung to chart alternative destinies and challenge global inequalities, they hoped to create a less hierarchical, more pluralistic and more distributive world. This volume considers the alternative visions put forth by the third world at the close of WWII to recover their world-changing aspirations as well as its cultural and intellectual breakthroughs. Demonstrating how the invention of the third world sought to create new institutions of solidarity, new expressions and alternative narratives to the imperial ones that they had inherited, this book reveals how writers, artists, musicians and photographers created networks to circulate and exchange these ideas. Exploring these ideas put forth from various regions of the global south, the chapters trace their search for new meanings of freedom, self-determination and the promise of development. Out of this moment came efforts in the south to create new histories of global relations, icons and genres, and placed the promises of decolonization and struggles for social and racial justice at the centre of global history. Showing how efforts to remake the world intersected with and altered the trajectories of the global Cold War, Inventing the Third World discusses how this conflict existed outside of the traditional east-west framework and offers an insight into a radically different 'global cultural cold war'. It shows that the Cold War era was marked by attempts to bring about a different world order that would achieve global racial, social justice and a different kind of peace. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open Access was funded by Princeton University, USA.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull Third Edition)
Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor
R1,776 Discovery Miles 17 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers Jeremy Adelman and Elizabeth Pollard distill cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on introductory students. By supporting students in making comparisons and connections across the narrative, primary sources, images, maps, and in the text and online resources, Worlds Together is global history's most effective teaching tool.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - with Sources (Hardcover, Second AP (R) Edition): Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - with Sources (Hardcover, Second AP (R) Edition)
Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras; As told to Jeremy Adelman, …
R2,999 Discovery Miles 29 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The most globally integrated book in the field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw clear comparisons and connections across time and place. A new AP (R) part structure and strong chapter pedagogy supports student comprehension and close reading skills. The Second AP (R) Edition offers even more opportunities for students to practice the historical thinking skills and reasoning processes with an AP (R) World History Skills Handbook and AP (R)-style questions and writing prompts throughout the book. Additional practice is provided online with our interactive History Skills Tutorials and Norton InQuizitive for History-the popular, award-winning, adaptive quizzing tool.

Chaos Reconsidered - The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics: Robert Jervis, Stacie Goddard, Diane N.... Chaos Reconsidered - The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics
Robert Jervis, Stacie Goddard, Diane N. Labrosse, Joshua Rovner; Contributions by Jeremy Adelman, …
R754 Discovery Miles 7 540 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international order? The essays in Chaos Reconsidered answer those questions. Leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies. The historians put the Trump years and Biden’s victory in historical context. Regional specialists evaluate U.S. diplomacy in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Others foreground topics such as global right-wing populism, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality, and environmental degradation. International relations theorists reconsider the nature of international politics, pointing to deficiencies in traditional IR methods for explaining world events and Trump’s presidency in particular. Together, these experts provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of U.S. alliances and partnerships, the durability of the liberal international order, the standing and reputation of the United States as a global leader, the implications of China’s assertiveness and Russia’s aggression, and the prospects for the Biden administration and its successors.

How to Democratize Europe (Hardcover): Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez How to Democratize Europe (Hardcover)
Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, Antoine Vauchez; Contributions by Jeremy Adelman, …
R784 Discovery Miles 7 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An all-star cast of scholars and politicians from Europe and America propose and debate the creation of a new European parliament with substantial budgetary and legislative power to solve the crisis of governance in the Eurozone and promote social and fiscal justice and public investment. The European Union is struggling. The rise of Euroskeptic parties in member states, economic distress in the south, the migrant crisis, and Brexit top the news. But deeper structural problems may be a greater long-term peril. Not least is the economic management of the Eurozone, the nineteen countries that use the Euro. How can this be accomplished in a way generally acceptable to members, given a political system whose structures are routinely decried for a lack of democratic accountability? How can the EU promote fiscal and social justice while initiating the long-term public investments that Europe needs to overcome stagnation? These are the problems a distinguished group of European and American scholars set out to solve in this short but valuable book. Among many longstanding grievances is the charge that Eurozone policies serve large and wealthy countries at the expense of poorer nations. It is also unclear who decides economic policy, how the interests of diverse member states are balanced, and to whom the decision-makers are accountable. The four lead authors-Stephanie Hennette, Thomas Piketty, Guillaume Sacriste, and Antoine Vauchez-describe these and other problems, and respond with a draft treaty establishing a parliament for economic policy, its members drawn from national parliaments. We then hear from invited critics, who express support, objections, or alternative ideas. How to Democratize Europe offers a chance to observe how major thinkers view some of the Continent's most pressing issues and attempt to connect democratic reform with concrete changes in economic and social policies.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull Third Edition)
Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor
R1,764 Discovery Miles 17 640 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers Jeremy Adelman and Elizabeth Pollard distill cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on introductory students. By supporting students in making comparisons and connections across the narrative, primary sources, images, maps, and in the text and online resources, Worlds Together is global history's most effective teaching tool.

Chaos Reconsidered - The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics: Robert Jervis, Stacie Goddard, Diane N.... Chaos Reconsidered - The Liberal Order and the Future of International Politics
Robert Jervis, Stacie Goddard, Diane N. Labrosse, Joshua Rovner; Contributions by Jeremy Adelman, …
R2,600 Discovery Miles 26 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The shock of Donald Trump’s election caused many observers to ask whether the liberal international order—the system of institutions and norms established after World War II—was coming to an end. The victory of Joe Biden, a committed institutionalist, suggested that the liberal order would endure. Even so, important questions remained: Was Trump an aberration? Is Biden struggling in vain against irreparable changes in international politics? What does the future hold for the international order? The essays in Chaos Reconsidered answer those questions. Leading scholars assess the domestic and global effects of the Trump and Biden presidencies. The historians put the Trump years and Biden’s victory in historical context. Regional specialists evaluate U.S. diplomacy in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America. Others foreground topics such as global right-wing populism, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality, and environmental degradation. International relations theorists reconsider the nature of international politics, pointing to deficiencies in traditional IR methods for explaining world events and Trump’s presidency in particular. Together, these experts provide a comprehensive analysis of the state of U.S. alliances and partnerships, the durability of the liberal international order, the standing and reputation of the United States as a global leader, the implications of China’s assertiveness and Russia’s aggression, and the prospects for the Biden administration and its successors.

Colonial Legacies - The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (Hardcover): Jeremy Adelman Colonial Legacies - The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (Hardcover)
Jeremy Adelman
R3,901 Discovery Miles 39 010 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

More than other Atlantic societies, Latin America is shackled to its past. This collection is an exploration of the binding historical legacies--the making of slavery, patrimonial absolutist states, backward agriculture and the imprint of the Enlightenment--with which Latin America continues to grapple.
Leading writers and scholars reflect on how this heritage emerged from colonial institutions and how historians have tackled these legacies over the years, suggesting that these deep encumbrances are why the region has failed to live up to liberal-capitalist expectations. They also invite discussion about the political, economic and cultural heritages of Atlantic colonialism through the idea that persistence is a powerful organizing framework for understanding particular kinds of historical processes.

Colonial Legacies - The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (Paperback, New): Jeremy Adelman Colonial Legacies - The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History (Paperback, New)
Jeremy Adelman
R1,227 Discovery Miles 12 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: HB:041592152X

Frontier Development - Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada 1890-1914 (Hardcover, New): Jeremy... Frontier Development - Land, Labour, and Capital on the Wheatlands of Argentina and Canada 1890-1914 (Hardcover, New)
Jeremy Adelman
R6,261 R5,147 Discovery Miles 51 470 Save R1,114 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This is a scholarly and stimulating study of settlement and expansions on the frontier lands in Canada and Argentina during their `Golden Years' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Jeremy Adelman challenges many of the assumptions made about the economic `success' of North America and the `failure' of Latin America. Based on extensive primary research in Argentina, Canada, and Britain, Dr Adelman's book points to the central importance of property relations in economic history. The distribution, control, and use of land, labour, and capital shaped these emerging economies. At the centre of the analysis is the development of family farming in Canada, and large estates in Argentina. Each system presented opportunities and posed costs - Argentine estates proving more efficient than hitherto argueed, while Canadian farms involved high social and economic costs. The approach taken here suggests directions for future research for comparative historians.

The Passions and the Interests - Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Paperback, Revised edition): Albert O... The Passions and the Interests - Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph (Paperback, Revised edition)
Albert O Hirschman; Foreword by Amartya Sen; Afterword by Jeremy Adelman
R492 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R86 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation for the rise of capitalism, one that emphasizes the continuities between old and new, in contrast to the assumption of a sharp break that is a common feature of both Marxian and Weberian thinking. Among the insights presented here is the ironical finding that capitalism was originally supposed to accomplish exactly what was soon denounced as its worst feature: the repression of the passions in favor of the "harmless," if one-dimensional, interests of commercial life. To portray this lengthy ideological change as an endogenous process, Hirschman draws on the writings of a large number of thinkers, including Montesquieu, Sir James Steuart, and Adam Smith.

Featuring a new afterword by Jeremy Adelman and a foreword by Amartya Sen, this Princeton Classics edition of "The Passions and the Interests" sheds light on the intricate ideological transformation from which capitalism emerged triumphant, and reaffirms Hirschman's stature as one of our most influential and provocative thinkers.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart - A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Paperback, Seagull Third Edition)
Jeremy Adelman, Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor
R2,213 Discovery Miles 22 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart provides a compelling chronological foundation for world history. A global story frames each chapter, making thousands of years of history less daunting for students and instructors. New lead authors and master teachers Jeremy Adelman and Elizabeth Pollard distill cutting-edge scholarship with a focus on introductory students. By supporting students in making comparisons and connections across the narrative, primary sources, images, maps, and in the text and online resources, Worlds Together is global history's most effective teaching tool.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Hardcover, Fifth Edition): Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Hardcover, Fifth Edition)
Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, …
R4,149 Discovery Miles 41 490 Out of stock

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

Republic of Capital - Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Paperback, New edition): Jeremy Adelman Republic of Capital - Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Paperback, New edition)
Jeremy Adelman
R857 R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Save R49 (6%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, "Republic of Capital" explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property, the book shows that the developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort to formalize the domain of property directed the course of political struggles.
In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped with massive political upheaval and how political writers and intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism. Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law, the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority.
By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and democratize the political arena, and argues that many of Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition): Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition)
Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, …
R3,222 Discovery Miles 32 220 Out of stock

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition): Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart (Paperback, Fifth Edition)
Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, …
R3,360 Discovery Miles 33 600 Out of stock

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

The Essential Hirschman (Paperback): Albert O Hirschman The Essential Hirschman (Paperback)
Albert O Hirschman; Edited by Jeremy Adelman; Introduction by Jeremy Adelman; Afterword by Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen
R700 R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Save R71 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice. Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources (Paperback, Concise Second Edition): Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert... Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources (Paperback, Concise Second Edition)
Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, …
R2,280 Discovery Miles 22 800 Out of stock

The most global text for world history is also unmatched in drawing connections and comparisons across time and place. With a new compact format, engaging design and built-in reader, this edition improves accessibility while strengthening history skill development. Expanded coverage of environmental history, new interactive History Skills Tutorials, a new Interactive Instructor's Guide and InQuizitive, Norton's award-winning adaptive learning tool, support a state-of-the-art learning experience.

Worldly Philosopher - The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Paperback): Jeremy Adelman Worldly Philosopher - The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Paperback)
Jeremy Adelman
R673 Discovery Miles 6 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Worldly Philosopher" chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism.

The Essential Hirschman (Hardcover, New): Albert O Hirschman The Essential Hirschman (Hardcover, New)
Albert O Hirschman; Edited by Jeremy Adelman; Introduction by Jeremy Adelman; Afterword by Emma Rothschild, Amartya Sen
R843 R709 Discovery Miles 7 090 Save R134 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The Essential Hirschman" brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice.

Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, "The Essential Hirschman" is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book.

Worldly Philosopher - The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Hardcover, New): Jeremy Adelman Worldly Philosopher - The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman (Hardcover, New)
Jeremy Adelman
R1,051 R895 Discovery Miles 8 950 Save R156 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Worldly Philosopher" chronicles the times and writings of Albert O. Hirschman, one of the twentieth century's most original and provocative thinkers. In this gripping biography, Jeremy Adelman tells the story of a man shaped by modern horrors and hopes, a worldly intellectual who fought for and wrote in defense of the values of tolerance and change. This is the first major account of Hirschman's remarkable life, and a tale of the twentieth century as seen through the story of an astute and passionate observer. Adelman's riveting narrative traces how Hirschman's personal experiences shaped his unique intellectual perspective, and how his enduring legacy is one of hope, open-mindedness, and practical idealism.

Republic of Capital - Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Hardcover): Jeremy Adelman Republic of Capital - Buenos Aires and the Legal Transformation of the Atlantic World (Hardcover)
Jeremy Adelman
R3,991 Discovery Miles 39 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a political history of economic life. Through a description of the convulsions of long-term change from colony to republic in Buenos Aires, "Republic of Capital" explores Atlantic world transformations in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Tracing the transition from colonial Natural Law to instrumental legal understandings of property, the book shows that the developments of constitutionalism and property law were more than coincidences: the polity shaped the rituals and practices arbitrating economic justice, while the crisis of property animated the support for a centralized and executive-dominated state. In dialectical fashion, politics shaped private law while the effort to formalize the domain of property directed the course of political struggles.
In studying the legal and political foundations of Argentine capitalism, the author shows how merchants and capitalists coped with massive political upheaval and how political writers and intellectuals sought to forge a model of liberal republicanism. Among the topics examined are the transformation of commercial law, the evolution of liberal political credos, and the saga of political and constitutional turmoil after the collapse of Spanish authority.
By the end of the nineteenth century, statemakers, capitalists, and liberal intellectuals settled on a model of political economy that aimed for open markets but closed the polity to widespread participation. The author concludes by exploring the long-term consequences of nineteenth-century statehood for the following century's efforts to promote sustained economic growth and democratize the political arena, and argues that many of Argentina's recent problems can be traced back to the framework and foundations of Argentine statehood in the nineteenth century.

The Shock of the Global - The 1970s in Perspective (Paperback): Niall Ferguson, Charles S Maier, Erez Manela, Daniel J. Sargent The Shock of the Global - The 1970s in Perspective (Paperback)
Niall Ferguson, Charles S Maier, Erez Manela, Daniel J. Sargent; Contributions by Jeremy Adelman, …
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after the great divisions of the mid-twentieth century. It was the 1970s that introduced the world to the phenomenon of "globalization," as networks of interdependence bound peoples and societies in new and original ways.

The 1970s saw the breakdown of the postwar economic order and the advent of floating currencies and free capital movements. Non-state actors rose to prominence while the authority of the superpowers diminished. Transnational issues such as environmental protection, population control, and human rights attracted unprecedented attention. The decade transformed international politics, ending the era of bipolarity and launching two great revolutions that would have repercussions in the twenty-first century: the Iranian theocratic revolution and the Chinese market revolution.

"The Shock of the Global" examines the large-scale structural upheaval of the 1970s by transcending the standard frameworks of national borders and superpower relations. It reveals for the first time an international system in the throes of enduring transformations.

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