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by K. E. Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
K. E. Fleming's Greece--a Jewish History is the first comprehensive English-language history of Greek Jews, and the only history that includes material on their diaspora in Israel and the United States. The book tells the story of a people who for the most part no longer exist and whose identity is...
Morning in America
How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980's
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Did America's fortieth president lead a conservative counterrevolution that left liberalism gasping for air? The answer, for both his admirers and his detractors, is often "yes." In Morning in America, Gil Troy argues that the Great Communicator was also the Great Conciliator. His pioneering...
Why Minsky Matters
An Introduction to the Work of a Maverick Economist
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Perhaps no economist was more vindicated by the global financial crisis than Hyman P. Minsky (1919–96). Although a handful of economists raised alarms as early as 2000, Minsky's warnings began a half-century earlier, with writings that set out a compelling theory of financial instability. Yet even...
Krupp
A History of the Legendary German Firm
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2012
The history of Krupp is the history of modern Germany. No company symbolized the best and worst of that history more than the famous steel and arms maker. In this book, Harold James tells the story of the Krupp family and its industrial empire between the early nineteenth century and the present,...
After Hegemony
Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2005
This book is a comprehensive study of cooperation among the advanced capitalist countries. Can cooperation persist without the dominance of a single power, such as the United States after World War II? To answer this pressing question, Robert Keohane analyzes the institutions, or "international regimes,"...
The Hungarians
A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as "child-devouring cannibals" and "bloodthirsty Huns." But it wasn't long before the Hungarians became steadfast...
Uprooted
How Breslau Became Wroclaw during the Century of Expulsions
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers...
The Story of America
Essays on Origins
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2012
In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over...
Masters of Craft
Old Jobs in the New Urban Economy
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
How educated and culturally savvy young people are transforming traditionally low-status manual labor jobs into elite taste-making occupations
In today’s new economy—in which “good” jobs are typically knowledge or technology based—many well-educated and culturally savvy young men...
by John Sides & Lynn Vavreck
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
This is the first of a series of free ebook preview chapters--scheduled to be released between August and December 2012--from a groundbreaking book in progress about the 2012 U.S. presidential election. What are the odds that Barack Obama will be reelected in November, despite a weak economy?...
Democracy Incorporated
Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism - New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic...
Tobacco Culture
The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
The great Tidewater planters of mid-eighteenth-century Virginia were fathers of the American Revolution. Perhaps first and foremost, they were also anxious tobacco farmers, harried by a demanding planting cycle, trans-Atlantic shipping risks, and their uneasy relations with English agents. George...
War in Social Thought
Hobbes to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2012
This book, the first of its kind, provides a sweeping critical history of social theories about war and peace from Hobbes to the present. Distinguished social theorists Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl present both a broad intellectual history and an original argument as they trace the development of...
The Nobel Factor
The Prize in Economics, Social Democracy, and the Market Turn
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Economic theory may be speculative, but its impact is powerful and real. Since the 1970s, it has been closely associated with a sweeping change around the world—the "market turn." This is what Avner Offer and Gabriel Söderberg call the rise of market liberalism, a movement that, seeking...