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  • Currency Statecraft

    Monetary Rivalry and Geopolitical Ambition

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    At any given time, a limited number of national currencies are used as instruments of international commerce, to settle foreign trade transactions or store value for investors and central banks. How countries whose currencies gain international appeal choose to use this status forms their strategy of currency statecraft. In different circumstances, issuing governments may welcome and promote the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • An Appeal to the Ladies of Hyderabad

    Scandal in the Raj

    by Benjamin B. Cohen ...
    The dramatic story of Mehdi Hasan and Ellen Donnelly, whose marriage convulsed high society in nineteenth-century India and whose notorious trial and fall reverberated throughout the British Empire, setting the benchmark for Victorian scandals.In April 1892, a damning pamphlet circulated in the south Indian city of Hyderabad, the capital of the largest and wealthiest princely state in the British ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Water in Hyderabad and the Deccan

    A History of Power and Elites from the 11th to 20th Centuries

    by Benjamin B Cohen ...
    Water in Hyderabad and the Deccan explores how water has shaped power, society, and the environment in the Deccan over nearly a thousand years. Moving beyond technical views, it adopts a hydrosocial lens to show how water and society co-produced each other. From celebrated reservoirs and sacred springs to monsoons, canals, and everyday bodily experiences, the book reveals how elites used water to ... Read more

    $139.49 USD

  • Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy

    Second Edition

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Acclaim for previous edition:'Benjamin J. Cohen's Advanced Introduction to International Political Economy evaluates the fragmented intellectual landscape of international political economy and suggests points of convergence, if not integration, among its varied elements. His analysis is wide-ranging and balanced, geographically and in its examination of a variety of standpoints; it is engaging in ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • International Political Economy

    An Intellectual History

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's development, the contrasting ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Pure Adulteration

    Cheating on Nature in the Age of Manufactured Food

    by Benjamin R. Cohen ...
    Benjamin R. Cohen uses the pure food crusades at the turn of the twentieth century to provide a captivating window onto the origins of manufactured foods in the United States.In the latter nineteenth century, extraordinary changes in food and agriculture gave rise to new tensions in the ways people understood, obtained, trusted, and ate their food. This was the Era of Adulteration, and its ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dream States

    A Lurking Nightmare for World Order

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Around the world, numerous communities seek the protections of sovereignty--a "dream state" of their own--to preserve their traditional way of life. However, these secessionist movements create risk of prolonged conflict in countries of every size and location, from tiny statelets in the Caribbean or Pacific to large and fragile multiethnic federations like Russia, India, and even the United ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • How To Grow Older Gracefully

    by Benjamin Cohen ...
    Pain is a four-letter word that we need to have the least amount as we grow older. I had a problem with my sciatic nerve a few years back, and it was horrible. It went from my back to my leg and my feet. I couldn't walk or do any exercise with that pain. So I decided to search for a system that would help me because even though I don't know how long I would live, I want to live as long as I need ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Hot Hand

    The Mystery and Science of Streaks

    by Benjamin Cohen ...
    Narrated by Michael David Axtell ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 39 min

    **How can you maximize success—and limit failure?**Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Cohen brilliantly investigates the mystery and science of streaks.""A feast for anyone interested in the secrets of excellence."" —Andre AgassiFor decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Crossing Frontiers

    Explorations In International Political Economy

    by Benjamin Cohen ...
    For over a quarter of a century, the author has ventured systematically into the emerging field of international political economy, an area traditionally dominated by political scientists. Crossing Frontiers - the title refers both to national and disciplinary boundaries - brings together for the first time a dozen of his essays. These essays exhibit a pragmatism, a preference for practical ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Global Monetary Governance

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Benjamin J. Cohen has been one of the most original and influential writers on international political economy. This book provides an overview of his contribution to the field, grouped around the central theme of global monetary governance. The book is divided into three sections:challenges to systemic governance - examines the challenge of governa ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Currency Power

    Understanding Monetary Rivalry

    by Benjamin J. Cohen ...
    Why the dollar will remain the world's most powerful currencyMonetary rivalry is a fact of life in the world economy. Intense competition between international currencies like the US dollar, Europe's euro, and the Chinese yuan is profoundly political, going to the heart of the global balance of power. But what exactly is the relationship between currency and power, and what does it portend for the ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus