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  • An Economic History of the First German Unification

    State Formation and Economic Development in a European Perspective

    Edited by Ulrich Pfister, Nikolaus Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    There is a striking chronological parallel between Germany’s transition from a post-Malthusian regime to modern economic growth and the formation of a modern nation-state between the late 1860s and the early 1880s, which culminated in the events of 1871.The central question of this book is whether and how such state formation did in fact contribute to economic development.Twenty chapters written ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Economic Development of Europe's Regions

    A Quantitative History since 1900

    Edited by Joan Ramón Rosés, Nikolaus Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This book is the first quantitative description of Europe’s economic development at a regional level over the entire twentieth century. Based on a new and comprehensive set of data, it brings together a group of leading economic historians in order to describe and analyze the development of European regions, both for nation states and for Europe as a whole. This provides a new transnational ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Economic History of Warfare and State Formation

    Edited by Jari Eloranta, Eric Golson, Andrei Markevich, Nikolaus Wolf ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume represents the latest research on intersections of war, state formation, and political economy, i.e., how conflicts have affected short- and long-run development of economies and the formation (or destruction) of states and their political economies. The contributors come from different fields of social and human sciencies, all featuring an interdisciplinary approach to the ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

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  • German Europe

    by Ulrich Beck ...
    Translated by Rodney Livingstone ...
    The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect for the dignity of ... Read more

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  • Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy

    by Daniel Ziblatt ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    How do democracies form and what makes them die? Daniel Ziblatt revisits this timely and classic question in a wide-ranging historical narrative that traces the evolution of modern political democracy in Europe from its modest beginnings in 1830s Britain to Adolf Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Weimar Germany. Based on rich historical and quantitative evidence, the book offers a major ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Power of a Single Number

    A Political History of GDP

    by Philipp Lepenies ...
    Widely used since the mid-twentieth century, GDP (gross domestic product) has become the world's most powerful statistical indicator of national development and progress. Practically all governments adhere to the idea that GDP growth is a primary economic target, and while criticism of this measure has grown, neither its champions nor its detractors deny its central importance in our political ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Reinventing Poland

    Economic and Political Transformation and Evolving National Identity

    Edited by Martin Myant, Terry Cox ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The end of communism and accession to the European Union have had a huge impact on Poland. This book provides an overall assessment of the post-1989 transformation in Poland. It focuses in particular on four key themes: economic transformation and its outcomes; the heritage of the past and national identity; regional development in Poland including the implications of EU accession for regional ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Alan S. Milward and Contemporary European History

    Collected Academic Reviews

    Edited by Fernando Guirao, Frances M.B. Lynch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    Alan S. Milward was a renowned historian of contemporary Europe. In addition to his books, as well as articles and chapters in edited books, he also wrote nearly 250 book reviews and review articles, some in French and German, which were published in journals world-wide. Taken together they reveal a remarkable degree of theoretical consistency in his approach to understanding the history of Europe ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Globalists

    The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

    by Quinn Slobodian ...
    George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K. Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year“A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.”—Stephen Wertheim, Foreign AffairsNeoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Economic Crises and Global Politics in the 20th Century

    Edited by Alexander Nützenadel, Cornelius Torp ...
    This book analyses the history of economic crises from the angle of international politics and its transformation throughout the 20th century. While political and economic debates in the wake of the present financial crisis are revolving around the question of how to create effective forms of global governance, historians have discovered a long tradition of international economic regulation that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Small States in World Markets

    Industrial Policy in Europe

    by Peter J. Katzenstein ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    By the early 1980s the average American had a lower standard of living than the average Norwegian or Dane. Standards of living in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, and Austria also rivaled those in the United States. How have seven small democracies achieved economic success and what can they teach America?In Small States in World Markets, Peter Katzenstein examines the successes of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth

    by Benjamin M. Friedman ...
    From the author of Day of Reckoning, the acclaimed critique of Ronald Reagan’s economic policy (“Every citizen should read it,” said The New York Times): a persuasive, wide-ranging argument that economic growth provides far more than material benefits.In clear-cut prose, Benjamin M. Friedman examines the political and social histories of the large Western democracies–particularly of the United ... Read more

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