Crisis as Conquest
Crisis as Conquest

Author: Jayati Ghosh

Publisher: Orient Blackswan

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9788125018988

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To What Extent Does The East Asian Experience Provide Us With A Viable Model Of Economic Development? This Tract Seeks To Answer This Through A Careful Analysis Of The Long-Term Development Of The East Asian Economies And Their Recent Crisis. The Tract Shows The Contradictory Implications Of The Process Of Industrialisation And The Problems Of Unregulated Finance Which Makes Liberalised Economies Extra Sensitive To The Slightest Ripple In Investor Sentiments. To Understand The Specificities Of The East Asian Experience, The Tract Looks Carefully At The Histories Of Crises In Other Parts Of The World, And Provides A Powerful Critique Of The Imf Response To Them.

State of Emergency
State of Emergency

Author: Patrick J. Buchanan

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-10-02

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780312374365

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A wake up call alerting us to America's dire problem with illegal immigration, from bestselling conservative author Pat Buchanan

Ambivalent Conquests
Ambivalent Conquests

Author: Inga Clendinnen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-04-28

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780521527316

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Crisis of Empire
Crisis of Empire

Author: Phil Booth

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0520296192

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"This book focuses on the attempts of three seventh-century Palestinian intellectuals--John Moschos, Sophronius of Jerusalem, and Maximus the Confessor--to determine the Church's power and place during a period of profound crisis, as the eastern Roman empire suffered serious reversals in the face of Persian and then Islamic expansion. Through their stories, Booth documents nothing less than a profound change in the very nature of the self-perception of a religious society. Although focused on the first half of the seventh century, this book throws bright light both behind itself--on the nature of the role of the holy man in late antiquity--and in front of itself--on the nature of the Byzantine Orthodoxy that would emerge in the middle ages, and which is still central to the churches of Greece and Eastern Europe"--

An Economic History of the United States
An Economic History of the United States

Author: Frederick S. Weaver

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 303

ISBN-13: 144225520X

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The economy of the United States is constantly evolving in response to wars, technological innovations, cultural revolutions, and political maneuverings. Tracing the economic machine of the United States from its first experiments in the colonies to the post–Great Recession era of today, Frederick S. Weaver creates a dynamic narrative of this country’s progression through times of feast and times of famine. Weaver explores diverse areas of the market beyond the financial sector, examining historical fluctuations in distribution of income, how the ebb and flow of specific industries have influenced the shape of the market, and, ultimately, how the economy of the United States has made America the nation we know today. An Economic History of the United States is a thoughtful and accessible introduction to the subject of American economic history, suitable for undergraduate courses in U.S. political and economic history.

Conquests and Cultures
Conquests and Cultures

Author: Thomas Sowell

Publisher:

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 0786723009

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This book is the culmination of 15 years of research and travels that have taken the author completely around the world twice, as well as on other travels in the Mediterranean, the Baltic, and around the Pacific rim. Its purpose has been to try to understand the role of cultural differences within nations and between nations, today and over centuries of history, in shaping the economic and social fates of peoples and of whole civilizations. Focusing on four major cultural areas(that of the British, the Africans (including the African diaspora), the Slavs of Eastern Europe, and the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere--Conquests and Cultures reveals patterns that encompass not only these peoples but others and help explain the role of cultural evolution in economic, social, and political development.