The New Standard History of the World
Author: L. Brent Vaughan
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 742
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Author: L. Brent Vaughan
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 742
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Israel Smith Clare
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 692
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Herbert Clifford
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 742
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 764
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henri F. Klien
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 182
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Bryan
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010-08-31
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0231526334
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion. This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns focused on infant-industry protection and the growth of military power, the gold standard enabled the expansion of trade and the goals of the age: industry and empire. Bryan argues that these countries looked less to Britain and more to North America and the rest of Europe for ideological models. Not only does this history challenge our idealistic notions of the prewar period, but it also reorients our understanding of the history that followed. Policymakers of the 1920s latched onto the idea that global prosperity before World War I was the result of a system dominated by English liberalism. Their attempt to reproduce this triumph helped bring about the global downturn, the Great Depression, and the collapse of the interwar world.
Author: Rob Dunn
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2022-01-20
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1399800159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life's future flourishing is not in question. Ours is. A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.
Author: Israel Smith Clare
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Published: 1929
Total Pages: 588
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