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  • Big Business and Dictatorships in Latin America

    A Transnational History of Profits and Repression

    Edited by Victoria Basualdo, Hartmut Berghoff, Marcelo Bucheli ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This edited volume studies the relationship between big business and the Latin American dictatorial regimes during the Cold War. The first section provides a general background about the contemporary history of business corporations and dictatorships in the twentieth century at the international level. The second section comprises chapters that analyze five national cases (Argentina, Brazil, Chile ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Varieties of Family Business

    Germany and the United States, Past and Present

    by Hartmut Berghoff, Ingo Köhler ...
    Familienunternehmen sind in Deutschland und in den USA zentrale Bausteine der jeweiligen Volkswirtschaft. Und doch gibt es signifikante Unterschiede in der Unternehmens- und Familienkultur sowie der institutionellen Umwelt. So wird Deutschland in den USA um seine leistungsstarken Familienunternehmen, vor allem die Hidden Champions, beneidet. Zudem bestehen deutsche Familienunternehmen im ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Business in the Age of Extremes

    Essays in Modern German and Austrian Economic History

    Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Jürgen Kocka, Dieter Ziegler ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    This collection of essays explores the impact that nationalism, capitalism and socialism had on economics during the first half of the twentieth century. Focusing on Central Europe, contributors examine the role that businesspeople and enterprises played in Germany's and Austria's paths to the catastrophe of Nazism. Based on new archival research, the essays gathered here ask how the business ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Green Capitalism?

    Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Adam Rome ...
    Series series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
    At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to protect parts of nature, limit their production of wastes, and support broader environmental reforms. In ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The East German Economy, 1945–2010

    Falling Behind or Catching Up?

    Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Uta Andrea Balbier ...
    Series series Publications of the German Historical Institute
    By many measures, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had the strongest economy in the Eastern bloc and was one of the most important industrial nations worldwide. Nonetheless, the economic history of the GDR has been primarily discussed as a failure when compared with the economic success of the Federal Republic and is often cited as one of the pre-eminent examples of central planning's ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Green Capitalism?

    Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century

    Edited by Hartmut Berghoff, Adam Rome ...
    Series series Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture
    At a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to "green" capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes had reasons to protect parts of nature, limit their production of wastes, and support broader environmental reforms. In ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Respectable Career of Fritz K.

    The Making and Remaking of a Provincial Nazi Leader

    by Hartmut Berghoff, Cornelia Rauh ...
    Series Book 18 - Studies in German History
    Entrepreneur and Nazi functionary Fritz Kiehn lived through almost 100 years of German history, from the Bismarck era to the late Bonn Republic. A successful manufacturer, Kiehn joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and obtained a number of influential posts after 1933, making him one of the most powerful Nazi functionaries in southern Germany. These posts allowed him ample opportunity to profit from ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Explorations and Entanglements

    Germans in Pacific Worlds from the Early Modern Period to World War I

    Edited by Frank Biess, Ulrike Strasser, Hartmut Berghoff ...
    Series Book 22 - Studies in German History
    Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • The Economic Consequences of the War

    West Germany's Growth Miracle after 1945

    by Tamás Vonyó ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
    The 'German Question' dominated much of modern European history. In 1945, Germany was defeated and conquered. Yet, the Second World War did not destroy the foundations of her economic power. Dr Tamás Vonyó revisits Germany's remarkable post-war revival, tracing its roots not to liberal economic reforms and the Marshall Plan, but to the legacies of the war that endowed Germany with an enhanced ... Read more

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  • From Old Regime to Industrial State

    A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

    by Richard H. Tilly, Michael Kopsidis ...
    Series series Markets and Governments in Economic History
    In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany's industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. ... Read more

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  • True Wealth

    How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich, Ecologically Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

    by Juliet B. Schor ...
    A groundbreaking statement about ecological decline, suggesting a radical change in how we think about consumer goods, value, and ways to live.In True Wealth , economist Juliet B. Schor rejects the sacrifice message, with the insight that social innovations and new technology can simultaneously enhance our lives and protect the planet. Schor shares examples of urban farmers, DIY renovators, and ... Read more

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  • The Coming of the Third Reich

    by Richard J. Evans ...
    Series Book 1 - The Third Reich Trilogy
    **The definitive account of Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany, from the author of The Third Reich in Power, The Third Reich at War, and Hitler's People"The clearest and most gripping account I've read of German life before and during the rise of the Nazis." —A. S Byatt, Times Literary Supplement"Impressive in its command of an immense literature, perceptive in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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