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  • The World That Trade Created

    Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present

    by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    The World That Trade Created brings to life the history of trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, filled with insights and amazing facts about things we tend to take for granted, the authors uncover the deep historical roots of economic globalization.Covering over seven hundred years of history, this book, now in its fourth edition, takes the reader around the world ... Read more

    Was $70.99 USD Now $62.99 USD

  • The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present

    by Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    Offering enhanced coverage of Africa, the Middle East, and the 20th century, this new edition of The World That Trade Created brings to life international trade and its actors. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes, the authors show clearly that the seemingly modern concept of economic globalization has deep historical roots. ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930

    by Steven Topik ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929, the Brazilian state was one of the most interventionist in Latin America. This study counters the previous general belief that before 1930 Brazil was dominated by an export oligarchy comprised of European and ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Second Conquest of Latin America

    Coffee, Henequen, and Oil during the Export Boom, 1850-1930

    Edited by Steven C. Topik, Allen Wells ...
    Series series LLILAS Critical Reflections on Latin America Series
    Between 1850 and 1930, Latin America's integration into the world economy through the export of raw materials transformed the region. This encounter was nearly as dramatic as the conquistadors' epic confrontation with Native American civilizations centuries before. An emphasis on foreign markets and capital replaced protectionism and self-sufficiency as the hemisphere's guiding principles. In many ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present

    From Ancient Times to the Present

    by Cynthia Clark Northrup, Jerry H. Bentley, Alfred E. Eckes, Jr, Patrick Manning, Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik ...
    Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic ... Read more

    $625.00 USD

  • States and Sovereignty in the Global Economy

    Edited by David A. Smith, Dorothy J. Solinger, Steven C. Topik ...
    Globalization and the role of the state are issues at the forefront of contemporary debates. With editors and contributors of outstanding academic repututation this exciting new book presents an unconventional and radical perspective. Revealing that states do still matter despite the vigour of international capital flows and the omnipresence of the ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • From Silver to Cocaine

    Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500-2000

    by Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Political Order and Political Decay

    From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

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    The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern stateWriting in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our ... Read more

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  • Forgotten Continent: A History of the New Latin America

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  • A Brief History of Neoliberalism

    by David Harvey ...
    Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are ... Read more

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  • The Accidental Superpower

    Ten Years On

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    With a new "10 years later" epilogue for every chapter, comes an eye-opening assessment of American power and deglobalization in the bestselling tradition of The World is Flat and The Next 100 Years.Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U ... Read more

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