EUROPE AMERICA AND WIDER WORLD - Essays on the Economic History of Western Capitalism

Zusammenfassung Taken together! the essays in this volume offer a particular! yet comprehensive! view of the economic history of Western Europe since the Renaissance. In the concluding essay! Professor Parker examines the break-up of the capitalist synthesis and speculates on its transmutation into other forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editors' preface; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. The Renaissance and the Twentieth Century: 1. What historians must explain; Part II. Europe's Industrialization: The Pre-History: 2. The pre-history of the nineteenth century; Part III. Heavy Industrialization in the European Regions: 3. The interruption of expansion; 4. The organization of rapid expansion; 5. Law and enterprise: ore-mining on two sides of the Franco-German border; 6. Kartelle und Konzerne: the German coal syndicate under the steel mills' domination; 7. M. Schuman and his plan; Part IV. Europe and the Wider World: An Explanation from Technology: 8. Europe-centered development: its natural logic; 9. Communication techniques and social organization in the world economy; 10. The historians' reviews of the terrain; Part V. European Capitalism: A Synthetic View: 11. Opportunity sequences in European history; 12. The response mechanism in the twentieth century; 13. A comment on the papers: personal reflections and some diagrams; Appendix; Index.

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• Autori: William Nelson Parker, Parker William Nelson
• Con la collaborazione di: Louis Galambos (Editore), Robert Gallmam (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 28.09.1984
• EAN: 9780521274807
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27480-7
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Studies in Economic History an; Studies in Economic History and Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Geografia; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Economia politica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history