How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World 0786723483, 9780786723485

How did the West—Europe, Canada, and the United States—escape from immemorial poverty into sustained economic growth and

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How the West Grew Rich: The Economic Transformation of the Industrial World
0786723483, 9780786723485

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two cent

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The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into two parallel worlds, analysed either as a politic

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Few industrial enterprises left a more enduring imprint on the American West than Miller & Lux, a vast meatpacking c

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Where water supply, railway transportation, and oil reserves have been abundant, towns in central West Texas have prospe

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of

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There’s the Renaissance we all know about: the cultural flourishing that produced iconic works of art, sculpture, and ar

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CONTENTS: Birth of the IWW * The Moyer, Haywood, Pettibone Case * The IWW, 1905-1907 * The IWW 1907-1909 * Composition a

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This book explores the vital role that active government policies can play in transforming African economies. Packages o

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They discuss the diverse forms of work restructuring in the American economy, the reasons why the diffusion of participa

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