Author: Peter J. Hugill
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851261
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
In 1431 the Portuguese navigator Velho set sail into the Atlantic, establishing a trade route to the Azores and marking the beginning of commerce with the West as we know it today. Equipped with reliable maps and instruments for open-ocean navigation and highly sea-worthy, three-masted, cannon-armed ships, Portugal soon dominated the Atlantic trade routes - until the diffusion of Portuguese technologies to wealthier polities made Holland the eventual successor, owing to its geographic position and its immense commercial fleet.
World Trade Since 1431
History of World Trade Since 1450
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028658407
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"History of World Trade Since 1450 starts at a year regarded as the beginning of the Age of Exploration and examines how the hunt for new resources and markets during that period resulted in the establishment of colonies in Africa, the Americas and Asia. The set looks at the Industrial Revolution, the rise of capitalism and the effects of imperialism on the global economy."--E-book homepage.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780028658407
Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"History of World Trade Since 1450 starts at a year regarded as the beginning of the Age of Exploration and examines how the hunt for new resources and markets during that period resulted in the establishment of colonies in Africa, the Americas and Asia. The set looks at the Industrial Revolution, the rise of capitalism and the effects of imperialism on the global economy."--E-book homepage.
Global Trade
Author: Greg Buckman
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136927
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. In this book, Greg Buckman details possible future directions in global energy supplies and balance-of-payments imbalances. He argues that, just as current trading arrangements have been the product of past decisions emerging out of apparently unrelated considerations, so factors like future fossil fuel costs, global warming, and the economic imbalances between North and South are likely to impel a radical reshaping of the WTO and the principles enshrined in its agreements as well as the global trading system in general. A key contribution to thinking about possible trade policy reforms are the reforms and alternatives - themselves not always agreed or sufficiently thought through -- advocated by the global justice movement. This book outlines these diverse proposals to make global trade more sustainable in some detail. This book has been written to be both informative and empowering. It is an important contribution to clearer thinking, more effective campaigning, and fundamental policy reform in the field of international trade.
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848136927
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Trade, along with the free movement of capital, is at the heart of today's international economy. But international trade is an intensely political and contested subject. In this book, Greg Buckman details possible future directions in global energy supplies and balance-of-payments imbalances. He argues that, just as current trading arrangements have been the product of past decisions emerging out of apparently unrelated considerations, so factors like future fossil fuel costs, global warming, and the economic imbalances between North and South are likely to impel a radical reshaping of the WTO and the principles enshrined in its agreements as well as the global trading system in general. A key contribution to thinking about possible trade policy reforms are the reforms and alternatives - themselves not always agreed or sufficiently thought through -- advocated by the global justice movement. This book outlines these diverse proposals to make global trade more sustainable in some detail. This book has been written to be both informative and empowering. It is an important contribution to clearer thinking, more effective campaigning, and fundamental policy reform in the field of international trade.
Global Communications Since 1844
Author: Peter J. Hugill
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801860744
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
He traces the steps that led to the British surrender of world hegemony to the United States at the end of World War II.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801860744
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
He traces the steps that led to the British surrender of world hegemony to the United States at the end of World War II.
A World Connecting
Author: Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674047214
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674047214
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. In five interpretive essays, A World Connecting goes beyond nations, empires, and world wars to capture the era’s defining feature: the profound and disruptive shift toward an ever more rapidly integrating world.
America and the World
Author: Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402963
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Lively and accessible, America and the World draws on the most recent scholarship to provide a historical introduction to one of today's vital and misunderstood issues.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421402963
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Lively and accessible, America and the World draws on the most recent scholarship to provide a historical introduction to one of today's vital and misunderstood issues.
History of World Trade Since 1450
Encyclopedia of World Trade: From Ancient Times to the Present
Author: Cynthia Clark Northrup
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317471520
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 2481
Book Description
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
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317471520
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 2481
Book Description
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
Distributive Justice and World Trade Law
Author: Oisin Suttle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108415814
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This book proposes a novel theory of justice in international trade law, examining what justice means and demands in this domain.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108415814
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
This book proposes a novel theory of justice in international trade law, examining what justice means and demands in this domain.
Capitalism in the Web of Life
Author: Jason W. Moore
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism's greatest strength-and the source of its problems-is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature-rather than capitalism and nature-is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1781689032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism's greatest strength-and the source of its problems-is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature-rather than capitalism and nature-is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing the politics of liberation in the century ahead.