Author: John Herbert CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Standard History of the World
Author: John Herbert CliffordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Standard History of the World
Author: Israel Smith ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Standard History of the World, by Great Historians
Author: The Standard History of the World. Supplement
Author: Frank Wilson BlackmarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
The History of the World
Author: John Morris RobertsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199936765
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1276
Book Description
A survey of the major events, developments, and personalities that have shaped human history.
The Gold Standard at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Steven BryanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231526334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
By the end of the nineteenth century, the world was ready to adopt the gold standard out of concerns of national power, prestige, and anti-English competition. Yet although the gold standard allowed countries to enact a virtual single world currency, the years before World War I were not a time of unfettered liberal economics and one-world, one-market harmony. Outside of Europe, the gold standard became a tool for nationalists and protectionists primarily interested in growing domestic industry and imperial expansion. This overlooked trend, provocatively reassessed in Steven Bryan's well-documented history, contradicts our conception of the gold standard as a British-based system infused with English ideas, interests, and institutions. In countries like Japan and Argentina, where nationalist concerns focused on infant-industry protection and the growth of military power, the gold standard enabled the expansion of trade and the goals of the age: industry and empire. Bryan argues that these countries looked less to Britain and more to North America and the rest of Europe for ideological models. Not only does this history challenge our idealistic notions of the prewar period, but it also reorients our understanding of the history that followed. Policymakers of the 1920s latched onto the idea that global prosperity before World War I was the result of a system dominated by English liberalism. Their attempt to reproduce this triumph helped bring about the global downturn, the Great Depression, and the collapse of the interwar world.
A People's History of the World
Author: Chris HarmanPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1786630818
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.
The Standard History of the World
Author: Israel Smith ClarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
The New Standard History of the World
Author: L. Brent VaughanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 724
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