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Associates new technologies, economic pressure, and social and political developments as the driving stimulus inducing a change that was a process of gradual evolution rather than programmed revolution in national telecommunications policies.

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This book provides readers with a long-term analysis of Chinese maritime activities and their economic consequences in industries, infrastructure, trade, migration, and government policies. It shows insight into the causes for sterility of capitalist industrialization in premodern China.

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This book explores the issues surrounding this housing innovation and provides a history of community associations and their membership organization, the Community Associations Institute (CAI).

The book explores the process of trial and error in the design of CAs and how the CAI was set up to help them work.

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This book treats these disparate matters in detail, and traces and interprets the business contraction of the 1890s in the context of national development.

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The economy of the ancient Middle East and Greece is reinterpreted by Morris Silver in this provocative new synthesis.

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The First and Second Industrial Revolutions were about energy: steam power revolutionized 19th-century Great Britain and electric power revolutionized 20th-century America.

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With its pertinence to current economic, political, and technological issues, From Industry to Arms will be a valuable resource for courses in government and business, political economy, policy analysis, and science and technology.

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Radical institutionalisma processual paradigm focused on changing the direction of cultural evolution and the function of social provisioning in order to promote the full participation of alldefines inequality as evolving from class exploitation, gender domination, race discrimination, and national predation.

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Although Latin America had a substantial merchant fleet by the 1950s, at the end of the century most of the major shipping companies have disappeared from the continent.

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Challenges the stereotype of premodern China as an agricultural nation by exploring China's largely ignored maritime institutions.

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The contributors first look at the more general issues of global movements and global policies, with articles on critical social movements and the future of the global political economy, the evolution of multinational public policy towards business, and the implications of internationalization for development and welfare in the Third World.

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This book covers the most important events in the emergence of the Latin American shipping industry.

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The book begins by analyzing American federal transportation expenditures from 1800 to 1860 and then moves on to look at early federal improvement programs and their effects on determining the direction of settlement in the New West.

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The tariff policies of the 1890-1922 led to the development of tariff rates that launched the United States on a path that led to later trade wars. This work traces the course of U.S. policy through five tariffs which preceded the Fordney-McCumber tariff of 1922, when the tariff was used for both protection and revenue.

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For many observers of international politics, the classical gold standard is the premier example of successful international monetary cooperation. In response to worldwide deflation from 1873 to 1896, the Conferences of 1878, 1881, and 1892 reconsidered the merits of gold, and the leading states reaffirmed their adherence to the gold standard.

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The authors also provide an account of what has happened to the synthetic rubber industry between the end of the war and 1980, identify some lessons that can be learned from the synthetic rubber experience for government-industry programs, and draw parallels between the rubber dependency of the 1940s and the energy dependency of the 1980s.

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An account of the history, structure, and operation of the First and Second Banks of the United States.

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Attempting to reveal the real causes of the 1929 stock market crash, Bierman refutes the popular belief that wild speculation had excessively driven up stock market prices and resulted in the crash.

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The new Political Economy, which in 1815 captured the attention of a country exhausted by war and drained by economic crisis, was to have profound effects on British and, indeed, the Western world's economic and political life for more than a hundred years.