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  • Multinational Business and Transnational Regions

    A Transnational Business History of Energy Transition in the Rhine Region, 1945-1973

    by Marten Boon ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Business History
    Multinational Enterprise and Transnational Regions offers an innovative approach to the study of the history of transnational economic regions. The Rhine valley is such a region comprising the cities and areas along the Rhine river and its tributaries.The transition from coal to oil that unfolded between 1945 and 1973 rapidly transformed the region, shattering some of the old river-based ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Creating Global Capitalism

    Commodity Traders and the First Global Economy

    Edited by Espen Storli, Marten Boon ...
    This book provides a unique insight into the world of commodity trading companies, often depicted as the hidden companies of the global economy and showcases how they were instrumental in bringing about the economic integration of new commodities and far-flung regions into the first global economy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.The late nineteenth century witnessed an ... Read more

    $321.99 CAD

  • Transnational Regions in Historical Perspective

    Edited by Marten Boon, Hein A.M. Klemann, Ben Wubs ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    National competitiveness has become a misnomer, as competitiveness is increasingly understood as a regional phenomenon and regions are not confined to the boundaries of the nation state. This book focuses on the Port of Rotterdam and its hinterland – i.e. the Lower Rhine and the Ruhr area. A transnational perspective is imperative to understand the historical trajectories of the port, the ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

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  • Angela Merkel

    A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis

    by Alan Crawford, Tony Czuczka ...
    Series series Bloomberg (UK)
    Shortlisted for International Affairs Book of the Year in the Paddy Power Political Book Awards 2014Angela Merkel was already unique when she became German chancellor: the first female leader of Europe’s biggest economy, the first from former communist East Germany and the first born after World War II. Since 2010, the debt crisis that spread from Greece to the euro region and the world economy ... Read more

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  • How Asia Works

    Success and Failure In the World's Most Dynamic Region

    by Joe Studwell ...
    "A good read for anyone who wants to understand what actually determines whether a developing economy will succeed." —Bill Gates, "Top 5 Books of the Year"An Economist Best Book of the Year from a reporter who has spent two decades in the region, and who the Financial Times said "should be named chief myth-buster for Asian business."In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills his extensive research ... Read more

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  • The Land Trap

    A New History of the World's Oldest Asset

    by Mike Bird ...
    How the world’s oldest asset secretly shapes our modern economyIn The Land Trap, Mike Bird—Wall Street editor at The Economist—reveals how this ancient asset still exerts outsize influence over the modern world. From the speculative land grabs of colonial America to China's real estate crisis today, Bird shows how fortunes are built—and destroyed—on the bedrock of land.Tracing three centuries of ... Read more

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  • Energy Democracy

    Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables

    by Craig Morris, Arne Jungjohann ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book outlines how Germans convinced their politicians to pass laws allowing citizens to make their own energy, even when it hurt utility companies to do so. It traces the origins of the Energiewende movement in Germany from the Power Rebels of Schönau to German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s shutdown of eight nuclear power plants following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident. The authors explore ... Read more

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  • Berlin Rules

    Europe and the German Way

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  • From Silk to Silicon

    The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

    by Jeffrey E. Garten ...
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  • The Thanks of the Fatherland

    German Veterans After the Second World War

    by James M. Diehl ...
    An account of the problems facing German veterans after WWII and the ways in which they were addressed in the decade following Germany’s defeat. The primary focus is on the major pieces of veterans' legislation passed in the early years of the German Federal Republic. Historical context is provided by the first two chapters and the conclusion, which compares and contrasts the fate of veterans and ... Read more

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