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  • Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization

    A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500-2000

    Modifié par Carlos Marichal, David Pretel ...
    This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have shaped globalisation since early modern times. From their extraction and processing to their overseas trade, it shows how this commodity contributed to the rise of the textile industry and consumption in Europe, the United States and Latin America. In doing so, it sheds new light ... En savoir plus

    $42.99 CAD

  • Institutionalising Patents in Nineteenth-Century Spain

    par David Pretel ...
    Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the development of the Spanish patent system in the years 1826 to 1902, providing a fundamental reassessment of its evolution in an international context. The Spanish case is particularly interesting because of this country’s location on the so-called European periphery and also because of the centrality of its colonial dimension. Pretel gauges the political regulation and ... En savoir plus

    $70.99 CAD

  • Technology and Globalisation

    Networks of Experts in World History

    Modifié par David Pretel, Lino Camprubí ...
    Collections series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century. It shows how engineers, scientists and other experts have acted as globalising agents, providing many of the materials and institutional means for world economic and technical integration. Focusing on the study of international connections, Technology and Globalisation ... En savoir plus

    $267.99 CAD

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  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Robert C. Allen ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

    par Mike Davis ...
    Collections series Essential Mike Davis
    This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer).“ . . . sets the triumph of the late 19th-century Western imperialism in the context of catastrophic El Niño weather patterns at that time . . . groundbreaking, mind-stretching.” —The IndependentExamining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • Planet of Slums

    par Mike Davis ...
    Collections series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Ecosocialism

    A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe

    par Michael Löwy ...
    Capitalism is killing the planet, and the preservation of a natural environment favorable to human life requires a radical alternative. In this new collection of essays, long time revolutionary and environmental activist Michael Löwy offers a vision of ecosocialist transformation. This vision combines an understanding of the destructive logic of the capitalist system with an appreciation for ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Brazilian Foreign Policy

    Nuclear Energy, Trade and Itaipu

    Collections series Coleção Política Externa Brasileira
    This publication fills the increasing demand for analyses about the Brazilian diplomacy, from the best comprehension of theBrazilian positioning in non-proliferation treaties to the Additional Protocol of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or the Brazilian attitude toward themes of the Doha Round, and the difficulties that occasionally rise with Paraguay regarding Itaipu. The author ... En savoir plus

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  • Rare Earth Frontiers

    From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes

    "Rare Earth Frontiers is a timely text. As Klinger notes, rare earths are neither rare nor technically earths, but they are still widely believed to be both. Although her approach focuses on the human, or cultural, geography of rare earths mining, she does not ignore the geological occurrence of these mineral types, both on Earth and on the moon.... This volume is excellently organized, ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

    Uncertain Futures at the Periphery of Europe

    Modifié par Cláudia Pereira, Joana Azevedo ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. It looks at Portuguese emigrants who, after the crisis of 2008, moved both intra-EU, such as UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain, but also into countries with historical links, such as the USA and Canada, and to Portuguese speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola ... En savoir plus

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  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    Collections series Globalization and the Environment
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the prominent social scientists, historians, and geographical scientists to provide a historical overview of the ecological dimension of global economic processes. ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Climate Chaos

    Ecofeminism and the Land Question

    Modifié par Ana Isla ...
    Today's social and ecological crises, which threaten the preservation of life on our planet, require our attention to understand the dynamics of patriarchy and capitalism, as well as to unmask "answers" or false solutions that obscure, perpetuate, and even worsen the current situation. Ecofeminists have critically examined several of the underlying assumptions of the capitalist-patriarchal ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD