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  • Rethinking Environmental History

    World-System History and Global Environmental Change

    by Joan Martinez-Alier, Stephen G. Bunker, William H. Fisher, Rafael A. Gassón, Stefan Giljum, N Thomas Håkansson, Josiah Heyman, J Donald Hughes, Andrew K. Jorgenson0, Robert B. Marks1, Jason W. Moore2, Roldan Muradian3, Janken Myrdal4, James Rice5, Joseph A. Tainter6, Immanuel Wallerstein7, Helga Weisz8, Mats Widgren9, Richard Wilk0, Michael Williams1 ...
    Series 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. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • East Asia and the Global Economy

    Japan’s Ascent, with Implications for China’s Future

    by Stephen G. Bunker, Paul S. Ciccantell ...
    Series series Johns Hopkins Studies in Globalization
    After World War II, Japan reinvented itself as a shipbuilding powerhouse and began its rapid ascent in the global economy. Its expansion strategy integrated raw material procurement, the redesign of global transportation infrastructure, and domestic industrialization. In this authoritative and engaging study, Stephen G. Bunker and Paul S. Ciccantell identify the key factors in Japan’s economic ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Globalization on the Ground

    Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development

    by Christopher Chase-Dunn, John A. Booth, Stephen G. Bunker, A Douglas Kincaid, Susan Manning, Alejandro Portes, Julia Richards, Michael Richards0, Gert Rosenthal1, José Serech2, Edelberto Torres3, Kay B. Warren4, William I. Robinson5 ...
    This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by some of the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Late Victorian Holocausts

    El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

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    Series 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 ... Read more

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  • Natural Experiments of History

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  • Making Globalization Work

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
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  • The Betrayal of American Prosperity

    Free Market Delusions, America's Decline, and How We Must Compete in the Post-Dollar Era

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    by Jim Prentice, Jean-Sebastien Rioux ...
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  • Build, Innovate and Grow

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  • A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years

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