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  • Markets and Exchanges in Pre-Modern and Traditional Societies

    Modifié par Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia ...
    Collections Livre 1 - MaTAS
    Markets emerge in recent historical research as important spheres of economic interaction in ancient societies. In the case of ancient Egypt, traditional models imagined an all-encompassing centralized, bureaucratic economy that left practically no place for market transactions, as many surviving documents only described the activities of the royal palace and of huge institutions, mainly temples. ... En savoir plus

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  • Political Landscapes of Capital Cities

    Modifié par Jessica Joyce Christie, Jelena Bogdanovic, Eulogio Guzmán ...
    Political Landscapes of Capital Cities investigates the processes of transformation of the natural landscape into the culturally constructed and ideologically defined political environments of capital cities. In this spatially inclusive, socially dynamic interpretation, an interdisciplinary group of authors including archaeologists, anthropologists, and art historians uses the methodology put ... En savoir plus

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    par David S. Landes ...
    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Great Leveler

    Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century

    par Walter Scheidel ...
    Collections series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The World the Plague Made

    The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

    par James Belich ...
    A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The ... En savoir plus

    $30.99 CAD

  • The City

    A Global History

    par Joel Kotkin ...
    Collections Livre 21 - Modern Library Chronicles
    If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD

    Essays in Macro-Economic History

    par Angus Maddison ...
    This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th ... En savoir plus

    $92.99 CAD

  • Understanding Early Civilizations

    A Comparative Study

    par Bruce G. Trigger ...
    This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic systems, religion, and ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • Understanding Collapse

    Ancient History and Modern Myths

    par Guy D. Middleton ...
    Understanding Collapse explores the collapse of ancient civilisations, such as the Roman Empire, the Maya, and Easter Island. In this lively survey, Guy D. Middleton critically examines our ideas about collapse - how we explain it and how we have constructed potentially misleading myths around collapses - showing how and why collapse of societies was a much more complex phenomenon than is often ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge World History: Volume 6, The Construction of a Global World, 1400-1800 CE, Part 1, Foundations

    Modifié par Jerry H. Bentley, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Collections Livre 1 - The Cambridge World History
    The era from 1400 to 1800 saw intense biological, commercial, and cultural exchanges, and the creation of global connections on an unprecedented scale. Divided into two books, Volume 6 of the Cambridge World History series considers these critical transformations. The first book examines the material and political foundations of the era, including global considerations of the environment, disease, ... En savoir plus

    $44.99 CAD

  • Alternative Pathways to Complexity

    A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis

    Modifié par Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza ...
    Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology.A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up ... En savoir plus

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  • Questioning Collapse

    Human Resilience, Ecological Vulnerability, and the Aftermath of Empire

    Modifié par Patricia A. McAnany, Norman Yoffee ...
    Questioning Collapse challenges those scholars and popular writers who advance the thesis that societies - past and present - collapse because of behavior that destroyed their environments or because of overpopulation. In a series of highly accessible and closely argued essays, a team of internationally recognized scholars bring history and context to bear in their radically different analyses of ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD