Empire of Cotton - A New History of Global Capitalism (Beckert Sven)(Paperback / softback)

Empire of Cotton - A New History of Global Capitalism (Beckert Sven)(Paperback / softback)

For about 900 years, from 1000 to 1900, cotton was the world's most important manufacturing industry. It remains a vast business. This book tells the history of the overwhelming role played by cotton in dictating the shape of our world. It is also a case history of how the world

Empire of Cotton: A Global History (Beckert Sven)(Paperback)

WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST Winner of the Alfred and Fay Chandler Book Award The empire of cotton was, from the beginning, a fulcrum of constant global struggle between slaves and planters, merchants and statesmen, workers and factory owners. Sven Beckert makes clear how

American Empire: A Global History (Hopkins A. G.)(Paperback)

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States. Taking readers from the colonial era to today, A. G. Hopkins shows how, far from

Empire of Capital (Wood Ellen Meiksins)(Paperback / softback)

Capitalism makes possible a new form of domination by purely economic means, argues Ellen Meiksins Wood. So, surely, even the most seasoned White House hawk would prefer to exercise global hegemony in this way, without costly colonial entanglements. Yet, as Wood powerfully demonstrates, the

Global Capitalism (Frieden Jeffry A.)(Paperback)

An authoritative, insightful, and highly readable history of the twentieth-century global economy, updated with a new chapter on the early decades of the new century. Global Capitalism guides the reader from the globalization of the early twentieth century and its swift collapse in the crises of

A Brief History of Slavery: A New Global History (Black Jeremy)(Paperback)

A new global history of slavery from its ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling new history of the world through ten major

Ball is Round - A Global History of Football (Goldblatt David)(Paperback / softback)

Aims to provide a definitive history of global

Talking to My Daughter - A Brief History of Capitalism (Varoufakis Yanis)(Paperback / softback)

A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II (Weinberg Gerhard L.)(Paperback)

In a new edition featuring a new preface, A World of Arms remains a classic of global history. Widely hailed as a masterpiece, this volume remains the first history of World War II to provide a truly global account of the war that encompassed six continents. Starting with the changes that

Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism (Raianu Mircea)(Pevná vazba)

An eye-opening portrait of global capitalism spanning 150 years, told through the history of the Tata corporation. Nearly a century old, the grand fa ade of Bombay House is hard to miss in the historic business district of Mumbai. This is the iconic global headquarters of the Tata Group, a

What Is Global History? (Conrad Sebastian)(Paperback)

The first comprehensive overview of the innovative new discipline of global history Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to study nations in

House of Islam - A Global History (Husain Ed)(Paperback / softback)

America, Empire of Liberty - A New History (Reynolds DR David)(Paperback / softback)

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' This title takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its

Brief History of the Roman Empire (Kershaw Dr Stephen P.)(Paperback / softback)

A new look at the rise and fall of the greatest empire the world has ever

Rise and Fall - A History of the World in Ten Empires (Strathern Paul)(Paperback / softback)

Rise and Fall opens with the Akkadian Empire, which ruled over a vast expanse of the region of ancient Mesopotamia, then turns to the immense Roman Empire, where we trace back our western and eastern roots. Next Strathern describes how a great deal of western classical culture was developed in the

Fall of the Roman Empire - A New History (Heather Peter)(Paperback / softback)

A major new narrative account of one of history's greatest and most epic mysteries: the strange death of the Roman

Age of Surveillance Capitalism - The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power: Barack Obama's Books of 2019 (Zuboff Professor Shoshana)(Paperback / softback)

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called 'surveillance capitalism,' and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control us.The heady optimism of the Internet's early days is gone. Technologies that

Spaces of Global Capitalism: A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (Harvey David)(Paperback)

The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914 (Sassoon Donald)(Paperback)

The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historiansCapitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces,

Future of Capitalism - Facing the New Anxieties (Collier Paul)(Paperback / softback)

A Short History of the Ottoman Empire (Worringer Rene)(Paperback)

This stunning new textbook traces the full history of the Ottoman Empire from its origins through to its dissolution in the early twentieth

How to Hide an Empire - A Short History of the Greater United States (Immerwahr Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

A provocative and absorbing history of the United States' New York TimesThe United States denies having dreams of empire. We know America has spread its money, language and culture across the world, but we still think of it as a contained territory, framed by Canada above, Mexico below, and

Empires of the Normans: Makers of Europe, Conquerors of Asia - Levi Roach

The first global history of the Normans, who - beyond the conquest of England - came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. How did descendants of Viking marauders came to dominate Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East? It is a tale of ambitious adventures and fierce