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Russia: Long View
Translated from the Russian.An important Russian economist and politician takes a long view of economic history and Russia's development.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262305303
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 543 pages) :illustrations
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Reconceptualizing the Industrial Revolution
Closely linked essays examine distinctive national patterns of industrialization.This collection of essays offers new perspectives on the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon. The fifteen contributors go beyond the longstanding view of industrialization as a linear process marked by discrete stages. Instead, they examine a lengthy and creative period in the history of industrialization,…
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- 9780262289504
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- 1 online resource (vi, 356 pages).
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Research in History and Philosophy of Mathematics
This volume contains thirteen papers that were presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques, held on the campus of Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. It contains rigorously reviewed modern scholarship on general topics in the history and philosoph…
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- 978-3-319-22258-5
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Historia : empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines—including natura…
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- 9780262281775
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- 1 online resource (viii, 490 pages) : illustrations.
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Invented Edens : Techno-Cities of the Twentieth Century
Tracing the design of "techno-cities" that blend the technological and the pastoral. Industrialization created cities of Dickensian squalor that were crowded, smoky, dirty, and disease-ridden. By the beginning of the twentieth century, urban visionaries were looking for ways to improve both living and working conditions in industrial cities. In Invented Edens, Robert Kargon and Arthur Molella t…
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"Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters "
A reassessment of the Jesuit contributions to the emergence of the scientific worldview.Founded in 1540, the Society of Jesus was viewed for centuries as an impediment to the development of modern science. The Jesuit educational system was deemed conservative and antithetical to creative thought, while the Order and its members were blamed by Galileo, Descartes, and their disciples for virtuall…
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- 9780262272537
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The Landscape of Reform: Civic Pragmatism and Environmental Thought in America
In The Landscape of Reform Ben Minteer offers a fresh and provocative reading of the intellectual foundations of American environmentalism, focusing on the work and legacy of four important conservation and planning thinkers in the first half of the twentieth century: Liberty Hyde Bailey, a forgotten figure in the Progressive conservation movement; urban and regional planning theorist Lewis Mum…
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The new comparative economic history :essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson
Essays by internationally prominent economists examine long run cross-country economic trends from the perspective of New Comparative Economic History, an approach pioneered by Harvard economist Jeffrey G. Williamson.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275064
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- 1 online resource (x, 417 pages) :illustrations
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Unintended consequences :the impact of factor endowments, culture, and politi…
A somewhat expanded version of the Oklin Memorial Lectures ... delivered at the Stockholm School of economics in the autumn of 1995"--Preface.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262277877
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- 1 online resource (x, 287 pages) :illustrations.
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A History of Egypt
Published in six volumes between 1894 and 1905, this collection served as a valuable reference work for students and scholars of Egyptology at a time when ongoing archaeological excavations were adding significantly to the understanding of one of the world's oldest civilisations. At the forefront of this research was Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942), whose pioneering methods ma…
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- 9781107325180
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- Cambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
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