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A monumental history of the nineteenth century, The Transformation of the World offers a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a world in transition. Jürgen Osterhammel, an eminent scholar who has been called the Braudel of the nineteenth century, moves beyond conventional Eurocentric and chronological accounts of the era, presenting instead a truly global history of breathtaking scope and towering erudition. He examines the powerful and complex...
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A look at sugar in 19th-century American culture and how it rose in popularity to gain its place in the nation's diet today.
American consumers today regard sugar as a mundane and sometimes even troublesome substance linked to hyperactivity in children and other health concerns. Yet two hundred years ago American consumers treasured sugar as a rare commodity and consumed it only in small amounts. In Refined Tastes: Sugar, Confectionery, and Consumers...
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The Civil War was the first "modern war." Because of the rapid changes in American society, Abraham Lincoln became president of a divided United States during a period of technological and social revolution. Among the many modern marvels that gave the North an advantage was the telegraph, which Lincoln used to stay connected to the forces in the field in almost real time.
No leader in history had ever possessed such a powerful tool to gain control...
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"In September 1823, three men met at Rainy Lake House, a Hudson's Bay Company trading post near the Boundary Waters. Dr. John McLoughlin, the proprietor of Rainy Lake House, was in charge of the borderlands west of Lake Superior, where he was tasked with opposing the petty traders who operated out of US territory. Major Stephen H. Long, an officer in the US Army Topographical Engineers, was there on an expedition to explore the wooded borderlands...
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"Co-Winner of the Silver Medal in Business Technology, Axiom Business Book Awards" "One of the Financial Times' Summer Books of 2019: Business" "One of the Financial Times' Best Books of 2019: Technology" "12 must-read books for 2019 as recommended by Tech Crunch's Extra Crunch readers" "One of Five Books' Best Economics Books of 2019" "University of Chicago 2019 Recommended Reading" "One of Handelsblatt's Best Technology Books of 2019" "One of Época...
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First published in 1899 by American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen, "The Theory of the Leisure Class" is a classic and important examination of the economics of the upper classes and the impact that their habits have upon society at the end of the 19th century. In this work, Veblen, influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Adam Smith, contends that the evolutionary development of human society is the basis for our modern...
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Extrait: " Pendant qu'à Paris on parle de chemins de fer, ici l'on en fait. Celui de Londres à Birmingham est en commencement d'exécution; il aura quarante-cinq lieues; et la totalité des actions, montant à 62 millions et demi a trouvé des souscripteurs. Ce chemin sera suivi d'un autre presque aussi long, de Birmingham à Liverpool..."
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Extrait: " Un des points par lesquels nos sociétés modernes diffèrent le plus des sociétés antiques, est sans contredit la facilité des voyages. Voyager n'était possible autrefois qu'au patricien. Pour voyager alors, même en philosophe, il fallait être riche. Les commerçants allaient en caravanes payant tribut aux Bédouins du désert, aux Tartares des steppes, aux petits princes perchés comme des vautours dans leurs châteaux bâtis aux...
9) The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth
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Endless economic growth rests on a belief in the limitless abundance of the natural world. But, when did people begin to believe that societies should-even that they must-expand in wealth indefinitely?
In The Great Delusion, the historian and storyteller Steven Stoll weaves past and present together through the life of a strange and brooding nineteenth-century German engineer and technological utopian named John Adolphus Etzler, who pursued universal...
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Das Paradies der Damen Emile Zola - Anhand der Geschichte der Protagonistin Denise, einer Verkäuferin, die aus der Provinz nach Paris kommt und im Paradies der Damen eine Anstellung findet, wird das Wachstum und die Struktur dieses Kaufhauses und gleichzeitig der Niedergang des kleingewerblichen Einzelhandels eines kompletten Pariser Stadtviertels beschrieben. Die im Roman auftauchenden Figuren sind aktiv oder passiv mit dem expandierendem Kaufhaus...
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John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, E. H. Harriman, Jay Gould, Henry Clay Frick... their names carry a powerful historical ring, still echoing today in the countless institutions that are part of their legacy, from universities to museums to banks. But who were the people behind the legends, and how did they rise to their positions of vast wealth and influence in the latter half of the nineteenth century?
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When African American slaves were freed, did society welcome them with open arms? In this book, you will learn about the problems freed slaves faced and analyze if they were truly free. This book emphasis several discrimination as the main problem freed slaves faced in their communities. Find out what happened to the freed slaves and how they solved the problems that hounded them next. Grab a copy today.
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"Winner of the 2018 Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference" "Edward J. Balleisen, Winner of the 2018 Harold F. Williamson Prize, Business History Conference" Edward J. Balleisen is professor of history and public policy and vice provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many of the nineteenth-century believers who experienced these transformations offered different, competing visions of the link between commerce and Christianity. Joseph P. Slaughter offers a new account...
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Mexican independence was, in a sense, an economic event. It was in the realm of the economic that elites managed to create a common ground with non-elites in their demands against foreign domination. Additionally, throughout the nineteenth century, independence was imagined by the lettered men of Mexico as a feat that nationalized, or that could have nationalized, a rich and productive economic apparatus.
“Mexico, Interrupted” investigates the...
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Ted W. Margadant is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Davis.
The triumphant rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte over his Republican opponents has been the central theme of most narrative accounts of mid-nineteenth-century France, while resistance to the coup d'état generally has been neglected. By placing the insurrection of December 1851 in a broad perspective of socioeconomic and political development, Ted Margadant...
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Tracing a seismic shift in American social thought, Jeffrey Sklansky offers a new synthesis of the intellectual transformation entailed in the rise of industrial capitalism. For a century after Independence, the dominant American understanding of selfhood and society came from the tradition of political economy, which defined freedom and equality in terms of ownership of the means of self-employment. However, the gradual demise of the household economy...
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Life insurance-the promise of an insurer to pay a sum upon a person's death in exchange for a regular premium-is a bizarre enterprise. How can we monetize human life? Should we? What statistics do we use, what assumptions do we make, and what behavioral factors do we consider? First published in 1979, Morals and Markets Is a path-breaking study exploring the development of life insurance in the United States. Viviana A. Rotman Zelizer combines economic...
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In the weeks and months after the end of the Spanish-American War, Americans celebrated their nation's triumph by eating sugar. Each of the nation's new imperial possessions, from Puerto Rico to the Philippines, had the potential for vastly expanding sugar production. As victory parties and commemorations prominently featured candy and other sweets, Americans saw sugar as the reward for their global ambitions. April Merleaux demonstrates that trade...
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