Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World /
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Were legal systems in the Roman empire conducive to economic growth and development? Were legal rules and procedure changed in response to economic needs? This book offers detailed studies to provide some answers to these basic questions.
This book offers critical analyses of the dynamic relation between legal regulations, institutions and economic performance in the Roman world. It studies how law and legal thought affected economic development, and vice versa. Inspired by New Institutional Economics scholars the past decades used ancient law to explain economic growth. There was, however, no natural selection process directing legal changes towards macro-economic efficiency. Ancient rulers and jurists modified institutions to serve or safeguard particular interests-political, social, or economic. Nevertheless both economic performance and legal scholarship peaked at unprecedented levels. These were momentous historical developments. How were they related?
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004525139
9789004525122
M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography /
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Focusing on the career of the Soviet historian M.N. Pokrovskii, the author examines the evolution of historical writing in the first decade of Soviet rule. As Deputy People's Commissar for Education, Pokrovskii was among those who established th
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1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004703889
Neue Perspektiven der Unternehmensgeschichte /
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Der Band reflektiert systematisch das Verhältnis der Unternehmensgeschichte zu anderen Disziplinen der Geschichtswissenschaft, indem die Beiträge die methodischen wie inhaltlichen Schnittpunkte für zukünftige Forschungen aufzeigen - etwa zwischen Unternehmensgeschichte und Sozialgeschichte, Kulturgeschichte, Geschlechtergeschichte, Umweltgeschichte, Kolonialgeschichte, Wissenschaftsgeschichte oder Rechtsgeschichte. Jedes der instruktiven Kapitel gibt Anregungen dafür, wie die Unternehmensgeschichte in besonderer Weise dazu beitragen kann, wirtschaftliche Themen auch fernab quantitativer Verfahren für Historiker:innen verständlich zu machen und so maßgeblich zur ökonomischen Fundierung der Geschichtswissenschaft beizutragen.
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1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657794775
(De)Automating the Future : Marxist Perspectives on Capitalism and Technology /
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Much has been written about the prospects of automation in recent years. While many have raised concerns over the threat of technological mass unemployment, others have anticipated a fully automated communist utopia which will provide material a
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1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004703940
Medieval Mount Athos between Wealth and Poverty /
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These collected studies dedicated to the Orthodox monastic center of Mount Athos during the Middle Ages paint a compelling picture of the Holy Mountain's monastic communities as economic actors. Mount Athos' rich archival holdings allow both for the minute scrutiny of economic activity and the tracing of long-term trends. Not only were Hagiorite monasteries major players on a local level, but they were also embedded within trans-Mediterranean networks of patronage. The unique status of Mount Athos as a semi-autonomous monastic polity also influenced attitudes towards landholding as well as wealth and poverty more generally. Contributors are Tinatin Chronz, Zachary Chitwood, Stefan Eichert , Martina Filosa, Mihai-D. Grigore, Michel Kaplan, Vladimer Kekelia, Kirill A. Maksimovič, Zisis Melissakis, Nicholas Melvani, Vanessa R. de Obaldía, Daniel Oltean, Nina Richards, Kostis Smyrlis, Apolon Tabuashvili, and Alexander Watzinger. See Less
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1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004712126
The Laboratory of the Revolution : Tabasco under Tomás Garrido Canabál, 1922-1935 /
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Laboratory of the Revolution is the first-ever professional study of Tomás Garrido Canabal, revolutionary strongman of Tabasco state between 1922 and 1935. He dreamed of turning Tabasco-an isolated backwater and the quintessential "banana republic"-into a beacon of progress. Garrido's recipe for that progress consisted of ridding the state of religion, prohibiting alcohol and other vices, championing science, and boosting agriculture and ranching. He only fell from power when a shoot-out in Tabasco furnished the pretext for subordinating the state to President Lázaro Cárdenas's centrally governed political machine, the forerunner of Mexico's long-lived one-party system.
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1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004737167
Chinese Household Registration Data of Yugan County (Jiangxi Province), ca 1947 /
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Population statistics are crucial for both policy and research purposes. They cover important social factors such as birth rates, labour force structure, growth, gender, and well-being. This book provides individual-level data on the Yugan county (Jiangxi Province, China) for 1947 and covers many of the above-mentioned socio-economic factors, including family size and structure, occupation, education, gender, age, and marriage.
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1 online resource (150 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004721951
Der industrialisierte Krieg : Studien zu Unternehmen, Wirtschaft und Forschung im Ersten Weltkrieg /
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Der Erste Weltkrieg macht ein Phänomen moderner Kriege greifbar: die enge Verflechtung von militärischen und industriellen Aufgabenstellungen. Er wird oft als der erste industrialisierte Krieg beschrieben. Die sich rapide modernisierende Realität des Kriegsgeschehens 1914 bis 1918 ließ die Bedeutung einer steten Versorgung mit industriell hergestellten Gütern immer weiter anwachsen. Dies betraf sowohl die Ausrüstung und Versorgung der Soldaten an den Fronten, auf dem Meer und in der Luft wie auch der Zivilbevölkerung in der Heimat. Die Perspektive der produzierenden Unternehmen in den verschiedenen Wirtschaftsbranchen in diesem Geschehenszusammenhang ist bislang aber kaum erforscht. Die Studien in diesem Band werfen dazu neue Fragen auf und bieten innovative Ansätze, um diese Lücke zu schließen.
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1 online resource (306 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9783657797752
Tuscan and Genoese Aspirations to Transoceanic Trade (17th Century) /
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Many small, early modern European states tried to follow in the footsteps of their bigger neighbours and expand beyond the oceans. Tuscan and Genoese Aspirations to Transoceanic Trade (17th Century) traces the little-known history of two of these states: the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Republic of Genoa. These two old and prestigious commercial centres found themselves gradually displaced over the 17th century as the centre of gravity of the European economy moved away from the Mediterranean. In an attempt to combat this, Florentine and Genoese elites collected information and reviewed projects, established joint-stock companies, and sent ships to East Asia and the Americas. While their plans failed, their vicissitudes illustrate the mechanisms that stood behind European expansion overseas, and how its results differed widely from expectations.
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1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004735101
Exile and Execution in Medieval and Early Modern Society /
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In both exile and execution, society must be complicit; people must be willing to ostracize their neighbors or watch their execution, participating in the spectacle that reifies the power of the state. This collection investigates the relationship between the exiled and the landscape, physical or psychological, into which they are (dis)placed in conversation with accounts of execution, constructed by the authorities or invented to criticize the whole system. The essays cover a broad range of material including early Irish penitential literature, French courtly epics, English legendary histories, Spanish textual evidence of executions, and legal treatises governing both exile and execution in the late Middle Ages and early modern period. Contributors are Gillian Adler, Gila Aloni, Kim Bergqvist, Karen Casey Casebier, Westley Follet, Radosław Kotecki, Mireille J. Pardon, Ben Parsons, Bojana Radovanović, Abel de Lorenzo Rodríguez, Susan Small, and Larissa Tracy.
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1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004742598