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America and the Japanese Miracle
The University of North Carolina Press 2000; US$ 73.50In this book, Aaron Forsberg presents an arresting account of Japan's postwar economic resurgence in a world polarized by the Cold War. His fresh interpretation highlights the many connections between Japan's economic revival and changes that occurred in the wider world during the 1950s. Drawing on a wealth of recently released American, British,... more...
American Merchant Experience in 19th Century Japan
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 195.00American merchants established trading firms in the ports of Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki which operated from 1859-1899 until the repeal of the Unequal Treaties. Members of a privileged, semi-colonial community, the merchants formed the largest group of Americans in 19th century Japan. In this first book-length treatment of this group, Kevin Murphy... more...
Becoming Bourgeois
The University Press of Kentucky 2006; US$ 30.00Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern... more...
Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 150.00A comprehensive study of recent bilateral and regional trade agreements. more...
Builders of a New South
University Press of Mississippi 2013; US$ 100.00Builders of a New South describes how, between 1865 and 1914, ten Natchez mercantile families emerged as leading purveyors in the wholesale plantation supply and cotton handling business, and soon became a dominant force in the social and economic Reconstruction of the Natchez District. They were able to take advantage of postwar conditions in... more...
Canada 1911
Dundurn 2011; US$ 29.99In 1911, Canadians went to the polls to decide the fate of their country in an election that raised issues vital to Canadas national independence and its place in the world. Canada 1911 revisits and re-examines this momentous turn in Canadian history, when Canadians truly found themselves at a parting of the ways. more...
China's Stock Market
Economist Books 2003; US$ 20.00An overview of one of the world's fastest growing and most important stock markets. more...
The Commerce of Louisiana During the French Regime, 1699-1763
University of Alabama Press 2006; US$ 39.95An analysis of the French colonies in North America that is central to the historical study of the United States. By the time French colonists sought a portion of the New World’s riches, much of those resources had already been claimed by Spain and Portugal. Once settled in North America, however, they quickly turned their... more...
Die Industrie- und Handelskammer zu Berlin
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 56.00The history of the Berlin Chamber of Industry and Commerce mirrors the history of Berlin. The author recounts the history of the Chamber, embedding it in the political, social and economic context of Berlin as a business location. Thus it is possible to trace the quintessential changes and breaks in the chequered history of the city - from the Imperial... more...
Die Wirkungen des Nationalpark Wattenmeer: Die regionalökonomischen Effekte für Unternehmen in Nordfriesland und Dithmarschen
Diplomica Verlag 2011; US$ 38.19Hauptbeschreibung Der Nationalpark Schleswig-Holsteinisches Wattenmeer ist der flächengrößte Nationalpark Deutschlands und ausgezeichnet als UNESCO-Weltnaturerbe. Die Nordsee ist ein traditionelles Fremdenverkehrsgebiet, wodurch eine grundlegende konkurrierende Situation zum Naturschutz besteht. Schutzgebiete werden deshalb häufig als Verhinderer... more...









