Lever Of Empire

Author : Mark Metzler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931794

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Lever of Empire by Mark Metzler Pdf

This book, the first full account of Japan’s financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of liberalism in Japan in late 1931 and the global politics of money that were at the center of the crisis, Mark Metzler asks why successive Japanese governments from 1920 to 1931 carried out policies that deliberately induced deflation and depression. His search for answers stretches from Edo to London to the ragged borderlands of the Japanese empire and from the eighteenth century to the 1950s, integrating political and monetary analysis to shed light on the complex dynamics of money, empire, and global hegemony. His detailed and broad ranging account illuminates a range of issues including Japan’s involvement in the economic dynamics that shook interwar Europe, the character of U.S. isolationism, and the rise of fascism as an international phenomenon.

Author : Paul Wilson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780750991780

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Hostile Money by Paul Wilson Pdf

Money has the power to make nations and fuel wars. It is both the subject of diplomacy and the tool of those seeking to overthrow hostile regimes at home and abroad. Germany's hyperinflation following the First World War has entered the public consciousness as an extreme example of what can happen to a currency in conflict. What is not widely known is that it is by no means the worst case of war-induced hyperinflation. Hostile Money looks at the impact of war and revolution on national currencies – from Rome's civil war in the first century BC to the twenty-first-century invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq by American-led forces and the economic sanctions and cyberwarfare of today.

Author : Adam Tooze
Publisher : Penguin Books
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143127970

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The Deluge by Adam Tooze Pdf

A searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath—from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - History Finalist for the Kirkus Prize - Nonfiction In the depths of the Great War, with millions dead and no imaginable end to the conflict, societies around the world began to buckle. The heart of the financial system shifted from London to New York. The infinite demands for men and matériel reached into countries far from the front. The strain of the war ravaged all economic and political assumptions, bringing unheard-of changes in the social and industrialorder. A century after the outbreak of fighting, Adam Tooze revisits this seismic moment in history, challenging the existing narrative of the war, its peace, and its aftereffects. From the day the United States enters the war in 1917 to the precipice of global financial ruin, Tooze delineates the world remade by American economic and military power. Tracing the ways in which countries came to terms with America’s centrality—including the slide into fascism—The Deluge is a chilling work of great originality that will fundamentally change how we view the legacy of World War I.

Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571250806

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Empires of the Sea by Roger Crowley Pdf

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle for control of the Mediterranean would last sixty years. Empires of the Sea tells the story of this great contest. It is a fast-paced tale of spiralling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar and features a cast of extraordinary characters: Barbarossa, the pirate who terrified Europe; the risk-taking Emperor Charles V; the Knights of St John, last survivors of the crusading spirit; and the brilliant Christian admiral Don Juan of Austria. Its brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, six years that witnessed a fight to the finish, decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta; the battle for Cyprus; and the apocalyptic last-ditch defence of southern Europe at Lepanto - one of the single most shocking days in world history that fixed the frontiers of the Mediterranean world we know today. Empires of the Sea follows Roger Crowley's first book, the widely praised Constantinople: The Last Great Siege. It is page-turning narrative history at its best - a story of extraordinary colour and incident, rich in detail, full of surprises and backed by a wealth of eyewitness accounts.

Author : Maurice Walsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571271979

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Bitter Freedom by Maurice Walsh Pdf

The Irish Revolution - the war between the British authorities and the newly-formed IRA - was the first successful revolt anywhere against the British Empire. This is a vividly-written, compelling narrative placing events in Ireland in the wider context of a world in turmoil after the ending of a global war: one that saw the collapse of empires and the rise of fascist Italy and communist Russia. Walsh shows how developments in Europe and America had a profound effect on Ireland, influencing the attitudes and expectations of combatants and civilians. Walsh also brings to life what Irish people who were not fully involved in the fighting were doing - the plays they went to, the exciting films they watched in the new cinemas, the books they read and the work they did. The freedom from Britain that most of them wanted was, when it came, a bitter disappointment to a generation aware of the promise of modernity.

Author : Jules Marchal
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784786328

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Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts by Jules Marchal Pdf

In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme's rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Agricultural machinery industry
ISBN : PSU:000055697071

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Buyer's Guide Issue with Implement Repair Information by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Agricultural machinery
ISBN : UCAL:$B657786

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Farm Implement News Buyer's Guide by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Glanville
Publisher : Crowood
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781847978967

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Clockmaking in England and Wales in the Twentieth Century by John Glanville Pdf

Over a decade John Glanville and Bill Wolmuth undertook an important horological project for the British Museum. This involved establishing a representative collection, for the Museum, of twentieth-century domestic mechanical clocks made in England and Wales using industrialized manufacturing methods. This remarkable book is the culmination of their efforts. Wide-ranging in its coverage, it will be a key reference tool for horologists, horoligical students, collectors, and antiques and clock dealers. It provides a comprehensive history of each significant manufacturer, including the principal people involved and covers the various mechanical clock movements that were produced. Previously unpublished research about the manufacturers, the clocks they made and the dates when they were manufactured is presented. Finally, this book informs readers how they can identify and date almost all of the clocks they are likely to encounter. This detailed and meticulously researched book on the domestic mechanical clocks made in England and Wales in the twentieth century, a culmination of ten years' research by the authors, will be a key reference tool for horologists, horological students, collectors, and clock and antiques dealers. Superbly illustrated with 1016 colour photographs and period black and white illustrations.

Author : United States. Patent Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C2539652

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Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the U.S. Patent Office by United States. Patent Office Pdf

Author : City Club of Chicago
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
ISBN : UOM:39015010956244

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The City Club Bulletin by City Club of Chicago Pdf

Consists of addresses and discussions before the Club.

Author : Teresa da Silva Lopes,Paul Duguid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135177324

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Trademarks, Brands, and Competitiveness by Teresa da Silva Lopes,Paul Duguid Pdf

This book examines trademarks and brands, and their historical role in national competitive and comparative advantage and in overall economic growth. The contributors provide an historical account of the contribution of brands in consumer goods to economic growth; examine the development of trademark law, its influence on brand strategy, and reciprocally the influence of strategy on the law; and look at the building and repositioning of individual brands as example of the interplay of law and strategy. Brands and trademarks are usually discussed from the perspective of marketing. This book draws together scholars and practitioners not only from marketing, but also from business history, law, economics, and economic history to provide a richer understanding of trade marks and competitiveness than has hitherto been available.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1950-07
Category : Electric lighting
ISBN : UOM:35128001690740

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Gas Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004304154

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Beyond Empires: Global, Self-Organizing, Cross-Imperial Networks, 1500-1800 by Anonim Pdf

Beyond Empires explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized cooperative networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state.

Author : John Davenport
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612280004

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A Brief Political and Geographic History of Africa (Where Are the Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, and Kush?) by John Davenport Pdf

Africa is a vibrant but all-too-often misunderstood continent. Outsiders know Africa from the evening news as a collection of countries plagued by war, famine, disease, and poverty. Few people are aware of its rich past, dynamic present, and promising future. Africans, however, look back into a yesteryear crowded with empires and kingdoms and into a tomorrow filled with economic and political potential. The difference between these two ways of seeing Africa emerges from the fact that so many of the places that once dominated its landscape have disappeared from the world’s maps. The Belgian Congo, Rhodesia, and Kush are but a few of the locations that no longer can be found on a modern globe. They were once central to the lives of millions of people, but now they are gone. They have become places lost in time.