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Libros de: Berghahn Books
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Experiencing Wages "Social and Cultural Aspects of Wage Forms in Europe Since 1500"
Scholliers, Peter Schwarz, L.
Berghahn Books (2004)
- EAN: 9781571815477
- Páginas: 292
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.34,95 €
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When discussing wages, historians have traditionally concentrated on the level of wages, much less on how people were paid for their work. Important aspects were thus ignored such as how frequently were wages actually paid, ...
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Not born a refugee woman "Contesting Identities, Rethinking Practices"
Hajdukowski-Ahmed, Maroussia Khanlou, Nazilla Moussa, Helene
Berghahn Books (2009)
- EAN: 9781845457044
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha de edición: 2009
pvp.33,70 €
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Not Born a Refugee Woman is an in-depth inquiry into the identity construction of refugee women. It challenges and rethinks current identity concepts, policies, and practices in the context of a globalizing environment, and in ...
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Money in a Human Economy
Hart, Keith
Berghahn Books (2017)
- EAN: 9781785335594
- Páginas: 315
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.114,95 €
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A human economy puts people first in emergent world society. Money is a human universal and now takes the divisive form of capitalism. This book addresses how to think about money (from Aristotle to the ...
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Our Common Denominator "Human Universals Revisited "
Antweiler, Christoph
Berghahn Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781785330933
- Páginas: 364
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.110,00 €
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Since the politicization of anthropology in the 1970s, most anthropologists have been reluctant to approach the topic of universals - that is, phenomena that occur regularly in all known human societies. In this volume, Christoph ...
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibilty
Dolan, Catherine Rajak, Dinah
Berghahn Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781785330711
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.89,95 €
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The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Chad, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the ...
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Dynamics of Innovation "The Expansion of Technology in Modern Times"
Caron, Francois
Berghahn Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781785330360
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.33,20 €
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BEST KNOWN AS THE LEADING HISTORIAN OF FRENCH RAILWAYS, Francois Caron has also conducted significant research on other aspects of economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as electricity, water and steam power, ...
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The Devil's Riches "A Modern History of Greed"
Poley, Jared
Berghahn Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781785331268
- Páginas: 264
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.99,95 €
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A seeming constant in the history of capitalism, greed has nonetheless undergone considerable transformations over the last five hundred years. This multilayered account offers a fresh take on an old topic, arguing that greed was ...
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Lobbying Hitler "Industrial Associations Between Democracy and Dictatorship"
Bera, Matt
Berghahn Books (2016)
- EAN: 9781785330650
- Páginas: 292
- Fecha de edición: 2016
pvp.113,10 €
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From 1933 onward, Nazi Germany undertook massive and unprecedented industrial integration, submitting an entire economic sector to direct state oversight. This innovative study explores how German professionals navigated this complex landscape through the divergent careers ...
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The Rise of Market Society in England, 1066-1800
Eisenberg, Christiane
Berghahn Books
- EAN: 9781785332173
- Páginas: 176
pvp.26,40 €
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Focusing on England, this study reconstructs the centuries-long process of commercialization that gave birth to the modern market society. It shows how certain types of markets (e.g. those for real estate, labor, capital, and culture) ...
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The History of Labour Intermediation "Institutions and Finding Employment in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries"
Buchner, Thomas Mejstrick, Alexander Wadauer, Sigrid
Berghahn Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781782385509
- Páginas: 456
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.99,95 €
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Searching for a job has been an everyday affair in both modern and past societies, and employment a concern for both individuals and institutions. The case studies in this volume investigate job search and placement ...
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The Political Economy of Border Drawing "Arranging Legality in European Labour Migration Policies"
Paul, Regine
Berghahn Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781782385417
- Páginas: 256
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.81,20 €
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The conditions for non-EU migrant workers to gain legal entry to Britain, France, and Germany are at the same time similar and quite different. To explain this variation this book compares the fine-grained legal categories ...
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The Neoliberal Landscape and the Rise of Islamist Capital in Turkey
Balkan, Nesecan
Berghahn Books (2015)
- EAN: 9781782386384
- Páginas: 316
- Fecha de edición: 2015
pvp.81,20 €
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Islamist capital accumulation has split the Turkish bourgeoisie and polarized Turkish society into secular and religious social groupings, giving rise to conflicts between the state and political Islam. By providing a long-term historical perspective on ...
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Property in East Central Europe "Notions, Institutions, and Practices of Landownership in the Twentieth Century"
Muller, Dietmar Siegrist, Hannes
Berghahn Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781782384618
- Páginas: 376
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.99,95 €
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Property is a complex phenomenon comprising cultural, social, and legal rules. During the twentieth century, property rights in land suffered massive interference in Central and Eastern Europe. The promise of universal and formally equal rights ...
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The Challenges of Globalization "Economy and Politics in Germany, 1860-1914"
Torp, Cornelius
Berghahn Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781782385028
- Páginas: 388
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.91,95 €
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In the mid nineteenth century a process began that appears, from a present-day perspective, to have been the first wave of economic globalization. Within a few decades global economic integration reached a level that equaled, ...
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The Forgotten Majority "German Merchants in London, Naturalization, and Global Trade 1660-1815"
Beerbuhl, Margrit Schulte
Berghahn Books (2014)
- EAN: 9781782384472
- Páginas: 372
- Fecha de edición: 2014
pvp.99,95 €
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The "forgotten majority" of German merchants in London between the end of the Hanseatic League and the end of the Napoleonic Wars became the largest mercantile Christian immigrant group in the eighteenth century. Using previously ...
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The Allure of Capitalism "An Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis"
Royrvik, Emil
Berghahn Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781782380658
- Páginas: 302
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.25,00 €
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The "managerial revolution," or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions. ...
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Tax Justice and the Political Economy of Global Capitalism, 1945 to the Present
Leaman, Jeremy Waris, Attiya
Berghahn Books (2013)
- EAN: 9780857458810
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.91,90 €
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Tax "justice" has become an increasingly central issue of political debate in many countries, particularly following the cardiac arrest of global financial services in 2008 and the subsequent worldwide slump in trade and production. The ...
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Crude Domination
Behrends, Andrea
Berghahn Books (2013)
- EAN: 9781782380351
- Páginas: 334
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.29,75 €
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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic - oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from 'experience-far' perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the 'experience-near' ...
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Slavery and Antislavery in Spain's Atlantic Empire
Fradera, Josep M.
Berghahn Books (2013)
- EAN: 9780857459336
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.100,00 €
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African slavery was pervasive in Spain's Atlantic empire yet remained in the margins of the imperial economy until the end of the eighteenth century when the plantation revolution in the Caribbean colonies put the slave ...
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Karl Marx. "An Intellectual Biography"
Hosfeld, Rolf
Berghahn Books (2012)
- EAN: 9780857457424
- Páginas: 230
- Fecha de edición: 2012
pvp.24,95 €
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Is the Grand Old Man re-emerging? More than twenty years after the collapse of Communism, and in the midst of the crisis of Capitalism, Karl Marx' ideas, at least in part, are back en vogue. ...
