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  • Communication and Empire

    Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860-1930

    by Dwayne R. Winseck, Robert M. Pike, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Strangers at Our Gates

    Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2015

    by Valerie Knowles ...
    In this new and revised edition, Knowles explores new materials relating to multiculturalism and immigration.Immigrants and immigration have always been central to Canadians’ perception of themselves as a country and a society. In this crisply written history, Valerie Knowles describes the different kinds of immigrants who have settled in Canada, and the immigration policies that have helped ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Silk to Silicon

    The Story of Globalization Through Ten Extraordinary Lives

    by Jeffrey E. Garten ...
    Stories of ten historical figures who helped build the long road to globalization, from Genghis Khan to an Intel CEO: "Filled with brilliant vignettes." — The Washington PostThis is the story of globalization, the most powerful force in history, as told through the lives and times of ten people who established new connections between people and nations—whether that was their primary goal or not. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Europe: In or Out?

    Everything You Need to Know

    by David Charter ...
    What will happen if Britain leaves the EU, and how will it affect you? Europe: vital for Britain's economy and global standing or a bureaucratic monster hell-bent on destroying our national sovereignty? And why is no one talking about what leaving Europe would actually mean? Addressing the real issues surrounding a potential exit from the EU - including jobs, travel, immigration, investment, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grave New World

    The End of Globalization, the Return of History

    by Stephen D. King ...
    A controversial look at the end of globalization and what it means for prosperity, peace, and the global economic orderGlobalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets, is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Kicking Away the Ladder

    Development Strategy in Historical Perspective

    by Ha-Joon Chang ...
    How did the rich countries really become rich? In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. Adopting a historical approach, Dr Chang finds that the economic evolution of now-developed countries differed dramatically ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise of the Global Company

    Multinationals and the Making of the Modern World

    by Robert Fitzgerald ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    This is the first full account of how an influential form of commercial organization - the multinational enterprise - drove globalization and contributed to the making of the modern world. Robert Fitzgerald explores the major role of multinational enterprises in the events of world history, from the nineteenth century to the present, revealing how the growth of businesses that operated across ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • The Meddlers

    Sovereignty, Empire, and the Birth of Global Economic Governance

    by Jamie Martin ...
    “The Meddlers is an eye-opening, essential new history that places our international financial institutions in the transition from a world defined by empire to one of nation states enmeshed in the world economy.”—Adam Tooze, Columbia UniversityAn award-winning history traces the origins of global economic governance—and the political conflicts it generates—to the aftermath of World War I ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • The Extreme Centre

    A Second Warning

    by Tariq Ali ...
    Against the centre groundSince 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is an investigation that reaches its logical conclusion with the presidency of Donald Trump, the success of En Marche! in France, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Liberalism at Large

    The World According to the Economist

    by Alexander Zevin ...
    The path-breaking history of modern liberalism told through the pages of one of its most zealous supportersIn this landmark book, Alexander Zevin looks at the development of modern liberalism by examining the long history of the Economist newspaper, which, since 1843, has been the most tireless—and internationally influential—champion of the liberal cause anywhere in the world.But what exactly is ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Berlin Rules

    Europe and the German Way

    by Paul Lever, Sir Paul Lever ...
    In the second half of the twentieth century, Germany became the dominant political and economic power in Europe – and the arbiter of all important EU decisions. Yet Germany's leadership of the EU is geared principally to the defence of German national interests. Germany exercises power in order to protect the German economy and to enable it to play an influential role in the wider world. Beyond ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Brave New Europe

    by Mick Greenhough ...
    After studying the history of the EU intently, I wrote this book when it became very clear to me that either Remainers were deliberately lying to us or they did not have much idea what the EU is about. The UK has had a Referendum whether to leave the EU or Remain. The country voted to leave by a considerable majority. Its significance can be compared to a combination of the evacuation of Dunkerque ... Read more

    $4.03 USD or Free with Kobo Plus