Paul Bairoch deflates twenty commonly held myths about economic history. Among these myths are that free trade and population growth have historically led to periods of economic growth, and that colonial powers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries became rich through …
"Re-Envisioning Global Development offers an original conceptualisation of capitalist development from its origins to the present day. Most approaches to understanding contemporary development assume that industrial capitalism was achieved through a process of nationally organis…
This text offers a comprehensive account of development in a global context. This book explains the contemporary realities and likely future of the developing world and also explores the historical processes and economic dynamics which have led to this.
Examining a series of droughts and the famines that they spawned in the last third of the 19th century, this text analyses this human tragedy. It covers its global history and lasting impacts on world economic development.
En beskrivelse af monsunens hærgen i Indien, Ethiopien og Brazilien i årene 1870-1914 med følgende tørke, som kombineret med ineffektiv indsats fra bl.a Englands side kostede millioner af mennesker livet
