History of exploration and trade in the North Pacific.
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"Mary C. Comerio provides detailed case studies of housing losses and rebuilding efforts in six recent urban disasters: Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina, Hurricane Andrew in Florida, the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes in California, and the recent major earthquakes in Me…
Global intellectual property in the form of patents and copyright has profound consequences for the ownership of knowledge in the 21st century. This volume examines the relationship between intellectual property and development.
Eichengreen argues that the gold standard of the 1920s set the stage for the Depression of the 1930s by heightening the fragility of the international financial system, and was the mechanism that transmitted the destabilizing impulse from the USA to the rest of the world.
This online version of the print ed. contains over 1000 entries written by some 500 distinguished contributors. Included are Stephen E. Ambrose writing on the D-Day landing, James M. McPherson on the battle of Antietam, John Keegan on the changing experience of combat, Jean Beth…
Taking the invention as its object of study, this book develops a radical new perspective on the making of modern patent law. It develops an extended historical and conceptual exploration of the invention in modern patent law. Focussing primarily on the figures that make inven…
Tje American landscape makes sense from the air. This is not so true for elusive European landscapes, which level with the observer more slowly, only as we enter into them. European visitors to Northern America recorded a common experience that becomes increasingly apparent as o…
Tobacco Capitalism tells the story of the people who live and work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization of agriculture, and inten…
