The Power and the Money

Noel Maurer

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• After its independence in 1821, Mexico experienced more than fifty years of political chaos until Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876. Thirty-five yea... Lees meer

Political Institutions and Financial Development

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Economists have long maintained that a well-developed and functioning financial system is a vital prerequisite to economic growth. Countries with robu... Lees meer

The Political Economy of Protection

Daniel Lederman

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• The Political Economy of Protection explains why countries, especially developing countries, change their trade policies over the course of history. I... Lees meer

James Madison

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• In recent years, the study of James Madison and his contributions to early American politics has enjoyed a growing audience among scholars and student... Lees meer

Native Capital

Anne G Hanley

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• This book studies the development of banks and stock and bond exchanges in São Paulo, Brazil, during an era of rapid economic diversification. It asse... Lees meer

Chimneys in the Desert

Fernando Rocchi

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• This book offers new topics and new perspectives on the economic history of Argentina before the 1930 Depression. It focuses on the evolution of early... Lees meer

African American Fraternal Associations and the History of Civil Society in the United States

Katherine A Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• The role of African American fraternal organizations in black civic engagement has been largely overlooked by scholars of African American history. Wh... Lees meer

The Ancient Economy

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• Historians and archaeologists normally assume that the economies of ancient Greece and Rome between about 1000 BC and AD 500 were distinct from those ... Lees meer

Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional ... Lees meer

Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 1

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• In recent decades, political scientists have produced an enormous body of scholarship dealing with the U.S. Congress, and in particular congressional ... Lees meer

The Mexican Economy, 1870-1930

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Until the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexico faced the twin problems of chronic political instability and slow economic growth. During the... Lees meer

Between Tyranny and Anarchy

Paul W Drake

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the m... Lees meer

Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850

Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S Klein

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world's most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, ... Lees meer

The Quest for Ajust and Pure Lawa

John P Enyeart

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Focusing on the political culture forged by Rocky Mountain workers from the 1870s through the 1920s, this book shows how the unique working-class poli... Lees meer

Indians, Merchants, and Markets

Jeremy Baskes

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Traditional historiography describes the repartimiento de mercancías as a forced system of production and consumption in which officials of the Spanis... Lees meer

Slavery and the Economy of São Paulo, 1750-1850

Francisco Vidal Luna, Herbert S Klein

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• Today the Brazilian state of São Paulo is one of the world's most advanced agricultural, industrial, and urbanized regions. Its historical evolution, ... Lees meer

Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 2

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In connecti... Lees meer

Social Foundations of Limited Dictatorship

Armando Razo

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• This innovative new book contributes simultaneously to two different disciplinary fields: comparative political economy and Mexican history. It does s... Lees meer

Political Institutions and Financial Development

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• Economists have long maintained that a well-developed and functioning financial system is a vital prerequisite to economic growth. Countries with robu... Lees meer

Staying Afloat

Jeremy Baskes

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• Early modern, long-distance trade was fraught with risk and uncertainty, driving merchants to seek means (that is, institutions) to reduce them. In th... Lees meer

James Madison

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• In recent years, the study of James Madison and his contributions to early American politics has enjoyed a growing audience among scholars and student... Lees meer

Party, Process, and Political Change in Congress, Volume 2

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• This work addresses the development of congressional practices and institutions and ties the changes to key political and economic events. In connecti... Lees meer

Between Tyranny and Anarchy

Paul W Drake

• Paperback | Engels | Social Science History
• Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the m... Lees meer

Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy

Yovanna Pineda

• Hardcover | Engels | Social Science History
• In 1890, Argentina was a wealthy nation on the brink of industrialization. Industrial Development in a Frontier Economy examines Argentina's failure o... Lees meer