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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous di ...Show more
The Chosen Few: How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini
59.95 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, from Seville to Ma ...Show more
The Chosen Few - How Education Shaped Jewish History, 70-1492 by Maristella Botticini; Zvi Eckstein
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Category: Judaica | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
In 70 CE, the Jews were an agrarian and illiterate people living mostly in the Land of Israel and Mesopotamia. By 1492 the Jewish people had become a small group of literate urbanites specializing in crafts, trade, moneylending, and medicine in hundreds of places across the Old World, fromSeville to Man ...Show more
The Great Leveler - Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century by Walter Scheidel
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World | Reading Level: very good
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ...Show more
The Mystery of the Kibbutz - Egalitarian Principles in a Capitalist World by Ran Abramitzky
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Category: No Category | Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
How the kibbutz movement thrived despite its inherent economic contradictions and why it eventually declined The kibbutz is a social experiment in collective living that challenges traditional economic theory. By sharing all income and resources equally among its members, the kibbutz system created stro ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of American Growth The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
79.99 AUD
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and w ...Show more
Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean
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Category: Australian Studies | Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century ...Show more
Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman
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Category: History | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished eco ...Show more
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