1 Introduction2 Mining, gentlemanly capitalism, and the business of imperialism3 The geographies of mining finance4 The anatomy of mining and the mine exploration business5 The world of copper mines, railways and labour6 The growth of the Central African Copperbelt7 For whom the windfalls? A...

PART I: Overview Introduction 1. Theories on social spending and the Welfare State Part II: Social Protection Before the Welfare State 2. The Scope of Poor Relief and Self-Help: from the mid-19th century to the 1930s 2. Appendix Part III: The Construction of the Welfare State 3. Backwardness,...

Introduction. Actors, places, and exchanges of the global wheat market 1. Grain merchants and famines in late Renaissance. Giovanni Maria Mersi, Tommaso Barana and the provisioning of Padua and Vicenza (1572-1616). 2. Grain Traders and the Wheat Trade in 16th and 17th century Genoa 3....

IntroductionPART I :THE EMERGENCE OF THE EGYPTIAN STATE AND ADMINISTRATIVE INSTITUTIONS1.Concepts of 'the state' and ancient Egypt2.The administrative field of power3.The administrative field, symbolic power and social connectivityPART II:THE INTERNAL ECONOMY OF EGYPT4.The Egyptian economy: The...

"The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st...