This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years of...

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: Public relations, society and the generative power of history; Periodisation; Corporate dominance; US- centrism; Sociocultural context; Structure of the book; References; Part I Challenging...