"Afin de répondre aux demandes de plus en plus importantes et répétées des armées, l’industrie s’érige en vaste front de l’arrière. Des usines se reconvertissent ou sont créées ; les grandes entreprises deviennent des « firmes-pivots » structurant, au sein de chaque branche...

The economics of the Croatian war differ considerably from what is often thought of as typical features of a war economy. Most strikingly, while wars are often perceived as generating a tendency towards repressed inflation and a command economy the Croatian economy actually moved in the opposite...

In this probing and original study, Parks M. Coble examines the devastating impact of Japan's invasion and occupation of the lower Yangzi on China's emerging modern business community. Arguing that the war gravely weakened Chinese capitalists, Coble demonstrates that in occupied areas the...