"Over the span of two weeks in mid-January 2011, reports of numerous selfimmolations were surfacing in Cairo. On January 17, Abdou Abdel Monaam, a small restaurateur, set himself on fire in protest against a law preventing restaurant owners from buying subsidized bread, forcing him to buy bread...

White run South Africa as a developmental state: an interpretive economic history of twentieth century South Africa -- The conflicted foundations of industrial policy -- Industrial development in South Africa up to World War II-some figures and some business history -- A (near) developmental...

"Double Taxation and the League of Nations Modern-day tax treaties have their foundations in one of the three Model Tax Treaties developed by the League of Nations in 1928. Using previously unexplored archival material, Sunita Jogarajan provides the first in-depth examination of the development...

"In the Methodological Prologue to this book, I mention that Political Economy of Modernism takes its place in relation to my earlier books, Modernism and Time, which examined cultural modernism in relation to intellectual institutions of the sciences, mathematics, and aesthetics in the early...

Conversations about energy law and policy are paramount, undergoing new scrutiny and characterizations. Energy Follies: Missteps, Fiascos, and Successes of America's Energy Policy explores how a century of energy policies, rather than solving our energy problems, often made them worse; how...

Successive authoritarian regimes have maintained tight control over organized labor in Egypt since the 1950s. And yet in 2009, a group of civil servants decided to exit the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation (ETUF), thereby setting a precedent for other groups and threatening the...

"This business history analyzes the connections between private business, disarmament, and re-armament as they affected arms procurement and military technology transfers in Eastern Europe from 1919 to 1939. Rather than focusing on the negotiations or the political problems involved with the...

"Despite Ghana's strong democratic track record in recent decades, the economy remains underdeveloped. Industrial policies are necessary to transform the colonial trading economy that Ghana inherited at independence, but successive governments have been unwilling or unable to implement them. In...

Introduction : Agent Orange, Rural Development, and Enduring Farmers -- Changing Vietnam and Farmers -- Development, Agriculture, and Farmers -- Agent Orange and Vietnamese Farmers : A Distant Legacy -- Farmers in Post-Doi Moi Vietnam -- Health and Elusive Risks -- Health and the Farmers : Whose...

"This book charts the history of Australian retail developments as well as examining the social and cultural dimensions of shopping in Australia. In the second half of the twentieth century, the shopping centre spread from America around the world. Australia was a very early adopter, and...

"Americans have disabled the government's ability to solve even basic problems, making us vulnerable to the most dangerous demagogue ever to pretend to the White House. Kurt Andersen shows how the masterminds of the economic right rode an unprecedented wave of nostalgia by dressing up their...

Capitalism and Socialism -- The Cause of the Trouble -- Why Socialism? -- Welcome to the Twenty-First Century -- How did We Get Here? -- Where are We Now? -- Twenty-First Century Socialism -- The Programme -- The Strategy.

Este artículo pretende aportar conocimiento sobre uno de los grandes problemas que trae aparejado un liderazgo carismático: la sucesión del líder. El caso de estudio es el de Eva Perón, un tipo particular de liderazgo que compartió en forma simultánea con Juan D. Perón. El trabajo...

Introduction -- The English land question in historical perspective -- Land reform movements before 1914 -- The impact of the War and the spread of owner-occupation -- The rise of town planning and the demise of site value rating -- The impact of the War on town and country -- Tensions in the...