This volume suggests a new way of doing global history. Instead of offering a sweeping and generalizing overview of the past, we propose a "micro-spatial" approach, combining micro-history with the concept of space. A focus on primary sources and awareness of the historical discontinuities and...

Prologue -- Listening to the Silenced -- Part I: Introduction to Olympian Political Economy -- Property -- In Praise of the Homo Faber -- Interlude -- Olympianism and Democracy -- Unity in Democratic Action -- Part II: Olympian Culture System -- Ecumenism, Conviviality, and the Modality of...

Introduction : the color line and the assembly line -- Ford goes to the world, the world comes to Ford -- From the melting pot to the boiling pot : fascism and the factory-state at the River Rouge plant in the 1920s -- Out of the melting pot and into the fire : African Americans and the uneven...

PART ONE: THE FOUNDATIONS. 1. The Petrine Vision and Its Fate -- PART TWO: CULTURAL TRANSFER, INTEREST GROUPS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH. 2. From Aufklärung to Romantic Idealism -- 3. The Biogenetic Model and the Slavophil Entrepreneurs -- 4. The Moscow Entrepreneurial Group -- 5. The Engineers -- 6....

Talking tax -- We, the taxpayers -- Canada's conservative tax structure -- Resistance in the interwar years -- Taxation at the edges of citizenship -- Honour, confidence, and federalism during the depression -- Warfare, welfare, and the mass income tax payer -- New publics and the taxman in the...

The trumpet soundeth for equality : the enlightenment and the American Revolution -- The fortress : the defense of inequality, 1750-1820 -- The duel begins -- Equality, manners, and civility -- Education and religion -- Politics and equality : democracy as curse -- American inequalities --...

1. Introduction: The Farmworker, Past and Present -- Part I. The Victorian And Edwardian Farmworker; 2. The Farm Servant -- 3 The Agricultural Labourer -- 4 The Casual and Seasonal Workforce -- Part II. The Farmworker in the Century After 1914; 5. Farm Labour during the First World War -- 6. The...

Introduction -- The costs and benefits of running away: late medieval Florentine plague mortality and behavior -- When economic theory meets medieval contracts: calculating the Monte Comune interest rate -- The chances of getting rich in Renaissance Florence: the wool industry occupational...

Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rosa Congost, Jorge Gelman and Rui Santos -- Migration and accommodation of property rights in the Portuguese Eastern Empire, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries / José Vicente Serrão and Eugénia Rodrigues -- Alternative uses of land and...

"On ne peut penser la Première Guerre mondiale en ignorant ce qui fut une conséquence fondamentale de celle-ci : l'essor considérable du syndicalisme dans le monde, son rôle accru dans les rapports sociaux ou les décisions des états. Vient, dès la deuxième moitié de la guerre, le temps...

What happens when an entire modern state's material culture becomes abruptly obsolete? How do ordinary people encounter what remains? In this ethnography, Jonathan Bach examines the afterlife of East Germany following the fall of the Berlin Wall, as things and places from that vanished socialist...

"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....