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Author : David Wallace
Release : 2012-09-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 193/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Capital of the World by : David Wallace
Download or read book Capital of the World written by David Wallace. This book was released on 2012-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of NewYork City in the roaring twenties.
Author : Albert Wenger
Release : 2021-12-20
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Book Rating : 458/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The World After Capital by : Albert Wenger
Download or read book The World After Capital written by Albert Wenger. This book was released on 2021-12-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological progress has shifted scarcity for humanity. When we were foragers, food was scarce. During the agrarian age, it was land. Following the industrial revolution, capital became scarce. With digital technologies, scarcity is shifting once more. We need to figure out how to live in The World After Capital in which the only scarcity is our attention.
Author : Zach Sell
Release : 2020-11-24
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 466/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Trouble of the World by : Zach Sell
Download or read book Trouble of the World written by Zach Sell. This book was released on 2020-11-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States. In this age of global capital, U.S. slavery exploded to a vastness hitherto unseen, propelled forward by the outrush of slavery-produced commodities to Britain, continental Europe, and beyond. As slavery-produced commodities poured out of the United States, U.S. slaveholders transformed their profits into slavery expansion. Ranging from colonial India to Australia and Belize, Sell's examination further reveals how U.S. slavery provided not only the raw material for Britain's explosive manufacturing growth but also inspired new hallucinatory imperial visions of colonial domination that took root on a global scale. What emerges is a tale of a system too powerful and too profitable to end, even after emancipation; it is the story of how slavery's influence survived emancipation, infusing empire and capitalism to this day.
Author : Charlene Mires
Release : 2013-03-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 861/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Capital of the World by : Charlene Mires
Download or read book Capital of the World written by Charlene Mires. This book was released on 2013-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1944 to 1946, as the world pivoted from the Second World War to an unsteady peace, Americans in more than two hundred cities and towns mobilized to chase an implausible dream. The newly-created United Nations needed a meeting place, a central place for global diplomacy—a Capital of the World. But what would it look like, and where would it be? Without invitation, civic boosters in every region of the United States leapt at the prospect of transforming their hometowns into the Capital of the World. The idea stirred in big cities—Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, New Orleans, Denver, and more. It fired imaginations in the Black Hills of South Dakota and in small towns from coast to coast. Meanwhile, within the United Nations the search for a headquarters site became a debacle that threatened to undermine the organization in its earliest days. At times it seemed the world’s diplomats could agree on only one thing: under no circumstances did they want the United Nations to be based in New York. And for its part, New York worked mightily just to stay in the race it would eventually win. With a sweeping view of the United States’ place in the world at the end of World War II, Capital of the World tells the dramatic, surprising, and at times comic story of hometown promoters in pursuit of an extraordinary prize and the diplomats who struggled with the balance of power at a pivotal moment in history.
Author : Rosita Armytage
Release : 2020-01-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 170/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Big Capital in an Unequal World by : Rosita Armytage
Download or read book Big Capital in an Unequal World written by Rosita Armytage. This book was released on 2020-01-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside the hidden lives of the global “1%”, this book examines the networks, social practices, marriages, and machinations of Pakistan’s elite. Benefitting from rare access and keen analytical insight, Rosita Armytage’s rich study reveals the daily, even mundane, ways in which elites contribute to and shape the inequality that characterizes the modern world. Operating in a rapidly developing economic environment, the experience of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most powerful members contradicts widely held assumptions that economic growth is leading to increasingly impersonalized and globally standardized economic and political structures.
