Author: lady Caroline Lucy Scott (hon.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Henry Colin Gray Matthew
Publisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1030

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55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.

Author: Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Leonid Grinin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331917780X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 261

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This new monograph provides a stimulating new take on hotly contested topics in world modernization and the globalizing economy. It begins by situating what is called the Great Divergence--the social/technological revolution that led European nations to outpace the early dominance of Asia--in historical context over centuries. This is contrasted with an equally powerful Great Convergence, the recent economic and technological expansion taking place in Third World nations and characterized by narrowing inequity among nations. They are seen here as two phases of an inevitable global process, centuries in the making, with the potential for both positive and negative results. This sophisticated presentation examines: Why the developing world is growing more rapidly than the developed world. How this development began occurring under the Western world's radar. How former colonies of major powers grew to drive the world's economy. Why so many Western economists have been slow to recognize the Great Convergence. The increasing risk of geopolitical instability. Why the world is likely to find itself without an absolute leader after the end of the American hegemony A work of rare scope, Great Divergence and Great Convergence gives sociologists, global economists, demographers, and global historians a deeper understanding of the broader movement of social and economic history, combined with a long view of history as it is currently being made; it also offers some thrilling forecasts for global development in the forthcoming decades.

Author: Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley
Publisher:
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Category : Names, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 682

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Author: M. Beresford Ryley
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Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Includes : Catherine of Siena ; Beatrice d'Este ; Anne of Brittany ; Lucrezia Borgia ; Margaret d'Angouleme ; Renee, Duchess of Ferrara.

Author: George Gordon Coulton
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Author: Henry Adams
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775419118
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Originally published anonymously, it was later revealed that this classic work of political fiction was penned by Henry Brooks Adams, the renowned essayist and journalist best known for the autobiography The Education of Henry Adams. Though fictionalized, Democracy: An American Novel offers a gripping account of the vagaries and vicissitudes of political power that still rings true more than a century after it was first published.

Author: Henrietta Emma Litchfield
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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