Author: Lisa Thompson
Publisher: Blake Education
ISBN: 9781741642209
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
The Finest Shoes in the Kingdom
Author: Lisa Thompson
Publisher: Blake Education
ISBN: 9781741642209
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher: Blake Education
ISBN: 9781741642209
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
In the Kingdom of Shoes
Author: Zachary Austin Doleshal
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487534477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of the world’s largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, the company Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. It promised a technocratic form of governance in the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, and during the Roaring Twenties, it became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. While other companies contracted in response to the Great Depression, Bata did the opposite, becoming the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization. As Bata expanded worldwide, it became an example of corporate national indifference, where company personnel were trained to be able to slip into and out of national identifications with ease. Such indifference, however, was seriously challenged by the geopolitical crisis of the 1930s, and by the cusp of the Second World War, Bata management had turned nationalist, even fascist. In the Kingdom of Shoes unravels the way the Bata project swept away tradition and enmeshed the lives of thousands of people around the world in the industrial production of shoes. Using a rich array of archival materials from two continents, the book answers how Bata’s rise to the world’s largest producer of shoes challenged the nation-state, democracy, and Americanization.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487534477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of the world’s largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the Habsburg Empire, the company Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. It promised a technocratic form of governance in the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, and during the Roaring Twenties, it became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. While other companies contracted in response to the Great Depression, Bata did the opposite, becoming the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization. As Bata expanded worldwide, it became an example of corporate national indifference, where company personnel were trained to be able to slip into and out of national identifications with ease. Such indifference, however, was seriously challenged by the geopolitical crisis of the 1930s, and by the cusp of the Second World War, Bata management had turned nationalist, even fascist. In the Kingdom of Shoes unravels the way the Bata project swept away tradition and enmeshed the lives of thousands of people around the world in the industrial production of shoes. Using a rich array of archival materials from two continents, the book answers how Bata’s rise to the world’s largest producer of shoes challenged the nation-state, democracy, and Americanization.
The Middle Kingdom
Author: Samuel Wells Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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Hide and Leather with Shoe Factory
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Leather industry and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
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The Kingdom on the Waves
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763629502
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. 75,000 first printing.
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763629502
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
When he and his tutor escape to British-occupied Boston, Octavian learns of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces. 75,000 first printing.
The Middle Kingdom (2 vols.)
Author: S. Wells Williams
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004217819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1681
Book Description
This classic survey (in its much revised edition of 1883) of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants remains a valuable source of reference to scholars of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Global Oriental
ISBN: 9004217819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1681
Book Description
This classic survey (in its much revised edition of 1883) of the geography, government, literature, social life, arts and history of the Chinese Empire and its inhabitants remains a valuable source of reference to scholars of the nineteenth century.
The Kingdom of God
Author: Edward Everett Hale
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sermons, American
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Commerce Reports
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consular reports
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Commerce Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1586
Book Description
Supplements to Commerce Reports
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description