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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics: Innovation Knowledge and Growth: Adam Smith Schumpeter and the Moderns (Hardcover)

This book deals with the prime movers of socio-economic development innovations and technical change their origins forms and effects. It contains a set of closely related chapters some of which have been previously published as papers in scholarly... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in New EU Member States (Hardcover)

Building on the work carried out in the 2004 Routledge book Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in Europe an international team of contributors now turn their attention to the new EU member states. The book compares conditions in the new and potential EU... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: Prosecuting Homicide in Eighteenth-Century Law and Practice: And Must They All Be Hanged? (Hardcover)

This volume uses four case studies all with strong London connections to analyze homicide law and the pardoning process in eighteenth-century England. Each reveals evidence of how attempts were made to negotiate a path through the justice system to... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of France: The Making of the Citizen-Worker (Hardcover)

The book addresses how work became so central to our systems of citizenship and social recognition by considering the French context in the long transition between the 1789 and 1848 revolutions and focusing on a specific fragment of history in the... more

Routledge Family Therapy and Counseling: Solving Modern Family Dilemmas: An Assimilative Therapy Model (Paperback)

Context is the unifying principle that guides a therapist s formulation of the modern family s presenting dilemmas functioning relationships and attitudes. We can no longer assume that a family is comprised of a mother father and children; the... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Economic Growth and Income Inequality in China India and Singapore: Trends and Policy Implications (Hardcover)

The world at large is watching both China and India as powerhouses of economic growth. The two nations have achieved significantly high rates of economic growth ever since their respective economies liberalized in 1978 and 1991. Singapore despite its... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy: From Unification to Fascism (Paperback)

With chapters on theatre and opera architecture and urban planning the medieval revival and the rediscovery of the Etruscan and Roman past The Politics of Culture in Liberal Italy analyzes Italians changing relationship to their new nation state and... more

Routledge Studies in Modern British History: The Victorian Reinvention of Race (Hardcover)

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The races familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century and before... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: The Reformation of England s Past (Paperback)

This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard medieval history in the first two... more

Routledge Research in Interior Design: Designed to Sell: The Evolution of Modern Merchandising and Display (Hardcover)

Designed to Sell presents an engaging account of mid-twentieth-century department store design and display in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. It traces the development of postwar philosophies of retail design that embodied aesthetics and function... more

Routledge Research in Gender and History: Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice (Paperback)

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage- a... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia (Paperback)

Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan others to toil on the Death Railway between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent others of over 20... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Pre-Communist Indochina (Hardcover)

This book explores the history of pre-communist Indochina from the fourteenth century to the 1940s. It examines the early state of Vietnam comparing and contrasting its political and social systems with both those of neighbouring states such as... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Defrosting the Cold War and Beyond: An Introduction to the Helsinki Process 1954-2022 (Hardcover)

This volume tells the story of the Helsinki Process from the immediate post-war period through the signing of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 to the collapse of the Soviet empire and up to the present day. Treating it as a single narrative in the search... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States (Hardcover)

This book examines the question of historical awareness within the Greek communities in the diaspora adding a new perspective on the discussion about the Greek Revolution of 1821 by including the forgotten Greeks in the United States and Canada. The... more

Routledge Studies in Modern British History: Violence and Crime in Nineteenth Century England: The Shadow of Our Refinement (Hardcover)

This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence through an accessible mixture of detailed empirical... more

Routledge Research in Music Liveness in Modern Music: Musicians Technology and the Perception of Performance Book 05 (Hardcover)

This study investigates the idea and practice of liveness in modern music. Understanding what makes music live in an ever-changing musical and technological terrain is one of the more complex and timely challenges facing scholars of current music where... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: The King is Listening (Paperback)

Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World: The King is Listening offers through the contribution of thirteen original chapters a sustained analysis of judicial practices and litigation during the first era of French overseas expansion.... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The Rhine and European Security in the Long Nineteenth Century (Paperback)

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine s (CCNR) efforts to secure the principle of freedom of navigation on Europe s prime river. The... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Women and Politics in Wartime China: Networking Across Geopolitical Borders (Paperback)

Focusing on Chinese elite women as a special socio-political group this book places the sophisticated networks they formed in the shifting geographical social cultural and political spaces of wartime China where their political engagement... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia (Paperback)

This book focuses on the end of four centuries of Ottoman rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1870s. After an introduction to the region and the political zeitgeist of the late 1860s and early 1870s it examines in detail the dramatic years beginning... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: The Role of Informal Economies in the Post-Soviet World (Hardcover)

Based on extensive ethnographic and quantitative research conducted in Ukraine and Russia between 2004 and 2012 this book s central argument is that for many people the informal economy such as cash in hand work subsistence production and the use of... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Paperback)

This volume provides a fresh perspective of the history and legacy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as well as the often-disputed memory of it in contemporary Europe. The unions between the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Eurasian Empires as Blueprints for Ethiopia: From Ethnolinguistic Nation-State to Multiethnic Federation (Paperback)

This book is a contribution to the global history of the transfer of political ideas as exemplified by the case of modern Ethiopia. Like many non-European nation-states Ethiopia adopted a western model of statehood that is the nation-state. Unlike the... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals (Hardcover)

Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades... more

Routledge Studies in Modern History: Food History: A Feast of the Senses in Europe 1750 to the Present (Paperback)

This pioneering book elevates the senses to a central role in the study of food history because the traditional focus upon food types quantities and nutritional values is incomplete without some recognition of smell touch sight hearing and taste.... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe Since 1945 (Paperback)

This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled as Gypsies were persecuted or killed in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945. In... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History: Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country 1800 to 1936 (Paperback)

Landscape and Identity in the Modern Basque Country 1800 to 1936 studies the relationship between landscape and modern identities in the Basque Country. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines cultural history and geography it analyses the... more

Enterprise Forms And Economic Efficiency: Capitalist Cooperative And Government Firms (Routledge Studies In The Modern World Economy) - Mikami Kazuhiko

The Book Conducts A Comparative Study On The Form Of Enterprise Focusing On Broadly Defined Cooperative Firms In Comparison With Conventional Capitalist Firms. It Explores The Essential Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Different Types Of Firms And... more

The Korean Labour Market After The 1997 Economic Crisis (Routledge Studies In The Modern World Economy) - Cho Joonmo

For Economists Policy-Makers And Historians Who Want To Learn How The Korean Labor Market Dealt With The 1997 Financial Crisis And How This Informed Future Policies This Volume Provides A Succinct Summary Of What Korean Experts Know And How They View... more

Routledge Research in Early Modern History: The Reformation of England s Past (Hardcover)

This book is a detailed examination of the sources and protocols John Foxe used to justify the Reformation and claim that the Church of Rome had fallen into the grip of Antichrist. The focus is on the pre-Lollard medieval history in the first two... more

Routledge Studies in Innovation Organizations and Technolog: Management and Information Technology: Challenges for the Modern Organization (Hardcover)

Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: Landscapes of the Western Front: Materiality During the Great War (Hardcover)

This book examines the British soldiers on the Western Front and how they responded to the war landscape they encountered behind the lines and at the front. Using a multidisciplinary perspective this study investigates the relationship between soldiers... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia: Women Warriors in Southeast Asia (Paperback)

This book brings together a wide range of case studies to explore the experiences and significance of women warriors in Southeast Asian history from ancient to contemporary times. Using a number of sources including royal chronicles diaries memoirs and... more

Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity: Religious Nationalism in Modern Europe: If God be for Us (Hardcover)

This volume examines the enduring nature of religious nationalism in modern Europe. Through a series of in-depth case studies covering Ireland England Poland and Greece; the author argues that religious frontiers or geographic lines of division between... more

Routledge Studies in Modern European History: Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The Euthanasia Programs (Hardcover)

This book is about the ethics of nursing and midwifery and how these were abrogated during the Nazi era. Nurses and midwives actively killed their patients many of whom were disabled children and infants and patients with mental (and other) illnesses... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Foreign Direct Investment in China: Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises (Hardcover)

This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy which has... more

Routledge Studies in Modern British History: Labour in the Suburbs: Political Change in Croydon During the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

This book is the first comprehensive economic social and political study of the London suburb of Croydon from 1900 up to the present day. One of the largest London boroughs Croydon has always been a mixed residential suburb (mainly private but with... more