by Dietmar Rothermund (1996)
Dietmar Rothermund broadens the conventional focus of the great depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The book: * gives the economic background to the depression * examines the causes of the great depression, from the international gold standard to agricultural over-production in the US * describes the effects on different countries from the Americas to India, Africa and East Asia * pays particular attention to the impact on the peasantry in developing countries * considers the political consequences, such as fascism in Europe * assesses the aftermath and the re-alignment of America, Europe and their colonies * explains key areas, such as Keynesian theory, in accessible terms.
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"A homeless man believes he has been chosen by God to bring back the wrath and judgment of the Old Testament God to an America taken over by the bankers and mindless automation. He gathers followers to his cause, and events build to a violent and shocking conclusion"--Amazon blurb.
Yan Shuang bian zu
Ben shu fen wei ba pian. fen bie jie shao le xin ji shu xin cai fu, dai ren li cai, jie da huan xi, yi zheng zai shou, tian xia xing zou, gei bie ren mei li, gei zi ji " qian " tu, shi shang xiang zheng, mei de xiang zheng deng nei rong.
Dubai chamber of commerce & industry
Provides a unique way to catch a glimpse into Dubai's growth and trends. The book gives an overview of Dubai's leading sectors: real estate, financial markets, banking and insurance, Islamic finance, travel and tourism, media and IT, business and retail, trade and industries, and investments and companies.
Charles L. Flynn, Jr
The society of the postbellum South was built upon two interweaving but ultimately irreconcilable systems: a racist caste system and an economic class system. The caste system was supposed to assure that all whites would be equals above the underclass of black laborers. But the class system that emerged in the years after the war placed lower-class whites in the same economic position as the emancipated slaves -- a situation totally at odds with prevailing white ideology. In White Land, Black Labor, Charles Flynn examines the interplay of the caste and class systems of Reconstruction Georgia, revealing how the efforts of both the planters and poorer whites to retain blacks in a position of subservience assured that in this state -- as in the South as a whole -- there would be little significant economic progress until well into the next century. The caste faith of the white Georgians encouraged landowning employers to seek increased exploitation rather than economic growth; at the same time, it motivated landless whites to focus their energies on the greater subordination of black laborers rather than on achieving equality with wealthier whites. Despite the facade of southern caste faith, the constitutional amendments adopted during Reconstruction assured that blacks could not legally be treated as a separate laboring class. As a result, the measures employed by the planters to increase their control over the black laborers applied to a growing number of landless whites as well. With blacks more free and whites more oppressed than the prevailing social ideology deemed appropriate, the distinction between the system of class division among whites and the caste barrier that separated blacks and whites began to fracture -- leading to political dissent in the nineteenth century and setting the stage for the demagogue politicians of the twentieth century.