The second volume of The Cambridge Economic History of the Modern World explores the development of modern economic growth from 1870 to the present. Leading experts in economic history offer a series of regional studies from around the world, as well as thematic analyses of key factors governing the differential outcomes in different parts of the global economy. Topics covered include human capital, capital and technology, geography and institutions, living standards and inequality, trade and immigration, international finance, and warfare and empire.
In this episode, hear Executive Publisher Michael Watson and one of the volume editors, Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford, discuss Vol. 2.
Learn more at www.cambridge.org/9781107159488
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The Fourth Reich: The Specter of Nazism from World War II to the Present
Command: The Twenty-First-Century General
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South
Rebellious Passage: The Creole Revolt and America's Coastal Slave Trade
Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War
The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery
Schooling Across the Globe: What We Have Learned from 60 Years of Mathematics and Science International Assessments
Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War
Yes to Europe!: The 1975 Referendum and Seventies Britain
The Fed and Lehman Brothers: Setting the Record Straight on a Financial Disaster
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, 1929-1931
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