Merchants and Scholars
Author : Parker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1999-01
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ISBN : 9780816603701
Author : Parker
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 1999-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780816603701
Author : James Ford Bell Collection
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,58 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Commerce
ISBN :
Author : John Parker
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Commerce
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Author : Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :
From the 9th to the 15th century Arab travellers and observers produced a rich literature in West Africa. An annotated translation of this body of work is found in ""Corpus of Early Arabic Sources for West African History"". This title is a simplified form of this corpus for students.
Author : Pamela Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1135300283
The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.
Author : John PARKER (Curator, James Ford Bell Collection, University of Minnesota.)
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 10,30 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Commerce
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Author : David Priestland
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0141970820
From historian David Priestland, Merchant, Soldier, Sage is a remarkable book that proposes a radical new approach to how we see our world, and who runs it, in the vein of Francis Fukuyama's The End of History We live in an age ruled by merchants. Competition, flexibility and profit are still the common currency, even at a time when Western countries have been driven off a cliff by these very values. But will it always be this way? David Priestland argues for the predominance in any society of one of three broad value systems - that of the merchant (commercial and competitive); the soldier (aristocratic and militaristic); and the sage (bureaucratic or creative). These 'castes' struggle alongside the worker (egalitarian and artisanal) for power, and when they achieve supremacy, they can have such a strong hold over us that it is almost impossible to imagine life outside their grip. And yet there does come a point of drastic change, usually because one caste becomes too dominant. The result is economic crisis, war or revolution, and eventually a new caste takes over. Priestland argues, we are now in the midst of a period with all the classic signs of imminent change. As the history of the last century shows, there is good reason to be fearful of the forces that this failure may unleash. Merchant, Soldier, Sage is both a masterful dissection of our current predicament and a brilliant piece of history. The world will not look the same again. Reviews: 'We have here a gripping, argument-led history, efforlessly moving between New York, Tokyo and Berlin, from the Reformation to the 2008 economic crisis ... dazzling ... here, at last, is a work that places the current crisis in a longer history of seismic shifts in the balance of social power' Frank Trentman, BBC History Magazine 'Concise but extremely ambitious ... well worth pondering and reflecting on ... among the many contributions to the dissection of our current predicament, this is surely one of the most thought-provoking' Sir Richard J Evans, Guardian 'Stimulating ... In illustrating these larger processes of caste conflict and caste collaboration, the author offers crisp portraits of entrepreneurs, economists and warriors ... Sparkling prose and ... arresting comparisons' Ramachandra Guha, Financial Times About the author: David Priestland has studied Communism in all its forms for many years, in both Oxford and Moscow State Universities. He is University Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford and a Fellow of St. Edmund Hall, and the author of Stalinism and the Politics of Mobilization. The Red Flag was shortlisted for the Longman/History Today prize.
Author : Richard John Lufrano
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780824817404
In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice.
Author : Stewart Gordon
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0306815567
Describes the important influence of Asia's great civilization on the West, as traveling merchants, scholars, philosophers, and religious figures brought the wisdom of China and the Middle East to medieval Europe during the Dark Ages.
Author : Minnesota. University. Library. James Ford Bell Collection
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,58 MB
Release : 1965
Category : Commerce
ISBN :