The Invention of Enterprise

The Invention of Enterprise
Author: David S. Landes
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2012-02-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 069115452X

This work provides a sweeping history of enterprise in Mesopotamia and Neo-Babylon; carries the reader through the Islamic Middle East; offers insights into the entrepreneurial history of China, Japan, and colonial India; and describes the crucial role of the entrepreneur in innovation activity in the Western world.

Decisive Years in France, 1840-1847

Decisive Years in France, 1840-1847
Author: David H. Pinkney
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400854385

David Pinkney challenges accepted views of the timing of France's Industrial Revolution and the accompanying transformation of French society. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England

The Causes of the Industrial Revolution in England
Author: R. M. Hartwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 135169703X

A number of changes in the English economy during the eighteenth century marked the inception of the modern industrialised world. Whether for the historian seeking explanations for past growth, or the economist in search of prescriptions for the future, the English industrial revolution is probably the most interesting historical example. This title, first published in 1967, brings together six articles on the industrial revolution, and explain why it actually occurred. This title will be of interest to students of history and economics.

The Development of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain

The Development of Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Donald Cardwell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351728849

This title was first published in 2003. Donald Cardwell's interest in the inter-relationships between science, technology, education and society are exemplified in the selection of his studies and essays brought together here. The first section deals with the rise of scientific education in Britain, comparing it with that on the Continent. The next studies explore the development of the scientific understanding of power, especially steam power, and its application in the new technologies of the Industrial Revolution. The final section looks at learned societies, and in particular at Manchester, making explicit a theme running through many of the articles - the reasons why science, society and education came together to make this city what he called 'the centre of the industrial revolution'.

The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938

The Decline of the Third Republic, 1914-1938
Author: Philippe Bernard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 1988-02-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521358545

This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's Front Populaire soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the "era of illusions" which despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930s. The short-lived experiment of Blum's Front Populaire gave way to more conservatively-based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country.

The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815

The Bourgeois Revolution in France 1789-1815
Author: Henry Heller
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857455699

In the last generation the classic Marxist interpretation of the French Revolution has been challenged by the so-called revisionist school. The Marxist view that the Revolution was a bourgeois and capitalist revolution has been questioned by Anglo-Saxon revisionists like Alfred Cobban and William Doyle as well as a French school of criticism headed by François Furet. Today revisionism is the dominant interpretation of the Revolution both in the academic world and among the educated public. Against this conception, this book reasserts the view that the Revolution - the capital event of the modern age - was indeed a capitalist and bourgeois revolution. Based on an analysis of the latest historical scholarship as well as on knowledge of Marxist theories of the transition from feudalism to capitalism, the work confutes the main arguments and contentions of the revisionist school while laying out a narrative of the causes and unfolding of the Revolution from the eighteenth century to the Napoleonic Age.

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Publisher: Editions Bréal
Total Pages: 129
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ISBN: 2749524857