Heather Timmons, “Singing the Praises of a New Asia,” New York Times, April 19, 2007. 5. 33. Pranah Bardhan, “What Makes a Miracle? A summary of Part X (Section5) in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. 11. She avoids the "class analysis" that Marxists profess. 23. Michael Hirsch, “Mortgages and Madness,” Newsweek, June 2, 2008. Frieden, Global Capitalism, 278; N. R. R. Crafts, “The Golden Age of Economic Growth in Western Europe, 1950–1973,” Economic History Review, 48 (1995): 429–30; Angus Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development: A Long-Run Comparative View (Oxford, 1991), 164. Every stop in the production of the wheat, barley, oats, or rice – those precious grains that composed the staff of life – came under surveillance. Cameron, Concise Economic History of the World, 371–78. 5. Lisa Jacobson, Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century (New York, 2004). The Inquisition has its origins in the early organized persecution of non-Catholic Christian religions in Europe. McGraw, “American Capitalism” in McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism, 315–16. Jan De Vries, “The Industrial Revolution and the Industrial Revolution,” Paper presented at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association (June 1994): 257. (Boulder, 1999), 238–39. 13. 46. 20. Dick K. Nanto, “The 1997–98 Asian Financial Crisis,” CRS Report for Congress, February 6, 1998 (www.fas.org/man/crs/crs-asia2), 5. Christopher Hill, The Century of Revolution, 1602–1715 (Edinburgh, 1961), 32; see also Joyce Oldham Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England (Princeton, 1978), 32–35. 5. 36. By 1700, she writes, English annual output in agriculture was at least twice that of any other European country and continued so until the 1850s. Pacey, Technology in World Civilization, 111–12; Allen, British Industrial Revolution, 27. Sapiens Chapter 18: A Permanent Revolution Summary & Analysis | LitCharts. 20. [Nicholas Barbon], A Discourse of Trade (1690), 15; [Dalby Thomas], An Historical Account of the West-India Colonies (London, 1690), 6, both quoted in Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology, 169–71. 25. Margaret C. Jacob, Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia, 2006), 76–77; Thomas K. McGraw, “American Capitalism” in Thomas K. McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Cambridge, 1995), 335. 23. Olegario, “IBM and the Two Thomas J. Watsons,” 356. 10. Beasley, Modern History of Japan, 134–49. 31. 4. There were government regulations. Arnold Pacey, Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-Year History (Cambridge, 1991), 135–41. Further on the subject of capitalism first in Europe, she writes: Having a natural source of water [sufficient rain? Walter G. Moss, An Age of Progress? 5. 38. Barry Naughton, “China: Which Way the Political Economy?,” Paper delivered at the UCLA Brenner Seminar, April 9, 2007. 17. (Armonk, NY, 2006), 108–09. 12. As a result of her sensitivity to both the vices and virtues of capitalism, The Relentless Revolution: The History of Capitalism is one of the more objective such histories that exists. Allen, British Industrial Revolution, 28. 19. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 2nd ed. Paul Krugman, “Franklin Delano Obama?,” New York Times, November 10, 2008. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present (Armonk, NY, 2006), 263; Joseph E. Stiglitz, “Capital Market Liberalization, Globalization, and the IMF,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 20 (2004). . Richard S. Dunn, Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies (Chapel Hill, 1972), 9–10. 6. 49. Yamamura, ed., Economic Emergence of Modern Japan, 112. 51. 30. Mira Kamdar, Planet India: The Turbulent Rise of the Largest Democracy and the Future of Our World (New York, 2007), 118–19; www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/10/Europe/EU_Gen_Norway. 28. 29. ... Chapter Nine. 19. 5. (Boston, 2007), 708. Tom Lewis, “The Roads to Prosperity,” Los Angeles Times, December 26, 2008. (Boston, 2007), 881. McNeill, Something New under the Sun, 219–21. Vanessa Schwartz, “Towards a Cultural History of the Jet Age,” Paper presented in Paris, November 13, 2008. 4. C. R. Boxer, The Dutch Seaborne Empire: 1600–1800 (New York, 1970), 43–44. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, 1990), 3; Goswami, Producing India, 41; Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Capital, 1848–1875 (New York, 1996 [originally published in 1975]), 40–41; W. D.Rubinstein, “Cultural Explanations for Britain’s Economic Decline: How True,” in Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British Culture and Economic Decline: Debates in Modern History (London, 1990), 70–71. 51. The Inquisition was a powerful office set up within the Catholic Church to root out and punish heresy throughout Europe and the Americas. 10. Popovic’s love of laughter shines through in his writing; Blueprint for Revolution is a fun and light-hearted read. Walter G. Moss, An Age of Progress? 5. E. A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988), 26–29, 32, 56. Appleby writes of common descriptions of England's industrial success: "high wages and low fuel costs, secure titles to land, agricultural improvements, low taxation, the rise of cities and its scientific culture." Geoffrey Barraclough, ed., The Times Atlas of World History, rev. (Oxford, 1999), 204–05. 262 (1949): 62–69; Andrew Cayton, “The Early National Period,” 88. 54. : Some Myths about the rise of China and India,” Boston Review (January–February 2008); Heston and Sicular, “China and Development Economics,” 31. Siri Schubert and T. Christian Miller, “Where Bribery Was Just a Line Item,” New York Times, December 21, 2008. Nancy Birdsall, “Inequalitiy Matters: Why Globalization Doesn’t Lift All Boats,” Boston Review (March–April 2007): 7–11. (Chicago, 1969 [originally published in 1949]). Jeffrey Fear, “August Thyssen and German Steel,” in Thomas K. McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutions (Cambridge, 1997), 185–226; Clive Trebilcock, The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780–1914 (London, 1981), 61–62. Chapter 2 Summary: “New York-Bound” Picking up after the end of the American Revolution, Chapter 2 begins within the context of the fledgling United States, with George Washington returning home from the war tired and lacking faith in the country he’d helped to get started. West of the Revolution book. 31. 47. Karl Marx, Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (New York, 1977 [originally published in 1859]). "English workers got paid substantially more than elsewhere in Europe – much higher than in other parts of the world," and this created more consumers for manufactured products. CHAPTER 3. Start With Why – Summary. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, The Origins of Physiocracy: Economic Revolution and Social Order in Eighteenth-Century France (Ithaca, 1976); Horn, Path Not Taken, 21, 30, 51–53. 21. Ibid., 192–94, 102, 116–17; Jeremy Kahn, “Booming India Is Suddenly Caught in the Credit Vise,” New York Times, October 24, 2008; Joe Nocera, “How India Avoided a Crisis,” New York Times, December 20, 2008. 5. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 2nd ed. 22. Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development, 148. 1. Charles P. Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, 2nd ed. Isaac Kramnick (London, 1976), 65–72, 228. 45. J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York, 2000), 149, 168–69, 178–80. This book is intended for the general reader. Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York, 1951). E. A. Wrigley and R. S. Schofield, The Population History of England, 1541–1871: A Reconstruction (London, 1981); Gregory Clark, “Too Much Revolution: Agriculture in the Industrial Revolution, 1700–1860,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective, 2nd ed. Stephen Mihm, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Cambridge, MA, 2007), 69–74. 8. Sugar lured men seeking profits, and traders bought and sold the slaves that planters invested in. 55. Robert C. Allen, “Economic Structure and Agricultural Productivity in Europe, 1300–1800,” European Review of Economic History, 4 (2000), 6–8. 7. 27 (2003): 27; Albert G. S. Yu and Gary H. Jefferson, “Science and Technology in China,” in Brandt and Rawski, China’s Great Economic Transformation, 320. In this extensive work, historian Clubbe (The Beethoven Journal) expertly links Ludwig van Beethoven’s music with the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and Napoleon Bonaparte. : Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces (New York, 2008), 74–75. The book is an analysis of the rise of capitalism on a global basis and how it has changed, mutated and reinvented itself in a number of ways over the course of centuries. Jan De Vries, “The Limits of Globalization in the Early Modern World,” Economic History Review (forthcoming): 14. 42. 26. Jean-Christophe Agnew, “Capitalism, Culture and Catastrophe: Lawrence Levine and the Opening of Cultural History,” Journal of American History, 93 (2006): 783. 41. Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 2nd ed. COMMENTARY ON MARKETS AND HUMAN NATURE. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism (Cambridge, 1990), 70ff, 167–70, 218–36, 375ff, 430–34. Simon, “Rise and Fall of Bank Control”: 1077–93. 15. Overy, “About the Second World War,” 6. 38. Wright, History of Corporate Finance, 1: iv; Timothy W. Guinnane, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, “Putting the Corporation in Its Place,” Enterprise and Societ, 8 (2007): 690–91. Moya, “A Continent of Immigrants,” 3–4. Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851 (Cambridge, 2004), 38–41; Mokyr, Gifts of Athena, 44–45. Richard A. Stanford, “The Dependency Theory Critique of Capitalism,” Furman University Web site. Harold James, A German Identity, 1770–1990 (London, 1989), 66. The critical literature on this proposition is best covered in James M. Bryant, “The West and the Rest Revisited: Debating Capitalist Origins, European Colonialism, and the Advent of Modernity,” Canadian Journal of Sociology, 31 (2006). Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights: A History (New York, 2007), 24–32. 8. 46. 18. www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices_display.cfn? Don’t Think; The Cleaner You Are The Dirtier It Gets #1 – You push yourself harder when everyone else has had enough #2 – You get into a zone and control the uncontrollable #3 – You know Exactly Who You Are #4 – Your Dark Side Refuses To Be Taught Good #5 – You’re Not Intimidated By Pressure, You Thrive On It 41. 43. 10. Copying England's success was difficult because it meant a revolution in a spectrum of attitudes. Summary and Analysis Book 2: Chapter 16 - Still Knitting Summary As the road-mender departs for home and the Defarges return to Saint Antoine, a policeman who is a member of the Jacquerie informs Defarge to be alert for a new spy in the area, John Barsad. Robert O’Harrow and Brady Dennis, “Credit Ratings Woes Sent AIG Spiraling,” Los Angeles Times, January 2, 2009. Cameron, Concise Economic History of the World, 377–78. 23. (New York, 1950), 83. Thomas Weiss, “U.S. Available also at www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford. Lin, “Lessons of China’s Transition”: 3. 31. Stanford Libraries' official online search tool for books, media, journals, databases, government documents and more. 1. Start With Why – Summary. Adam Mckeown, “Global Migration, 1840–1940,” Journal of World History, 15 (2004): 156. 12. Caroline Fohlin, Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power (New York, 2007), 65–69. While the transistor, microchip, and computer made the IT revolution possible, it was the Internet and the World Wide Web that increased the speed of relentless change. 9. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York, 1999), 56–57. Jan De Vries, “The Industrious Revolution and the Industrial Revolution,” Papers Presented at the Fifty-third Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association (June 1994). Elizabeth Borgwardt, A New Deal for the World: America’s Vision for Human Rights (Cambridge, 2005), 14–15. Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (London, 1798), 139. Cameron, Concise Economic History of the World, 394. 48. 22. 14. 9. Beasley, Modern History of Japan, 290–93, 303–07, 311–14; Jon Halliday and Gavin McCormack, A Political History of Japanese Capitalism (New York, 1978), 195–203; Normitsu Onishi, “No Longer a Reporter, but a Muckraker within Japan’s Parliament,” New York Times, July 19, 2008. 1. Cyber-Proletariat portrays the struggles of workers along the entire global capitalist commodity chain. 43. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York, 2005), 128–39; Nelson Lichtenstein, “Why Working at Wal-Mart Is Different,” Connecticut Law Review, 39 (2007): 1649–84; “How Wal-Mart Fights Unions,” Minnesota Law Review, 92 (2008): 1462–1501. Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1676 through the Stono Rebellion (New York, 1974), 30–42. The Relentless Revolution, a crowning achievement, shows that capitalism is as much a matter of values and ideas as of supply, demand, and balance sheets. 27. The Langdons had participated in the buying and selling of slaves from the late 1600s up until […] the Revolution, and just like the Washingtons, they considered themselves to be benevolent masters, affording their slaves more than the bare necessities of life. David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism (New York, 1977), 77–78, 146–47. Deepak Lal, Reviving the Invisible Hand: The Case for Classical Liberalism in the Twenty-first Century (Princeton, 2006), 214–19. 24. (p.119). Ronald Dore, William Lazonick, and Mary O’Sullivan, “Varieties of Capitalism in the Twentieth Century,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 15 (1999): 105; Randall K. Morck and Masao Nakamura, “A Frog in a Well Knows Nothing of the Ocean,” in Randall K. Morck, ed., A History of Corporate Governance around the World: Family Business Groups to Professional Managers, National Bureau of Economic Research Report (Chicago, 2007), 450–52. D. V. Glass, “Gregory King’s Estimation of the Population of England and Wales, 1695,” Population Studies, 2 (1950). CHAPTER 12. In England, she writes, the "old agrarian order" was reformed. William R. Childs. 30. 29. Mary A. Yeager, “Will There Ever Be a Feminist Business History?,” in Mary A. Yeager, ed., Women in Business (Cheltenham, 1999), 12–15, 33–34. 12. 14. 33. David Brion Davis, Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (Oxford, 2006), 80; David Eltis, “The Volume and Structure of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Reassessment,” William and Mary Quarterly, 58 (2001). 29. He thinks humans cut down forests, built skyscrapers, and changed the ecosystem into a “concrete and plastic” shopping mall. John M. Kleeberg, “German Cartels: Myths and Realities,” http://www.econ.barnard.columbia.edu /~econhist/papers/ Kleeberg_German_Cartels. 20. 22. 20. Adam Smith, An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (New York, 1937 [Modern Library ed. James Riedel, “Industrialization and Growth: Alternative Views of East Asia,” in Hughes, ed., Achieving Industrialization in East Asia, 9–13. See also Arthur H. Cole, “Cyclical and Sectional Variations in the Sale of Public Land,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 9 (1927): 50; Andrew R. L. Cayton, The Frontier Republic: Ideology and Politics in the Ohio Country, 1780–1825 (Kent, 1986), 115–17. 20. 45. 24. Capitalism, writes Appleby, was a cultural phenomenon and embodied a new restlessness and change. Richard B. DuBoff, Electric Power in American Manufacturing, 1889–1958 (New York, 1979), 17, 100–01. 40. Maarten Prak, ed., Early Modern Capitalism: Economic and Social Change in Europe, 1400–1800 (New York, 2001), 194ff; “Werner von Siemens,” Allgemeine Deutsche Biog-raphie, online version, vol. 49. 41. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States (Washington, 1983). —New York Times Book Review "Scarcity," she writes, "exercised a pervasive influence in premodern societies." The Black Revolution on Campus is the definitive account of an extraordinary but forgotten chapter of the black freedom struggle. Thomas K. McCraw. Trebilcock, Industrialization of Continental Powers, 32; Alan S. Milward and S. B. Saul, The Economic Development of Continental Europe, 1780–1870 (London, 1973), 142–45. 9. 38. – Dorothy Kidd, Professor and Chair, Department of Media Studies, University of San Francisco. Stephen F. Rohde, Freedom of Assembly (New York, 2005), 33–38; Frieden, Global Capitalism, 299–300. A surprising tale of an unsung heroine, French resistance leader and spy extraordinaire during World War II, Marie-Madeleine Fourcade. Quoted in R. D. Collinson Black, “Smith’s Contribution in Historical Perspective,” in T. Wilson and A. S. Skinner, eds., The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith (Oxford, 1976). 19. 22. This course offers a broad overview of American capitalism from the era of the American Revolution through the present day. 47. Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century (New York, 2005); Jeffrey A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (New York, 2006 [paperback ed., 2007]), 293ff; Robert W. Crandall and Kenneth Ramm, eds., Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (Washington, 1989), 10. 55 (Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, 2007): 203–13. : Clashing Twentieth Century Forces (New York, 2008), 58–59. “For the slaveholding elite, it was difficult to accept the agency of black thought or the desire and risk involved in escape. 8. 26. www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/10/Europe/EU_Gen_Norway. 21. Charles P. Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, 2nd ed. Edmund Morgan, American Slavery, American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia (New York, 1975), 24–26. S. Shuming Bao et al., “Geographic Factors and China’s Regional Development under Market Reforms, 1978–98,” China Economic Review, 13 (2002): 90, 109–10; Lin, “Lessons of China’s Transition”: 2; Naughton, Chinese Economy, 222. Examining interconnectedness maximizes understanding and is better scholarship than fragmented, isolated and narrow visions. . (2004), 153–57. It is not a rigorous historical analysis, nor is it an economics text. But alongside their participation in world trade, the Dutch and English advanced their agriculture beyond that of other European societies, and their middle class advanced in influence. Appleby, Economic Thought and Ideology, 158–98. Pomeranz and Topik, World That Trade Created, 130–32. 34. : A Sectoral Analysis of Comparative Productivity Levels, 1870–1990,” Journal of Economic History, 58 (1998): 375–76. The Relentless Revolution, a crowning achievement, shows that capitalism is as much a matter of values and ideas as of supply, demand, and balance sheets. Don’t let the title “Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary” throw you off. Over time the relentless revolution increased the exploitation of natural resources and the accompanying degradation of the environment. 4. When a synthesis elicits fatwas from two giants of the profession (Gordon S. Wood and Edmund S. Morgan) in two of the most popular magazines that review history (New Republic and New York Review of Books), you know the author is onto something.The volume that raised all these hackles is Gary B. Nash's The Unknown American Revolution: The Unreal Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to … 9. (Maplewood, NJ, 1985), 280–81. 35. 44. Joyce Appleby interviewed on the history of capitalism's development and contemporary manifestations. 28. 30. Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., The Process of Government under Jefferson (Princeton, 1978), 107; and L. Ray Gunn, The Decline of Authority: Political Economic Policy and Political Development in New York State, 1800–1860 (Ithaca, 1988). Ben Marsden and Crosbie Smith, Engineering Empires: A Cultural History of Technology in Nineteenth-Century Britain (New York, 2005), 99; Chandler, Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century, 137. The globalization is witnessing the technological revolution which differs 45. The way of the Essentialist is the relentless pursuit of less but better. Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fate of Human Societies (New York, 1997). Alex MacGillivray, A Brief History of Globalization: The Untold Story of Our Incredible Shrinking Planet (New York, 2006), 267. 4. Harari thinks about how the world has changed since the Industrial Revolution. Constance Chen, “From Passion to Discipline: East Asian Art and the Culture of Modernity in the United States, 1876–1945” (UCLA dissertation, 2000). Fareed Zakaria, “Is America in Decline? Jeffrey A. Frieden, Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (2006 [paperback ed., 2007]), 287; Charles Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, 2nd ed. Chapter 2 Summary: “New York-Bound” Picking up after the end of the American Revolution, Chapter 2 begins within the context of the fledgling United States, with George Washington returning home from the war tired and lacking faith in the country he’d helped to get started. 36. Richard B. Sheridan, Sugar and Slavery: An Economic History of the British West Indies, 1623–1775 (Baltimore, 1974), 436–37. Mokyr, Gifts of Athena, 87; Christine MacLeod, “James Watt, Heroic Invention and the Idea of the Industrial Revolution,” in Maxine Berg and Kristine Bruland, eds., Technological Revolutions in Europe: Historical Perspectives (Northampton, MA, 1998), 96–98. Info 2/23 The Industrial Era is ending. See also Joel Mokyr, “Editor’s Introduction: The New Economic History and the Industrial Revolution,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., The British Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1999), esp. Elisabeth Rosenthal, “European Support for Bicycles Promotes Sharing of the Wheels,” New York Times, November 10, 2008. Leonard Y. Andaya, The World of Maluku: Eastern Indonesia in the Early Modern Period (Honolulu, 1993), 151; Sanjay Subrahmanyam, “Holding the World in Balance: The Connected History of the Iberian Overseas Empires, 1500–1640,” American Historical Review, 112 (2007): 1367–68. (New York, 1950), 83. 23. Jeffrey R. Bernstein, “Japanese Capitalism,” in McGraw, ed., Creating Modern Capitalism, 473–74. 2. 40. 24. 1. Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (New Haven, 2007), 230. Adrian J. Randall, “The Philosophy of Luddism: The Case of the West of England Woolen Workers, ca. 20. Pakenham, Scramble for Africa, 15, 22. 39. Kaoru Sugahara, “Labour-Intensive Industrialisation in Global History: The Second Notel Butlin Lecture,” Australian Journal of Economic History, 47 (2007): 134, n. 24; Ohkawa and Rosovsky, “Capital Formation in Japan,” in Yamamura, ed., Economic Emergence of Modern Japan, 214–15; Mark Elvin, “The Historian as Haruspex,” New Left Review, 52 (2008): 88. 19. Dan Bilefsky, “Oh, Yugoslavia! 5. CHAPTER – VI SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The accent must be at auto-regulation, on active assimilation-the accent must ... stems from the relentless efforts of the VSP work force. 17. OTHER BOOKS. A striking exception to this generalization can be found in Colleen Dunlavy and Thomas Weisskopp, “Myths and Peculiarities: Comparing U.S. and German Capitalism,” German Historical Bulletin, 41(2007). In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, writes Appleby, many European villagers were still working together in common fields – community plots. Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Stephen Salsbury, Pierre S. du Pont and the Making of the Modern Corporation (New York, 1971), 591–600. Modern Times is a 1936 American silent comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin in which his iconic Little Tramp character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. 27. Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaaiming the Commons (San Francisco, 2006), 65–78, 135–52. 18. 35. Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York, 1999), 204, 282–65. 16. Labor Force Estimates and Economic Growth, 1800 to 1860,” in R. Gallman and J. Wallis, eds., The Standard of Living in Early Nineteenth Century America (Chicago, 1992), 8–10; Lee A. Craig and Thomas Weiss, “Hours at Work and Total Factor Productivity Growth in 19th-Century U.S. Agriculture,” Advances in Agricultural Economic History, 1 (2000): 1–30; Weiss, “American Economic Miracle”: 20. | book summary index | macrohistories index. The figure is for 1820. : 6–21. Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton, 2002), 4; Karen Orren, Belated Feudalism: Labor, The Law, And Liberal Developments In The United States (Cambridge, 1992); Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 (Princeton, 1964), 22. Sinek starts with the example of car manufacturers. Thomas Culpeper, Plain English (London, 1673). 7. Appleby describes the scarcity of agricultural societies up to the 16th century and the European divergence and the development of capitalism as a cultural system. How They Long for Your Firm Embrace,” New York Times, January 30, 2008. 47. 40. 14. Jack A. Goldstone, “Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of World History, 13 (2002): 363. 10. 7. She taught for many years at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the 2009 winner of the Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Award for distinguished writing in American History. 10. 13. 4. 17. Kamdar, Planet India, 102, 107, 124; Anand Giridharadas, “Indian to the Core, and an Oligarch,” New York Times, June 15, 2008. I have converted English currency to American dollars. 15. . Erica Armstrong Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers University. Kindleberger, Financial History, 413–17. 16. 4. Moss, Age of Progress?, 38, 62; Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-chia Hsia, and Bonnie G. Smith, The Making of the West: People and Cultures: A Concise History, 2nd ed. 14. Seiji Naya, “The Role of Trade Policies in the Industrialization of Rapidly Growing Asian Developing Countries,” in Hughes, ed., Achieving Industrialization in East Asia, 64. F. G. Notehelfer, “Meiji in the Rear-View Mirror: Top Down vs. Bottom Up History,” Monumenta Nipponica, 45 (1990): 207–28. and enlarged ed. (p. 57). The Necessary Revolution: Creating a Sustainable Future Peter Senge and Bryan Smith. Walter G. Moss, An Age of Progress? Thomas Paine, Common Sense, ed. THE ASCENT OF GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES. and ed. The old biblical denunciations of usury and also aspirations for wealth were being discarded. Joyce Appleby’s The Relentless Revolution is therefore to be welcomed as one of the first in what will surely be a series of long-range reflections on the history of capitalism which take us from its origins to the current coincidence of a global economic downturn and the rise of China. (p. 83) Politically, she writes, "England became divided between those whom the changes of the century dislodged and those who stayed put.". 52. John Clubbe’s “ Beethoven: The Relentless Revolutionary” is the first attempt to shift mild curiosity surrounding the composer’s politics into a crescendo of intellectual study. Alexei Barrionuevo, “For Wealthy Brazilian, Money from Ore and Might from the Cosmos,” New York Times, August 2, 2008. William S. Broad and Cornelia Dean, “Rivals Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation,” New York Times, October 16, 2008. I am indebted to David Levine for this information. (p. 72), Appleby writes that with the new freedom and extent of trade "a decisive cultural shift had clicked into place." John Gillingham, “The European Coal and Steel Community: An Object Lesson,” in Barry Eichengreen, ed., Europe’s Post-War Recovery (Cambridge, 1995), 152–53, 166. Peter Barnes, Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons (San Francisco, 2006), 20–23. Summary and Analysis Book 2: Chapter 16 - Still Knitting Summary As the road-mender departs for home and the Defarges return to Saint Antoine, a policeman who is a member of the Jacquerie informs Defarge to be alert for a new spy in the area, John Barsad. 18. PCs Invade Japan,” Fortune, July 12, 1993. Peter Dreier and Kelly Candaele, “Why We Need EFCA,” American Prospect, December 2, 2008. 1. “Modern Market Thought Has Devalued a Deadly Sin,” New York Times, September 27, 2008; Steven Greenhouse and David Leonhardt, “Real Wages Fail to Match a Rise in Productivity,” New York Times, August 28, 2006. Boswell’s Life of Johnson, ed. Her first book, A Fragile Freedom: African American Women and Emancipation in the Antebellum City, was published by Yale University Press in 2008.Her second book, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge was a 2017 finalist for the National Book … 41. 14. Yutaka Kosai, “The Postwar Japanese Economy, 1945–1973,” in Yamamura, ed., Economic Emergence of Modern Japan. 3. 18. Wealth was accumulated for investment in farm productivity. 16. From the rebellion in southern Spanish California to the relentless expansion of Russian power over present-day Alaska, the story of these events are laid out in this book. Sugar production involved investment, exploiting numerous laborers and mechanisms for hauling and grinding. 1. What it is is a survey of the rise of capitalism from its beginnings in the 17th century to its current position as the dominant economic system in the global economy of the 21st century. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (London, 1930). 16. For England this happened by the end of the seventeenth century." Womack, Jones, and Roos, ibid., 159–68. Rondo Cameron, A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present (New York, 1989), 347–50. On occasion Popovic’s relentless positivity can grate slightly. 28. 8. CHAPTER 4. Read 106 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Mark Magnier, “Bribery and Graft Taint Every Facet of Life in China,” Los Angeles Times, December 29, 2008. Trebilcock, Industrialization of Continental Powers, 40; Fohlin, Finance Capitalism and Germany’s Rise to Industrial Power, 220–21. Search for more papers by this author. Henry James, “The German Experience and the Myth of British Cultural Exceptionalism,” in Bruce Collins and Keith Robbins, eds., British Culture and Economic Decline: Debates in Modern History (London, 1990), 108–11. 3. Sheldon L. Richman, “The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan,” Free Market, 10 (1988): 1. 16. In England a new respect for monetary ambitions had arisen, alongside a new respect for materialism, freedom of choice and consumerism. The Dynamics of Military Revolution, 1300–2050 - August 2001. Analysis. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, trans. 21. Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, 3rd ed. | book summary index | macrohistories index, Joyce Appleby interviewed on the history of capitalism's development and contemporary manifestations. Households since 1977,” in Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and James W. Cortada, eds., A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present (New York, 2003), 257. James F. Hollifield, Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe (Cambridge, 1992), 4–5. 19. Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It (Oxford, 2007). T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York, 2009). Upon finishing Chapter 5, this quest will be unlocked. Joyce Appleby’s “Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism” “explores the benchmarks of capitalism’s ascent through analyzing the capitalist system as it relates to practices, thoughts, values, and ideals present in the political formation of western society.”. 10. Ian Buruma, “Who Freed Asia?,” Los Angeles Times, August 31, 2007. Content. 18. 47. Chandler, Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century, 212–15; David Mitch, “The Role of Education and Skill in the British Industrial Revolution,” in Joel Mokyr, ed., The British Industrial Revolution (Oxford, 1999), 277–78. 13. Voth, “Time and Work in Eighteenth-Century London,” Journal of Economic History, 58 (1998): 36–37. Margaret C. Jacob and Larry Stewart, Practical Matter: Newton’s Science in the Service of Industry and Empire, 1687–1851 (Cambridge, 2004), 126–27. 28. 2. Naughton, Chinese Economy, 79; Philip Huang, The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1988 (Stanford, 1990); Philip Huang, The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China(Stanford, 1985). 7. Parag Khanna, “Waving Goodbye to Hegemony,” New York Times Magazine, January 27, 2008. 35. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Frankenstein and what it means. 6. T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (New York, 2009), 90–95. 11. Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York, 1991), 39–42. Edward Wong, “In Major Shift, China May Let Peasants Sell Rights to Farmland,” New York Times, October 11, 2008. Charles Kindleberger, A Financial History of Western Europe, 2nd ed. Mary Kupiec Cayton et al., 3 vols. She writes that "before there were factories under roofs, there were factories in the fields." 1. 45. Beasley, Modern History of Japan, 268–76. 45. 6. This was in 1802. D. V. Glass, “Gregory King’s Estimation of the Population of England and Wales, 1695,” Population Studies, 2 (1950). Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Science Industries (New York, 2001), 35–40. 14. 43. 22. Pomeranz and Topik, World That Trade Created, 97–100. Warren S. Thompson, “The Demographic Revolution in the United States,” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, no. . 1. “It is said that history is written by the winners. T. H. Aston and C. E. Philpin, eds., The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe (Cambridge, 1985). 32. Trebilcock, Industrialization of Continental Powers, 54, 64–66. 14. Jack A. Goldstone, “Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the ‘Rise of the West’ and the Industrial Revolution,” Journal of World History, 13 (2002). For a more sympathetic response to Pomeranz, see P. H. H. Vries, “Are Coal and Colonies Really Crucial? E. A. Wrigley, “A Simple Model of London’s Importance in Changing English Society and Economy 1650–1750,” Past and Present, 37 (July 1967): 44–47. Asking for It, by Louise O’Neill: brave, clever, provocative but relentless. The demand for food increased the price that could be charged for crops, and this added incentive to increase food production. Pomeranz, “Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective”: 90–92. 13. 11. Historians, she writes, do not have to take sides. J. R. McNeill, Something New under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (New York, 2000), 13, 315. . Robert C. Allen, “The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective” (2006): 3–7, available on the Internet. 4. 16. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. 3. 35. (p. 79). Kenneth Pomeranz, “Chinese Development in Long-Run Perspective,” American Philosophical Society Proceedings, 152 (2008): 83–84. Elisabeth Rosenthal, “To Counter Problems of Food, Try Spuds,” New York Times, October 25, 2008. 16 (2004): 30; Jonathan Holland, ed., “Top Manta: la pirateria musical en Espana,” Puerto del Sol, vol. 17. CHAPTER 5. Walter G. Moss, An Age of Progress? Clive Trebilcock, The Industrialization of the Continental Powers, 1780–1914 (London, 1981), 44–46, 172–77; Stiles, First Tycoon, 82–85; Dunlavy, Politics and Industrialization, 38–41. 31. 4. ... Chapter 1 – Assume You Know. (New York, 1973), 286–87. (Armonk, NY, 2006), 07. Chapter 3. 11. The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism Summary "Splendid: the global history of capitalism in all its creative—and destructive—glory." Harari thinks that modern scientists, like Gilgamesh, also seek to prolong life—and ultimately cheat death. 7. David S. Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (New York, 1997); Alfred F. Crosby, Jr., The Measure of Reality: Quantification and Western Society, 1250–1600 (New York, 2000), reviewed by Roger Hart, Margaret Jacob, and Jack A. Goldstone in the American Historical Review, 105 (2000): 486–508; Deepak Lal, Unintended Consequences (Cambridge, 1998). “It is said that history is written by the winners. 22. 25. 3. David E. Bloom et al., “Why Has China’s Economy Taken Off Faster than India’s?” (June 2006), available on the Web; Kenneth Pomeranz, “Why China’s Dollar Pile Has to Shrink (Relatively Soon),” China Beat Blog, http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-chinas-dollar-pile-has-to-shrink.htmlp, January 19, 2008. Price F. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor, “The Adoption of Workers’ Compensation in the United States, 1900–1930,” Journal of Law and Economics, 41 (1998): 305–308. 5. Review: A harrowing novel on the issue of sexual consent asks important questions of the reader, writes Sarah Gilmartin 52. : Clashing Twentieth-Century Global Forces (New York, 2008), 3–12. 13. 11. Bardhan, “What Makes a Miracle?”: 11–13; Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (New York, 1999), 149–51, and “An Elephant, Not a Tiger: A Special Report on India,” Economist, December 13, 2008, 6. Appleby's history of capitalism is less minutely technical than was Marx's three volume work, Das Kapital – nothing, for example, about falling profit margins. 19. 5. 53. Frieden, Global Capitalism, 261–62; Higgs, “From Central Planning to the Market”: 600. The Relentless Revolution A History of Capitalism (Book) : Appleby, Joyce : The unlikely development of a potent historical force, told withgrace, insight, and authority by one of our besthistorians. 34. Charles R. Beitz, “Does Global Inequality Matter?,” in Thomas W Pogge, ed., Global Justice (Oxford, 2001), 106, quoted in Barbara Weinstein, “Developing Inequality,” American Historical Review, 113 (2008): 2. 39. In what ways has the history of west been mythologized into a story of relentless progress and self-sufficiency? 12. Kozo Yamamura, ed., Economic Emergence of Modern Japan (New York, 1997), 123–37. 20. (New York, 1993), 453. 46. Barry Naughton, The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth (Cambridge, 2007), 82, 222. 32. Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development, 128; Russell Shorto, “Childless Europe: What Happens to a Continent When It Stops Making Babies?,” New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2008. The custom of late marriages in England and the wait to establish separate households, "acted as a population check." 17. Great companies don’t hire skilled people and … 18. Keith Bradsher, “A Younger India Is Flexing Its Industrial Brawn,” New York Times, September 11, 2008. Eric Robinson and A. E. Musson, James Watt and the Steam Revolution: A Documentary History (London, 1969), 4–6. 28. David Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity: Biology, Culture, and Material Life in Europe after the Year 1000 (Berkeley, 2001), 333–37. C. V. Ranganathan, “How to Understand Deng Xiaping’s China,” in Tan Chung, ed., Across the Himalayan Gap: An Indian Quest for Understanding China (1998). 21. England’s Treasure by Forraign Trade (London, 1664 [originally published in 1622]), 218–19. 20. 8. Diana B. Henriques, “Madoff Scheme Kept Shipping Outward, Crossing Borders,” New York Times, December 20, 2008. There were freehold farmers and prosperous tenants. The lives of villagers were "deeply entwined with those of their neighbors," and the stability of this way of life "had built a mighty wall of hostility to change." Louis Hyman, “Debtor Nation: How Consumer Credit Built Postwar America” (Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard, 2007); Karen Orren, Corporate Power and Social Change: The Politic of the Life Insurance Industry (Baltimore, 1974), 127–31. Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: White Man’s Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 (New York, 1991), 18–74; Adam Hochschild, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (New York, 1999), 26–33. 9. 46. 44. 44. Irwin Unger, Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865–1879 (Princeton, 1964), 13–20. Naughton, Chinese Economy, 202–3, 398. 3. 15. 2. 3. He warns against continuing on this path of relentless population growth and industrial production because he thinks such behavior is reckless—it might even end up causing humanity to go extinct. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in the western German city of Bonn. Clark Kerr, The Uses of the University ( Cambridge, MA, 1963). Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Frankenstein and what it means. Joyce Appleby, “Modernization Theory and the Formation of Modern Social Theories in England and America,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 20 (1978): 260; Crafts, “Golden Age of Economic Growth in Western Europe,” 434; Barbara Weinstein, “Developing Inequality,” American Historical Review, 113 (2008): 6–8. : Clashing Twentieth Century Forces (New York, 2008). Barbara Weinstein, “Presidential Address: Developing Inequality,” American Historical Review, 113 (2008): 15. See also Levine, At the Dawn of Modernity, 294–99. Vikas Bajaj, “If Everyone’s Finger Pointing, Who’s to Blame?,” New York Times, January 22, 2008. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans. H. Bathelt, C. Wiseman, and G. Zakrzewski, “Automobile Industry: A ‘Driving Force’ behind the German Economy,” wwwgeog/specialist/vgt/Englisih/ger, 2. Relentless growth in … Kenneth Pomeranz and the Great Divergence,” Journal of World History, 12 (2001). (New York, 1993), 308–13. 6. Raphael Samuel, “Workshop of the World: Steam Power and Hand Technology in Mid-Victorian Britain,” History Workshop, no. Tina Rosenberg, “Globalization,” New York Times, July 30, 2008. 18. 16. Milton Friedman, “Noble Lecture: Inflation and Unemployment” and Gary Becker, “Afterward: Milton Friedman as a Microeconomist,” in Milton Friedman on Economics: Selected Papers (Chicago, 2007), 1–22, 181–86. Maddison, Dynamic Forces in Capitalist Development, 274–75; Frieden, Global Capitalism, 289. Kenneth Flamm, “Technological Advance and Costs: Computers versus Communications,” in Robert W. Crandall and Kenneth Flamm, eds., Changing the Rules: Technological Change, International Competition, and Regulation in Communications (Washington, 1989), 15–20. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 43. 16. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance, and Change: The Character of the Industrial Revolution in England (Cambridge, 1988), 12–13. Robert Pollin et al., A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (Amherst, 2008). 44. The-History-of-GM—-General-Motors&id=110696. 4. Carl N. Degler, Neither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States (New York, 1971), 245–56; Davis, Inhuman Bondage, 120–21; Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen, 10. Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop (Chicago, 2000 [originally published 1835, 1840]), 386. Olive Cleaveland Clarke, Things That I Remember at Ninety-Five (1881), 10–11. Charles P. Kindleberger, The World in Depression, 1929–1939 (Berkeley, 1986), 119. Choe Sang-Hun, “South Korea, Where Boys Were Kings, Revalues Its Girls,” New York Times, October 23, 2007. 41. Summary Computers have been the heart of the information technology (IT) revolution. Chandler, Inventing the Electronic Century, 91; Emerson W. Pugh, Memories that Shaped An Industry: Decisions Leading to IBM System/360 (Cambridge, 1984), 187–90. Frank Tannenbaum, Slave and Citizen: The Negro in America (New York, 1947), 33. (p. 118), There can be no capitalism, as distinguished from select capitalist practices, without a culture of capitalism, and there is no culture of capitalism until the principal forms of traditional society have been challenged and overcome. One could not ask for writing that is more lucid and uncomplicated about what some consider a difficult subject. Alfred W. Crosby, Jr., The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 (Westport, CT, 1972). Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power (New York, 1991), 601–909. Read 106 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Rondo Cameron, A Concise Economic History of the World: From Paleolithic Times to the Present (New York, 1989), 375, 392; James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World(New York, 1990), 11. Feeding more people with fewer workers released people for work at other occupations and left "more money in everyone's pockets" for buying a variety of goods. 39. 1. ... Summary. Naughton, Chinese Economy, 422–23, 107–10, 478–81; Keith Bradsher, “Qualifying Tests for Financial Workers,” New York Times, December 26, 2008. 5. McGraw, “American Capitalism,” 322–25. 22. Kenneth Flamm “Technological Advance and Costs,” in Robert W. 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