... of an increasingly legalized and demilitarized European states system. The Closed Commercial State elaborated Kant's historical model into an account of the rise of global trade and its impact on state formation. Fichte concluded that the pacification of Europe envisioned by Kant was predicated...

... the micro-level behavioral patterns and opportunity structures that allowed for the development and transformation of the English Company and, through it, larger patterns of global trade. Anderson Gary M Barber William J Carlos Ann M charters decentralization decision making economic theory employees...

... to control long-distance trade for more than three centuries. It shows that by 1700, the scene and methods for global trade had dramatically changed: Dutch and English merchants shepherded goods directly from China and India to northwestern Europe. To understand this transformation, the book compares...

... to their advantage, making decisions about the degree to which they would or would not be incorporated by the Chinese state, played an important role in the development of China's diaspora and its global trade linkages. The chapter also talks about soldiers stationed in the garrison that had to adapt to the new...

...This chapter analyzes the conditions needed to design and implement successful special economic zones and industrial parks. It discusses long-term trends and fundamental issues in global trade since trade is the main source of growth for low-income countries that have limited domestic demand...

...This introductory chapter outlines seismic risk as a global policy problem. Seismic risk presents a great challenge in developed countries, not only for the nations in which they occur, but also for disruption of the interconnected global trade, transportation, communications, and financial...

... and worker layoffs, and that trade agreements serve corporate interests, undercut domestic environmental regulations, and erode national sovereignty. Why are global trade and agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership so controversial? Does free trade deserve its bad reputation? This book aside...

.... It provides an overview of England and its involvement in global trade in 1688. agriculture aristocracy class struggle Corns Thomas N de Tocqueville Alexis feudalism gentry Marxism military services Norman Conquest 1066 parliament peasantry power property religion serfdom war Winstanley...

..., and global trade. The book explores how the tar baby story, thought to have originated in Africa, came to exist in hundreds of forms on five continents. Examining its variation, reception, and dispersal over time, the book argues that the story is best understood not merely as a folktale but as a collective...