Global Crisis
Title | Global Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 944 |
Release | 2013-03-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300189192 |
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.
The World Crisis: The Aftermath
Title | The World Crisis: The Aftermath PDF eBook |
Author | Winston S. Churchill |
Publisher | Rosetta Books |
Pages | 451 |
Release | 2013-09-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0795331517 |
The aftermath of World War I is explored in the fourth volume of Winston Churchill’s “remarkable” eyewitness account of history (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston). Once the war was over, the story didn’t end—not for Winston Churchill, and not for the West. The fourth volume of Churchill’s series, The World Crisis: The Aftermath documents the fallout of WWI—including the Irish Treaty and the peace conferences between Greece and Turkey. The period immediately after World War I was extremely chaotic—and it takes a genius of narrative description and organization to accurately and accessibly describe it for us. Churchill, who went on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, depicts the international disorganization and anarchy in the period immediately after the war—with the unique perspective of both a historian and a political insider. “Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War.” —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace
The World Crisis: 1915
Title | The World Crisis: 1915 PDF eBook |
Author | Winston Churchill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 620 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Reconstruction (1914-1939) |
ISBN |
The World Crisis
Title | The World Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Winston Churchill |
Publisher | |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 1923 |
Genre | Reconstruction (1914-1939) |
ISBN |
World War 1 and its aftermath.
The Crisis (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)
Title | The Crisis (Volume 1 of 3) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) PDF eBook |
Author | Winston Churchill |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Pages | 414 |
Release | 1962 |
Genre | United States |
ISBN | 1442916362 |
Story of a Yankee and a Southern lady during the Civil War and a study of the fierce political movements of the time, personified in representative characters including Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman.
World in Crisis
Title | World in Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Guglielmo Carchedi |
Publisher | Haymarket Books |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 2018-10-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1608461882 |
Most mainstream economists view capitalism’s periodic breakdowns as nothing more than temporary aberrations from an otherwise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free-market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist scholars from around the world to offer an empirically grounded defense of Marx’s law of profitability and its central role in explaining capitalist crises. “World in Crisis has a specific aim: to provide empirical validity to the hypothesis that the cause of recurring economic crises or slumps in output, investment, and employment in modern economies can be found in Marx’s law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit. Marx believed, and we agree, that this is ‘the most important law in political economy.’” —from the preface
The Global Economic Crisis
Title | The Global Economic Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | Larry Allen |
Publisher | Reaktion Books |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2013-06-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1780231288 |
From Greece scrambling to meet Eurozone austerity measures to America’s sluggish job growth, there is every indication that the world has not recovered from the economic implosion of 2008. And for many of us, the details of what led to the recession—and why it has continued—remain murky. Economic historian Larry Allen clears up the subject in The Global Economic Crisis, offering an insightful and nonpartisan chronology of events and their consequences. Illuminating the interlocked economic processes that lay beneath the crisis, he analyzes the changing nature of the global financial system, central bank policies, housing bubbles, deregulation, sovereign debt crises, and more. Allen begins the timeline with the economic crisis in Japan in the late 1990s, asking whether Japan’s experience could be an indicator of the outcome of the recession and what it can teach us about managing a sluggish economy. He then takes a comparative look at the economies of Brazil, China, and India. Throughout, he argues that many elements have contributed to the ongoing crisis, including the introduction of the euro, the growth of new financial instruments such as securitization, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, interest rate policies, and the housing boom and subprime mortgage fiasco. Lucid and informative, The Global Economic Crisis provides an impartial explanation to anyone seeking to understand the current state—and future—of the world’s economy.