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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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MVMA Specifications Form - Passenger Car; Monarch. 1975
Author: MVMA Specifications Form - Passenger Car; Monarch. 1976
Author: Entrepreneurship and Socio-economic Transformation in Thailand and Southeast Asia
Author: Amara PongsapichPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Proceedings of the International Seminar on "Entrepreneurship and Socio-Economic Transformation in Thailand and South East Asia," held in February 1993.
Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition
Author: DKPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1465455280
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition is now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest changes in world geography, including the annexation of Crimea and the new nation of South Sudan. Bringing each featured landscape to life with detailed terrain models and color schemes and offering maps of unsurpassed quality, this atlas features four sections: a world overview, the main atlas, fact files on all the countries of the world, and an easy-to-reference index of all 100,000 place names. All maps enjoy a full double-page spread, with continents broken down into 330 carefully selected maps, including 100 city plans. You will also find a stimulating series of global thematic maps that explore Earth's place in the universe, its physical forms and processes, the living world, and the human condition. From Antarctica to Zambia, discover the Earth continent-by-continent with Complete Atlas of the World, 3rd Edition.
Liberating Kuwait
Author: Paul W. WestermeyerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781782666998
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Author Catalog
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Economy and Society in Baroque Portugal, 1668-1703
Author: Carl A. HansonPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816657823
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Economy and Society in Baroque Portugal, 1668–1703 was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The late seventeenth century in Portugal was a period of apparent calm, and few historians have given it much attention. Portugal's Golden Age of worldwide expansion had made sixteenth-century Lisbon a great commercial center, but other European nations with more advanced economies surpassed Portugal's achievement, and during the seventeenth century agricultural, economic, and political problems all contributed to Portugal's decline. In 1668, at the conclusion of a long war with Spain to restore Portuguese sovereignty, Pedro II began a reign of 38 years, first as regent for a feckless brother ad after 1683 as king. The history of Portugal during his reign is the subject of this book. Carl A. Hanson looks at this relatively unexamined era and finds, behind the facade of baroque calm, subtle but dramatic shifts in the socio-economic foundations of the age. In an effort to cope with economic depression Pedro's government hearkened to enthusiastic reports of Colbert's mercantile policies in France, and tried to encourage the expansion of domestic manufacturing. Linked to these efforts were attempts to curb the inquisitorial persecution of New Christian merchants. Hanson explores the motives of anti-Semitism, greed and class warfare that underlay the persecution and describes the efforts of an eloquent Jesuit, Father Antonio Vieira, to protect the New Christians from the worst excesses of the Inquisition. The triumph of the Inquisition, and thus of the established social order, and the failure of Portugal's experiment in mercantilism coincided with a new wave of commodity-borne prosperity. After 1690, increased exports of Brazilian gold, tobacco, hides, and sugar, and of Port wine changed Portugal's economic status. With the signing of the Anglo- Portuguese treaty of Methuen in 1703, Portugal entered a gilded—if not golden—age. Yet, as Hanson makes clear, the new prosperity was deceptive, for Portugal was to slip into increasingly dependent relationships with the more advanced economies — especially England's—which absorbed great quantities of Luso-Atlantic commodities in exchange for its own manufactures. And, at home, the victorious social order, no longer threatened by a mercantile class, was to find security under an increasingly absolutist government. The reign of Pedro II is significant, then, as a period of transition when, for the first time, the foundations of the old order were threatened. The baroque facade survived but the edifice itself had begun to crumble.
EPA 450/1
Author: Seidways
Author: Jan FriesPublisher: Mandrake of Oxford
ISBN: 9781869928360
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The definitive study of magical trance and possession techniques. The author is inspired by the Nordic tradition of Seidr, said to have been taught to the human race by Odin.
Japan in the Fascist Era
Author: E. ReynoldsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403980411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In contrast to Euro-centric works on comparative fascism that set Japan apart from Germany and Italy, this book emphasizes parallels between Japan and its Axis Allies. Romantic nationalist ideologies attracted a strong following in all three nations as they emerged as modern states in the late 1800s. In both Germany and Japan these were, from the beginning, strongly racial in nature. Spurred by grievances against the 'status quo' powers, all three took up aggressive policies in the 1930s, producing a short-lived 'fascist era'. Japan's prominent role demands a broader perspective and consideration of 'fascism' as more than a purely European phenomenon.