Author: Fernand Braudel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520081154
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.
Civilization and Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Vol. II
Author: Fernand Braudel
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520081154
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520081154
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
By examining in detail the material life of pre-industrial peoples around the world, Fernand Braudel significantly changed the way historians view their subject. Originally published in the early 1980s, Civilization traces the social and economic history of the world from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, although his primary focus is Europe. Braudel skims over politics, wars, etc., in favor of examining life at the grass roots: food, drink, clothing, housing, town markets, money, credit, technology, the growth of towns and cities, and more. Volume I describes food and drink, dress and housing, demography and family structure, energy and technology, money and credit, and the growth of towns.
The Wheels of Commerce
Author: Fernand Braudel
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842122884
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Braudel focuses on the markets and exchanges that have been the real motors of change in this volume. Peddlers, merchants, fairs, market stalls, the first stock exchanges, means of travel and communication, styles of life and social mores.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9781842122884
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Braudel focuses on the markets and exchanges that have been the real motors of change in this volume. Peddlers, merchants, fairs, market stalls, the first stock exchanges, means of travel and communication, styles of life and social mores.
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II
Author: David E. McNabb
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137503300
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137503300
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume II offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise.
The Company
Author: John Micklethwait
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588360903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution. Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame. With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history’s great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald’sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short volume of truly vast range and insight.
Publisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 1588360903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
From the acclaimed authors of A Future Perfect comes the untold story of how the company became the world’s most powerful institution. Like all groundbreaking books, The Company fills a hole we didn’t know existed, revealing that we cannot make sense of the past four hundred years until we place that seemingly humble Victorian innovation, the joint-stock company, in the center of the frame. With their trademark authority and wit, Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge reveal the company to be one of history’s great catalysts, for good and for ill, a mighty engine for sucking in, recombining, and pumping out money, goods, people, and culture to every corner of the globe. What other earthly invention has the power to grow to any size, and to live to any age? What else could have given us both the stock market and the British Empire? The company man, the company town, and company time? Disneyfication and McDonald’sization, to say nothing of Coca-colonialism? Through its many mutations, the company has always incited controversy, and governments have always fought to rein it in. Today, though Marx may spin in his grave and anarchists riot in the streets, the company exercises an unparalleled influence on the globe, and understanding what this creature is and where it comes from has never been a more pressing matter. To the rescue come these acclaimed authors, with a short volume of truly vast range and insight.
Commerce Reports Volume 2
Collected Wheel Publications Volume II
Author: Various
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 9552403227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book contains the fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 16: Buddhism and Christianity — Helmuth von Glasenapp; 17: Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha — Nyanamoli Thera; 18: Devotion in Buddhism — Nyanaponika Thera, Acarya Buddharakkhita, & Kassapa Thera; 19: The Foundations of Mindfulness — Nyanasatta Thera; 20: The Three Signata: Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta — Dr. O. H. de A. Wijesekera; 21: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts — Soma Thera; 22: Buddha The Healer — Dr. Ananda Nimalasuria; 23: The Nature and Purpose of the Ascetic Ideal — Ronald Fussell; 24–5: Live Now — Ananda Pereira; 26: The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest — Nyanaponika Thera; 27–8: Going Forth — Sumana Samanera; 29: The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation — Edwin Arnold,; 30: Women in Early Buddhist Literature — I. B. Horner.
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
ISBN: 9552403227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This book contains the fifteen numbers of the renowned Wheel Publication series, dealing with various aspects of the Buddha’s teaching. Wheel Publication No. 16: Buddhism and Christianity — Helmuth von Glasenapp; 17: Three Cardinal Discourses of the Buddha — Nyanamoli Thera; 18: Devotion in Buddhism — Nyanaponika Thera, Acarya Buddharakkhita, & Kassapa Thera; 19: The Foundations of Mindfulness — Nyanasatta Thera; 20: The Three Signata: Anicca, Dukkha, Anatta — Dr. O. H. de A. Wijesekera; 21: The Removal of Distracting Thoughts — Soma Thera; 22: Buddha The Healer — Dr. Ananda Nimalasuria; 23: The Nature and Purpose of the Ascetic Ideal — Ronald Fussell; 24–5: Live Now — Ananda Pereira; 26: The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest — Nyanaponika Thera; 27–8: Going Forth — Sumana Samanera; 29: The Light of Asia or The Great Renunciation — Edwin Arnold,; 30: Women in Early Buddhist Literature — I. B. Horner.
Art & Accounting
Author: Basil S. Yamey
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300042272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This unusual and abundantly illustrated book discusses a wide collection of paintings and other arts, from 1400 to 1900, that include the image of an account book. Throughout, and particularly in the concluding chapter, the author considers other connections between accounting, art, and history: the
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300042272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This unusual and abundantly illustrated book discusses a wide collection of paintings and other arts, from 1400 to 1900, that include the image of an account book. Throughout, and particularly in the concluding chapter, the author considers other connections between accounting, art, and history: the
Corporate Disclosures
Author: Shankar Jaganathan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000087204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Spanning over two millennia of time and five continents of space, this book narrates the unfolding of financial and business reporting. The first part of the book traces the origin of the 'company' as a form of organization and the evolution of bookkeeping. The second part: The Accounting Edifice, depicts events that led to the disclosure of the balance sheet, the profit and loss account, cash flow statements and the practice of auditing. In the third part: Reaching out to the Shareholders, the author explores the need for governance, reporting of intangible assets and the emergence of annual reports. Indian Corporate Disclosures, the fourth and the last part, sketches the panorama of post-independent dvelopments in Indian corporate disclosures using heritage IT companies, Wipro and Infosys as examples. The last chapter of the book contrasts disclosures by the Indian Sensex companies in 2007 with the best global practices.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000087204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Spanning over two millennia of time and five continents of space, this book narrates the unfolding of financial and business reporting. The first part of the book traces the origin of the 'company' as a form of organization and the evolution of bookkeeping. The second part: The Accounting Edifice, depicts events that led to the disclosure of the balance sheet, the profit and loss account, cash flow statements and the practice of auditing. In the third part: Reaching out to the Shareholders, the author explores the need for governance, reporting of intangible assets and the emergence of annual reports. Indian Corporate Disclosures, the fourth and the last part, sketches the panorama of post-independent dvelopments in Indian corporate disclosures using heritage IT companies, Wipro and Infosys as examples. The last chapter of the book contrasts disclosures by the Indian Sensex companies in 2007 with the best global practices.
Dangerous and Dishonest Men: The International Bankers of Louis XIV's France
Author: G. Rowlands
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137381795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137381795
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
At the start of the eighteenth century Louis XIV needed to remit huge sums of money abroad to support his armies during the War of the Spanish Succession. This book explains how international bankers moved French money across Europe, and how the foreign exchange system was so overloaded by the demands of war that a massive banking crash resulted.
In the Eye of All Trade
Author: Michael J. Jarvis
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807833215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. He shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807833215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The first social history of eighteenth-century Bermuda, this book profiles how one especially intensive maritime community capitalized on its position "in the eye of all trade." Jarvis takes readers aboard small Bermudian sloops as they shuttled cargoes between ports, raked salt, salvaged shipwrecks, hunted whales, captured prizes, and smuggled contraband in an expansive maritime sphere spanning Great Britain's North American and Caribbean colonies. He shows how humble sailors and seafaring slaves operating small family-owned vessels were significant but underappreciated agents of Atlantic integration. The American Revolution shattered interregional links that Bermudians had helped to forge. Reliant on North America for food and customers, Bermudians faced disaster. A bold act of treason enabled islanders to continue trade with their rebellious neighbors and helped them to survive and even prosper in an Atlantic world at war. Ultimately, however, the creation of the United States ended Bermuda's economic independence and doomed the island's maritime economy.