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How Texas joined the United States, in a bitter political context that helped set the nation on the road towards civil war.
Texas --- United States --- Annexation to the United States. --- History --- Causes. --- Politics and government --- Annexation to the United States --- Republic, 1836-1846 --- Civil War, 1861-1865 --- Causes --- 1841-1845 --- 1845-1861
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Sheila Miyoshi Jager returns to the three-cornered contest among imperial Russia, China, and Japan over the Korean Peninsula. The battle to colonize Korea upended East Asian geopolitics, set great-power conflicts of the twentieth century in motion, and seeded internal rivalries that persist in the peninsula's division between North and South.
Korea --- Foreign relations --- History --- 38th parallel. --- Alfred Thayer Mahan. --- Blagoveshchensk. --- Boxer Uprising. --- Ilchinhoe. --- King Kojong. --- Li Hongzhang. --- Liaoyang. --- Manchuria. --- Mukden. --- Open Door. --- Port Arthur. --- Protectorate Treaty. --- Pyongyang. --- Trans Siberian Railway. --- Yellow Sea. --- annexation. --- massacre.
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Au milieu du XIVe siècle, la commune de Florence, qui ne contrôlait jusqu’alors qu’un petit territoire au-delà des murs de la cité, le contado, réussit à assujettir les six principaux centres urbains voisins : Colle Valdelsa, San Gimignano, Prato, Pistoia, Volterra et San Miniato. Pour mener à bien cet assujettissement, le pouvoir florentin ne pouvait cependant se contenter d’une pure et simple conquête militaire : l’issue en aurait été non seulement incertaine mais surtout très difficile à consolider dans le temps. Car même s’ils n’avaient pas atteint l’importance démographique des grandes cités de la région, les centres convoités étaient parvenus à maintenir leur autonomie depuis plus d’un siècle. Ils avaient par conséquent développé une identité politique et culturelle propre, en vertu de laquelle ils auraient pu, une fois conquis, refuser la soumission et constituer partant des foyers permanents de révolte. D’où la nécessité pour les Florentins d’élaborer des instruments en mesure de légitimer leur domination et d’en assurer ainsi la pérennité. Quels furent les mécanismes explicites et implicites de cette entreprise de légitimation ? À partir d’une étude approfondie des actes juridiques qui formalisèrent la soumission et du discours produit sur celle-ci par les chroniques contemporaines, cet ouvrage en analyse les ressorts politiques et culturels. Il permet ainsi de comprendre comment et pourquoi cet assujettissement fut paradoxalement pensé comme la condition nécessaire au maintien de la libertas
Expansion territoriale -- Florence (Italie ; province) --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- Florence (Italie ; province) --- Communes --- Expansion territoriale --- Politique et gouvernement --- Pouvoir (sciences sociales) --- Villes --- Acquisition of territory --- Municipal corporations --- Annexation (Municipal government) --- Cities and towns, Medieval --- History. --- Toscane (Italie) --- Florence (Italy) --- Tuscany (Italy) --- Italy --- History --- Politics and government
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"In most narratives of the history of global economic development, the Netherlands plays an early and leading role. Indeed, the Netherlands has maintained a leading position among the most wealthy nations since at least the fifteenthcentury. Adding to the literature on economic development, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden, bring new evidence to bear on our understanding of how institutions in the Netherlands fostered unprecedented, long term economic growth that changed the course of history. The authors argue that informal institutions had developed long before the statecreated the institutions commonly held to be decisive . These informal institutions -believed in Dutch folklore to have originated in the polders, tracts of low land reclaimed from the sea-demonstrate how private and semi-public organizations provided public safeguards for economic activity in the state's absence. The authors explore how cities, corporations, guilds, commons, and other civil society organizations were structured and how they delivered advanced levels of security for market transactions. The Dutch Miracle argues that it was this sociopolitical structure in which the early market economy of the Netherlands emerged and that enabled the country's almost uninterrupted long-term economic growth"--
History of the Netherlands --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1200-1799 --- anno 1100-1199 --- E-books --- Capitalism --- Economics --- Market economy --- Profit --- Capital --- History --- History. --- Agricultural productivity. --- Agriculture. --- Almoner. --- Angel investor. --- Annexation. --- Beeldenstorm. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Bruges. --- Business Income. --- Capitalism. --- Cash. --- Cattle. --- Central bank. --- Centrism. --- Charles Tilly. --- Civil society. --- Council of the Indies. --- Counting. --- Deventer. --- Dividend. --- Dutch Revolt. --- Economic development. --- Economic growth. --- Economy of the Netherlands. --- Economy. --- Editorial. --- Employment. --- Entrance Fee. --- Expropriation. --- Family income. --- Feudalism. --- Financial instrument. --- Financial transaction. --- Free trade. --- Frisian freedom. --- Gorinchem. --- Haarlem. --- Head of state. --- High Middle Ages. --- High ground. --- Holy Roman Empire. --- Hostility. --- Human behavior. --- Income. --- Institution. --- Interest rate. --- International trade. --- Investment fund. --- Jacob's. --- Jurisdiction. --- Leiden. --- Literature. --- Local government. --- Long-Term Investments. --- Malaria. --- Market economy. --- Market orientation. --- Marxian economics. --- Middle class. --- Military service. --- Military. --- Monarchy. --- Naval architecture. --- New class. --- Personal experience. --- Pistoia. --- Politics. --- Polygamy. --- Population density. --- Predestination. --- Prevalence. --- Productivity. --- Proto-state. --- Public administration. --- Publication. --- Republicanism. --- Requirement. --- Return on investment. --- Right to property. --- Roermond. --- Seventeen Provinces. --- Slavery. --- Small business. --- Social change. --- Social insurance. --- Society. --- Sphere of influence. --- State religion. --- Subcontractor. --- Surinam (Dutch colony). --- The Establishment. --- The Origin of Capitalism. --- Troop. --- Unequal exchange. --- Urban legend. --- Warfare. --- Wealth. --- Well-being. --- Western Europe. --- World economy. --- Netherlands --- Pays-Bas --- Economic conditions. --- Conditions économiques.
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