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Storm over Texas : the annexation controversy and the road to Civil War
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ISBN: 128083482X 0198031920 9780198031925 0195315928 9780195315929 0195139445 9780195139440 0199881499 0197716490 Year: 2023 Publisher: New York ; Oxford University Press,

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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.


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The other great game : the opening of Korea and the birth of modern East Asia
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ISBN: 9780674293519 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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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.


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Protéger, libérer, assujettir : l'expansion territoriale de la commune de Florence au XIVe siècle
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ISBN: 9782728315772 2728315779 2728315779 9782728315772 Year: 2023 Publisher: Rome : Ecole française de Rome,

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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


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Pioneers of capitalism: the Netherlands, 1000-1800
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ISBN: 0691229872 9780691229874 9780691242460 0691242461 Year: 2023 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton University Press

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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"--

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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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