A lively survey of the families at the head of major companies from the past two centuries focuses on three areas, including banking, automobiles, and raw materials, in a historical account that includes coverage of the Ford, Guggenheim, and Rockefeller dynasties. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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Product Description: In this new edition of his classic history on revolution and economic development in Europe, David Landes reasserts his original arguments in the light of current debates about globalization and comparative economic growth. Questions about why Europe was the first to industrialize and the viability of the post-war economic boom are as controversial as ever and Landes concludes that only by continuous industrial revolution can Europe and the world sustain itself in the years ahead...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses reasons why the clock was invented in Europe, traces the development of timekeeping technology, and describes how clocks and watches are made (view table of contents)

A study of the world's growing gulf between rich and poor explains why Western European nations have been the wealthiest, prospering through open societies, new technologies, and the pursuit of change

Discusses reasons why the clock was invented in Europe, traces the development of timekeeping technology, and describes how clocks and watches are made

Product Description: Professor Landes's study, Technological Change and Industrial Development in Western Europe, 1750-1914, first appeare as a chapter in volume VI of the Cambridge Economic History of Europe. He has now extended it by adding a full-scale analysis of modern industrial Europe from the First World War to the 1960s...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)