Product Description: Industrialization is still the factor that distinguishes the modern world from the past, and advanced countries from undeveloped ones. In this revised and expanded edition, Tom Kemp uses the historical record of industrialization to explore key questions about its impact and the significance we assign to it...read more

Product Description: Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy investigates, through regional studies and paired comparisons, how technological skills and knowledge were reproduced and disseminated in the advanced agrarian societies of China, India, Russia and Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution...read more

Product Description: Insight into today's economic and financial problems comes, in this revealing book, from an understanding of how and why the practice and the teaching of management has developed as it has. Gordon Pearson, who has spent equal parts of his long career as a practising manager and a management educator, clarifies through rigorous historical review the difficult issues around management with which we struggle today, such as why management custom and practice so often lead to contravention of the law...read more

Uses contemporary documents to explore the Industrial Revolution.

Product Description: This text reflects the developments in the economic understanding of the third world. Williamson argues that third world analysts ignore economic history at their peril, and uses it to speak to the issues of the 1990s. Economic knowlege of third world development has undergone a transformation since the 1970s...read more

Product Description: This is a wide-ranging historical account of world organization and industrial change, providing the background to current debates about reform of the U. N. system.

This new edition is fully updated and revised, incorporating the massive changes in the USSR and China in the 1980's. It offers a series of case-studies charting the progress and assessing the achievement of six industrializing countries outside the Western World. It covers the whole range of economic approaches, from those depending wholly on market forces to those that are completely planned.