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Victoires et deboires I: Histoire économique et sociale du monde du XVIe siècle à nos jours

P Bairoch

3.6
Fruit de plus de vingt ans de recherche et d'enseignement à l'Université de Genève, cette histoire économique et sociale restitue, dans la diversité du temps et de l'espace, l'internationalisation du monde.
Le tome premier, après un prologue consacré à l'entre-deux Révolutions (de la révolution néolithique de l'agriculture et de la ville aux prémices de la révolution industrielle), traite des socié
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Contours of the World Economy, 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History

Angus Maddison

4.2
This book seeks to identify the forces which explain how and why some parts of the world have grown rich and others have lagged behind. Encompassing 2000 years of history, Part 1 begins with the Roman Empire and explores the key factors that have influenced economic development in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. Part 2 covers the development of macroeconomic tools of analysis from the 17th
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The End of the Past: Ancient Rome and the Modern West

Aldo Schiavone, Margery J. Schneider

4.2
This searching interpretation of past and present addresses fundamental questions about the fall of the Roman Empire. Why did ancient culture, once so strong and rich, come to an end? Was it destroyed by weaknesses inherent in its nature? Or were mistakes made that could have been avoided--was there a point at which Greco-Roman society took a wrong turn? And in what ways is modern society differen
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Imperialism: A Study

J. a. Hobson

4.1
In his Preface to the 1902 first edition of Imperialism: A Study, imperial critic J.A. Hobson demonstrates his prophetic talents by noting, just as the Victorian age was ending and World War I was brewing, that "Imperialism has been adopted as a more or less conscious policy by several European States and threatens to break down the political isolation of the United States." Though the book speaks
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The Law of Peoples with The Idea of Public Reason Revisited

John Rawls

4.0
This book consists of two parts: "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993, and the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997. Taken together, they are the culmination of more than fifty years of reflection on liberalism and on some of the most pressing problems of our times by John Rawls.

"The Law of Peoples" ext
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Rawls is the first contemporary political philosopher (probably since Kant) that tried to answer the question of how just relations between nations and individuals should interact. [source]

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Rawls’s influence is so widespread and profound that as soon as he embarked upon this topic it suddenly legitimised humans rights as a subject of philosophical concern. [source]