An economic history of the world since 1400
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| Format: | DVD |
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses,
[2016]
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| Series: | Great courses.
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Table of Contents:
- Self-interest, human survival, and history
- Marco Polo, China, and Silk Road trade
- Manorial society in medieval Europe
- How black death reshaped town and field
- Late-14th-century guilds and monopolies
- European discovery routes: east and west
- 1571: Spain, Portugal encircle the globe
- Old world bourses and market information
- The Europeans' plantation labor problem
- Adam Smith, mercantilism, state building
- British and Dutch joint-stock companies
- Europe, the printing press, and science
- The industrious revolution: demand grows
- Why didn't China industrialize earlier?
- 18th-century agriculture and production
- Industrial revolution: the textile trade
- British coal, coke, and a new age of iron
- Power: from peat bogs to steam engines
- A second industrial revolution after 1850
- Family labor evolves into factory work
- Cornelius Vanderbilt and the modern firm
- 19th-century farm technology, land reform
- Speeding up: canals, steamships, railroads
- European urbanization and emigration
- Unions, strikes, and the Haymarket affair
- Banks, central banks, and modern states
- Understanding uneven economic development
- Adam Smith's argument for free trade
- Middle-class catalogs and mass consumption
- Imperialism: land grabs and morality plays
- World War I: industrial powers collide
- Russia's Marxist-Leninist experiment
- The trouble with the gold standard
- Tariffs, cartels, and John Maynard Keynes
- Japanese expansionism: Manchurian incident
- U.S. aid and a postwar economic miracle
- Colonialism and the independence movement
- Japan, the transistor, and Asia's tigers
- The welfare state: from Bismarck to Obama
- The end of American exceptionalism?
- Middle East: from pawn to power broker
- Germany, the European Union, and the Euro
- Free trade: global versus regional blocs
- Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and the Soviet decline
- Half the world left behind in poverty
- China, India: two paths to wealth extremes
- The information economy: telegraph to tech
- Leverage with globalization in its grip