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A Geography of Gilded Age American LiteratureThis study of late nineteenth-century American literature uses the period's rural fiction to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life....

State Capitalism, Business Strategy, and Trade PolicyGovernment subsidies have contributed to China's success as manufacturer and exporter in capital-intensive industries. China's state-capitalist regime uses subsidies to stabilize and create common understandings of markets among governments and firms. This book also covers government...

On the Uses and Abuses of HistoryAaron Hughes examines the creation and dissemination of &'&'Abrahamic religions.&'&' Part genealogical and part analytical, his study seeks to raise and answer questions about the appropriateness and usefulness of employing these religions as a vehicle for understanding and classifying data. This monograph can be...

Nietzschean ConstitutivismPaul Katsafanas explores how we can justify normative claims such as 'murder is wrong'. He defends an original account of constitutivism--the view that we do so by showing that agents become committed to them in virtue of acting--and resolves philosophical puzzles about the metaphysics, epistemology, and...

Goldsmith Banks and England's Financial Revolution after 1700Using new archival data from Goldsmith Banks, Temin and Voth document how government regulation and wartime financing stifled the growth of private credit markets during the Industrial Revolution. They show how, after a turbulent start, banks adapted and found a way to grow, but how...

The Rise of Countercultural EnvironmentalismMake it a Green Peace! explores the complex intellectual and cultural roots of Greenpeace, tracing the development of the organization from its emergence amidst the various protest movements of the 1950s and 1960s to the end of its volative, dramatic, and at times quirky first decade in 1980....