[PDF] The World Crisis eBook

Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0300189192

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The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0795331517

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The aftermath of World War I is explored in the fourth volume of Winston Churchill’s “remarkable” eyewitness account of history (Jon Meacham, bestselling author of Franklin and Winston). Once the war was over, the story didn’t end—not for Winston Churchill, and not for the West. The fourth volume of Churchill’s series, The World Crisis: The Aftermath documents the fallout of WWI—including the Irish Treaty and the peace conferences between Greece and Turkey. The period immediately after World War I was extremely chaotic—and it takes a genius of narrative description and organization to accurately and accessibly describe it for us. Churchill, who went on to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, depicts the international disorganization and anarchy in the period immediately after the war—with the unique perspective of both a historian and a political insider. “Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War.” —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Reconstruction (1914-1939)
ISBN :

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World War 1 and its aftermath.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1962
Category : United States
ISBN : 1442916362

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Story of a Yankee and a Southern lady during the Civil War and a study of the fierce political movements of the time, personified in representative characters including Lincoln, Grant, and Sherman.

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 18,96 MB
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 147258662X

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Volumes 1-3 originally published in 1950 by Odhams Press. Volume 4 originally published in 1929 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Volume 5 originally published in 1931 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

Author : Guglielmo Carchedi
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2018-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1608461882

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Most mainstream economists view capitalism’s periodic breakdowns as nothing more than temporary aberrations from an otherwise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free-market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist scholars from around the world to offer an empirically grounded defense of Marx’s law of profitability and its central role in explaining capitalist crises. “World in Crisis has a specific aim: to provide empirical validity to the hypothesis that the cause of recurring economic crises or slumps in output, investment, and employment in modern economies can be found in Marx’s law of the tendential fall in the rate of profit. Marx believed, and we agree, that this is ‘the most important law in political economy.’” —from the preface

Author : Winston Churchill
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 1923
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9781472582263

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Chapter XIII. The Case for Perseverance and Decision -- Chapter XIV. The First Defeat of the U-Boats -- Chapter XV. The Increasing Tension -- Chapter XVI. The Battle of the Beaches : April 25, 1915 -- Chapter XVII. After the Landing -- Chapter XVIII. The Fall of the Government -- Chapter XIX. The Effort of the New Administration -- Chapter XX. The Darkening Scene -- Chapter XXI. The Battle of Suvla Bay -- Chapter XXII. The Ruin of the Balkans -- Chapter XXIII. The Abandonment of the Dardanelles -- Chapter XXIV. The Consequences of 1915 -- Appendixes.

Author : Larry Allen
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2013-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1780231288

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From Greece scrambling to meet Eurozone austerity measures to America’s sluggish job growth, there is every indication that the world has not recovered from the economic implosion of 2008. And for many of us, the details of what led to the recession—and why it has continued—remain murky. Economic historian Larry Allen clears up the subject in The Global Economic Crisis, offering an insightful and nonpartisan chronology of events and their consequences. Illuminating the interlocked economic processes that lay beneath the crisis, he analyzes the changing nature of the global financial system, central bank policies, housing bubbles, deregulation, sovereign debt crises, and more. Allen begins the timeline with the economic crisis in Japan in the late 1990s, asking whether Japan’s experience could be an indicator of the outcome of the recession and what it can teach us about managing a sluggish economy. He then takes a comparative look at the economies of Brazil, China, and India. Throughout, he argues that many elements have contributed to the ongoing crisis, including the introduction of the euro, the growth of new financial instruments such as securitization, collateralized debt obligations and credit default swaps, interest rate policies, and the housing boom and subprime mortgage fiasco. Lucid and informative, The Global Economic Crisis provides an impartial explanation to anyone seeking to understand the current state—and future—of the world’s economy.

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0795331541

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The conclusion of the great statesman’s epic five-volume history of World War I. The fifth and final volume of Winston Churchill’s “remarkable” series, The World Crisis: The Eastern Front tells a gritty, true-to-life account of the combat in eastern Europe—written by someone whose decisions had a profound impact on the success of war efforts both in the East and in the West (Jon Meacham). While the battle for modern civilization was being fought on the Western Front during World War I, an equally important war—with equally high stakes—was being fought on the Eastern Front, between Russia, Germany, and Germany’s Austrian allies. It’s rare that a historical account of World War I documents in as much detail the events of the Eastern Front as those of the West. Churchill’s account was one of the first to do so, telling the story of an armed conflict that was shockingly dissimilar from its counterpart in the West. “Whether as a statesman or an author, Churchill was a giant; and The World Crisis towers over most other books about the Great War.” —David Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace