Nathan Mayer Rothschild and the creation of a dinasty

the critical years 1806-1816

This groundbreaking history explains how Nathan Mayer Rothschild rose from comparatively humble circumstances to become the founder of an extraordinary banking and financial empire - an empire that remained preeminent in Europe for more than a century. The book focuses on the critical years of Great ...

Controlling immigration

a global perspective

A systematic, comparative, multidisciplinary study of immigration policy and policy outcomes in nine industrialized democracies. Each country profile explains why certain immigration control measures were chosen, and why these measures usually failed to achieve their stated objectives. In-depth examinations of the United States, Great Britain ...

Decisive encounters

the chinese civil war, 1946-1950

The chinese civil war was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance and scope -its battles were the ...

The theory of demand for health insurance

The costs of coalition

Chinese magical medicine

Foundations of Stochastic Inventory Theory

Leading with purpose

The New Corporate Realities.

The expansion of management knowledge

carriers, flows and sources

Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic expansion of management education and practice. At the same time, the formalization of management practice has allowed for a widespread diffusion of management ideas across sectors and continents. This book provides an up-to-date summary of the development, refinement, and ...

How to write the history of the New World

histories, epistemologies, and identities in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic world

An Economist Book of the Year, 2001. In the 18th century, a debate ensued over the French naturalist Buffon#s contention that the New World was in fact geologically new. Historians, naturalists, and philosophers clashed over Buffon#s view. This book maintains that the #dispute ...

Universals of human language. Vol. 1:

Method and theory

This first volume of "Universals of human language" differs essentially from the remaining three. The others consist of papers almost all devoted to a search for generalizations regarding specific aspects of language based on cross-linguistic data. By language is meant here normal adult spoken language ...

Universals of human language. Vol. 3:

Word structure

Language consists of words, such is the verdict of folk linguistics everywhere. Languages generally have an expression that mean something like the english term "word". The range of meaning of the expression varies from language to language, often extending to quite large stretches of speech ...

Law, liberty, and morality

This incisive book deals with the use of the criminal law to enforce morality, in particular sexual morality, a subject of particular interest and importance since the publication of the Wolfenden Report in 1957. Professor Hart first considers John Stuart Mill's famous declaration: "The ...