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Max Weber and 'the Protestant Ethic'

twin histories

Max Weber and The Protestant Ethic: Twin Histories presents an entirely new portrait of Max Weber, one of the most prestigious social theorists in recent history, using his most famous work, The Protestant Ethic and the "Spirit" of Capitalism, as its central point of reference ...

International trade and economic development

This graduate textbook offers advanced and contemporary readings in international trade and economic development and provides an overview of the fundamental topics in this area. It brings together many of the issues that are considered staple reading for a course in trade and development and ...

How does my country grow?

economic advice through story-telling

Written by a former World Bank economist, How Does My Country Grow? distils growth policy lessons from the author's first-hand experience in Poland, Kenya, India, and Russia, and his contributions to the economic policy debates that followed the emerging market crises of 1997 to ...

A country merchant, 1495-1520

trading and farming at the end of the Middle Ages

Around 1500 England's society and economy had reached a turning point. After a long period of slow change and even stagnation, an age of innovation and initiative was in motion, with enclosure, voyages of discovery, and new technologies. It was an age of fierce ...

War and gold

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gold and silver would make their country rich, yet the new wealth, which was plunged into multiple wars, would eventually lead to the economic ruin of their empire. Here, historian and ...

Investment treaty arbitration as public international Law

procedural aspects and implications

Investment treaty arbitration is fast becoming one of the most common methods of dispute settlement in international law. Despite having ancient roots, tensions remain between the private interests in international investment relations and the public international law features of the arbitral procedure. This book, which ...

La creación de las culturas políticas modernas

1808-1833

El periodo histórico entre finales del siglo xviii y la década de 1830 se corresponde con el inicio de la contemporaneidad en España. La crisis de la monarquía absoluta, la revolución liberal y la separación de los territorios americanos que se produjeron en dicho período ...

El compromiso del creador

ética de la estética

En el arte, desaparecida la tradición y sus reglas, incapaz el mercado de deslindar el trigo de la paja, y con las críticas y las reflexiones estéticas, cuando resultan inteligibles, bajo sospecha, los artistas andan perdidos a la hora de tasar la calidad de su ...

Eichmann before Jerusalem

the unexamined life of a mass murderer

A total and groundbreaking reassessment of the life of Adolf Eichmann—a superb work of scholarship that reveals his activities and notoriety among a global network of National Socialists following the collapse of the Third Reich and that permanently challenges Hannah Arendt’s notion of ...

Jovellanos

su vida y su obra

This changes everything

capitalism vs. the climate

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market” ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In ...

World order

Henry Kissinger has traveled the world, advised presidents, and been a close observer and participant in the central foreign policy events of our era. Now he offers his analysis of the twenty first century’s ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in ...

Vida interior del Rey D. Felipe II

The shifts and the shocks

what we’ve Learned-and have still to Learn-from the financial crisis

We have been inundated with books about the “financial crisis.” Surely, there is little more to be said. Martin Wolf agrees. In fact, he argues, too much has been said about the purely financial aspects of the crisis, important though they are. The underlying problem ...

Meteorología popular o refranero meteorológico de la Península Ibérica

Hereditas romae

la provincia de Granada en época romana (siglos III a.C. - V d.C.)

La actual provincia de Granada no es sino una pequeña parte de lo que en tiempos romanos recibía el nombre de Hispania. Es pertinente indicar que su ubicación geográfica nada tiene que ver con las divisiones administrativas de etapas antiguas ni con conceptos geográficos que ...

Lana caprina

epístola de un licántropo

Publicado en 1772, Lana Caprina fue el primer éxito editorial de Giacomo Casanova, hasta el punto de que la tirada de 500 ejemplares, editados por su protector veneciano, Marco Dandolo, se agotó en quince días. Fue el primer éxito literario de su autor. Escrito en ...

Historia de la India

Barbara y Thomas Metcalf han escrito una historia de la India diferente, que no pretende ofrecer una imagen del país a partir de la óptica del imperialismo británico ni de la aparición de identidades nacionalistas. Esta historia pone en duda las ideas sobre una India ...

La marcha Radetzky

A través del ejemplo de la familia Trotta, vinculada al emperador Francisco José de manera casi legendaria, Joseph Roth describe la decadencia austrohúngara y las condiciones sociales de su país, en el siglo XVIII. La novela narra la historia de tres generaciones: el fundador de ...

Rouco

la biografía no autorizada

«Este libro es una crónica del devenir de la Iglesia católica española de los últimos setenta y cinco años, la época que abarca el recorrido vital del cardenal Rouco Varela. Sin revanchas, pero con memoria histórica. Para no olvidar a tantos que sufrieron en sus ...