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Born with a Copper Spoon
Over the past two centuries, industrial societies hungry for copper – essential for light, power, and communication – have demanded ever-increasing quantities of the metal. Born with a Copper Spoon examines how the metal has been produced, distributed, controlled, and sold on a global scale. However, this is not simply a narrative of ever-increasing and deepening global connections. It is also about periods of deglobalization, fragmentation, and attempts to sever connections. Throughout history, copper production has spawned its own practices, technologies, and a constantly changing political economy. Large-scale production has affected ecologies, states, and companies, while creating and even destroying local communities dependent on volatile commodity markets. Former president of Zambia Kenneth Kaunda once remarked that Zambians were “born with a copper spoon in our mouths,” but few societies managed to profit from copper’s abundance. From copper cartels and the futures market to the consequences of resource nationalism, Born with a Copper Spoon delivers a global perspective on one of the world’s most important metals.
Banished
This book aims to study the departure and reception of refugees in 19th-century Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the 1870-1880s. Through eight chapters, it draws on a transnational approach to analyze migratory movements across European borders. The book reviews the chronology of exile and shows how European states welcomed, selected, and expelled refugees. In addition to presenting the point of view of nation-states, it reflects the experience of those migrating. The book addresses departure into exile, captured through the material circumstances of crossing borders in the 19th century, and examines the emergence of new ways to pursue political commitments from abroad. The outcasts ar...
El Terrible: Life and Labor in Pueblonuevo, 1887-1939
This book is a biography of Pueblonuevo del Terrible, a mining town located in Andalusia, Spain. Based on previously unexamined sources, the study paints a fresh portrait of industrial workers and their families in Córdoba province, enriching our understanding of this mostly agricultural region. Previous studies of laboring communities in Spain have identified radical workers, miners among them, as a destabilizing element due to their insurgent protest activity, including lethal violence. This study, by contrast, describes both worker activism and cross-class organizing as constructive, not destructive, and aimed at integration into Spanish society. Economically, the mining zone was dominat...
Intellectual Philanthropy
What's in a nineteenth-century philanthropist? Fear of an uprising. But the frightened philanthropist has a remedy. Aware that the urban surge of the working-class masses in Spain would create a state of emergency, he or she devises a means to seduce the masses away from rebellion by taking on himself or herself the role of the seducer: the capitalist intellectual hero invested in the caretaking of the unpredictable working class. Intellectual Philanthropy examines cultural practices used by philanthropists in modern Iberia. It explains the meaning and role of intellectual philanthropy by focusing on the devices and apparatuses philanthropists devised to realize their projects. Intellectual ...
The House of Rothschild in Spain, 1812–1941
Amongst the serried ranks of capitalists who drove European industrialisation in the nineteenth century, the Rothschilds were amongst the most dynamic and the most successful. Establishing businesses in Germany, Britain, France, Austria, and Italy the family soon became leading financiers, bankrolling a host of private and government businesses ventures. In so doing they played a major role in fuelling economic and industrial development across Europe, providing capital for major projects, particularly in the mining and railway sectors. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Spain, where for more than a century the House of Rothschild was one of the primary motors of Spanish economic develop...
A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850
With contributions from over 30 scholars, A Global History of Consumer Co-operation surveys the origins and development of the consumer co-operative movement from the mid-nineteenth century until the present day. The contributions, covering the history of co-operation in different national contexts in Europe, the Americas, Asia and Australasia, illustrate the wide variety of forms that consumer co-operatives have taken; the different political, economic and social contexts in which they have operated; the ideological influences on their development; and the reasons for their expansion and decline at different times. The book also explores the connections between co-operatives in different pa...
Orígenes de la globalización bancaria. Experiencias de España y América Latina
La formación, estructura y funcionamiento de los sistemas financieros modernos tienen una larga tradición en los estudios de historia económica y en los de desarrollo económico. La mayoría de estos análisis, abordados desde una perspectiva histórica, han centrado su atención en experiencias o casos nacionales, y cuando se ha buscado la comparación, en ocasiones se ha puesto el énfasis bien en los aspectos normativos e institucionales de los problemas, bien en una verificación econométrica de la alta asociación entre estructura financiera y crecimiento económico. Similares resultados se han ofrecido por parte de los economistas de la evolución económica para las sociedades de ...
El sistema financiero en la España contemporánea
El objetivo del presente libro es ofrecer al lector una visión global del fenómeno financiero en su desarrollo histórico de los dos últimos siglos, poniendo a su disposición desde una perspectiva temporal del largo plazo claves explicativas del protagonismo que instituciones y mercados financieros han desempeñado en la crisis que todavía hoy atravesamos. La crisis presente es abordada en una comparativa con otros procesos similares, pero especialmente con la Gran Depresión de los años treinta, que viene siendo habitual referencia en ámbitos académicos, políticos y periodísticos. En el contexto internacional se analiza también el impacto de la crisis en las normas e institucione...
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Esperit d'associació
Aquest volum indaga, exhuma i analitza un món de relacions associatives, parcialment conegudes, majoritàriament ignorades, despatxades, si és el cas, amb etiquetes que qualifiquen però a penes ens diuen res sobre la matèria d'estudi: les experiències de nombrosos valencians en l'àmbit del comunitarisme cooperatiu. l'estudi, ben documentat i millor resolt, descobreix una realitat que romania oculta i ens explica com ha anat creixent la societat, tot fent indagacions en les fronteres del comunitarisme i els beneficis que es dedueixen de les pràctiques solidàries.
