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The frequency and repetition of economic crises over the last hundred years demands an analysis that allows us to discover the root causes of these situations and the problems they have generated in the world economy. This book investigates these cycles throughout the 20th and the early 21st century. Economic crises can be the result of political or military conflict, but they have also been the consequence of bad practices, unbridled speculation, excessive greed, or poor management by the rulers and leaders of nations. The contributors to this volume analyse the causes and consequences of economic crises from the Great Depression to the present day, incorporating post-World War II reconstru...
In the year 2020, what we used to think that our habits have been profoundly disrupted. Lockdown still represents an unprecedented experience for all of those who went through it since it radically affected our freedom of movement and social interaction, that used to make up our everyday lives. Some people believe that once the pandemic ends, nothing will be the same. Others think that once the virus becomes weaker or a vaccine is at our disposal and the fear is diminished, everything will go back to normal because the mechanism of habit is in many ways similar to the mechanisms of nature, reiterating the uniformity of its functioning. Who is right then? Both positions, perhaps. When philosophers addressed the issue of customs, namely collective habits, generally emphasized the caution required when it comes to changing them and if we look back on history... Could pandemics affect shared habits in specific territories as ultimately generated in reaction to other natural risks and/or to their threats?
Provides extensive and current information, as well as insight into the contemporary debate on poverty, and contains over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars.
Este libro trata de la evolución de la actividad de los fotógrafos-retratistas de Almería entre 1839 y 1939. Los primeros fotógrafos fueron itinerantes, tras lo que se produce la llegada del siguiente grupo que permanecerá en emplazamientos fijos. Como último paso surge una red de hijos de fotógrafos, parientes y aprendices, que habían conocido el oficio en el seno de la empresa familiar y deberán ubicarse en zonas de influencia. Mostraremos los datos biográficos de los fotógrafos que ejercieron la profesión en Almería, revelando la importancia de un entorno artístico y creativo como parte de su capital humano. Pero también valoraremos la continuada innovación técnica que tu...
El Deporte moderno presenta como espectáculo de masas un innegable interés para la sociedad actual, tanto desde la perspectiva educativa de formación física del individuo, como por su capacidad para implantar los valores que la sociedad considera adecuados o, finalmente, por los intereses económicos que promueve. ¿Pero cuál fue su origen y cómo sus primeros pasos? En el trabajo que presentamos se describe la evolución del Deporte en la provincia de Almería desde 1880 hasta 1939. Un estudio que se inicia situándonos en la sociedad, la economía y la política, y sigue con la descripción de las actividades de ocio practicadas; entre éstas, el Deporte es el centro. A lo largo de di...
Editor Joseph P. Byrne, together with an advisory board of specialists and over 100 scholars, research scientists, and medical practitioners from 13 countries, has produced a uniquely interdisciplinary treatment of the ways in which diseases pestilence, and plagues have affected human life. From the Athenian flu pandemic to the Black Death to AIDS, this extensive two-volume set offers a sociocultural, historical, and medical look at infectious diseases and their place in human history from Neolithic times to the present. Nearly 300 entries cover individual diseases (such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, and SARS); major epidemics (such as the Black Death, 16th-century syphilis, cholera in the nineteenth century, and the Spanish Flu of 1918-19); environmental factors (such as ecology, travel, poverty, wealth, slavery, and war); and historical and cultural effects of disease (such as the relationship of Romanticism to Tuberculosis, the closing of London theaters during plague epidemics, and the effect of venereal disease on social reform). Primary source sidebars, over 70 illustrations, a glossary, and an extensive print and nonprint bibliography round out the work.
As editor Kenneth E. Hendrickson, III, notes in his introduction: “Since the end of the nineteenth-century, industrialization has become a global phenomenon. After the relative completion of the advanced industrial economies of the West after 1945, patterns of rapid economic change invaded societies beyond western Europe, North America, the Commonwealth, and Japan.” In The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History contributors survey the Industrial Revolution as a world historical phenomenon rather than through the traditional lens of a development largely restricted to Western society. The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History is a three-volume work...
Conjunto de ensayos de historia de las mujeres andaluzas durante los siglos XIX y XX y enfocadso en lso aspectos político y laboral.
Provides extensive and current information, as well as insight into the contemporary debate on poverty, and contains over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars.
Tras afrontar la represión de los Gobiernos de la Restauración y de la dictadura de Primo de Rivera, las organizaciones anarquistas y comunistas fueron extendiendo su influencia entre el proletariado almeriense. Durante el periodo republicano se produjo la legalización y un crecimiento de su militancia que se multiplicó durante la guerra civil. Libertarios y comunistas, enfrentados en numerosas ocasiones, se hicieron con el control de una parte de los comités revolucionarios, primero, y de las corporaciones municipales después. La derrota supuso la desaparición del movimiento obrero organizado y llevó a que sus dirigentes fueran encarcelados, fusilados o tuvieran que marchar al exilio Formato CD-ROM