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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History by Kyle Harper
$50.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
A sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand narrative of global history with insights from cutting-edge genetics, Kyle Harper explains why humanity's uniquely dangerous di ...Show more
The Great Leveler : Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century' by Walter Scheidel
$64.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that inequality never dies peacefully. Inequality ...Show more
The Rise and Fall of American Growth The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War by Robert J. Gordon
$93.00 AUD
Category: American | Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and w ...Show more
Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean
$47.95 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: Princeton Economic History of the Western World
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century ...Show more
Why Australia Prospered - The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth by Ian W. McLean
$58.00 AUD
Category: Australian | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Aus ...Show more
Why Did Europe Conquer the World? by Philip T. Hoffman
$40.00 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton Economic History of the Western World Ser.
Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe establish global dominance, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional explanations ...Show more
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