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pro vyhledávání: '"Cost and standard of living - History"'
Autor:
Pim de Zwart
In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Company's intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth a
Autor:
Peter McNeil, Giorgio Riello
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines
Autor:
John Hatcher, Judy Z. Stephenson
The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the i
Autor:
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
There's little doubt that most humans today are better off than their forebears. Stunningly so, the economist and historian Deirdre McCloskey argues in the concluding volume of her trilogy celebrating the oft-derided virtues of the bourgeoisie. The p
Autor:
Klas Rönnbäck
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brou
Autor:
Roman Siebertz
Die Safavidenzeit (1501-1722) gilt als eine der am besten untersuchten Epochen der iranischen Geschichte. Dabei hat sich die Forschung allerdings vor allem auf die politische Geschichte und die Makroökonomie des safavidischen Staates konzentriert, w
Autor:
Andrea Wagner
Die Autorin zeichnet die Wohlfahrtsentwicklung der breiten Bevölkerung in Deutschland in der Zwischenkriegszeit im Vergleich zur Bundesrepublik Deutschland in den fünfziger Jahren nach. Folgende Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt: Wie veränderte sich di