Solar energy harvesting is among the best solutions for a global transition toward carbon-
neutral energy technologies. The existing solar energy harvesting technologies like …

19. Jahrhunderts by CH Beck publishers in Munich in January 2009. it rapidly went through
five editions and two unnumbered special editions and is now being translated into Chinese …

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can
we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a …

This fully revised and updated third edition of Japanese Economic Development looks at
Japan's economic history from the nineteenth century through to World War II, recasting …

Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa's recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to
lift the regions''bottom millions' out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We …

Global trade is a neglected topic in debates on the Anthropocene, but plays an implicit role
in several suggested definitions of it. Trade's role in shifting environmental burdens around …

With the advent of digitalization, the more techno-optimist among critics of capitalism have
articulated new calls for post-work and post-scarcity economics made possible by new …

African smallholders, like small and large farmers throughout the world, exchange their
products on markets, linking them to the rest of the world. This book is about those exchange …

This paper presents new time series estimates of GDP, capital stock and education-adjusted
employment, and uses a growth accounting approach to analyze GDP growth during 1880 …

Description: New York: Columbia University Press,[2019]| Series: Columbia studies in
international and global history| Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers …