Commodity history and the nature of global connection: recent developments - Guano and the opening of the Pacific world: a global ecological history, by Gregory T. Cushman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xx+392. 19 illustrations, 4 tables. Hardback £70.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-00413-9; paperback £25.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-65596-6. - Andean cocaine: the making of a global drug, by Paul Gootenberg. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. Pp. xvii+441. 4 illustrations, 12 tables, 2 maps. Paperback £32.50, ISBN: 978-0-8078-5905-6. - The matter of history: how things create the past, by Timothy J. LeCain. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Studies in Environment and History. Pp. xix+346. 15 illustrations. Hardback £80.00, ISBN: 978-1-107-13417-1; paperback £22.99, ISBN: 978-1-107-59270-4. - Banana cultures: agriculture, consumption, and environmental change in Honduras and the United States, by John Soluri. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2005. Pp. xiii+321. 25 figures, 2 maps, 2 tables. Paperback $18.99, ISBN: 978-0-292-71256-0. - The mushroom at the end of the world: on the possibility of life in capitalist ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015. Pp. xii + 331. 29 b/w illustrations. Paperback £14.99, ISBN: 978-0-691-17832-5.

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Specht
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Pacific World ◽  
Ecological History ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Recent Developments

Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism. By Charles Perrow. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. ix, 259. $34.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 283-285
Author(s):  
Michael H. Best
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Business ◽  
Working Population ◽  
Book Value ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
Corporate Capitalism

Charles Perrow is interested in big organizations and how they shape communities, the distribution of wealth, power and income, and working lives. Today, organizations with over 500 employees employ more than half the working population in the United States. There were no such organizations in 1800. Referring to William Roy (Socializing Capital: The Rise of Large Industrial Corporations in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) and Naomi Lamoreaux (The Great Merger Movement in American Business, 1895–1904. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Perrow argues that corporate capitalism was entrenched in five short years (1898–1903) during which more than half the book value of all manufacturing capital was incorporated. The firms were made giant by consolidating the assets of several firms in the same industry.

Emergency, Liberalism, and the State

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Dyzenhaus
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
United States Of America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fundamental Question ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Johns Hopkins University

Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power. By Clement Fatovic. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. 368p. $55.00.Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy. By Bonnie Honig. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 218p. $26.95.States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies. By Nomi Claire Lazar. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 190p. $80.00.In the wake of 9/11, many political scientists and theorists in the United States of America turned their attention to the topic of emergencies. That required them to confront a fundamental question: Are emergencies to be studied as important in their own right, as altogether exceptional events that threaten the very existence of a society in unforeseeable ways? Or are they important, not because they are radically distinct from the normal situation of politics, but because they bring to the surface otherwise implicit aspects of normal politics?

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