Epilogue: ‘Sunny Spain’ (1914)

2020 ◽  
pp. 303-310
Author(s):  
Kirsty Hooper
Keyword(s):  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic

Reaffirms how the transformation in Edwardian knowledge about Spain created a new, dynamic and diverse repertoire of Spanish images, shaped by the interests and experiences of an unprecedentedly diverse and uncompromisingly modern collection of experts. Traces the history of the failed ‘Sunny Spain’ tourism exhibition of 1914, and the insights it provides about the conflict between the Spanish desire to showcase their country as a modern economic partner, and the British view conditioned by a combination of French-mediated Romanticism and characteristically British condescension.

scholarly journals Capital as Process and the History of Capitalism

2017 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Levy
Keyword(s):  
Physical Factor ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
Core Dynamics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Many Core

In the wake of the Great Recession, a new cycle of scholarship opened on the history of American capitalism. This occurred, however, without much specification of the subject at hand. In this essay, I offer a conceptualization of capitalism, by focusing on its root—capital. Much historical writing has treated capital as a physical factor of production. Against such a “materialist” capital concept, I define capital as a pecuniary process of forward-looking valuation, associated with investment. Engaging recent work across literatures, I try to show how this conceptualization of capital and capitalism helps illuminate many core dynamics of modern economic life.

The great Persian famine of 1870–71

1986 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shoko Okazaki
Keyword(s):  
Surface Water ◽  
Social History ◽  
Large Volume ◽  
Single Drop ◽  
Great Famine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Irrigated Crops ◽  
Tragic Event ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Dry Farming

The great famine of 1870–71 was arguably the most tragic event in the modern economic and social history of Persia. Over wide areas of the country almost no rain fell during the winter of 1869/70, and in the following year only the western and southern provinces were blessed with any precipitation. Many areas did not have a single drop of rain during that two-year period. Khurāsān, Isfahān, Yazd and Fārs were particularly hard hit by the drought. In many areas dry-farming crops were wiped out, and harvests of irrigated crops were also very poor as a result of the severe depletion of surface and sub-surface water. Even the Zāyandeh-rūd, which normally contained a large volume of water, dried up.

Foucault, Weber et l'histoire du sujet économique

Dialogue ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 537-564 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philippe Steiner
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The Self ◽  
Economic Behaviour ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTThis article deals with Michel Foucault's 1977–79 lectures on political economy. In the first part, we highlight his views on the market, which is equated to a social device instrumental in governing individuals so that they are induced to allow the ruler to reach his goal, which is providing security to the population. In the second part, we consider together Foucault's and Weber's views on the economy, since Foucault's concept of technique of the self is similar to Weber's concept of life conduct, which is central in his sociology of religion. This opens the way to a history of the modern economic behaviour considered as a form of ascetism.

Notes on Shipping and Trade in Japan and the Ryukyus

1964 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 377-381 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney Crawcour
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
European History ◽  
Modern Economic Growth ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic

The fact that England, the home of the Industrial Revolution and modern economic growth, was also a leading shipping and trading nation, at one time prompted the notion that flourishing overseas trade and modern economic growth are somehow related. There are, of course, plenty of examples in European history of once flourishing trading nations which failed to industrialize. Spain, Portugal, the Hanseatic ports, and the Italian trading cities never became centres of industry. Moreover, such comparatively industrialized areas as Czechoslovakia and Prussia were not leading trading centres.

A Modern Economic History of South Africa.

1932 ◽  
Vol 42 (165) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
J. R. Hicks ◽  
D. M. Goodfellow
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic

China's Modern Economic History in Communist Chinese Historiography

1965 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 31-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Feuerwerker
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Classical Model ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Chinese Nationalism ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Chinese Historiography

It will be evident to a reader of historical works produced in the People's Republic of China that this article, in the choice of subject-matter and in its treatment, is decidedly influenced by the current domestic and foreign political “line” of the Communist Party and Government. This is a relative matter, not absolute, but I would suggest that the dominant “class viewpoint” of the first decade of the Peking régime which produced an anonymous history of dynasties without “feudal” emperors or bureaucrats, literature minus the landlord-scholar-official literatus and nameless peasant rebellions as the central matter of China's history, was to a degree correlated with the process of the internal consolidation of power which may more or less be said to have been accomplished with the completion of the collectivisation of agriculture. The more recent “historicist” trend, which while not rejecting entirely its predecessor concentrates on what may be “positively inherited” from the “feudal” past, represents a quickening of Chinese nationalism fanned to a red-hot intensity, one cannot resist the temptation to conjecture, by the increasingly severe quarrel with the Soviet Union. Soviet Russian commentary on recent Chinese historiography, for example, accuses the Chinese of the “introduction of dogmatic, anti-Marxist and openly nationalistic and racist views.” The Chinese, for their now relatively favourable view of the thirteenth-century Mongol conquests (which are seen as calamitous by the Russians and other Europeans), for their claim that Chinese “feudalism” is the classical model of this historical phenomenon, and because they exaggerate the role of Confucian ideas and their influence on Western philosophy, are roundly condemned by the Russians for “bourgeois nationalism.”

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