Authors:Gerasimos (Gerry) Cassis, Gordon F. Gro,
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Keywords: zoological, australia, catalogue, series, pentatomomorpha, volume, hemiptera, heteroptera
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0643068759
ISBN-13: 9780643068759

The infraorder Pentatomomorpha is the subject of the second volume in the Zoological Catalogue of Australia series dealing with the true bugs (the suborder Heteroptera). It includes the bark bugs, stilt bugs, seed bugs, cotton stainers, burrowing bugs, shield bugs and stink bugs. Many of these species are of significant economic importance both as pests and as natural enemies of other insect pests. In this catalogue, the authors propose a new classification for the Australian Heteroptera based on the most recent developments in heteropterology worldwide. The proposed classification departs sig

Author: Gerasimos Santas
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: blackwell, works, guides, plato, guide, republic
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-01-30
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 1405115645
ISBN-13: 9781405115643

The Blackwell Guide to Plato’s Republic consists of thirteen new essays written by both established scholars and younger researchers with the specific aim of helping readers to understand Plato’s masterwork. This guide to Plato’s Republic is designed to help readers understand this foundational work of the Western canon. Sheds new light on many central features and themes of the Republic. Covers the literary and philosophical style of the Republic; Plato’s theories of justice and knowledge; his educational theories; and his treatment of the divine. Will be of interest to readers who ar

Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: history, european, financiers, finance
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-06-20
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0521893739
ISBN-13: 9780521893732

In this major "state of the art" survey, a highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role of finance in European history during the period 1880-1960. Throughout the volume a global and comparative perspective is used in the analysis of a problem that may in fact be perceived at four different, although interrelated levels. Firstly, the economic: What was the weight of the financial sector in a given economy? Secondly, the social: What was the specific position of the financial elites in society? Thirdly, the political: What was the impact of financial inter

Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: century, twentieth, experience, european, business
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1999-09-23
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0198296061
ISBN-13: 9780198296065

Youssef Cassis presents a major comparative study of big business in the three leading European nations over the course of the 20th century. Drawing on a carefully constructed sample of leading companies from the UK, France, and Germany, the author analyzes the relationship between corporate and national economic performance, the impact of national difference on business performance and practice, and the composition and influence of the business elites in each country. Big Business is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of European business and the links between business

Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: financial, centres, international, history, capital, capitals
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-01-22
List price: $46.00
ISBN-10: 0521845351
ISBN-13: 9780521845359

This is the first history of international financial centres and of the major stake that they now represent in the global economy. Youssef Cassis, one of the world’s leading financial historians, provides a fascinating comparative history of the most important centres that constitute the capitals of capital - New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore. The book explores the dynamics of the rise and decline of these great centres from the beginning of the industrial age up to the present, setting them in their economic, political, social and cultura

Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: msh, bankers, city
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1994-10-28
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0521441889
ISBN-13: 9780521441889

This book is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Translated into English for the first time, it provides a detailed analysis of the banking community of London when the City was the undisputed financial center of the world. Attention is paid to the social origins, education careers, business interests and fortunes of its members, to the networks of relationships of its most important dynasties, as well as to the political influence of the world of banking.

Authors:Youssef Cassis, Éric Bussière,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: twentieth, century, centres, financial, paris, international, london
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2005-03-24
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0199269491
ISBN-13: 9780199269495

London and Paris, the world’s two leading financial centers in the nineteenth century, experienced differing fortunes during the twentieth years deregulation, internationalization and the advent of the single currency have reactivated their competition in ways reminiscent of their old rivalry before the First World War. The book provides a long term perspective on the development of each center, with special attention devoted to pre-1914 years and to the last decades of the twentieth century, in order contrast these two eras of globalization. The chapters include both archive-based and s