Author: Steven Topik
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: brazil, empire, states, united, gunboats, trade
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 2000-02-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0804740186
ISBN-13: 9780804740180

A hundred years ago, the United States first projected itself onto the international stage, hoping to stake out a sphere of influence in Latin America just as the largest of Latin American countries, Brazil, ending a 67-year-long monarchical regime, struggled to redefine its relationship to the world economy. Debates raged between liberals and corporatists, between free traders and protectionists. When the trajectories of these two unequal giants collided, their interaction revealed much about the international economic and political affairs of their day that bears upon the debates surrounding

Authors:Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: world, sources, studies, history, present, culture, trade, created, society, economy
Number of Pages: 285
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 0765617080
ISBN-13: 9780765617088

Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? Where has most of the world’s oil come from in the 20th century? This new edition of "The World That Trade Created" reveals the answers to dozens of tantalizing questions like these. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes the authors bring to life international trade and its actors - including migrants and merchants, pirates and privateers, sailors and slaves, traders and tree-tappers. In t

Authors:Kenneth Pomeranz, Steven Topik,
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: world, sources, studies, history, present, culture, trade, created, society, economy
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2005-10-31
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0765617099
ISBN-13: 9780765617095

Why are railroad tracks separated by the same four feet, eight inches as ancient Roman roads? How did 19th-century Europeans turn mountains of bird excrement from Peru into mountains of gold? Where has most of the world’s oil come from in the 20th century? This new edition of "The World That Trade Created" reveals the answers to dozens of tantalizing questions like these. In a series of brief, highly readable vignettes the authors bring to life international trade and its actors - including migrants and merchants, pirates and privateers, sailors and slaves, traders and tree-tappers. In t

Authors:Steven Topik, Zephyr Frank, Carlos Marichal,
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: american, 1500–2000, economy, encounters, world, global, interactions, building, cocaine, latin, commodity, chains, silver
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2006-07-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822337665
ISBN-13: 9780822337669

Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United States trace the paths of many of Latin America’s most important exports: coffee, bananas, rubber, sugar, tobacco, silver, henequen (fiber), fertilizers, cacao, cocaine, indigo, and cochineal (insects used to make dye). Each contributor follows a specific commodity from its inception, through

Authors:William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Steven Topik,
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: latin, america, asia, africa, coffee, economy, global
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2003-06-16
List price: $115.99
ISBN-10: 0521818516
ISBN-13: 9780521818513

Emphasizing the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this volume brings together scholars from nine countries who study coffee markets and societies over the last five centuries in fourteen countries, on four continents, and across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The chapters analyze the creation and function of commodity, labor, and financial markets; the role of race, ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of coffee societies; the interaction between technology and ecology; and the impact of colonial powers, nationalist regimes, and the forces of the world economy in the forging o

Authors:Steven J. Spencer, Steven Fein, Mark P. Zanna, James
Publisher: Psychology Press
Keywords: ontario, social, psychology, personality, series, symposia, symposium, perception, motivated, volume
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0805840362
ISBN-13: 9780805840360

This volume highlights state-of-the-art research on motivated social perception by the leaders in the field. Recently a number of researchers developed influential accounts of how motivation affects social perception. Unfortunately, this work was developed without extensive contact between the researchers, and therefore evolved into two distinct traditions. The first tradition shows that the motivation to maintain a positive self-concept and to define oneself in the social world can dramatically affect people’s social perception. The second one shows that people’s goals have a dram

Authors:Steven H Woolf, Steven Jonas, Evonne Kaplan-Li,
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilki
Keywords: practice, health, prevention, promotion, disease, clin, clinical
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2007-10-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 078177599X
ISBN-13: 9780781775991

Incorporating the latest guidelines from major organizations, including the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, this book offers the clinician a complete overview of how to help patients adopt healthy behaviors and to deliver recommended screening tests and immunizations. Chapters provide practical guidance on how to counsel patients about exercise, nutrition, tobacco use, substance use, sexually transmitted infections, and depression. Written by clinicians for clinicians, the book lays out the details on gathering information from the patient, ordering evidence-based screening tests, designi