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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Economics, History"”.
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The intercollegiate athletic cartel: the economics, history, institutions, and legal arrangements of the National Collegiate Athletic Association
… third, fourth, and fifth chapters trace the history of the NCAA. Based on the wealth of evidence presented the fifth chapter concludes that cartel theory offers the most plausible explanation for the actions of the NCAA. Given that cartel theory provides the best explanation for …
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Conceptualizing technological change: technology transfer in the green revolution
… assessment of models of this phenomenon from economics, history, sociology, and neo-Schumpeterian-evolutionary studies. The Green Revolution, which is used as the empirical basis for testing these models, is generally referred to as the change in agricultural technology observed in some Third …
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Impact of Ethnic Conflict on Development: A Case Study of Guyana
… (sociology, political science, economics, history, anthropology, culture) scope of investigation, the study explains: how Guyana became a multi-ethnic state, how ethnic rivalry emerged during colonialism; how ethnicity has shaped its development; how racial conflict was advanced …
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Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea
… studies of science in Korea and the global history of colonialism, science, and gender. Foremost, my work demonstrates the colonial origin of Western medical intervention in the physical and sexual well being of Korean women and maps out the scientific and medical protocols for the …
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From the Central Kingdom to the Gold Mountain: Chinese Immigration to the United States (1820-1943)
The crucial link between micro- and macro-levels is social networks used by immigrants in the migration process. A key factor here is the world capitalist economy that influenced the conditions of the sending and the receiving countries; affected the formation of the U.S. immigration policy, which …
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Inter-Provincial Income Inequality in China
The overall conclusion of the study is that in the early phase of the market reform process initial conditions are more important than the tendencies of the market process. In the early reform period distortions in the spatial and sectoral pattern of China's economy and price system must be unwound …
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Toys, Consumption, and Middle Class Childhood in Imperial Germany, 1871--1918
This was by no means a simple, uncontested process. Adults fought over proper toy form and use. Many wanted technologically exact miniatures of real things such as trains and doll houses designed to prepare boys and girls for future callings. Others just as passionately called for more generic, …
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Kinderland in the Fatherland: Growing Children in Imperial Berlin
This dissertation explores the milieu in which children of Imperial Berlin were raised. When contemporaries in the rapidly expanding capital of the Second German Empire (1871-1918) looked at children, this milieu darkened. The city, they argued, threatened children's growing bodies, and such …
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The Foreign Element: New Immigrants and American Industry, 1914--1924
… of the labor, immigration, and political history of the period and comparatively analyzing different industries and immigrant groups in a global context, while recognizing new immigrants as actors in the period's crucial changes.
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Alchemists, Epics, and Heroes: The Rhetorical Construction of the Seventeenth Century Experimental Philosopher
… contributes to the cultural study of the history of science by examining the rhetorical construction of seventeenth century natural philosophy and natural philosophers in a literary context. I offer as the heart of my study an original interpretation of Thomas Sprat's History of the Royal …
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Specialization Among Retailers in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, 1870-1910
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Foreign Policy and National Development: The Brazilian Experiment Under Vargas, 1951-1954 (Economic Policies, Dependency)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1985.
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The Political Economy of Conflict Over Water Rights in The Jordan Valley From 1890 to Present
This thesis examines the relationship between conflict over water rights and economic development in the Jordan Valley from 1890 to present. The thesis explores the possibility that economic development in the Jordan Valley could work to reduce conflict over water rights by reducing scarcity and …
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The Political Economy of a Populist Government: Argentina, 1943-55
The political economy of Argentina during the 1943-55 period is the subject matter of this dissertation. That was a period of profound economic and social reforms, in which either government or political power was in the hands of General Juan D. Peron.
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Antebellum Manufacturing Returns, Risks, and Patterns of Specialization
At the middle of the nineteenth century returns to investment in manufacturing exceeded those to investment in agriculture. This difference was significantly greater in the South. The South also had the lowest value of manufactures per capita, the smallest manufacturing facilities, and the greatest …
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South Africa's Impact on Britain's Return to Gold, 1925
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Chicago, 1870 and 1900: Wealth, Occupation and Education
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Economic Origins of the Cold War? An Examination of the Carryover Costs of World War Ii to the Soviet People
Although the total real cost of World War II to the Soviet Union has yet to be fully measured, there is no doubt that the economic cost of the war imposed a tremedous burden upon the Soviet people, both in absolute terms and relative to other participants. Calculations by various methods yield …
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A Typology of Planned Worker Communities in the United States and Great Britain, 1820-1920
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