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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"mercantilism"”.
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The political economy of aid-oriented foreign policy change: elite perspectives on mercantilism in Korea and Ghana
… foreign policy using two different forms of mercantilism, and second, it reveals the dependent path created by the mercantilist oriented elite. Mercantilism in the thesis is used as dual-frameworked concept. First, it is a lens to see state behaviour. Despite the fact that mercantilism has …
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An analysis of spatial development paradigm for enhancing regional integration within national and it’s supporting spatial systems in Africa
… Thus a change in development ideology to neo-mercantilism is recommended as a strategic move to redirect attention from private profitability to nation-building vis-à-vis spatial integration. Neo-mercantilism is therefore deployed as thinking instrument for a neo-mercantile planning paradigm …
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The Potosi-Cobija route: archaeology of colonial transportation in the south Central Andes
… of the Spanish Empire, the characteristics of mercantilism and expectations about imperialism suggested a centralized control over the flow of silver to Spain, an important reorganization of transportation labor, and official investment in imperial road infrastructure. However, my results …
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Maypoles and Misfits : A Study of Puritan Orthodoxy and Anglican Heterodoxy in Seventeenth Century Massachusetts
… experience or whether or entirely in the mercantilism of the Mother Country.</p> <p>Secondary sources for this paper were found at the Loma Linda University Library, while primary sources were available at the Huntington Library and the library of the University of California at Riverside, …
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Unruly Matter: Masculine Consumption in English Restoration Literature
… new enthusiasm for emerging economic dynamics (mercantilism, nascent capitalism, etc.) while also expressing masculine anxieties about consumerism and the role of consumable goods in English society. Although many scholars have noted that men functioned symbolically and ideologically as English …
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Brockport, New York: A Narrative of That Place (and the Place of this Narrative)
… frontier migrations, pioneering, development, mercantilism, the Erie Canal, credit and financial panics, social reform movements, industrialization, class awareness, post-Civil War cultural changes and village beautification.</p> <p>In addition to providing an empirical account of one …
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The relationship between foreign exchange reserves, Pula exchange rate and inflation in Botswana
… approach and economic theory of modern mercantilism which predict a negative relationship between the two variables. This may provide monetary authorities and policy makers with a framework that explains the link of Botswana's foreign reserves and exchange rates.
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'A sure defence against the foe '? : maritime predation & British commercial policy during the Spanish American Wars of Independence, 1810-1830
… who were inspired by Adam Smith’s attack on mercantilism in the Wealth of Nations, adopted a laissez-faire outlook and began to progressively withdraw the government from direct participation in the economic process.57 By 1850 the transition was effectively complete and mercantilism had given …
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The explorer in English fiction
… phases of social history - the institution of mercantilism, the rise and fall of empire - but generally in relation to psychological and metaphysical questions of a perennial kind. The nature of man is a theme that proves, indeed, remarkably tenacious in these works, for a reason Lawrence notes …
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The Educational Impact of Military Coup D'etats in Ghana on Education
… material goods as merchandise, but turned out as mercantilism, a political economy in which capitalism gave birth to the slave trade. Africans were captured to work ruthlessly in Europe and the United States of America.
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The Explorer in English Fiction
… phases of social history - the institution of mercantilism, the rise and fall of empire - but generally in relation to psychological and metaphysical questions of a perennial kind. The nature of man is a theme that proves, indeed, remarkably tenacious in these works, for a reason Lawrence notes …
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Geografías de conocimiento y poder: la construcción espacial de la Real Audiencia de Quito
“Geografías de conocimiento y poder: La construcción espacial de la Real Audiencia de Quito en el período colonial” analyzes the construction of the Real Audiencia de Quito as a political, economic, corporeal, and patriotic space. Quito refers to the city, the village, the reign, the province, the …
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Viruelas, mercantilismo e higiene pública: análisis sociohistórico del desarrollo de la higiene pública, de las políticas estatales en los estados mercantilistas europeos y su influencia en las epidemias de viruela de 1782-1783 y 1801-1802 en Santafé, Nuevo Reino de Granada.
Esta investigación tiene como objetivo principal describir cómo las diferentes estructuras de poder de los estados mercantilistas europeos del XVIII e inicios del siglo XIX influyeron en el manejo de la Higiene Pública, en el caso particular de las epidemias de viruela de 1782-1783 y de 1801-1802, …
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Reading Early Modern English Poetry through the Prisms of Energy and Empire
This dissertation project examines the influence of energy in its many forms on early modern English country house verse and epic, arguing for a novel reading approach — through the prisms of energy — to arrive at more expansive understandings of the historical period, its imaginative literature, …
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The Bias of the World : Theories of Unequal Exchange in History
This is a history of theories and theorists of unequal exchange. Starting with mercantilists and Richard Cantillon's theory based on land values, it briefly covers the early Classical economists and Gerald Fitzhugh. Among early 20th century Marxist economists, unequal exchange appeared in Otto …