David S. Landes explored the deep currents of economic history, analyzing the forces that shaped global prosperity and disparity. His meticulously researched works often delve into pivotal historical moments, examining their profound economic consequences. Landes openly embraced a Eurocentric perspective, asserting that an explanation for Europe's unique economic ascendancy inherently requires such an analysis. This distinct approach garnered praise for its scholarly rigor while also inviting debate on its broader implications.
This oral history provides a first-person account of the disability rights movement from one of its key organizers. David Landes played a pivotal role in the 1970s and 1980s, working to secure legal protections and civil rights for people with disabilities. This volume contains a transcript of interviews conducted with Landes in 2000, in which he reflects on his career and the challenges faced by the disability rights movement in the United States.
For over thirty years David Landes's Unbound Prometheus has offered an unrivalled history of the making of a modern, industrialised Europe. Now, in this updated edition, he takes the opportunity to reframe and reassert his original arguments in the light of debates about globalisation and comparative economic growth. schovat popis
Explores the historical meaning of time and its many perceptions and uses. This revised edition contains a new preface and discusses new findings on medieval and early-modern time keeping. Also new to this edition is discussion of contemporary high-tech uses of the watch as a mini-computer.
Why some are so rich and some so poor
"Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book." —Andrew Porter, New York Times Book Review The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, as Landes definitively illustrates, is a complex interplay of cultural mores and historical circumstance. Rich with anecdotal evidence, piercing analysis, and a truly astonishing range of erudition, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations is a "picture of enormous sweep and brilliant insight" (Kenneth Arrow) as well as one of the most audaciously ambitious works of history in decades.