Economic Geography

Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the ...

A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure o...

Since the mid-2000s, the harsh reality of call centre employment for a generation of young workers in Portugal has been impossible to ignore. With ...

It is time to leave capitalism behind. In Prosperity without Greed, Sahra Wagenknecht shows that we live in a system of economic feudalism that has...

An optimistic exploration of how, through radical economic reform, the United Kingdom can prosper and flourish in the new global economy Taking a r...

A major revision of an established textbook on the theory, measurement, and history of economic growth, with new material on climate change, corpor...

This study examines the rise of the technopolis--high technology-based regional development. It explores how and why these regions emerged and the ...

In this book, top Chinese demographers introduce the reader to Chinese population policy, assess its effects and project future consequences. ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

In an attempt to understand the political history of the German middle class in the nineteenth century, Jeffry Diefendorf studies in detail the pol...

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences, business and law, expertly writte...

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful compan...

Landscape ecology focuses on spatial heterogeneity, or the idea that where things are and where they are in relation to other things can have impor...

Landscape ecology focuses on spatial heterogeneity, or the idea that where things are and where they are in relation to other things can have impor...

Why do some places prosper while others lag behind? Surely the advent of the Internet and ever newer communications technologies will level the pla...

Over the last century, the Everglades underwent a metaphorical and ecological transition from impenetrable swamp to endangered wetland. At the hear...

Legendary economist Dr. Henry Kaufman shares a classic Wall Street story that has never been fully told: a firsthand account of the day in August 1...

A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are do...

A revelatory study of how climate change will affect individual economic decisions, and the broad impact of those choices  Selected by Publishers W...

Can China now be considered urbanized? Unlike earlier studies that viewed China as a peasant or rural society, this book focuses on the question of...

This bibliographical survey of energy and the development of West Africa contains 774 entries and materials on all but one country of the region. T...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...

The idea of giving cash, no-strings-attached, to the poor has become popular in the 21st century. While hardly a radical form of global redistribut...

Strohl examines the evolving network of high speed railway passenger trains in Western Europe. The purpose of the study, in addition to placing hig...

Arab entrepreneurs in Israel form part of a traditional, yet peripheral, ethnic minority attempting to integrate into Israel's larger economy. This...

If a city based its planning decisions on the needs of an international bureaucracy rather than on the traditional needs of local residents and bus...

This authoritative reference work explores the factors driving the much-debated increase in economic inequality in U.S. society, as well as the imp...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the ...