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Introduction to the theory of economic growth
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ISBN: 3540119434 Year: 1982 Publisher: Berlin Springer


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Dream worlds : mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France.
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ISBN: 0520043553 Year: 1982 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

Balkan economic history, 1550 - 1950 : from Imperial Borderlands to developing nations.
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ISBN: 9780253303684 0253303680 Year: 1982 Volume: no. 10 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana university press

A short history of twentieth-century technology c.1900-c.1950
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ISBN: 0198581599 Year: 1982 Publisher: Oxford : [Oxford] New York, NY : Clarendon Press Oxford University Press,

Peaceful conquest : the industrialization of Europe 1760-1970
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ISBN: 0198770952 Year: 1982 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press,


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The european periphery and industrialization, 1780-1914
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ISBN: 052124210X 9780521242103 Year: 1982 Publisher: Cambridge : Paris : Cambridge University Press, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme,


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From craft to industry : the ethnography of proto-industrial cloth production
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ISBN: 0521246148 052110498X 0511753012 Year: 1982 Volume: no. 10 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The essays in this volume focus on two themes: the centrality of the production of and trade in cloth in the emergence of market activity; and the nature of the industrialization process. The core of the book is formed by four detailed ethnographic studies of the development and current organization of cloth production for the market, in different parts of the world: tailoring in Kano City, northern Nigeria (Pokrant); dyeing and weaving in Daboya, northern Ghana (Goody); 'fashion'- shirt production in Bombay, India (Swallow); and the manufacture of 'handmade' Harris tweed in the Hebrides (Ennew). Each study examines access to raw materials and to the market, relations of production, the investment of capital and the reproduction of the system. Individually, they raise such questions as the role of fashion, the effects of national economic policies and legislation, and factors related to the modification of traditional technologies.

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