San Antonio College Library

"Such terrible decisions that they caused the collapse of 2008. So how can they continue down the same road? The simple answer, that no one in charge wants to publicly acknowledge: because things are still pretty great for the people who run America. It was an accident of history, Jeff Faux explains, that after World War II the U.S. could afford a prosperous middle class, a dominant military, and a booming economic elite at the same time. For the...

Considering Europe as a whole rather than as a mosaic of individual states, François Crouzet presents here an accessible, engaging history of the European economy during the second millennium. Stressing the common economic institutions shared over time by the different regions of Europe and the networks of relations that have linked them, Crouzet examines pan-European changes and integration rather than merely the particular experiences of individual...

"This book is an invaluable aid to all students of the period, offering the most up-to-date research and a thorough discussion of the different controversies that bedevil study of early modern Europe. It is appropriate both for economic historians and for social and political historians wishing to understand the essential underpinnings of the continent's growing success."--Jacket.

This study of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, a period during which the economic growth of Texas was uninhibited by either war or Reconstruction, closes quite properly with the bringing in of the Spindletop gusher in 1901.

"Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by sophisticated and growing economies. Their subsequent divergence...