The Decline of Nations takes an in-depth look at the condition of the contemporary United States and shows why Americans should be deeply concerned.
"A compelling theory on the rationale for the changing fortunes of nations"--Publisher's website.
An award-winning professor of economics at MIT and a Harvard University political scientist and economist evaluate the reasons that some nations are poor while others succeed, outlining provocative perspectives that support theories about ...
Paul Kennedy's classic naval history, now updated with a new introduction by the author This acclaimed book traces Britain's rise and fall as a sea power from the Tudors to the present day.
" Guided by abundant scholarly commentary, the reader of Volume Sixteen is offered "innumerable windows" through which to witness "a ghostly past" and otherwise lost scenes of "a daily life that has become [by the time of the Late Ante ...
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“Canada must populate or perish": Valerie Knowles, Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540–2006 (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2007), 180. Canada lost more than forty thousand professionals: Peter S. Li, ...
Three members of the Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism give voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a ...
Dispels the notion that the United States is on a decline by citing similar points in history, from Sputnik to Obama, that supposedly heralded the notion of a doomed country, but resulted in rejuvenation instead. 17,500 first printing.
This book makes a strong argument against the widely proclaimed notion that the United States is destined to decline.
Lindsey, Brink, and Steven Teles. 2017. The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, ... Fernando Cortes: His Five Letters of Relation to the Emperor Charles V. Cleveland: Arthur Clark Company. Maddicott, J. R. 2009.