Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped Globalization

Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises that Shaped GlobalizationA leading economic historian presents a new history of financial crises, showing how some led to greater globalization while others kept nations apart. In this book, leading economic historian Harold James presents a new history of the past two hundred years of globalization and its turning points. Examining seven economic crises that occurred during this timein the late 1840s, the simultaneous stock market shocks of 1873, the First World War years,

rattles through forceful Latin grooves and even puts a new slant on Stevie Wonder’s ‘My Cherie Amour’

from The Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter

New selected-scene commentary with Godard

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Almost Cut My Hair

I Used to Be Charming gathers nearly fifty pieces written between 1975 and 1997

from their beginnings as The Primettes in June 1959 to their 1964 breakthrough Motown hit

Pedro Almodóvar’s 1988 classic film

Richard Sapper

Why is a banana duct-taped to a wall worth more on the art market than a beautiful seventeenth-century landscape

‘The Piano’ and ‘The Devil’

an hour-long 2005 documentary about the author