Top Incomes in France in the Twentieth Century: Inequality and Redistribution, 1901-1998, Hardcover - Thomas Piketty

A landmark in contemporary social science, this pioneering work by Thomas Piketty explains the facts and dynamics of income inequality in France in...

An introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic equality over time, by the author of }Capit...

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Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

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Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Cesereanu RuxandraNumber of pages: 204Collection: Speculum CivitatisPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 14...

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These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

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Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andreas (Leuphana Universitat Luneburg) BroeckmannIllustration(s): 74 b&w illus., 16 color plates; 90 Illustrati...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

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Women and Inequality in the 21st Century examines the continued inequities navigated by women occupying marginalized social positions within a "nex...

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

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English radicalism has been a persistent and important, though minority, strand in English political culture since at least the English Civil War. ...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

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The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century - Mark Philip Bradley

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Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Claire ZimmermanNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 256 x 179 x 26Cover type: ...

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Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Gavin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) RaeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

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