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Feb 14, 2008 17:09

5/50 Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century by Jeffrey A. Frieden

I have a self-imposed rule that I wouldn't post any textbooks unless I would've read the book anyway (like Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom which I'm working on right now). But this mammoth history book took up a lot of time I would've used elsewhere so I' ( Read more... )

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iam_kayak February 15 2008, 01:43:03 UTC

The 20th century is just too new! We haven't had a chance to process it into textbook form yet. Glad you... enjoyed(?) your textbook.

mixdmedia February 15 2008, 02:17:46 UTC

Yeah, I guess you could argue that. High school textbooks were weird though: you're in the American Revolution then the American Civil War (even if they happened about 100 years apart-- what happened in between?) and then the Cold War is vaguely mentioned and THAT'S IT.

iam_kayak February 15 2008, 02:21:03 UTC

I guess that's what college is for! That is, if you major in History or Political Science.
If neither, then I guess those are just "the dark years."
A lot of textbooks are getting much better about chronicling the Vietnam war and the Civil Rights movement. I guess it just depends on the book, the state, the district... you know how it its