A rich, revealing history of the economic and political events that have shaped our time. International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before....Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. ...(展开全部)

In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them...(展开全部)

A rich, revealing history of the economic and political events that have shaped our time. International trade at unprecedented levels, millions of people migrating yearly in search of jobs, the world's economies more open to one another than ever before....Such was the global economy in 1900. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. ...(展开全部)

In 1900 international trade reached unprecedented levels and the world's economies were more open to one another than ever before. Then as now, many people considered globalization to be inevitable and irreversible. Yet the entire edifice collapsed in a few months in 1914. Globalization is a choice, not a fact. It is a result of policy decisions and the politics that shape them...(展开全部)

The decades of Western adulation for the Japanese 'economic miracle' failed to notice a key point: that in the pursuit of this miracle the Japanese had turned their country into a degraded, concrete shambles - a wilderness of bad planning, corruption and crowding. Now that the miracle is at an end and Japan seems set to remain in the economic doldrums it must become apparent to...(展开全部)

[美]爱德华•德瑞（Edward Drea），毕业于纽约州布法罗市凯尼休斯学院，曾在日本和越南服过兵役。后经学习，在日本东京上智大学获得国际关系学的文科硕士，并又于堪萨斯大学取得了日本现代史专业的博士学位。他曾任教于堪萨斯州利文沃思堡美国陆军指挥参谋学院和宾夕法尼亚州美国陆军战争学院。他还曾担任华盛顿特区美国陆军军事历史中心研究与分析部门的主管。他的其他著作包括《麦克阿瑟的超极机密：对日密码战 1942-1945》（MacArthur’s ULTRA：Codebreaking and the War against Japan, 1942-1945）和《效忠天皇：日本陆军研究文集》(In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army)。