Texture of Industry or Liberalization and Foreign Policy

Texture of Industry: An Archaeological View of the Industrialization of North America

Author: Robert B Gordon

The Texture of Industry looks at the industrialization of North America from the perspective of the industrial archaeologist. This heavily illustrated study demonstrates the value of material evidence in the interpretation of the past. Using examples that range from Indian steatite quarries to automobile plants and coal mines, the authors examine manufacturing technology, transportation systems, and the effects of industrialization on the land. While historians have given ample attention to stories of entrepreneurship, heroic invention, and labor conflict, they have told us little about actual workplaces and the skills employed in them. Americans from past generations seldom wrote about their daily work. However, they did leave us examples of their tools, products, shops, and factories. They also left us industrial landscapes and communities that speak eloquently of the costs associated with the production of wealth from natural resources. Industrial archaeologists study physical traces in combination with documents and other sources. Their research has greatly expanded our understanding of industry and focused attention on the contributions of anonymous artisans who applied their skills to shape our industrial heritage. The incremental, unrecorded innovations of countless workers are finally brought to light in this pathbreaking book.

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Liberalization and Foreign Policy

Author: Miles Kahler

Unlike other studies of democratization and economic reform, this volume covers both economic and political liberalization in nine essays by scholars who illuminate a new agenda in international relations.
The book takes as its subject the global wave of political liberalization that has arisen since the mid-1970s and the even wider trend toward liberal economic policies in the 1980s. Filling the gap left by neorealism, which has failed to address such upheavals as the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Liberalization and Foreign Policy discusses how the foreign policy effects of liberalization support new democratic regimes and help launch economic reforms-but do not guarantee full democratization.
The authors discuss how democracies engage in foreign policies that are vastly different from those of other regimes; the comparison of transitional or liberalizing democracies in Spain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa to established democracies like the United States; the noteworthy outcome of economic liberalization; and the strategies of collaboration within international institutions such as the European Community and NATO.

Table of Contents:

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction: Liberalization and Foreign Policy	1
Pt. I	Liberal Democracies and Their Foreign Policies	25
1	Democratic States and Commitment in International Relations	27
2	Legislative Influence and International Engagement	67
3	Democratic States and International Disputes	105
Pt. II	Political Liberalization and Foreign Policy: Cross-Regional Comparisons	119
4	Democratization and Foreign Policy in the Arab World; The Domestic Origins of the Jordanian and Algerian Alliances in the 1991 Gulf War	121
5	Political Liberalization and the African State System	143
6	Liberalization and Foreign Policy in East Europe	165
7	From Reluctant Choices to Credible Commitments: Foreign Policy and Economic and Political Liberalization - Spain, 1953-1986	193
Pt. III	Economic Liberalization, International Institutions, and Foreign Policy	235
8	Economic Liberalization and the Policy of European Monetary Integration	237
9	Financial Liberalization and Regional Monetary Cooperation: The Mexican Case	269
	Conclusion: Liberalization as Foreign Policy Determinant and Goal	287
	Index	315