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The edible foundations of civilization -- The invention of farming -- The roots of modernity -- Food and social structure -- Food, wealth and power -- Follow the food -- Global highways of food -- Splinters of paradise -- Seeds of empire -- Food, energy and industrialisation -- New world, new foods -- The steam engine and the potato -- Food as a weapon -- The fuel of war -- Food fight -- Food, population and development -- Feeding the world -- Paradoxes of plenty

Social historians formed an important part of the Social Science History Association from its early days, and they widened its intellectual space beyond initial emphases on political history and quantitative methods. Lee Benson and other faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as Charles and Louise Tilly, were particularly influential in attracting a broad mix of scholars to the group. The openness of the association and its interdisciplinarity appealed to younger scholars, and those interested in the "new urban history" were early recruits. A growing number of women, many of whom were social historians, participated in the first conventions and newly organized networks.

Volume 33 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, America and Asia and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest. Two papers focus on the US and contribute to our understanding of the Great Depression.

Introduction / B.I. Obichere -- Joseph Christopher Okwudili Anene, 1918-68 / E.A. Ayandele -- Nigeria, the country of the Niger area / C.C. Ifemesia -- Political history of the city states of Old Calabar, 1820-60 / M. Efiong Noah -- The Native Revenue Ordinance in the eastern provinces / A.E. Afigbo -- The newspaper press in Southern Nigeria, 1800-1900 / Fred I.A. Omu -- The Nigeria Union of Teachers, 1930-65 / Uga Onwuka --The role of ethnic unions in the development of Southern Nigeria, 1916-66 / Austin M. Ahanotu -- The Nigerian Civil Service in the colonial era / G.O. Olusanya --- The British Navy and Southern Nigeria in the nineteenth century / Paul M. Mbaeyi -- An aspect of British colonial policy in Southern Nigeria : the problem of forced labour and slavery, 1895-1928 / Walter I. Ofonagoro

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- CHAPTER I. Europe and the Theologico-Political Problem -- CHAPTER II. Machiavelli and the Fecundity of Evil -- CHAPTER III. Hobbes and the New Political Art -- CHAPTER IV. Locke, Labor, and Property -- CHAPTER V. Montesquieu and the Separation of Powers -- CHAPTER VI. Rousseau, Critic of Liberalism -- CHAPTER VII. Liberalism after the French Revolution -- CHAPTER VIII. Benjamin Constant and the Liberalism of Opposition -- CHAPTER IX. François Guizot: The Liberalism of Government -- CHAPTER X. Tocqueville: Liberalism Confronts Democracy -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index

Argues that the fundamental significance of entrepreneurship requires it to be fully integrated into core social science disciplines such as economics and sociology, and into economic and business history. This book shows how this can be done. It formalizes the role of the entrepreneur as innovator, risk-taker and judgemental decision-maker