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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 What Is a Hedonizing Technology? -- 2 Leisure and Necessity -- 3 Hedonization and Industrialization: Diverging Paths in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- 4 The Hedonizing Marketplace -- 5 Why, When, and How Do Technologies Hedonize? -- Appendixes -- A: Biases of Collecting and Connoisseurship -- B: Methodological Notes -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

Prosper or Perish -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Overview and Research Questions -- 1. Local Governments, Rural Credit, and Regional Development in China -- Appendix: Case Study Indicators, Household Survey, and Sources -- 2. The Rural Financial System and Rural Development in China -- Part II. The Design of China's Economic and Political Institutions -- 3. The Design of China's Rural Credit Institutions -- 4. The Implications of Cadre Evaluation and Fiscal System for Local-Government Behavior -- Appendix: Township Cadre Evaluation Criteria in Wenling County, Zhejiang Province -- Part III. Case Studies: Blind Men and the Elephant -- 5. Diverging Pathways to Prosperity: Privately Led vs. Local Government-Led Industrialization -- 6. The Local Government-Led Path to Rural Decay -- Appendix: Revenue and Expenditures of the Perished Townships -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of Non-Survey Field Interviews, 2003-6 -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. Introduction -- 1. Findings and Perspectives -- 2. The Politburo's Role as Revealed by the Lost Transcripts -- II. The Power Struggle -- 3. Stalin in the Light of the Politburo Transcripts -- 4. ''Class Brothers Unite!'' The British General Strike and the Formation of the ''United Opposition'' -- 5. Stalin, Syrtsov, Lominadze: Preparations for the ''Second Great Breakthrough'' -- 6. The ''Right Opposition'' and the ''Smirnov-Eismont-Tolmachev Affair'' -- III. Discourse, Ideology, and Propaganda -- 7. The Way They Talked Then: The Discourse of Politics in the Soviet Party Politburo in the Late 1920s -- 8. Making the Unthinkable Thinkable: Language Microhistory of Politburo Meetings -- 9. The Short Course of the History of the All-Union Communist Party: The Distorted Mirror of Party Propaganda -- IV. Economic Policy -- 10. Grain, Class, and Politics During NEP: The Politburo Meeting of December 10, 1925 -- 11. The Politburo on Gold, Industrialization, and the International Economy, 1925-1926 -- 12. Prices in the Politburo, 1927: Market Equilibrium versus the Use of Force -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Contemporary with the recent and very rapid industrial development of the United States has been observed an unexampled liberality of juristic thought. Especially has the process of settlement and industrialization of the West been pervaded by certain unusual social and economic influences, and likewise has been comparatively free from that judicial conservatism prevalent during the periods of colonization and settlement of the eastern and central portions of the country. Extremely dynamic forces, finding their origin in the manner of settlement, the physical characteristics of the country, and the personal attributes of the population, readily developed what may be termed specialized forms of social and legal institutions. As economic and political factors have become adjusted and a stable social poise has been approached, some of the diverging branches of the new sociopolitical life of the West have been pruned back to antecedent form, but others have become component parts of a permanent organization. Incident to the perpetuation of an unusual industrial structure, there have come about the development of new legal concepts which have assumed special relation to property rights in natural resources. This was possible only upon the abrogation of common law precedents and the renunciation of doctrines formerly conceded to be fundamental in American practice.