Bibliography for  GLOBAL CULTURE

Thomas J. Misa  Charles Babbage Institute  University of Minnesota  Minneapolis MN 55455

I. Industrial Revolutions

FIRST INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1760-1840)

Berg, Maxine. The machinery question and the making of political economy, 1815-1848.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980

Berg, Maxine.  The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820.  Oxford: OUP, 1986

Cipolla, Carlo M.  Before the Industrial Revolution: European society and economy, 1000-1700.  New York: Norton, 1976

Crafts, N. F. R.  British economic growth during the industrial revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985 [Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860]

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L.  The printing revolution in early modern Europe.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983

Headrick, Daniel R.  The tools of empire: technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Landes, David S.  The unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969. [See ch. 2-3 "The industrial revolution in Britain" and "Continental Emulation"]

Mayr, Otto.  Authority, liberty, & automatic machinery in early modern Europe. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986

Musson, Albert Edward and Eric Robinson.  Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969

North, Douglas C., and Robert Paul Thomas.  The rise of the Western world; a new economic history.  Cambridge: CUP, 1973

Pollard, Sidney.  Peaceful conquest: the industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981

Rosenberg, Nathan, and L.E. Birdzell, Jr.  How the West grew rich: the economic transformation of the industrial world. New York: Basic Books, 1986

Trebilcock, Clive.  The industrialization of the continental powers, 1780-1914.  London/New York: Longman, 1981

Von Tunzelmann, G. N.  Steam power and British industrialization to 1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978

Wolf, Eric Robert.  Europe and the people without history.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982
 

SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1850-1950)

Fox, Robert, and George Weisz (eds.).  The Organization of science and technology in France, 1808-1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980

Haber, L. F.  The poisonous cloud: chemical warfare in the First World War.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986

Headrick, Daniel R.  The tools of empire: technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Headrick, Daniel R.  The Tentacles of Progress: Technology Transfer in the Age of Imperialism, 1850-1940.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Headrick, Daniel R.  The invisible weapon : telecommunications and international politics, 1851-1945.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

Henderson, W. O.  The rise of German industrial power, 1834-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975

Landes, David S.  The Unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969. [See ch. 4-6]

Mayntz, Renate, and Thomas Hughes. (eds.).  The Development of large technical systems. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1988.

Milward, Alan S. and S. B. Saul.  The development of the economies of continental Europe, 1850-1914. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977

Mowery, David C. and Nathan Rosenberg.  Technology and the pursuit of economic growth.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989

Pollard, Sidney.  Peaceful conquest: the industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981

Rosenberg, Nathan, & L.E. Birdzell, Jr.  How the West grew rich: the economic transformation of the industrial world. New York: Basic Books, 1986

Shadwell, Arthur.  Industrial efficiency; a comparative study of industrial life in England, Germany and America. London: Longmans, Green, 1906 [2 vol.]

Tarr, Joel A., and Gabriel Dupuy (eds.).  Technology and the rise of the networked city in Europe and America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988

Trebilcock, Clive.  The industrialization of the continental powers, 1780-1914.  London/New York: Longman, 1981

Veblen, Thorstein [1857-1929].  Imperial Germany and the industrial revolution.  New York: Viking, 1939

Vonnegut, Kurt.  Player Piano.  (1952) [possible earliest use of term "Third" industrial revolution]

Yates, JoAnne.  Control through communication: the rise of system in American management.  Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

THIRD INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1950-)

Hall, Peter Geoffrey, and Paschal Preston.  The carrier wave: new information technology and the geography of innovation, 1846-2003. London/Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1988

Landes, David S.  The unbound Prometheus: technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the Present.  Cambridge: CUP, 1969. [See ch. 7 "Reconstruction and Growth since 1945"]

Liesner, Thelma.  Economic statistics, 1900-1983: United Kingdom, United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Japan. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985

Pierre, Andrew J. (ed.).  A High technology gap?: Europe, America, and Japan. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1987

Prowse, Stephen.  Corporate governance in an international perspective: a survey of corporate control mechanisms among large firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.  Basle: Bank for International Settlements, 1994.

Zeiler, Thomas W. Free Trade, Free World: The Advent of GATT.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1999. Pp. xii, 267. AHR review
 

II. Great Britain

Blackford, Mansel G. The rise of modern business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Crafts, N. F. R.  British economic growth during the industrial revolution. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985 [Great Britain--Economic conditions--1760-1860]

Dore, Ronald Philip.  British factory, Japanese factory; the origins of national diversity in industrial relations.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973

Gale, Walter Keith Vernon. The British iron and steel industry: a technical history. Newton Abbot (Devon): David & Charles, 1967

Hardie, D. W. F., and J. Davidson Pratt.  A history of the modern British chemical industry.  Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press, 1966

Joyce, Patrick. Work, society and politics: the culture of the factory in later Victorian England.  New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1980

Liebenau, Jonathan (ed.).  The Challenge of new technology: innovation in British business since 1850.  Aldershot/Brookfield: Gower, 1988

Musson, Albert Edward (ed.). Science, technology, and economic growth in the eighteenth century. London: Methuen, 1972

Musson, Albert Edward and Eric Robinson. Science and technology in the Industrial Revolution.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969

Prowse, Stephen.  Corporate governance in an international perspective: a survey of corporate control mechanisms among large firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.  Basle: Bank for International Settlements, 1994.

Shadwell, Arthur.  Industrial efficiency; a comparative study of industrial life in England, Germany and America. London: Longmans, Green, 1906 [2 vol.]

Tweedale, Geoffrey. Sheffield steel and America: a century of commercial and technological interdependence, 1830-1930.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987

Urwick, Lyndall F., and E.F.L. Brech.  The making of scientific management.  London: Management Publications Trust, 1949  [Industrial management; Great Britain--Industry.]

Von Tunzelmann, G. N. Steam power and British industrialization to 1860. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978
 

Germany

To 1918

Craig, Gordon A. Germany, 1866-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978

Eley, Geoff. From unification to Nazism: reinterpreting the German past.  Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986 [1871-1933]

Hamerow, Theodore S. The social foundations of German unification, 1858-1871. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1969

Henderson, W. O. The rise of German industrial power, 1834-1914. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975

Paret, Peter.  The Berlin Secession: modernism and its enemies in imperial Germany.  Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1980.

Shadwell, Arthur.  Industrial efficiency; a comparative study of industrial life in England, Germany and America. London: Longmans, Green, 1906 [2 vol.]

Spencer, Elaine Glovka. Management and labor in imperial Germany: Ruhr industrialists. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1984

Veblen, Thorstein [1857-1929]. Imperial Germany and the industrial revolution.  New York: Viking, 1939

Wertheimer, Jack.  Unwelcome strangers : East European Jews in imperial Germany.  New York : Oxford University Press, 1987.

1918-1945

Bessel, Richard.  Germany after the First World War. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993

Beyerchen, Alan.  Scientists under Hitler : politics and the physics community in the Third Reich.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977.

Borden, Carla M. and Jarrell C. Jackman (eds.).  The Muses flee Hitler: cultural transfer and adaptation, 1930-1945.  Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983.

Bourke-White, Margaret, 1904-1971.  "Dear fatherland, rest quietly"; a report on the collapse of Hitler's  "Thousand years." Written and photographed by Margaret Bourke-White.  New York, Simon and Schuster, 1946.

Bower, Tom.  The Paperclip Conspiracy: the hunt for the Nazi scientists.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1987

Brook, Warner Frederick.  Social and economic history of Germany from William II to Hitler, 1888-1938; a comparative study. New York, Russell & Russell, 1962

Craig, Gordon A.  Germany, 1866-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1978

Dobkowski, Michael N. and Isidor Wallimann (eds.).  Towards the Holocaust: the social and economic collapse of the Weimar Republic.  Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983

Eley, Geoff.  From unification to Nazism: reinterpreting the German past.  Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1986

Feldman, Gerald D.  Iron and steel in the German inflation, 1916-1923. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977

Gillingham, John.  Industry and politics in the Third Reich: Ruhr Coal, Hitler, and Europe.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

Goudsmit, Samuel A.  Alsos.  Los Angeles: Tomash Publishers, 1983 [United States. War Dept. Alsos Mission; Atomic bomb--Germany]

Greenberg, Allan Carl.  Artists and revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus, 1917-1925.  Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979

Hamilton, Richard F.  Who voted for Hitler?  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Herf, Jeffrey.  Reactionary modernism: technology, culture, and politics in Weimar and the Third Reich.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984

Maier, Charles S.  In search of stability: explorations in historical political economy.  New Rochelle, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1987  [Europe--Economic conditions--20th century]

Moulton, Harold Glenn.  The reparation plan; an interpretation of the Reports of the expert committees appointed by the Reparation commission, November 30, 1923. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1924

Nolan, Mary (1994).  Visions of Modernity: American Business and the Modernization of Germany. Oxford University Press.

Read, Anthony, and David Fisher.  The deadly embrace: Hitler, Stalin, and the Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939-1941  New York : Norton, 1988.

Schmidt, Carl Theodore.  German business cycles, 1924-1933. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research, 1934

Schoenbaum, David.  Hitler's social revolution; class and status in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1966

Smith, Howard K.  Last train from Berlin.  New York: A. A. Knopf, 1942

Speer, Albert.  Infiltration. New York: Macmillan, 1981. [Trans. of Sklavenstaat; Nazi's economic policies toward Eastern Europe]

Trivanovitch, Vaso.  Economic development of Germany under National Socialism. New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1937.

Whealey, Robert H.  Hitler and Spain : the Nazi role in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939  Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1989.

Zilbert, E. R.  Albert Speer and the Nazi Ministry of Arms: economic institutions and industrial production in the German war economy. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickenson University Press, 1981
 

1945-present

Garton Ash, Timothy. In Europe's name: Germany and the divided continent.  New York: Random House, 1993 [German reunification question (1949-1990)]

Hamalainen, Pekka Kalevi. Uniting Germany: actions and reactions.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1994 [German reunification question (1949-1990)]

Jarausch, Konrad H. The rush to German unity.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1994 [German reunification question (1949-1990); Germany (East)--Social conditions.]

Kolinsky, Martin. Continuity and change in European society: Germany, France and Italy since 1870.  New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1974

Milward, Alan S. The reconstruction of western Europe, 1945-51. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984

Prowse, Stephen.  Corporate governance in an international perspective: a survey of corporate control mechanisms among large firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.  Basle: Bank for International Settlements, 1994.

Japan

Bartholomew, James R.  The formation of science in Japan: building a research tradition.   New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Beasley, William G.  The modern history of Japan.  New York: Praeger, 1963.

Blackford, Mansel G.  The rise of modern business in Great Britain, the United States, and Japan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988

Borton, Hugh.  Japan's modern century.  New York: Ronald Press Co., 1955.

Caves, Richard E. and Masu Uekusa.  Industrial organization in Japan.  Washington : Brookings Institution, 1976.

Cusumano, Michael A. 1985.  The Japanese automobile industry: technology and management at Nissan and Toyota. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Dore, Ronald Philip.  British factory, Japanese factory; the origins of national diversity in industrial relations.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973

Frampton, Kenneth, Kunio Kudo, Keith Vincent.  Japanese building practice: from ancient times to the Meiji period.  New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, c1997.  ARCHITECTURE.TH105.F731997

Hall, John Whitney, and Marius B. Jansen (eds.).  Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968.

Hane, Mikiso.   Peasants, rebels, and outcastes : the underside of modern Japan.  New York : Pantheon, 1982.

Hanley, Susan B. and Kozo Yamamura.  Economic and demographic change in preindustrial Japan, 1600-1868.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Hasegawa, Harukiyo.  The steel industry in Japan : a comparison with Britain.  London/New York: Routledge, 1996.

Havens, Thomas R. H.  Valley of darkness : the Japanese people and World War Two.  New York : Norton, 1978.

Ienaga, SaburØo.  The Pacific War : World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945.  New York : Pantheon Books, 1978.

Johnson, Chalmers A.  MITI and the Japanese miracle: the growth of industrial policy, 1925-1975.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.

Kawai, Kazuo.  Japan's American interlude.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.  [Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952]

Kodama, Fumio, and Lewis M. Branscomb.  1995.  Emerging Patterns of Innovation : Sources of Japan's Technological Edge.  Harvard Business School Press. <not Galvin>

Keene, Donald.  The Japanese discovery of Europe, 1720-1830.  Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1969.  [Honda, Toshiaki, 1744-1821]

Laslett, Peter.  Household and family in past time; comparative studies in the size and structure of the domestic group over the last three centuries in England, France, Serbia, Japan and colonial North America.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Liesner, Thelma.  Economic statistics, 1900-1983: United Kingdom, United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Japan. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1985

Minami, Ryoshin.  Power revolution in the industrialization of Japan, 1885-1940. Tokyo: Kinokuniya Co., 1987

Okimoto, Daniel I., Takuo Sugano, and Franklin B. Weinstein (eds.).  Competitive edge: the semiconductor industry in the U.S. and Japan.  Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1984.

Ozawa, Terutomo.  Japan's technological challenge to the West, 1950-1974: motivation and accomplishment. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974

Perrin, Noel.  Giving up the gun: Japan's reversion to the sword, 1543-1879.  Boston : D. R. Godine, 1979.

Pharr, Susan J.  Political women in Japan : the search for a place in political life.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.

Pierre, Andrew J. (ed.).  A High technology gap?: Europe, America, and Japan. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1987

Prowse, Stephen.  Corporate governance in an international perspective: a survey of corporate control mechanisms among large firms in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany.  Basle: Bank for International Settlements, 1994.

Rozman, Gilbert.  Urban networks in Ch`ing China and Tokugawa Japan.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973

Schirokauer, Conrad.  Modern China and Japan : a brief history.  New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982.

Schmiegelow, Michèle and Henrik Schmiegelow.  Strategic pragmatism : Japanese lessons in the use of economic theory.  New York : Praeger, 1989.  [Japan--Economic conditions --1945, Japan--Economic policy --1945]

Schonberger, Howard B.  Aftermath of war: Americans and the remaking of Japan, 1945-1952.  Kent: Kent State University Press, 1989.

Smith, Thomas C.  Native sources of Japanese industrialization, 1750-1920.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.

Spector, Ronald H.  Eagle against the sun : the American war with Japan.  New York : Free Press, 1985.

Stearns, Marjorie Ruth.  The history of the Japanese people in Oregon.  San Francisco, R and E Research Associates, 1974.

Sugiyama, S. (Shin'ya).  Japan's industrialization in the world economy, 1859-1899 : export trade and overseas competition.  London/Atlantic Highlands: Athlone Press, 1988. [Japan--Economic conditions --1868-1918]

Toland, John.  The rising sun; the decline and fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945.  New York: Random House, 1970

Vogel, Ezra F.  Japan's new middle class; the salary man and his family in a Tokyo suburb.  Berkeley, University of California Press, 1971, 2nd ed. [c1963]

Vogel, Ezra F.  Japan as number one: Lessons for America.  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Wichmann, Siegfried.  Japonisme: the Japanese influence on western art in the 19th and 20th centuries.  New York: Harmony Books, 1981.

Yazaki, Takeo.  Social change and the city in Japan: from earliest times through the Industrial Revolution.   Tokyo: Japan Publications, 1968.

Yoshida, Mitsukuni, Tanaka Ikko and Sesoko Tsune (eds.).  The Hybrid culture : what happened when East and West met.  Hiroshima: Mazda, 1984.

Yoshino, M. Y. (Michael Y.) and Thomas B. Lifson.  The invisible link: Japan's sogo shosha and the organization of trade.  Cambridge: MIT Press, 1986.  [Conglomerate corporations--Japan]

Young, Alexander.  The sogo shosha : Japanese multi-national trading companies.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1979.  [Conglomerate corporations--Japan]
 

Toward Global Culture (1970-2001)

Abu-Lughod, Janet L.  1999.  New York, Chicago, Los Angeles: America's global cities.  University of Minnesota Press.

Hafner, Katie, and Matthew Lyon.  1996.  Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet.  Simon & Schuster.

Hughes, Thomas P.  1998.  Rescuing Prometheus.  Pantheon. [case studies of SAGE bomber defense, Atlas missile, ARPANET, and Boston's Central Artery projects]

Levy, Steven.  1994.  Insanely Great: The Life and Time of Macintosh, the computer that changed everything.  New
York: Viking

Rochlin, Gene I.  1977.  Trapped in the Net: The Unanticipated Consequences of Computerization.  Princeton
University Press.

Shirley, Donna (et al.).  1998.   Managing Martians.  Broadway Books.  [memoir from the manager of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Mars Exploration Program]

Thomas, Robert J.  1994.  What Machines Can't Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise.  Berkeley:
University of California Press.

Ullman, Ellen.  1997.  Close to the Machine.  San Francisco: City Lights.

Watson, James L. (ed.)  1997.  Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia.  Stanford University Press.

Womack, James P., Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos. 1990.  The machine that changed the world : based on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5-million dollar 5-year study on the future of the automobile.  HD9710.A2W651990

THE GLOBALIZATION DEBATE [SITES AND LINKS ACTIVE DURING 1999-2001]

• Click here to visit the World Trade Organisation's homepage. The site also has sections devoted to the Seattle meeting and a history of the previous round of international trade talks, the Uruguay round. Visit People's Global Action here. Two other international organisations concerned with international trade and the environment are: the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Environment Programme.
• The OECD issued a report to ministers on international investment after the failure of the Multilateral Agreement on Investment talks. Consumer advocacy group Public Citizen has put together a page of links to other web-based resources on the MAI. A summary of the European Union's Agenda 2000 reforms to the common agricultural policy is available here.
• The White House has published the background notes on the global economy used in the State of the Union address. The Global Trade Watch section of Public Citizen's website offers a comprehensive overview of the discussion about freer international trade in the United States. See Policy.com for a list of other American organisations involved in the debate.
• Click here to go to the WTO's Seattle summit website. WTOWatch.org has put together a list of articles related to summit. Click on the names to read three NGO's views about the WTO: Oxfam, the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth.  Click on the names to visit two of the protest coalition members' websites: Rainforest Action Network and the Ruckus Society.  Globalise This! is a website put together by The Ruckus Society especially for the Seattle summit.
• WTO Director-General Mike Moore has issued a post-summit press release outlining his response to the suspension of talks. Charlene Barshefsky's remarks at the closing plenary can be read here.The Economist Intelligence Unit produced a diary of the WTO meeting.
• Guide to the World History of Globalization -- by South Asian historian David Ludden, contains brief essay on the l-o-n-g history of globalization (from Alexander the Great onward) and many useful links.

Supporters of Globalization

• World Bank -- see its recent report "Assessing Globalization"
• International Monetary Fund
• The Economist (London weekly magazine)
• Tom Friedman's www.lexus....XXX....com <URL was taken over by a porn advertiser; sorry!>
  

Critics of Globalization

• International Forum on Globalization: teach-in on technology and globalization (24-25 Feb. 2001)
• Mobilization for Global Justice Website: www.a16.org
• Mother Jones magazine collection on globalization
• Initiative Against Economic Globalization (INPEG)
• Rainforest Action Network
• Ruckus Society.  Globalise This! is their site
• S26 - Global Day of Action
• S26 - LA (Los Angeles)
• IMF-World Bank Campaign (OneWorld)
• International Lobster Party
• Mobilization for Global Justice
• 50 Years Is Enough Network
• Whirled Bank
• Direct Action Network
• Global Exchange
• Jubilee 2000 Coalition
• ZNet: Global Economic Crisis
• Friends of the Earth
• CorporateWatch's pages on Nike; compare Nike's defense of its labor practices in Asia
• National Labour Committee (rights of workers in Central America and China)
• Corporate Watch is "the watchdog on the web"; Sweatshop Watch does a similar job
• Human Rights for Workers on sweatshops and child labour including sweatshops in China
• Global Exchange, with "people-to-people ties around the world", keeps a watch on worker exploitation.