Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... In the UK the years immediately following the Second World War were a time of rebuilding a crippled economy. ... Following a period of austerity the 1950s and 1960s saw a period often referred to as the 'golden era' of capitalism (Burke & Puty, 2004). ... The post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s. ...

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First, it had been argued that the period after the end of the Second World War witnessed a rapid growth of trade, which indicated a greater interconnectedness in the nature of the economy (O'Brien & Williams, 2010: 163). ... Thus, they conclude that the contemporary process of trade and investment is no more than a continuance of economic integration from the pre-1914 era (Hiest and Thompson, 1999: 28). ... While it is true that the economic fate of states is bound together in patterns of interdependence due to economic integrations, it is also important to note that states did not enjo...

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Removal of state subsidies and tariff barriers may have adversely affected the standard of living of workers and the growth prospects of certain industrial sectors in the periphery, but they were needed medicine in order to get the prices right Western development institutions, notably the IMF, the World Bank and their major members attributed poor records to the prevailing policies and strategies of development which had been pursued in the post-war era. ... As Adrian Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the p...

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During the industrialization era, many productive activities that took place within families, were moved to factories as society was industrialized (Aulette 139). ... When the men went off to war, women took over their roles as laborers in the workplace. ... The Great Depression ended with WWII, which stimulated the economy with new demands for war materials and ended unemployment with the draft. With the men gone to war, industries had no where lese to turn but to hire women, thus changing the family dramatically. ...

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In the modern era, the globalization had an early bloom toward ends of the XIX century that embraced to the countries that nowadays are rich or developed, for many of which the trade currents and capitals in connection with the GDP ended up being similar or superiors to those that register at the present time. That acme of the globalization declined in the first half of the XX century, time that was characterized by the increase of the protectionism inside a mark of national wars and among the big powers, world wars, revolutions, peak of the ideologies authoritarian and vast economic uncertain...

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Interestingly, during the Second World War, Brazil's Gross National Product was among the highest in the world – with a 7.4%. After the war was over, investments geared towards what seems to be one of the biggest problems the country faces today: infrastructure. ... " Players like Ronaldo, Adriano, Robinho, Alexandre Pato and Ronaldinho have been a part of this new soccer "era". i. ...

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On 1st October 1949 after defeating the KMD in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced at the gate of heavenly peace that he was now the leader of Peoples Republic of China. ... What was a agrarian undeveloped population evolved into one which developed the role and women and pushed China into a new era. ...

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In 2002 former president Alvaro Uribe came to power and essentially waged war against the FARC (Renwick). ... Colombia has long suffered through hardship but a new era is arriving with Colombia finally on top....

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Chapter 25: Transition to Modern America (the 1920s) Introduction Mass Production: the result was the creation of a New America, on e in which individualism was sacrificed to conformity as a part of the price to be paid for a new era of abundance. ... After a brief post-war depression, in 1922 saw the beginning of a great boom that peaked in 1927 and lasted until 1929. ...

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Castro made his pact with the devil and became a pawn in the Cold War, but out of economic necessity. ... In this era, the Cuban and the US sugar economies were tightly integrated, and over half of the Cuban sugar exports went to the US providing over one-third of US sugar imports. ...

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Question What led to the "Industrial Revolution"? Is this term correct, or might it be a misnomer? Why? Response Historians consider the industrial revolution as the most significant period in the history of humanity. The Oxford English dictionary describes the industrial revolution as a rapid industrial development, which took place in England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, chiefly owing to the introduction of new or improved machinery and large-scale production methods. ...

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