Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. “For any scholar examining the economic and financial viability of the family unit, or the degree to which family members related as a working and economic unit as well as an intimate one, this book not only offers a very important... More about A Taste for Comfort and Status: A Bourgeois Family in Eighteenth-Century France
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965. First US Edition, Sixth Printing. Softcover. This work is a history of Chinese civilization with special emphasis on cultural achievements. An unusually broad perspective, and a sure eye for significant detail, are demanded of an author who sets out to delineate three thousand years... More about The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire
New York: W W Norton & Company, 1981. First Edition, Ninth Printing. Softcover. In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the... More about Structure and Change in Economic History
Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies University of Michigan, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Vol 56 in the Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies. This volume began with two symposia held in 1977 and 1978 at University of Michigan and Chicago. Its principal goal was to use detailed case studies to explore... More about Citizens and Groups in Contemporary China
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