1973 To The Present

Diving into the murky waters of recent history, Phillips-Fein takes an intriguing look at scholarship in American history of the past 40-plus years, and discovers an era starting to develop a distinction of its own beyond the previous post-World War IIclassification.

This book describes the remarkable path which led to the Swiss Franc becoming the strong international currency that it is today. Ernst Baltensperger and Peter Kugler use Swiss monetary history to provide valuable insights into a number of issues concerning the organization and development of monetary institutions and currency that shaped the structure of financial markets and affected the economic course of a country in important ways. They investigate a number of topics, including the functioning of a world without a central bank, the role of competition and monopoly in money and banking, the functioning of monetary unions, monetary policy of small open economies under fixed and flexible exchange rates, the stability of money demand and supply under different monetary regimes, and the monetary and macroeconomic effects of Swiss Banking and Finance. Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century illustrates the value of monetary history for understanding financial markets and macroeconomics today.

In 1973 Britains introduced their New Toy Soldier line of gloss-painted metal figures. It has been highly successful and continues to the present day. This new book focuses on the traditional 54mm figures, illustrating nearly the complete range in nearly 1,100 photographs. Over 3,200 figures are shown with a strong emphasis on military items: British Ceremonial troops, American Civil War, Indian Army and Delhi Durbar, World War I, Knights, Zulu War, Rorkes Drift, Limited Editions, W Britains Collectors Club Membership products, Britains Centenary and Millennium issues. The book also features non-military sections on Home Farm and Circus. Special issues by the Britains Company and figures exclusive to Harrods' and Hamleys' department stores all are included. Each toy is identified in the text and captions, with a comprehensive index of all gloss-painted figures produced during the period covered. The book contains a valuation guide to each set or individual item. This reference book is the definitive work on the new Britains line.

The decades after World War II were a golden age across much of the world. It was a time of economic miracles, an era when steady jobs were easy to find and families could see their living standards improving year after year. And then, around 1973, the good times vanished. The world economy slumped badly, then settled into the slow, erratic growth that had been the norm before the war. The result was an era of anxiety, uncertainty, and political extremism that we are still grappling with today. In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson describes how the end of the postwar boom reverberated throughout the global economy, bringing energy shortages, financial crises, soaring unemployment, and a gnawing sense of insecurity. Politicians, suddenly unable to deliver the prosperity of years past, railed haplessly against currency speculators, oil sheikhs, and other forces they could not control. From Sweden to Southern California, citizens grew suspicious of their newly ineffective governments and rebelled against the high taxes needed to support social welfare programs enacted when coffers were flush. Almost everywhere, the pendulum swung to the right, bringing politicians like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan to power. But their promise that deregulation, privatization, lower tax rates, and smaller government would restore economic security and robust growth proved unfounded. Although the guiding hand of the state could no longer deliver the steady economic performance the public had come to expect, free-market policies were equally unable to do so. The golden age would not come back again. A sweeping reappraisal of the last sixty years of world history, An Extraordinary Time forces us to come to terms with how little control we actually have over the economy.

EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

"On September 11, 1973, Chile's General Pinochet led a quick and brutal military coup over the Allende government and then installed a dictatorship that controlled the country until late 1998. Many Allende sympathizers - and all free-thinking Chilean citizens, for that matter - were forced into exile or put into concentration camps." "Ignacio Lopez-Calvo argues that this event shaped Chilean narrative into two structural forms that roughly adhere to a social chronology: liberationist narrative, "cathartic," journalistic testimonies that provide models for revolutionary behavior against authoritarianism; and demystifying narrative, which uses the events of 1973, as well as the colonial aspirations of European countries, as a "paradise lost" backdrop in which the characters are able to create their own non-political realities that become models of democratization." "At the same time, Lopez-Calvo demonstrates how Chilean writers in particular and Southern Cone writers in general - while sharing the same ontological sources with European literature - have struggled to define their own genre separate from North American and European narrative forms. He provides an exhaustive survey of major Chilean authors, including Jose Donoso, Fernando Algria, Ianos Magallanes, Hernan Valdes, Jorge Edwards, Ana Vasquez, Ariel Dorfman, and many others."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Notebook a perfect gift 6x9 inches Glossy Cover 100 pages blank lined

If you're looking for a funny, cheap gift that's better than a card for birthday, retirement, coworker, holiday, white elephant or thank you present, grab this What Happened In 1973 Journal Notebook. Measuring 7.5x9.25", it features two solid pages of historical information about the year you were born, including cost of living prices, popular movies, tv shows, toys, music, world events and sports milestones. Sure to bring some laughs and a smile to their face, you won't find better value in this cheap gift and they'll know you took the time to find a personalized gift. Great gift for 30th, 40th, 50th, 60th, 70th and 80th birthdays, and all of them in between!