Reviews for Reforming The Governance Of The Imf And The World Bank

The average rating for Reforming The Governance Of The Imf And The World Bank based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-12-30 00:00:00 Timothy Michel Thorough analysis of the British premodern transition from traditional to commercial. Copious detail, but genuinely interesting. Lot's of stories of real families and their struggles and successes navigating the changing landscape. Excellent analysis of the many ways social relationships changed. Extraordinarily well researched and documented. I was most surprised by the cooperative, communal nature of premodern village life. Also, fascinating was the ways in which wage earners, formerly farmers, fought to maintain a sense of independence in a dependent world, and how they built early union like relationships. All in all, an excellent introduction into another time so very different than our own.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-01 00:00:00 Laurent Cavallero A scholarly book but very approachable. His overview of the historiography of the period was very helpful, providing context for the ideas of RH Tawney, which with Christopher Hill underlay much of my A-Level history syllabus. I was very interested to see how attitudes to money, land, work and finance shifted in the 16C. Quite a lot of the Scottish context was familiar from Tom Devine's The Scottish Clearances but it was good to have that reinforced. In England 70% of cultivable land had been enclosed by 1700, a process that had been pursued for at least 200 years. The medieval field strip system was distinctly inefficient. The key message here is the 300 year shift from a predominantly rural, feudal society to one in which wage labour was much more usual and the middle classes represented almost a quarter of the population.