Böcker av Michael Roberts

Setting out from an unapologetic Marxist perspective, The Long Depression argues that the global economy remains in the throes of a depression. Making the case that the profitability of capital is too low, and the debt built up before the Great Recession too high, leading radical economist Michael Roberts persuasively presents his case that this depression will persist until the profitability of capital is restored through yet another slump.

This work aims to provide readers with a simple explanation of the fundamental principles of the sciences of pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology. It sketches the history of drug treatment from traditional therapy with mainly herbal preparations to today's explosion of synthetic drugs.

Science and religion have intersected in many ways throughout history. Many people believe that science and religion are always in conflict with each other, but this series show that this is not necessarily so. It provides an overview of the complex manner in which science and religion have influenced each other over the years.

Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka.

The core of this volume of four essays, by the doyen of historians of Sweden, consists in two studies of Charles X: one, an examination of his domestic policies and constitutional significance; the other, a discussion of the objectives of his foreign policy.

In his Wiles Lectures for 1977 Professor Roberts examines some of the problems raised by Sweden's brief career as a great power, and seeks to answer some of the questions that flow from them. Were the underlying considerations which prompted the unexpected development geopolitical, or social, or economic? How was it possible to produce the financial resources and the manpower which the enterprise demanded? How far was seventeenth-century Sweden a militarized society? What importance had official propaganda and national myths? Did the consititutional situation help to make an expansionist foreign policy easier? The structure of the empire is next examined: its administration, the ties that held it together, the differing interests of the provinces, the varying responses of the metropolitan power was there, in fact, anything deserving the name of an imperial policy? How did the provinces view the Swedish connexion? In a final chapter the author tries to answer the question why, if Sweden could acquire an empire without undue strain, she could not retain it; why the collapse was so rapid and so total; and whether her career as a great power had real relevance to the country's subsequent history. On almost all these topics little information is available in English, and no comparable treatment of them on this scale exists in any language.

This book analyses the principles and practice of the Swedish constitution, and the nature and functioning of Swedish parties, during a period when Sweden was 'the freest country in the world'. It also considers why Gustav III was so easily able to bring the Age of Liberty to an end.

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Aimed primarily at undergraduates, this text examines the reign of Gustavus Adolphus and his chancellor Oxenstierna in 17th century Sweden. Adolphus was the principal upholder of the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War and was a great administrator and soldier.