HON499_Spring 2025_Moon Library Instruction_Harris: Connor

This English translation was first published in 1918. According to the Preface: This short book is the first part of a larger work by M. Georges Renard, the well-known French economic writer. The second part of the original deals with the modern Trade Union movement, and the part here reproduced is complete in itself.

Collective decision making -- Realist historical investigation -- The British trade unions in 1824 -- Anglo-Saxon England -- The guilds -- The Methodist church -- London Corresponding Society -- The chartists -- The communist secret societies -- The General Workers Unions -- The end of uncritical majoritarianism -- English revolution and the Quakers -- The Quakers in twentieth century Pennsylvania -- New England town meetings -- The peace and civil rights movements -- Myles Horton and highlander -- The African and slave roots of the black Baptist churches -- Eleanor Garst and women strike for peace -- The Quakers and movement for a new society -- Anarchism and decision making -- The negation of social movements -- The negation of negation: the rise of alliance politics -- Alliance politics

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion, communic