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Peter Ryan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Research on economics, history, and tech @Ryan_Research Formerly: MA Global History (Econ) @UCDdublin BA Econ @nyuniversity

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Book Cover for: Gulliver's Travels: (Dr. Jonathan Swift Classics Collection), Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels: (Dr. Jonathan Swift Classics Collection)

Jonathan Swift
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

220/ They meant self-rule as in them as the dominant English Protestant minority in Ireland would rule Ireland vs. being ruled from London. 18th century writer Jonathan Swift, best known for his Gulliver’s Travels, also advocated for English Protestant nationalism. “For Swift was… https://t.co/Ka7mLIPWNS https://t.co/8VkLBr5cPR

Paperback, 2015

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order, Eric Helleiner

Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order

Eric Helleiner
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

Other works by Helleiner include States and the Reemergence of Global Finance (Cornell, 1994), The Forgotten Foundations of Bretton Woods: International Development and the Making of the Postwar Order (Cornell, 2014) and more. https://t.co/EDt5TMrcls

Paperback, 2016

$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: National System of Political Economy, Frederick List

National System of Political Economy

Frederick List
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

5/ Other terms can be used to describe this school of thought like realist, developmentalist, or nationalist. One of its greatest thinkers was Friedrich List who wrote The National System of Political Economy in 1841. https://t.co/Rqkyg9NcUN https://t.co/780lONAUJA

Paperback, 2014

$45.95$22.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

220/ They meant self-rule as in them as the dominant English Protestant minority in Ireland would rule Ireland vs. being ruled from London. 18th century writer Jonathan Swift, best known for his Gulliver’s Travels, also advocated for English Protestant nationalism. “For Swift was… https://t.co/Ka7mLIPWNS https://t.co/8VkLBr5cPR

Paperback, 2003

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Book Cover for: Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, Eoin O'Broin

Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism

Eoin O'Broin
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

50/ In his book Sinn Féin and the Politics of Left Republicanism, current leading Sinn Féin intellectual and TD Eoin Ó Broin said this era’s Sinn Féin was “characterised by social conservatism and a narrowly defined political nationalism.” https://t.co/TqnhEG3oRF https://t.co/IilPRbPJUZ

Paperback, 2008

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Book Cover for: Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939, Mary Daly

Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922-1939

Mary Daly
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

Mary E. Daly's "Industrial Development and Irish National Identity, 1922–1939" documents these facts of failed protectionism well. Thus the real conclusion of that era is that protectionism was never really done at all. https://t.co/DI8HmTqQFv

Paperback, 2018

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Free Market: The History of an Idea, Jacob Soll

Free Market: The History of an Idea

Jacob Soll
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

25/ Podcast: The ‘free market’ is a fever dream and Adam Smith wasn’t in it with Jacob Soll and @MkBlyth (Rhodes Center Podcast) > Econ history that rethinks how we Adam Smith https://t.co/rTNw7VnJ4H https://t.co/hWIfKdtJr2

Hardcover, 2022

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Book Cover for: In the Shadow of the Glen, J. M. Synge

In the Shadow of the Glen

J. M. Synge
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

275/ For example, “Yeats and the ‘Irish National Theatre’ following the opening of J.M. Synge’s In the Shadow of the Glen in 1903…spawned controversy among Catholic nationalists, who regarded it as immoral…[Arthur] Griffith savaged the play in The United Irishmen…Controversy… https://t.co/LNvY752lQp https://t.co/iwNQf6qLva

Paperback, 2022

$17.68$8.84 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Samuel Johnson, Thomas Carlyle

Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

260/ Rather than relying on ancient primary sources, the 19th -20thcentury Celtic scholars, or modern historians, Pilkington considered the matter settled by quoting a few biased critics like Thomas Carlyle or Samuel Johnson who were self-identified with English imperialism. He… https://t.co/5HClgzVOjX https://t.co/yh8zmIpuei

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Book Cover for: The History of Japanese Economic Development: Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence, Kenichi Ohno

The History of Japanese Economic Development: Origins of Private Dynamism and Policy Competence

Kenichi Ohno
Peter RyanPeter Ryan

"But Pete how does a less developed country develop without foreign capital? It's never been done before!" WRONG. Let's take a history lesson using Ohno's "The History of Japanese Economic Development" https://t.co/1EyBpAMjfc

Paperback, 2017

$71.99$46.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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