Western Europe, Eastern Europe and World Development 13th-18th Centuries

"This collection of essays is most welcome. The main articles of Marian Małowist are collected together (and in many cases translated into English) for the first time. Małowist, who is one of the major economic historians of the twentieth century, is also a much neglected one. Of the eighteen articles here, only five were published in English-language journals that are widely read by historians and social scientists, and even these journals are primarily read by economic historians. So most scholars have been missing out on one of the most fertile and cultivated minds who have written on the central issue of our times - the wide and widening gulf between the core and the periphery, the North and the South, western and eastern Europe" (Immanuel Wallerstein).

Jean Batou, Ph.D. (1989) in Economic and social sciences, University of Geneva, is professor of modern international history at the University of Lausanne. He has published extensively on globalization, uneven development and social movements in a historical perspective including, One Hundred Years of Resistance to Underdevelopment (Droz, 1990), Uneven Development in Europe, 1918-1939 (Droz, 1998), Tant pis si la lutte est cruelle! Volontaires internationaux contre Franco(Syllepse, 2008).

Henryk Szlajfer, PhD. (1977) in Sociology, Warsaw University and Habilitation (2006) in Political Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, is Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences and Warsaw University. Has published on Latin American history, economic nationalism and European international affairs including, Economic Nationalism in Latin America and East-Central Europe under the Fisrt Globalization (ISP PAN, 2005), Poles and Jews. The Clash of Stereotypes (Scholar, 2003).
Former Poland's Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna (2000–2004).