Economic History

The economic and social problems of modern Scotland are at the centre of current debate about regional economic growth, social improvement and envi...

This is the first legal and financial history of bankruptcy in nineteenth-century England. V. Markham Lester offers a full statistical analysis and...

Jamaican Migrant (1965) is the honest and moving recollection of a Jamaican cabinet-maker who emigrated to a new life in Britain. This is the book ...

France was interwar Poland’s main ally, and the biggest source of the country’s foreign investment. The two roles were closely connected: Paris use...

Examining the innovations of economic policy in the UK, France and Germany in the 1960s, this book originally published in 1968, assesses the degre...

The Federal Reserve System has been widely criticised for its response (or lack of response) to the economic and financial problems of 1928-1933. T...

This is the first comprehensive study of the economic relationship between Nazi Germany and Franco's Spain between the outbreak of the Spanish Civi...

An insider's guide to our broken economy and how it fails to serve us. ‘A fascinating examination of the failures...

Originally published in 1982, The Railwaymen examines the impact of the transformation which took place in the British Railways in the second half ...

Americans love ""this year's model,"" relying on the ""new"" to be always ""improved."" Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to...

This book explores the twists and turns in Argentina’s modern economic history and the debates that raged there around a problem common to all form...

Capitalism and Colonial Production (1982) examines the ways in which capitalism has transformed the societies it came to dominate, and the link bet...

The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value theory, the commodity nature of money, c...

The analyses and literary portraits in this text elucidate the existing realities of Japan's postwar history. They address, in chronological fashio...

Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the...

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. Th...

Many of us read books every day, either electronically or in print. We remember the books that shaped our ideas about the world as children, go bac...

Values-based organizations are institutions, communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are inspired by a mission or a vocation – ...

Volume 39C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, features a symposium marking the 100th anniversary of the publication of...

Macroeconomics has always played host to contesting schools of thought, but recent events have exacerbated those differences. To fully understand t...

Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He s...

This book presents the sharp regional diff erences within the integrating European continent. Four regions – Northwestern Europe, Southern Europe, ...

British Imperialism and Australia (1939) looks at the early economic history of Australia, which towards the end of the period under review became ...

The first articles in this volume focus on sources for the history of Baltic commerce and the evaluation of their data on prices. In most cases, th...